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Social movements in politics : a comparative study / by Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zirakzadeh, Cyrus Ernesto, 1951-
- Series:
- Perspectives in comparative politics.
- Perspectives in comparative politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social movements--Political aspects--Case studies.
- Social movements.
- Political participation--Case studies.
- Political participation.
- Bündnis 90/Die Grünen.
- NSZZ "Solidarność" (Labor organization).
- Sendero Luminoso (Guerrilla group).
- Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XII, 273 p.)
- Edition:
- Expanded ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this book, Zirakzadeh examines different types of social movements, from the Greens in Germany to the Shining Path in Peru. The book concludes with a juxtaposition of the three major theoretical approaches and historical findings and proposes a fourth theoretical approach emphasizing factional conflict and reconciliation.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface to the Expanded Edition
- Acronyms
- Part 1 How We Think about Social Movements
- 1 Recent Traditions in Social-Movement Theorizing
- Part 2 West Germany's Greens and the Politics of Party Movements
- 2 A World to Be Remade: Sociopolitical Circumstances of Green Politics
- 3 Political Antecedents
- 4 Clashing Shades of Green
- Part 3 Poland's Solidarity and Movements against Dictatorial Regimes
- 5 A World to Be Remade: Sociopolitical Circumstances of Solidarity
- 6 Political Antecedents
- 7 Discord within Solidarity
- Part 4 Peru's Shining Path and Agrarian-Based Movements
- 8 A World to Be Remade: Sociopolitical Circumstances of Shining Path
- 9 Political Antecedents
- 10 Diverse Directions along the Shining Path
- Part 5 Mexico's Zapatistas and the Globalization of Protest
- 11 A World to Be Remade: Sociopolitical Circumstances of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
- 12 Political Antecedents
- 13 Wanderings of Zapata's Ghost
- Part 6 Conclusions
- 14 From History to Theory
- Notes
- References
- Name Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- W
- Z
- Subject Index
- U
- Y
- Z.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [250]-264) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611369958
- 9781281369956
- 1281369950
- 9781403983336
- 140398333X
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