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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Border politics: contests over territory, nation, identity, and belonging -- 2. "Border granny wants you!": grandmothers policing nation at the us-Mexico border -- 3. Defending the nation: militarism, women's empowerment, and the Hindu right -- 4. Borders, territory, and ethnicity: women and the naga peace process -- 5. Imperial gazes and queer politics: re/reading female political subjectivity in Pakistan -- 6. Indigenous peoples and colonial borders: sovereignty, nationhood, identity, and activism -- 7. Constricting boundaries: collective identity in the tea party movement -- 8. Occupy Slovenia: how migrant movements contributed to new forms of direct democracy -- 9. Challenging borders, imagining Europe: transnational lgbt activism in a new Europe -- 10. Frames, boomerangs, and global assemblages: border distortions in the global resistance to dam building in Lesotho -- 11. Networks, place, and barriers to cross-border organizing: "no border" camping in transcarpathia, Ukraine -- 12. "Giving wings to our dreams": binational activism and workers' rights struggles in the San Diego–Tijuana border region -- 13. Border politics: creating a dialogue between border studies and social movements -- About the contributors -- Index

The 21st century has brought many changes to peacebuilding, armed conflicts, and social movements. Organizations and scholars alike have developed new techniques for bridging cultural divides and enhancing democracy and respect for human rights. Moreover, technological changes have significantly altered conflict spaces. Methodological Advances in Research on Social Movements, Conflict, and Change explores methods for studying contentious politics in the context of these broader social changes. Contributors advance methodological scholarship by developing new tools, discussing new sources of data and their relative value, and addressing controversies and ethical issues that have emerged in the process of collecting or analyzing data. Acknowledging how more movements are using a wider range of tactics to influence a rapidly changing, deeply interconnected world, Methodological Advances in Research on Social Movements, Conflict, and Change appeals to scholars interested in how the study of social movements, peace, and conflict has developed and adapted to keep pace with ongoing socio-political and technological change.

This bibliographic compilation lists the major works on social movements published in the last few years. All published materials could not be accessed, but it is hoped that the compilation will fulfill its objective of providing background knowledge to scholars and academics.

This paper considers some reasons why there have been few comparisons between European and American social movements. It then considers some of the advantages from a comparative approach, offers examples in which comparative research can help to improve analysis and interpretation, and outlines some problems faced by students of comparative social movements, It then proposes a synthesis of the American "resource mobilization" and European "new social movements" traditions.

It is often argued that new social movements, in contrast to earlier ones such as the Wc movement, should be analyzed primarily in terms of value change rather than of structural characteristics of movement participants. The influence of three major value types associated with new social movements -- postmaterialism, individualism & hedonism, & antimodernism -- on the Dutch peace movement is examined through research findings. Individualism & hedonism are unrelated or negatively related, & antimodernism is only weakly related, to the individual potential for new social movements; only postmaterialism is strongly related to it. Postmaterialism is itself primarily related to structural variables such as SC position & integration into institutions such as the Church & the private sector of the economy that reproduce existing social conditions. These findings call the current emphasis on values change into question. 4 Tables, 21 References. Modified HA

Following a brief overview of the social psychology of social movements, explored are the contributions of social & collective identity to individual & social self-esteem & their impacts on social movement participation. The relationship of high self-esteem to the social consciousness that contributes to joining social movements as a way of furthering social justice is described. Examples from several social movements are offered to illustrate these hypotheses & generate new ones for further research. 56 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

This paper compares twelve social movements, all supporting or opposing environmental and industrialization issues, which occurred in the sixties and seventies in one prefecture in southern Japan, The independent variable is the type of local social fabric they arose within; the dependet variables, their mobilization process and goals. The data was collected through qualitative field work, including interviewing, observation and documents, and later coded into questionnaire form. The local social fabric, associational, mixed, or communal, affected several aspects of their mobilization process: goals, leader and follower motives, rate of success, and relation to dominant elites. In communal movements, the leader had more autonomy in setting goals, and followers were more loyal to him. Such movements were more idealistic. In associational movements, leadere and followers emphasized individualistic and material goals and motives. Elites attempted to coopt communal leaders more, because of the leaders' more arbitrary power. Communal leaders reisted that if they had strong internalized values. Values penetrate movements through leaders. Communal social fabrics support new social movements in Japan, contrary to the Western experience, where such movements arise in more associational, middleclase fabrics.

Although the process of European integration is proceeding speedily and social movements are often interacting trans-nationally, research on the Europeanization of social movement actors is far from developed. Some scholars, focusing especially on public interest groups active at EU level, expect that civil society actors, due among other reasons to the flexibility of their organizational structures, will be able to adapt quickly to integration. Others, especially scholars looking at protest activities, are skeptical on three accounts: (1) will actors endowed with scarce material resources be able to build transnational organizations; (2) will they be able to stage supranational protest events; and (3) will the European Union be accountable to pressure from below. In this article, we focus on the degree and forms of social movement participation in the public discourse and collective action concerning Europe-that is, their capacity to take part in the debate and mobilization referring to European issues, targets, and actors. On the basis of a comparative dataset that includes content analyses of daily press and interview data from seven European countries, we argue that various forms of Europeanization of the public discourse and mobilization by social movements are indeed on the rise, with a growing presence not only of purely European actors but also of European targets and frames, as well as transnational movement networks. Changes across time emerge, with the development of (conflictual) forms of Europeanization from below. Adapted from the source document.