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From Silence to Protest - International Perspectives on Weakly Resourced Groups (Paperback)
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From Silence to Protest - International Perspectives on Weakly Resourced Groups (Paperback)
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The editors of this book examine social movement scholars' use of
contemporary concepts and paradigms in the study of protest as they
analyse the extent to which these tools are valid (or not) in very
different regional - and thus political or cultural - contexts. The
authors posit that 'weakly resourced groups' are a particularly
useful point of departure to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses
of three key social movement schools of analysis: resource
mobilization, political opportunity structures, and frame analysis.
Some of the groups considered in this volume are financially
disadvantaged, lacking money and work; others are economically
disadvantaged, with members having precarious, part-time, or
short-term jobs; some are socially disadvantaged, with fragile
networks of solidarity; others are culturally disadvantaged, with
members continuously victimized, stigmatized and rejected; finally
some are politically disadvantaged when they have little or no
access to decision-making structures. These exclusionary factors
can be cumulative and give way to different outcomes. The chapters
cover a large range of examples including urban riots in France and
in Great Britain, the World Social Forums of Dakar and Nairobi, the
struggles of precarious workers in Italy and Greece, unemployed
mobilization in Germany and Ireland, the mobilization of the Roma
and Muslims in Europe, the Brazilian landless movement, the
mobilization of small farmers in France, as well as mobilization in
authoritarian states such as Morocco and Cuba. This book will be of
interest to scholars, students and activists working within social
movement studies.
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