Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change Vol: 36

This latest volume in the august Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change series carries on a long tradition of featuring only the best data-driven and multi-method research upon which useful theory can be painstakingly built. Part one focuses on old and new media platforms and their intersections with mobilization issues, highlighting protest websites and the US Tea Party movement. Part two investigates the roles elites play in advancing movement campaigns for increased rights and decreased inequalities in the US and Peru. The third section spotlights best and worst practices in conflict transformation and peacebuilding ventures in Croatia and Israel/Palestine, while the fourth section interrogates the use of consensus building processes in Local Social Forums and in the Occupy Movement. Finally, on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Neil Smelser's A Theory of Collective Behavior, we close with a creative combining of Smelser's structural functionalist approach with social identity models for understanding crowd behaviors in the context of university party riots.

Contributors
Tarun Banerjee - Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Anna-Britt Coe - Umea Center for Gender Studies, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
Patrick G. Coy - Center for Applied Conflict Management, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA
Emily Dollieslager - James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA
Pascale Dufour - Department of Political Science, University of Montreal, Montréal, Canada
Jennifer Earl - Department of Sociology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Michelle I. Gawerc - Department of Sociology, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
Laura J. Heideman - Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA
David Pettinicchio - Department of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Stephen C. Poulson - Department of Sociology & Anthropology, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA
Thomas N. Ratliff - Department of Criminology, Sociology & Geography, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, USA
Anna Szolucha - Department of Sociology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Kildare, Ireland