PROTEST BEYOND BORDERS
Contentious Politics in Europe since 1945
Edited by Hara Kouki & Eduardo Romanos
"The mixture of historical and contemporary accounts and perspectives constitutes an original and much needed approach to the study of social movements."
- Peo Hansen, Linköping University, Sweden
"This is a wide ranging and informative study…The essays are well presented [and], intrinsically interesting."
- Ruth Kinna, Loughborough University
INFO.
Hardback: 244 pages
Publisher: Berghahn Books (October 2010)
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-84545-747-1
EDITORS.
Hara Kouki
European University Institute
(Florence, Italy)
Eduardo Romanos
Public University of Navarre
(Pamplona, Spain)
ABOUT THE VOLUME.
In recent years, various disciplines have made the protest movements after the Second World War the object of their study. However, there seems to be a lack of communication among research fields that could emphasize heuristic methodological tools and also of comparative research that could not only systematically describe the similarities and differences between the single national movements but also evaluate how they contributed to the formation and evolution of a transnational civil society in Europe.
Within an international and interdisciplinary dialogue, this volume questions some major assumptions of post-1945 protest and social mobilization both in Western and Eastern Europe. Historians, political scientists, sociologists and media studies scholars come together here in order to gain an insight into social movement research beyond conventional repertoires of protest and strictly defined periods, borders and paradigms, offering new perspectives on past and present processes of social change of the contemporary world.
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CONTENTS.
Table of Contents
Preface
TRANSNATIONAL APPROACHES TO SOCIAL MOBILIZATION IN EUROPE SINCE 1945. AN INTRODUCTION
PART I. TRANSNATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF PROTEST IN COLD WAR EUROPE
PART II. CONTENTIOUS POLITICS IN A NEW ERA OF TRANSNATIONALISM
PART III. BROADENING THEORETICAL APPROACHES
PART IV. OUTLOOK FOR RESEARCH
SOCIAL MOVEMENT STUDIES AND TRANSNATIONALIZATION: AN UNEASY RELATION OR A HAPPY START?
AN AFTERWORD
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
