Social Movement Studies in Europe

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.

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List of Abbreviations

Foreword
James M. Jasper

Introduction: “So Many as the Stars of the Sky in Multitude, and as the Sand which is By the Sea Shore Innumerable”: European Social Movement Research in Perspective
Guya Accornero and Olivier Fillieule

PART I: EUROPEAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Chapter 1. The European Movements of ’68: Ambivalent theories, Ideological Memories and Exciting Puzzles       
Erik Neveu

Chapter 2. Mobilizing for Democracy: The 1989 Protests in Central  Eastern Europe
Donatella della Porta

Chapter 3. A Long Awaited Homecoming: The Labour Movement in Social Movement Studies
Karel Yon

Chapter 4. Beyond Party Politics: The Search for a Unified Approach. Research on Radical Right-wing Movements in Europe
Manuela Caiani and Rossella Borri

Chapter 5. Fields of Contentious Politics: Migration and Ethnic Relations
Manlio Cinalli

Chapter 6. Quiescent or Invisible?: Precarious and Unemployed Movements in Europe
Marco Giugni and Jasmine Lorenzini

Chapter 7. From Antiglobalisation to Global Justice Movement: The Waterloo’s European Battle
Isabelle Sommier

Chapter 8. Theoretical Perspectives on European Environmental Movements: Transnational and Techological Challenges in the Twenty-first Century
Maria Kousis

Chapter 9. From Grassroots to Institutions: Women’s Movements Studies in Europe    
Laure Bereni and Anne Revillard

Chapter 10. Social Movements Facing the Crisis
Héloïse Nez

PART II: NATIONAL CASES

Chapter 11. Social Movements Studies in Britain: ‘No Longer The Poor Relation?’
Brian Doherty, Graeme Hayes and Christopher Rootes

Chapter 12. Precarious Research in a Movement Society: Social Movement Studies in Germany
Sebastian Haunss

Chapter 13. Politics and People: Understanding Dutch Research on Social Movements
Jan Willem Duyvendak, Conny Roggeband and Jacquelien van Stekelenburg

Chapter 14. From Splendid Isolation To Joining the Concert of Nations: Social Movement Studies in France
Olivier Fillieule

Chapter 15. Internationalization with Limited Domestic Recognition: Research on Social Movements in Italy
Lorenzo Bosi and Lorenzo Mosca

Chapter 16. The Land of Opportunities?: Social Movement Studies in Switzerland
Philip Balsiger

Chapter 17. Studying Movements in a Movement-become-state: Research and Practice in Postcolonial Ireland    
Laurence Cox

Chapter 18. Successful Social Movement Outcomes without Social Movements?: Research on Swedish Social Movements and Swedish Social Movement Research
Abby Peterson

Chapter 19. Is Spain Still Different?: Social Movements Research in a Belated Western European Democracy
Eduardo Romanos and Susana Aguilar

Chapter 20. Revolutionary or Mild-mannered?: Social Movements and Social Movements Studies in Portugal
Guya Accornero

Chapter 21. From the Centre to the Periphery and Back to the Centre: Social Movements Affecting Social Movement Theory in the Case of Greece
Kostis Kornetis and Hara Kouki

Chapter 22. A Militant Rather than Scientific Research Object: Social Movements Studies in Turkey
Ayşen Uysal

Chapter 23. From Democratization to Internationalization: Studying Social Movements in Hungary    
Aron Buzogany

Chapter 24. Social Movements in Pre- and Post-December 1989 in Romania
Laura Nistor

Chapter 25. Social Mobilization and the Strong State from the Soviets to Putin: Social Movements in the Soviet Union and Russia    
Alfred Evans and Laura Henry

Conclusions: Social Movement Studies in Europe: Achievements, Gaps, and Challenges
Dieter Rucht

Index