Diffusion of Social Movements (eBook, ePUB)

Actors, Mechanisms, and Political Effects
Redaktion: Givan, Rebecca Kolins

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It is widely recognized that social movements may spread - or 'diffuse' - from one site to another. Such diffusion, however, is a complex and multidimensional process that involves different actors, networks, and mechanisms. This complexity has spawned a large body of literature on different aspects of the diffusion process, yet a comprehensive framework remains an elusive target. This book is a response to that need, and its framework focuses on three basic analytical questions. First, what is being diffused? Second, how does diffusion occur? Finally, what is the impact of diffusion on organizational development and shifts in the scale of contentious politics? This volume suggests that diffusion is not a simple matter of political contagion or imitation; rather, it is a creative and strategic process marked by political learning, adaptation, and innovation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511848629
• Artikelnr.: 37830750

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: dynamics of diffusion in social movements Rebecca Kolins
Givan, Sarah A. Soule and Kenneth M. Roberts; Part I. Diffusion and the
Framing of Contentious Politics: 2. Transnational networks and
institutions: how diffusion shaped the politicization of sexual harassment
in Europe Conny Roggeband; 3. Temporality and frame diffusion: the case of
the creationist/intelligent design and evolutionist movements from
1925¿2005 James E. Stobaugh and David A. Snow; 4. Framing labor's new human
rights movement Lance Compa; 5. Framing the GMO: epistemic brokers,
authoritative knowledge and diffusion of opposition to biotechnology Ronald
J. Herring; Part II. Mechanisms of Diffusion: 6. Dialogue matters: beyond
the transmission model of transnational diffusion between social movements
Sean Chabot; 7. The diffusion of different types of internet activism:
suggestive patterns in website adoption of innovations Jennifer Earl and
Katrina Kimport; 8. Transnational networks, diffusion dynamics, and
electoral change in the postcommunist world Valerie Bunce and Sharon
Wolchik; 9. Diffusing the rumor bomb 'John Kerry is French' i.e., haughty,
foppish, elitist, socialist, cowardly and gay Jayson Harsin; Part III.
Diffusion, Scale Shift, and Organizational Change: 10. From protest to
organization: the impact of the 1960 sit-ins on movement organizations in
the American South Michael Biggs and Kenneth T. Andrews; 11. Dynamics of
diffusion: mechanisms, institutions, and scale shift Sidney Tarrow.