Toward a History of Urban Social Movements

The workshop opened with presentations from two scholars of social movements: Francesca Polletta, professor of sociology at the University of California, ...

urban social movements and housing question

social movements are evolving away from political structures and toward a network ... origins and evolution of social movements, with ... urban expansion and toward ...

Sources of Change: Social Movements and US Political Parties

Social movements are asking how organized and mobilized masses address power and power holders. Parties are among these power holders, ...

Commons Movements: Old and New Trends in Rural and Urban ...

Over the past few years, studies in political ecology and environmental justice have been increasingly connecting the commons and social movements ...

3.5.1 Protest and Social Movements in Early Modern History (ca ...

In our discussion we will look at causes, numbers of protesters and their social profile, and at insurrectionary repertoires and demands. It is ...

Social movement towards spatial justice : crafting a theory of civic ...

... history, however, society successfully adopted and institutionalized previously underrepresented values into urban form. Social movements provide a primary ...

Reading: Levels of Social Movements | Introductory Sociology

Currently, AREA Chicago is a social movement focused on “building a socially just city” (AREA Chicago 2011). The organization seeks to “create relationships and ...

Protest on the Fly: Toward a Theory of Spontaneity in the Dynamics ...

collective action/behavior, grounded theory, protest/protest events, social movements, ... clear history of this encoded binary with ... urban black communities far ...

the role of urban social movements' fragmentation in Barcelona

Historical sociological analysis have devoted much attention to the structure of the political context, to movements' discourse around the “ ...

Gender, development and urban social change - ScienceDirect.com

Toward a greater ... Economic restructuring and the rise of urban social movements ... Indigenous women and community resistance: History and memory.

Social Movements in Cities - Urban Studies - Oxford Bibliographies

Although the term urban social movement first appears in scholarly literature in 1972, cities have been key sites of contention at least since ...

Settlement Movement: 1886-1986 - Social Welfare History Project

It saw the nation as indivisible and the settlements as the “distant early warning stations” which would inform the wider society of symptoms of ...

Crises Regimes and Emerging Urban Social Movements in Cities of ...

One of the workshop's major achievements was that it enabled a space of encounter among urban social movements in Southern Europe that was almost nonexistent ...

Books about Social Movements - BiblioVault

This collection of original essays by leading scholars in the fields of history, anthropology, sociology, and economics argues for historically specific ...

Social Change Movements - World Animal Net

Civil society is normally in a state of change, but social structures tend towards stability. That is why social movements almost always exist. If the ...

Social movements in Southeast Europe: from urban mobilisation to ...

It investigates the role of social movements and new political actors on the Left in containing democratic decline as well as their attempts to ...

Introduction: Opportunities, mobilizing structures, and framing ...

Introduction: Opportunities, mobilizing structures, and framing processes – toward a synthetic, comparative perspective on social movements ; Doug McAdam , ; John ...

Social Movements: A Summary of What Works

The civil rights movement followed the mass migration of blacks from dispersed rural settlements to concentrated urban centres in the US South. Short-lived ...

Introduction: The Democratic Necessity of Social Movements

In this book, I argue that the force that counteracts the Weberian pitfalls of bureaucratization and oligarchy and that can counteract the politics of despair ...

Australia - Social Movements, Indigenous Rights, Activism - Britannica

Ask the ChatbotGames & QuizzesHistory & Society ... Movement toward federation. Federation was another ... Urban youths joined in gangs, or “pushes,” and ...