Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics) - Softcover

Aminzade, Ronald R.; Goldstone, Jack A.; McAdam, Doug; Perry, Elizabeth J.; Sewell Jr, William H.; Tarrow, Sidney; Tilley, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521001552 ISBN 13: 9780521001557

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Synopsis

The aim of the book is to highlight and begin to give "voice" to some of the notable "silences" evident in recent years in the study of contentious politics. The coauthors hope to redress the present topical imbalance in the field. In particular, the authors take up seven specific topics in the volume: the relationship between emotions and contention; temporality in the study of contention; the spatial dimensions of contention; leadership in contention; the role of threat in contention; religion and contention; and contention in the context of demographic and life-course processes.

About this title

About the Author:

Jack A. Goldstone is Professor of Sociology and International Relations at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of the prize-winning REVOLUTION AND REBELLION IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD (California 1981), and editor of THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POLITICAL REVOLUTIONS (Congressional Quarterly 1998), and REVOLUTIONS OF THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY (Westview 1991). He has been a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and held Fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He is working on a monograph--REVOLUTIONS, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, AND SOCIAL CHANGE--forthcoming from Harvard University Press.

Review:

"This excellent book is indispensable for those who think there is nothing new in the study of social movements." Journal of Interdisciplary History

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0521001552
• ISBN 13: 9780521001557
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 298