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Putting Social Movements in their Place - Explaining Opposition to Energy Projects in the United States, 2000-2005 (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,274
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Putting Social Movements in their Place - Explaining Opposition to Energy Projects in the United States, 2000-2005 (Hardcover,...

Putting Social Movements in their Place - Explaining Opposition to Energy Projects in the United States, 2000-2005 (Hardcover, New)

Doug McAdam, Hilary Boudet

Series: Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics

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The field of social movement studies has expanded dramatically over the past three decades. But as it has done so, its focus has become increasingly narrow and movement-centric. When combined with the tendency to select successful struggles for study, the conceptual and methodological conventions of the field conduce to a decidedly Ptolemaic view of social movements: one that exaggerates the frequency and causal significance of movements as a form of politics. This book reports the results of a comparative study, not of movements, but of 20 communities earmarked for environmentally risky energy projects. In stark contrast to the central thrust of the social movement literature, the authors find that the overall level of emergent opposition to the projects to have been very low, and they seek to explain that variation and the impact, if any, it had on the ultimate fate of the proposed projects.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
Release date: May 2012
First published: May 2012
Authors: Doug McAdam • Hilary Boudet (Dr)
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 278
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-02066-5
Categories: Books > Professional & Technical > Energy technology & engineering > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
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LSN: 1-107-02066-2
Barcode: 9781107020665

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