Social Movement Studies in Europe

Olivier Fillieule is a professor of political sociology at Lausanne University’s Research Centre on Political Action (CRAPUL) and senior researcher at CNRS-CESSP, Paris 1-Sorbonne. Among his recent books is Demonstrations, coauthored with Danielle Tartakowsky.

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Foreword

James M. Jasper



Introduction: “So Many as the Stars of the Sky in Multitude, and as the Sand which is By the Sea Shore Innumerable”: European Social Movement Research in Perspective

Guya Accornero and Olivier Fillieule



PART I: EUROPEAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE



Chapter 1. The European Movements of ’68: Ambivalent theories, Ideological Memories and Exciting Puzzles       

Erik Neveu



Chapter 2. Mobilizing for Democracy: The 1989 Protests in Central  Eastern Europe

Donatella della Porta



Chapter 3. A Long Awaited Homecoming: The Labour Movement in Social Movement Studies

Karel Yon



Chapter 4. Beyond Party Politics: The Search for a Unified Approach. Research on Radical Right-wing Movements in Europe

Manuela Caiani and Rossella Borri



Chapter 5. Fields of Contentious Politics: Migration and Ethnic Relations

Manlio Cinalli



Chapter 6. Quiescent or Invisible?: Precarious and Unemployed Movements in Europe

Marco Giugni and Jasmine Lorenzini



Chapter 7. From Antiglobalisation to Global Justice Movement: The Waterloo’s European Battle

Isabelle Sommier



Chapter 8. Theoretical Perspectives on European Environmental Movements: Transnational and Techological Challenges in the Twenty-first Century

Maria Kousis



Chapter 9. From Grassroots to Institutions: Women’s Movements Studies in Europe    

Laure Bereni and Anne Revillard



Chapter 10. Social Movements Facing the Crisis

Héloïse Nez



PART II: NATIONAL CASES



Chapter 11. Social Movements Studies in Britain: ‘No Longer The Poor Relation?’

Brian Doherty, Graeme Hayes and Christopher Rootes



Chapter 12. Precarious Research in a Movement Society: Social Movement Studies in Germany

Sebastian Haunss



Chapter 13. Politics and People: Understanding Dutch Research on Social Movements

Jan Willem Duyvendak, Conny Roggeband and Jacquelien van Stekelenburg



Chapter 14. From Splendid Isolation To Joining the Concert of Nations: Social Movement Studies in France

Olivier Fillieule



Chapter 15. Internationalization with Limited Domestic Recognition: Research on Social Movements in Italy

Lorenzo Bosi and Lorenzo Mosca



Chapter 16. The Land of Opportunities?: Social Movement Studies in Switzerland

Philip Balsiger



Chapter 17. Studying Movements in a Movement-become-state: Research and Practice in Postcolonial Ireland    

Laurence Cox



Chapter 18. Successful Social Movement Outcomes without Social Movements?: Research on Swedish Social Movements and Swedish Social Movement Research

Abby Peterson



Chapter 19. Is Spain Still Different?: Social Movements Research in a Belated Western European Democracy

Eduardo Romanos and Susana Aguilar



Chapter 20. Revolutionary or Mild-mannered?: Social Movements and Social Movements Studies in Portugal

Guya Accornero



Chapter 21. From the Centre to the Periphery and Back to the Centre: Social Movements Affecting Social Movement Theory in the Case of Greece

Kostis Kornetis and Hara Kouki



Chapter 22. A Militant Rather than Scientific Research Object: Social Movements Studies in Turkey

Ayşen Uysal



Chapter 23. From Democratization to Internationalization: Studying Social Movements in Hungary    

Aron Buzogany



Chapter 24. Social Movements in Pre- and Post-December 1989 in Romania

Laura Nistor



Chapter 25. Social Mobilization and the Strong State from the Soviets to Putin: Social Movements in the Soviet Union and Russia    

Alfred Evans and Laura Henry



Conclusions: Social Movement Studies in Europe: Achievements, Gaps, and Challenges

Dieter Rucht



Index