Contentious Europeans: Protest and Politics in an Integrating Europe (Governance in Europe Series) - Softcover

Imig University Of Memphis, Doug; Tarrow Cornell University Autho, Sidney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0742500845 ISBN 13: 9780742500846

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001

Synopsis

Exploring how social movements have been influenced by growing Europeanization and globalization, this groundbreaking work analyzes the developing efforts of European citizens to make demands upon the supranational level of European government through social movements, protest politics, and contentious political action. The authors explore the conditions under which citizens are attempting to gain voice before the Eu through protest politics, as well as the reasons why a truly transnational realm of collective action has proven so elusive.

About this title

About the Author

Doug Imig is associate professor of political science at the University of Memphis. Sidney Tarrow is Maxwell Upson Professor of Government and Sociology at Cornell University.

Review

Imig and Tarrow have assembled a group of scholars who are at the cutting edge of new methodologies and current political and social transformations. . . . Rich and provocative research. . . . Strongly recommended. (CHOICE)

An important work [that] firmly establishes the relationship between social movement literature and European integration studies. . . . Contentious Europeans is rich in detail and judicious in conclusions, and the case studies are first-rate in terms of information and evaluation. (Robert Ladrech Race Relations Abstracts)

As a study that contributes in multiple ways to two important topics of research, the authors should be praised for their methodological approach as well as for their ability to present a clear typology of social movements' activity within the EU context. All the chapters in the book contribute to shift the focus of analysis from a merely cross-border approach, to the potential for more comprehensive levels of action. (European Political Science)

Imig and Tarrow's latest publication is a pioneering work in the field of social movements. It introduces a European dimension to contentious politics, an brings together in one analysis various groups organized around a wide range of issues. (E-Extreme)

This is an attractive and valuable collection of scholarship. This is research at its best, and the book deserves wide readership. (American Journal of Sociology)

Thoughtful and open-minded, lucid and carefully organized.... It is at the cutting edge of debate about both the European Union and social movements.... This is research at its best, and the book deserves wide readership. (John A. Hall, McGill University Contemporary Sociology)

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0742500845
• ISBN 13: 9780742500846
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304