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This text combines theories of resource mobilization with an
analysis of the structures of political opportunity. It provides a
summary of the orientations of particular movements and of the
significance of differing political regimes across Europe.
Presenting several in-depth studies, this book explores how
super-diversity operates in every-day relations and interactions in
a variety of urban settings in Western Europe and the United
States. The contributors raise a broad range of questions about the
nature and effects of super-diversity. They ask if a quantitative
increase in demographic diversity makes a qualitative difference in
how diversity is experienced in urban neighborhoods, and what are
the consequences of demographic change when people from a wide
range of countries and social backgrounds live together in urban
neighborhoods. The question at the core of the book is to what
extent, and in what contexts, super-diversity leads to either the
normalization of diversity or to added hostility towards and
amongst those in different ethnic, racial, and religious groups. In
cases where there is no particular ethno-racial or religious
majority, are certain long-established groups able to continue to
exert economic and political power, and is this continued economic
and political dominance actually often facilitated by
super-diversity? With contributions from a number of European
countries as well as the USA, this book will be of interest to
researchers studying contemporary migration and ethnic diversity.
It will also spark discussion amongst those focusing on
multiculturalism in urban environments. This book was originally
published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
In the turbulent years of the 1960s and 1970s, France, like other
European countries and the United States, was rocked by a new wave
of social movements. The early development of a strong antinuclear
movement during the 1970s made France the prototypical country for
new social movements (NSMs). However, in the 1980s, these French
NSMs experienced a strong decline. In this book, Jan Willem
Duyvendak compares the surprising development of these NSMs in
France-for peace, the environment, an end to nuclear technology,
solidarity, squatters' rights, women's rights, and gay rights-to
the development of similar campaigns in Germany, Switzerland, and
the Netherlands. Although all of these countries share more or less
the same economic characteristics, they have different political
traditions. Duyvendak finds that by the 1980s, the new social
movements were weaker in France because of France's tradition of
"old" political conflicts. He concludes that because France was
still beset with political splits between center periphery and
urban-country as well as religious and class strife, the
development of French society during the 1980s took place at the
expense of these new social movements
This book examines a range of critical concepts that are central to
a shift in the social sciences toward "pragmatic inquiry,"
reflecting a twenty-first century concern with particular problems
and themes rather than grand theory. Taking a transnational and
transdisciplinary approach, the collection demonstrates a shared
commitment to using analytical concepts for empirical exploration
and a general orientation to research that favors an attention to
objects, techniques, and practices. The chapters draw from
broad-based and far-reaching social theory in order to analyze new,
specific challenges, from grasping the everyday workings of
markets, courtrooms, and clinics, to inscribing the transformations
of practice within research disciplines themselves. Each
contributor takes a key concept and then explores its genealogies
and its circulations across scholarly communities, as well as its
proven payoffs for the social sciences and, often, critical
reflections on its present and future uses. This carefully crafted
volume will significantly expand and improve the analytical
repertoires or toolkits available to social scientists, including
scholars in sociology or anthropology and those working in science
and technology studies, public health, and related fields.
Presenting several in-depth studies, this book explores how
super-diversity operates in every-day relations and interactions in
a variety of urban settings in Western Europe and the United
States. The contributors raise a broad range of questions about the
nature and effects of super-diversity. They ask if a quantitative
increase in demographic diversity makes a qualitative difference in
how diversity is experienced in urban neighborhoods, and what are
the consequences of demographic change when people from a wide
range of countries and social backgrounds live together in urban
neighborhoods. The question at the core of the book is to what
extent, and in what contexts, super-diversity leads to either the
normalization of diversity or to added hostility towards and
amongst those in different ethnic, racial, and religious groups. In
cases where there is no particular ethno-racial or religious
majority, are certain long-established groups able to continue to
exert economic and political power, and is this continued economic
and political dominance actually often facilitated by
super-diversity? With contributions from a number of European
countries as well as the USA, this book will be of interest to
researchers studying contemporary migration and ethnic diversity.
It will also spark discussion amongst those focusing on
multiculturalism in urban environments. This book was originally
published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
An in-depth analysis that demonstrates how and why there has been a
resurgence of nativist logic. It was once thought that liberalism
and globalization would consign nativist logics to the fringes of
societies and eventually to history. But if it ever left, nativism
has well and truly returned, spreading across nations, across the
political spectrum, and from the fringes back into the mainstream.
In The Return of the Native, Jan Willem Duyvendak, Josip Kesic, and
Timothy Stacey explore how nativist logics have infiltrated liberal
settings and discourses, primarily in the Netherlands as well as
other countries with strong liberal traditions like the US and
France. They deconstruct and explain the underlying logic of
nativist narratives and show how these narratives are emerging in
the discourses of secularism (a religious nativism that
problematizes Islam and Muslims), racism (a racial nativism that
problematizes black anti-racism), populism (a populist nativism
that problematizes elites), and left-wing politics (a left nativism
that sees religious, racial, and populist nativists themselves as a
threat to national culture). By moving systematically through these
key iterations of nativism, the authors show how liberal ideas
themselves are becoming tools for claiming that some people do not
belong to the nation. A unique analysis of the most fundamental
political transformation of our days, this book illuminates the
resurgence of the figure of the "native," who claims the country at
the expense of those perceived as foreign.
In the turbulent years of the 1960s and 1970s, France, like other
European countries and the United States, was rocked by a new wave
of social movements. The early development of a strong antinuclear
movement during the 1970s made France the prototypical country for
new social movements (NSMs). However, in the 1980s, these French
NSMs experienced a strong decline. In this book, Jan Willem
Duyvendak compares the surprising development of these NSMs in
France-for peace, the environment, an end to nuclear technology,
solidarity, squatters' rights, women's rights, and gay rights-to
the development of similar campaigns in Germany, Switzerland, and
the Netherlands. Although all of these countries share more or less
the same economic characteristics, they have different political
traditions. Duyvendak finds that by the 1980s, the new social
movements were weaker in France because of France's tradition of
"old" political conflicts. He concludes that because France was
still beset with political splits between center periphery and
urban-country as well as religious and class strife, the
development of French society during the 1980s took place at the
expense of these new social movements
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This book examines a range of critical concepts that are central to
a shift in the social sciences toward "pragmatic inquiry,"
reflecting a twenty-first century concern with particular problems
and themes rather than grand theory. Taking a transnational and
transdisciplinary approach, the collection demonstrates a shared
commitment to using analytical concepts for empirical exploration
and a general orientation to research that favors an attention to
objects, techniques, and practices. The chapters draw from
broad-based and far-reaching social theory in order to analyze new,
specific challenges, from grasping the everyday workings of
markets, courtrooms, and clinics, to inscribing the transformations
of practice within research disciplines themselves. Each
contributor takes a key concept and then explores its genealogies
and its circulations across scholarly communities, as well as its
proven payoffs for the social sciences and, often, critical
reflections on its present and future uses. This carefully crafted
volume will significantly expand and improve the analytical
repertoires or toolkits available to social scientists, including
scholars in sociology or anthropology and those working in science
and technology studies, public health, and related fields.
In this important book, Jan Willem Duyvendak and James M. Jasper
bring together an internationally acclaimed group of contributors
to demonstrate the complexities of the social and political spheres
in various areas of public policy. By breaking down the state into
the players who really make decisions and pursue coherent
strategies, these essays provide new perspectives on the
interactions between political protestors and the many parts of the
state"from courts, political parties, and legislators to police,
armies, and intelligence services. By analyzing politics as the
interplay of various players within structured arenas, Breaking
Down the State provides an innovative look at law and order versus
opposition movements in countries across the globe.
Immigration is dramatically changing major cities throughout the
world. Nowhere is this more so than in New York City and Amsterdam,
which, after decades of large-scale immigration, now have
populations that are more than a third foreign-born. These cities
have had to deal with the challenge of incorporating hundreds of
thousands of immigrants whose cultures, languages, religions, and
racial backgrounds differ dramatically from those of many
long-established residents. New York and Amsterdam brings together
a distinguished and interdisciplinary group of American and Dutch
scholars to examine and compare the impact of immigration on two of
the world's largest urban centers. The original essays in this
volume discuss how immigration has affected social, political, and
economic structures, cultural patterns, and intergroup relations in
the two cities, investigating how the particular, and changing,
urban contexts of New York City and Amsterdam have shaped immigrant
and second generation experiences. Despite many parallels between
New York and Amsterdam, the differences stand out, and juxtaposing
essays on immigration in the two cities helps to illuminate the
essential issues that today's immigrants and their children
confront. Organized around five main themes, this book offers an
in-depth view of the impact of immigration as it affects particular
places, with specific histories, institutions, and immigrant
populations. New York and Amsterdam profoundly contributes to our
broader understanding of the transformations wrought by immigration
and the dynamics of urban change, providing new insights into
how-and why- immigration's effects differ on the two sides of the
Atlantic.
Players and Arenas brings together a diverse group of experts to
examine the interactions between political protestors and the many
strategic players they encounter, such as cultural institutions,
religious organizations, and the mass media"as well as potential
allies, competitors, recruits, and funders. Discussing protestors
and players as they interact within the arenas of specific social
contexts, the essays show that the main constraints on what
protestors can accomplish come not from social and political
structures, but from other players with different goals and
interests. Through a careful treatment of these situations, this
volume offers a new way to approach the role of social protest in
national and international politics.
The notion of citizenship has gradually evolved from being simply a
legal status or practice to a deep sentiment. Belonging, or feeling
at home, has become a requirement. This groundbreaking book
analyzes how 'feeling rules' are developed and applied to migrants,
who are increasingly expected to express feelings of attachment,
belonging, connectedness and loyalty to their new country. More
than this, however, it demonstrates how this culturalization of
citizenship is a global trend with local variations, which develop
in relation to each other. The authors pay particular attention to
the intersection between sexuality, race and ethnicity, spurred on
by their awareness of the dialectical construction of
homosexuality, held up as representative of liberal Western values
by both those in the West and by African leaders, who use such
claims as proof that homosexuality is un-African.
Immigration is dramatically changing major cities throughout the
world. Nowhere is this more so than in New York City and Amsterdam,
which, after decades of large-scale immigration, now have
populations that are more than a third foreign-born. These cities
have had to deal with the challenge of incorporating hundreds of
thousands of immigrants whose cultures, languages, religions, and
racial backgrounds differ dramatically from those of many
long-established residents. New York and Amsterdam brings together
a distinguished and interdisciplinary group of American and Dutch
scholars to examine and compare the impact of immigration on two of
the world's largest urban centers. The original essays in this
volume discuss how immigration has affected social, political, and
economic structures, cultural patterns, and intergroup relations in
the two cities, investigating how the particular, and changing,
urban contexts of New York City and Amsterdam have shaped immigrant
and second generation experiences. Despite many parallels between
New York and Amsterdam, the differences stand out, and juxtaposing
essays on immigration in the two cities helps to illuminate the
essential issues that today's immigrants and their children
confront. Organized around five main themes, this book offers an
in-depth view of the impact of immigration as it affects particular
places, with specific histories, institutions, and immigrant
populations. New York and Amsterdam profoundly contributes to our
broader understanding of the transformations wrought by immigration
and the dynamics of urban change, providing new insights into
how-and why- immigration's effects differ on the two sides of the
Atlantic.
This book responds to the often loud debates about the place of
Muslims in Western Europe by proposing an analysis based in
institutions, including schools, courts, hospitals, the military,
electoral politics, the labor market, and civic education courses.
The contributors consider the way people draw on practical schemas
regarding others in their midst who are often categorized as
Muslims. Chapters based on fieldwork and policy analysis across
several countries examine how people interact in their everyday
work lives, where they construct moral boundaries, and how they
formulate policies concerning tolerable diversity, immigration,
discrimination, and political representation. Rather than assuming
that each country has its own national ideology that explains such
interactions, contributors trace diverse pathways along which
institutions complicate or disrupt allegedly consistent national
ideologies. These studies shed light on how Muslims encounter
particular faces and facets of the state as they go about their
lives, seeking help and legitimacy as new citizens of a
fast-changing Europe.
This timely book seeks to demonstrate the coherence of lesbian and gay studies. It introduces the reader to the principal inter-disciplinary approaches in the field and critically assesses their strengths and weaknesses whilst asking: What is lesbian and gay studies? When did it emerge? And what are its achievements and research agenda? The gay and lesbian movement has emerged as a major political and cultural force. It poses a series of far reaching questions about the organization of identity, the operation of power and the limits of tolerance. Lesbian and Gay Studies has emerged as a vital and enriching field. It offers challenges to more traditional disciplines and requires new forms of thought about the connections between academic work and personal politics.
This book responds to the often loud debates about the place of
Muslims in Western Europe by proposing an analysis based in
institutions, including schools, courts, hospitals, the military,
electoral politics, the labor market, and civic education courses.
The contributors consider the way people draw on practical schemas
regarding others in their midst who are often categorized as
Muslims. Chapters based on fieldwork and policy analysis across
several countries examine how people interact in their everyday
work lives, where they construct moral boundaries, and how they
formulate policies concerning tolerable diversity, immigration,
discrimination, and political representation. Rather than assuming
that each country has its own national ideology that explains such
interactions, contributors trace diverse pathways along which
institutions complicate or disrupt allegedly consistent national
ideologies. These studies shed light on how Muslims encounter
particular faces and facets of the state as they go about their
lives, seeking help and legitimacy as new citizens of a
fast-changing Europe.
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