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Eine umfassende kritische Analyse, die Sichtweisen und Organisation
der französischen Polizei, die unterschiedlichen Protestformen und
Protestgruppierungen, die Medien und die politischen
Rahmenbedingungen mit einbezieht. Spiegelbildlich dazu steht eine
Geschichte der deutschen Polizei mit besonderer Berücksichtigung
des Polizierens von Protest vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart.
Bringing together over forty established and emerging scholars,
this landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the
evolution and current practice of social movement studies in a
specifically European context. While its first half offers
comparative approaches to an array of significant issues and
movements, its second half assembles focused national studies that
include most major European states. Throughout, these contributions
are guided by a shared set of historical and social-scientific
questions with a particular emphasis on political sociology, thus
offering a bold and uncommonly unified survey that will be
essential for scholars and students of European social movements.
Bringing together over forty established and emerging scholars,
this landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the
evolution and current practice of social movement studies in a
specifically European context. While its first half offers
comparative approaches to an array of significant issues and
movements, its second half assembles focused national studies that
include most major European states. Throughout, these contributions
are guided by a shared set of historical and social-scientific
questions with a particular emphasis on political sociology, thus
offering a bold and uncommonly unified survey that will be
essential for scholars and students of European social movements.
Political Altruism? deals with participation in political
activities aimed at defending the rights of other individuals and
groups, such as asylum seekers, immigrant workers, populations of
Third World countries, and people whose fundamental human rights
are being harmed. Solidarity movements have become an important
collective actor in contemporary western societies, yet virtually
no scholarly work up to now has addressed them theoretically and
empirically. This volume shows why political altruism is better
seen as the result of social interactions rather than of a
supposedly altruistic outburst. Contributors address the
theoretical questions at the core of social movement theory, using
country-specific studies including France, Germany, Great Britain,
Switzerland, and the US, while also examining the growing
internationalization of solidarity movements, their outcomes and
consequences.
Although living conditions have improved throughout history,
protest, at least in the last few decades, seems to have increased
to the point of becoming a normal phenomenon in modern societies.
Contributors to this volume examine how and why this is the case
and argue that although problems such as poverty, hunger, and
violations of democratic rights may have been reduced in advanced
Western societies, a variety of other problems and opportunities
have emerged and multiplied the reasons and possibilities for
protest. Acts of Dissent: New Developments in the Study of Protest
examines some of those problems, progressing from methodological
issues, to discussions of the part that the mass media plays in
protest, finally to several case studies of protests in different
contexts.
Activists Forever? explores the consequences of political
involvement on an individual's life. While much of the research in
this area has focused on the motivations of entire protests groups,
the editors of this volume propose an approach that focuses on
actors. This book examines political involvement's
socio-biographical effects, or the ways in which political
commitment generates or modifies dispositions to act, think, and
perceive, in a way that is either consistent with or in contrast to
the results of previous socialization. The contents explore what
political involvement leads to rather than what causes involvement.
Using a variety of case studies, this collection of essays provides
global coverage with a focus on participation in major protests in
the 1960s and significantly broadens our understanding by looking
outside the United States. These essays look at the lasting effects
of activists' knowledge, connections, and symbolic capital on their
future participation in politics, as well as their personal and
professional lives.
Demonstrations are without a doubt the most common form of
political expression, more so in democratic nations - where its
legitimacy competes, relatively happily, with more conventional
forms of participation such as the vote - than in non-democratic
countries, where demonstration accompanies attempts to revolt and
overthrow.In this book, which includes updated information from the
original French version, the authors offer a sociological and
historical analysis of this political mode of action, with its
norms and rules, its myths and legends, its glorious episodes and
its darkest hours. But most of all, beyond a classic interrogation
on the place of demonstration in the repertoire of contemporary
action and political struggle, Demonstrations is also an analysis
of the demonstrators themselves, providing us with insight into
their passions and convictions.
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