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This lively textbook integrates theory and methodology into the study of social movements, and includes contemporary case studies to engage students and encourage them to apply theories critically. A wide range of protest cases are explored, from American, European and global arenas, including contemporary examples of political violence and terrorism, alter-globalisation, social networking and global activism. Key chapter features encourage students to engage critically with the material: method points uncover the methodology behind the theories, helping students to understand the larger study of social movements; debate points highlight classic arguments in social movement studies, encouraging students to critically assess theoretical approaches; and case studies connect theories to cases, allowing students to relate key principles to real-world examples. A companion website offers additional student and instructor resources, including lecture slides and worksheets.

Social Movements in Global Politics is a timely new account of the unconventional, 'extra-institutional' activities of social movements. In the face of impending global crises and stubborn conflicts, a conventional view of politics risks leaving us confused and fatalistic, feeling powerless because we are unaware of all that can be achieved by political means. By contrast, a variety of recent social movements, ranging from those of women, gays and lesbians and anti-racists, to environmentalists, the Occupy movement and the Arab Spring, demonstrate the enormous potential of political action bey

part PART I ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORKS AND METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES -- chapter 1 Michael W. McCann (1991), 'Legal Mobilization and Social Reform Movements: Notes on Theory and Its Application', Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, 11, pp. 225-54. -- chapter 2 Gerald N. Rosenberg (1996), 'Positivism, Interpretivism, and the Study of Law', Law and Social Inquiry, 21, pp. 435-55. -- chapter 3 Michael McCann (1996), 'Causal Versus Constitutive Explanation's (or, On the Difficulty of Being so Positive.)', Law and Social Inquiry, 21, pp. 457-82. -- part PART II LEGAL FRAMING AND CLAIMING BY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS -- chapter 4 John Brigham (1988), 'Right, Rage, and Remedy: Forms of Law in Political Discourse', Studies in American Political Development, 2, pp. 303-16. -- chapter 5 Francesca Polletta (2000), 'The Structural Context of Novel Rights Claims: Southern Civil Rights Organizing, 1961-1966', Law and Society Review, 34, pp. 367-406. -- chapter 6 Lisa Hajjar (2001), 'Human Rights in Israel/Palestine: The History and Politics of a Movement -- chapter 7 Jayanth K. Krishnan and Kevin R. den Dulk (2001), 'So Help Me God: A Comparative Study of Religious Interest Group Litigation', Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, 30, pp. 233-75. -- chapter 8 Katharina C. Heyer (2002), 'The ADA on the Road: Disability Rights in Germany', Law and Social Inquiry, 27, pp. 723-62. -- chapter 9 Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller and Neal Milner (2003), 'Rights as Excess: Understanding the Politics of Special Rights', Law and Social Inquiry, 28, pp. 1075-118. -- part PART III LEGAL LEVERAGING POWER: CONTESTATION, CONTAINMENT, COOPTATION -- chapter 10 Austin T. Turk (1976), 'Law as a Weapon in Social Conflict', Social Problems, 23, pp. 276-91. -- chapter 11 Paul Burstein (1991), 'Legal Mobilization as a Social Movement Tactic: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity', American Journal of Sociology, 96, pp. 1201-25. -- chapter 12 Susan M. Olson (1995), 'Comparing Women's Rights Litigation in The Netherlands and the United States', Polity, 28, pp. 189-215. -- chapter 13 Robert L. Kidder and Setsuo Miyazawa (1993), 'Long-Term Strategies in Japanese Environmental Litigation', Law and Social Inquiry, 18, pp. 605-27. -- chapter 14 Ki-young Shin (2004), 'Fufubessei Movement in Japan: Thinking about Women's Resistance and Subjectivity', Frontiers of Gender Studies, 2, pp. 107-14. -- chapter 15 Michael R. Anderson (1987), 'Law and the Protection of Cultural Communities: The Case of Native American Fishing Rights', Law and Policy, 9, pp. 125-42. -- chapter 16 Steven E. Barkan (1984), 'Legal Control of the Southern Civil Rights Movement', American Sociological Review, 49, pp. 552-65. -- chapter 17 Cary Coglianese (2001), 'Social Movements, Law, and Society: The Institutionalization of the Environmental Movement', University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 150, pp. 85-118. -- part PART IV LAW, CHANGE AND HEGEMONY: ASSESSING LEGAL MOBILIZATION POLITICS -- chapter 18 Alan Hunt (1990), 'Rights and Social Movements: Counter-Hegemonic Strategies', Journal of Law and Society, 17, pp. 309-28. -- chapter 19 Kimberle Williams Crenshaw (1988), 'Race, Reform, and Retrenchment: Transformation and Legitimation in Antidiscrimination Law', Harvard Law Review, 101, pp. 1331-87. -- chapter 20 Susan B. Boyd (1999), 'Family, Law and Sexuality: Feminist Engagements', Social and Legal Studies, 8, pp. 369-90. -- chapter 21 Joel F. Handler (1993), 'Postmodernism, Protest, and the New Social Movements', Law and Society Review, 26, pp. 697-731. -- chapter 22 Balakrishnan Rajagopal (2003), 'International Law and Social Movements: Challenges of Theorizing Resistance', Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, 41, pp. 397-433.

Intro -- Hegel for Social Movements -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1: Introduction -- 1 Why Hegel -- 1 For Hegel, Ideas were Forms of Activity -- 2 'Thought' Means Norms of Human Activity -- 3 Hegel's Influence on Modern Philosophy is Immense -- 4 Hegel is Very Difficult to Read -- 5 Plan of this Book -- 2 The Young Hegel and What Drove Him -- 1 Germany was Fragmented, and Socially and Economically Backward -- 2 Hegel was a Modernist Opponent of Liberalism -- 3 The Main Difference between Hegel and Marx is the Times They Lived In -- 4 The "Spirit of a People" was Rooted in an Historical Form of Life -- 5 Zeitgeist Remains a Widely Accepted, if Problematic, Concept of Spirit -- 6 In What Sense was Hegel an Idealist? -- 7 Spirit and Material Culture -- 3 Hegel's Idea of Science and Philosophy -- 1 The Subject Matter of Philosophy -- 2 The Diversity of Philosophical Views are Parts of a Single Whole -- 3 From Where to Begin? -- 4 The Phenomenology and the Logic -- 4 The Phenomenology and 'Formations of Consciousness' -- 1 How can We Conceptualise a 'Formation of Consciousness'? -- 2 How do We Conceive of a Formation of Consciousness as a Whole? -- 3 What can be Called a 'Formation of Consciousness'? -- 4 The Dynamics of 'Formations of Consciousness' is in the Logic -- 5 The Importance of the Master-Servant Narrative is Exaggerated -- 6 How the Phenomenology was 'Rediscovered' -- 5 Hegel as Philosopher of Social Movements -- 1 It is Hegel's Logic which Makes Him the Philosopher of Social Movements -- 2 Hegel Knew Emancipatory Social Movements, but No Labour Movement -- 3 A Concept is a Form of Practice -- 4 A Social Movement is Understood as an Entire Process of Social Change -- 5 How to Read Hegel and What to Read -- Part 2: The Logic -- 6 The Subject Matter of the Logic.

The following syllabus is for a course on "social movement literacy†(SML). The course is currently being taught at Grateford State Prison (just outside of Philadelphia). The basic purpose of SML is to help educate students on how to properly read and understand the nature and function of social movements. SML is not reducible to learning about a handful of specific social movements; instead, SML establishes core skills and knowledges that enable people to recognize, discuss, perhaps participate in and, if need be, intelligently critique, the ideologies, political motivations, and tactics of social movements.