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"As individuals incorporate new forms of media into their daily routines, these media transform individuals' engagement with networks of heterogeneous actors. Using the concept of media practices, this volume looks at processes of social and political transformation in diverse regions of the world to argue that media change and social change converge on a redefinition of the relations of individuals to larger collective bodies. To this end, contributors examine new collective actors emerging in the public arena through digital media or established actors adjusting to a diversified communication environment. The book offers an important contribution to a vibrant, transdisciplinary, and international field of research emerging at the intersections of communication, performance and social movement studies."--Provided by publisher.

Memory and social movements : an introduction / Stefan Berger, Sean Scalmer, and Christian Wicke -- The ascension of "comfort women" in South Korean colonial memory / Lauren Richardson -- The past in the present : memory and Indian women's politics/ Devleena Ghosh and Heather Goodall -- History as strategy. Imagining universal feminism in the womens' movement / Sophie van den Elzen and Berteke Waaldijk -- "The memory of history as a leitmotif for nonviolent resistance" -- peaceful protests against nuclear missiles in Mutlangen, 1983-1987 -- Atomic testing in Australia : memories, mobilizations and mistrust / David Lowe -- "The FBI stole my fiddle" : song and memory in US radical environmentalism, 1980-1995 / Ian McIntyre -- Memory "within", "of", and "by" social movements / Christian Wicke

Richardson reviews The New Religious Movements Experience in America by Eugene V. Gallagher.

Introduction -- Marxism and social movements: reconstructed, post-, and new social movements -- Marxism and the Occupy movement -- Overview of Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Philadelphia -- The occupying context: history and the macro context -- The proximate context -- Organizational structures; hierarchies and power; autonomy and authenticities in Occupy -- Ideologies and the conflicts of humanism and rationality -- Schisms part one - race, liberals and anarchy -- Schisms part two - more ideological divides -- Relations with the outside -- The many faces of framing -- Emergent craziness: frustrations, hope, and trust -- Conclusion

'Life Chances, Education and Social Movements' explains the sociology of life chances, the opportunities and experiences of different generations in Australia, the United States and the UK, and how the differential distribution of life-enhancing opportunities affects our well-being. It is now four decades since the publication of Ralf Dahrendorf's 'Life Chances: Approaches to Social and Political Theory' (1979), a surprisingly neglected work that has much to offer by way of explaining some of the social and political challenges of the present era. Dahrendorf's life-chances theory is an expanded and innovative analysis of Max Weber's original notion of 'Lebenschancen' and is used to support the theoretical and empirical arguments in Lyle Munro's book. Dahrendorf defines life chances as a function of options (provisions and entitlements) and ligatures (networks that provide a sense of solidarity and belonging). For Dahrendorf, education is arguably the most important option individuals can utilise for improving their well-being and for overcoming social and economic disadvantages. While there are countless sociological accounts of inequality, Munro's study takes a different and novel approach based on Dahrendorf's model according to which education and social movements and their networks function to enhance the life chances of individuals and social groups respectively. Munro emphasises the necessity of formal education and its transformative power in the lives of individuals; he stresses the importance of an individual's life chances of achieving satisfactory levels of literacy, numeracy and oracy during a decade or more of formal schooling.

Since the end of the Cold War, activists and scholars alike have celebrated the phenomenal growth of transnational social movements across the globe. For some, this new eruption of grass-roots political activism on a world scale - from the Rio Earth Summit to the Seattle anti-globalization protests - represents the emergence of a global or transnational civil society.This book provides a critical survey of recent approaches to the study of civil society and international relations, presenting an alternative historical and sociological account of the interaction between these two sp

A preliminary report on the design & methods used in a study of pol'al protest. In studying a soc movement, 3 areas of particular difficulty arise which are here discussed: (1) selecting a sample; (2) gaining access to the participants; & (3) choosing when & where to administration the instrument. The nature of the questionaire is also of importance. Investigators must carefully tread the thin line between stark objectivity & involvement when attempting to carry out a study of this sort. Many pol'al protesters are hostile toward 'objective' soc sci'ts & are suspicious of people who want to gather information about them. Protesters should believe that the investigator is at least sympathetic toward, if not actively supporting, their movement. Most studies have questioned protesters after their participation, but act's may change as a result of participation in such activities & when the issues are no longer salient. For this reason, the authors admin'ed a questionaire before participation, en route to Washington for a protest meeting. Of specific interest were the protesters' cognitive dimensions: what their 'nat'l role conceptions' were; what demands they considered legitimate for the gov to make on citizens. etc. M. Maxfield.