Handbook of Social Movements Across Disciplines (Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research)

This handbook provides a broad and comprehensive overview of the study of social movements and collective action, discussing the different disciplinary approaches that have developed. In addition to updated discussions of topics that were included in the 1st edition, this handbook includes substantial advances in the research and scholarship in the field. The study of collective behavior and contentious politics has spread to a number of new disciplines such as communication science, organization science and law. The international wave of new protests in 2013 spurred new scholarship as well. This revised and updated edition integrates the wealth of new theoretical insights and empirical work since 2007. Researchers and students from divergent academic disciplines share an interest in the study of social movements and collective action. Through a variety of disciplinary approaches and techniques, researchers seek to understand the emergence and development of collective action. In the last few decades, the field of social-movements-studies has proliferated enormously, covering a wide array of movements, issues and places. With this growth, social movement scholars have criticized the traditional vision of collective mobilization as the results of irrational behavior and have instead developed a range of new approaches. The expansion of the field has also led to increased theoretical debates and attempts to synthesize the different perspectives. But these attempts have met with the obstacle of the field being multidisciplinary. Discussion a theory from many areas of research can lead to misunderstandings. With this in mind, this book aims to revisit the disciplinary roots of social movement studies. Each discipline raises its own questions and approaches the subject from a different angle or perspective. The chapters of the proposed handbook are written by internationally renowned scholars representing the various disciplines involved. They will review the approach their discipline has developed and discuss their disciplines’ contributions and insights to the knowledge of social movements. Furthermore, each chapter addresses the “unanswered questions” and discusses the overlaps with other disciplines and reviews the interdisciplinary advances so far. Front Matter ....Pages i-v Displinary Approaches to Social Movements. Introduction to Second Expanded and Updated Edition (Conny Roggeband, Bert Klandermans)....Pages 1-7 Sociological Understandings of Social Movements: A North American Perspective (Deana A. Rohlinger, Haley Gentile)....Pages 9-32 Protest and Social Movements in Political Science (Kateřina Vráblíková)....Pages 33-55 Anthropology and the Study of Social Movements (Ton Salman, Willem Assies)....Pages 57-101 Individuals in Movements: A Social Psychology of Contention (Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Bert Klandermans)....Pages 103-139 Historians and the Study of Protest (Brian Dill, Ronald Aminzade)....Pages 141-183 Communication Sciences and the Study of Social Movements (Jonathan Cable)....Pages 185-201 Social Movements: Organizations and Organizing (Frank G. A. de Bakker, Frank den Hond, Mikko Laamanen)....Pages 203-231 Law and Social Movements: An Interdisciplinary Analysis (Scott L. Cummings)....Pages 233-270 This book aims to revisit the interdisciplinary roots of social movement studies. Each discipline raises its own questions and approaches the subject from a different angle or perspective. The chapters of this handbook are written by internationally renowned scholars representing the various disciplines involved. They each review the approach their sector has developed and discuss their disciplines' contributions and insights to the knowledge of social movements. Furthermore, each chapter addresses the "unanswered questions" and discusses the overlaps with other fields as well as reviewing the interdisciplinary advances so far. This book revisits the interdisciplinary roots of social movement studies. Written by internationally renowned scholars, it provides up-to-date material on social movements from a wide range of disciplines