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• State-mobilized movements: a research agenda / Grzegorz Ekiert, Elizabeth J. Perry
• Manufactured ambiguity: party state mobilization strategy in the march 1968 crisis in Poland / Dominika Kruszewska, Grzegorz Ekiert
• Surpressing students in the people's republic of China: proletarian state mobilized movements in 1968 And 1989 / Elizabeth J. Perry, Yan Xiaojun
• State mobilized community development: the case of rural Taiwan / Kristen E. Looney
• Enforcement networks and racial contention in civil-rights era Mississippi / David Cunningham, Peter B. Owens
• Social sources of counterrevolution: state sponsored contention during volutionary episodes / Mark R. Beissinger
• Occupy youth: state mobilized movements in the Putin era or what was Nashi and what comes next / Julie Hemment
• State mobilized movements after the annexation of China: the construction of Novorossia / Samuel A. Greene, Graeme B. Robertson
• Mirroring opposition threats: the logic of state mobilization in Bolivarian Venezuela / Sam Handlin
• Mobilizing against change: veteran organizations as a pivotal political actor / Danijela Dolenec, Daniela Širinić
• The dynanics of state-mobilizaed movements: insights from Egypt / Ashley Anderson, Melani Cammett
• State-mobilized campaign and the prodemocracy movement in Hong Kong, 2013-2015 / Eliza W. Y. Lee
• The resurrection of Lei Fang: rebuidling the Chinese party state s infrastructure of volunteer mobilization / David A. Palmer, Rundong Ning

What do states gain by sending citizens into the streets? Ruling by Other Means investigates this question through the lens of State-Mobilized Movements (SMMs), an umbrella concept that includes a range of (often covertly organized) collective actions intended to advance state interests. The SMMs research agenda departs significantly from that of classic social movement and contentious politics theory, focused on threats to the state from seemingly autonomous societal actors. Existing theories assume that the goal of popular protest is to voice societal grievances, represent oppressed groups, and challenge state authorities and other powerholders. The chapters in this volume show, however, that states themselves organize citizens (sometimes surreptitiously and even transnationally) to act collectively to advance state goals. Drawn from different historical periods and diverse geographical regions, these case studies expand and improve our understanding of social movements, civil society and state-society relations under authoritarian regimes.
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• State-mobilized movements: a research agenda / Grzegorz Ekiert, Elizabeth J. Perry
• Manufactured ambiguity: party state mobilization strategy in the march 1968 crisis in Poland / Dominika Kruszewska, Grzegorz Ekiert
• Surpressing students in the people's republic of China: proletarian state mobilized movements in 1968 And 1989 / Elizabeth J. Perry, Yan Xiaojun
• State mobilized community development: the case of rural Taiwan / Kristen E. Looney
• Enforcement networks and racial contention in civil-rights era Mississippi / David Cunningham, Peter B. Owens
• Social sources of counterrevolution: state sponsored contention during volutionary episodes / Mark R. Beissinger
• Occupy youth: state mobilized movements in the Putin era or what was Nashi and what comes next / Julie Hemment
• State mobilized movements after the annexation of China: the construction of Novorossia / Samuel A. Greene, Graeme B. Robertson
• Mirroring opposition threats: the logic of state mobilization in Bolivarian Venezuela / Sam Handlin
• Mobilizing against change: veteran organizations as a pivotal political actor / Danijela Dolenec, Daniela Širinić
• The dynanics of state-mobilizaed movements: insights from Egypt / Ashley Anderson, Melani Cammett
• State-mobilized campaign and the prodemocracy movement in Hong Kong, 2013-2015 / Eliza W. Y. Lee
• The resurrection of Lei Fang: rebuidling the Chinese party state s infrastructure of volunteer mobilization / David A. Palmer, Rundong Ning.

What do states gain by sending citizens into the streets? Ruling by Other Means investigates this question through the lens of State-Mobilized Movements (SMMs), an umbrella concept that includes a range of (often covertly organized) collective actions intended to advance state interests. The SMMs research agenda departs significantly from that of classic social movement and contentious politics theory, focused on threats to the state from seemingly autonomous societal actors. Existing theories assume that the goal of popular protest is to voice societal grievances, represent oppressed groups, and challenge state authorities and other powerholders. The chapters in this volume show, however, that states themselves organize citizens (sometimes surreptitiously and even transnationally) to act collectively to advance state goals. Drawn from different historical periods and diverse geographical regions, these case studies expand and improve our understanding of social movements, civil society and state-society relations under authoritarian regimes.

• 1. Introduction Cenap Cakmak
• 2. "Dogs of Wall Street, Let Us Alone": Graffiti in Cold War Baghdad, 1953 Elizabeth Bishop
• 3. When Pundits Fail: "We Are All Khalid Said" and the Challenge of Democratizing Egypt Nivien Saleh
• 4. Civil Society and Political Change in Contemporary Egypt Ignacio Alvarez-Ossorio
• 5. Social Media and the Arab Spring in Bahrain: From Mobilization to Confrontation Magdalena Karolak
• 6. The Middle Eastern Gender Gap: The State Of Female Political Participation Before, During and After the 'Arab Spring' Ryan C. Merrill
• 7. The Arab Spring through a Libyan Prism: Contagion, Cleavages and Adverse Transition Jason Strakes
• 8. Re-imagining the 'state' in Syria during the first year of the uprising (2011-2012) Lana Khattab
• 9. Rooted in History: The Politics of Middle Eastern and North African Soccer James M. Dorsey
• 10. Civil State in the post Arab Spring Countries: Tunisia, Egypt and Libya Ibrahim Natil
• 11. Conclusion Cenap Cakmak.
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This book investigates the role of society groups in the making of the Arab Spring and under which conditions they attained their goals. Democracy and recognition of human rights and fundamental freedoms seem to be the main drives of the people organized in form of civil groups or grassroots movements in the Arab Spring countries; but it is essential to identify when they find it suitable to take such extreme action as taking the streets in an attempt to take down the repressive regimes. It is also important to investigate what methods they relied on in their action and how they challenged the state and the government. A review of the cases in this volume shows that civil society has certain limitations in its action. Analysis of the cases also challenges a commonly held assumption that the Arab world does not have strong and rich civil society tradition. However, for a lasting success and consolidation of democracy, something more than civil society action is obviously needed. A strong organized opposition and a democratic culture seems to be indispensable elements for the evolution of a democratic order and tradition.
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• Introduction--
• 1. We Need Movements--
• 2. Movements Made the World We Live In--
• 3. The Social Movement as a Whole--
• 4. The Philosophers Have Only Interpreted The World--
• 5. Movements and Intellectual Activity-- Conclusion-- Resources-- Notes.
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Social movements and popular struggle are a central part of today's world, but often neglected or misunderstood by media commentary as well as experts in other fields. In an age when struggles over climate change, women's rights, austerity politics, racism, warfare and surveillance are central to the future of our societies, we urgently need to understand social movements. Accessible, comprehensive and grounded in deep scholarship, Why Social Movements Matter explains social movements for a general educated readership, those interested in progressive politics and scholars and students in other fields. It shows how much social movements are part of our everyday lives, and how in many ways they have shaped the world we live in over centuries. It explores the relationship between social movements and the left, how movements develop and change, the complex relationship between movements and intellectual life, and delivers a powerful argument for rethinking how the social world is constructed. Drawing on three decades of experience, Why Social Movements Matter shows the real space for hope in a contested world.
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In regions that have undergone tumultuous transitions, democratic social movements have often been the catalyst for great change. However, once those changes occur, can these movements survive, and if so, how? The editors and contributors to Movements in Times of Democratic Transition examine in comparative detail how social movements act within the context of the democratic transitions they have been fighting for, and how they are affected by the changes they helped bring about. Offering insights into the nature of how social movements decline, radicalize, revitalize, or spark new cycles of activism, Movements in Times of Democratic Transition provides a comprehensive analysis of these key questions of mobilization research. Contributors include: Paul Almeida, Christopher J. Colvin, Stephen Ellis, Grzegorz Ekiert, Grzegorz Forys, Krzysztof Gorlach, Camila Penna, Sebastian Pereyra, Steven Robbins, Ton Salman, Mate Szabo, Ineke van Kessel, Michal Wenzel, and the editors.
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A manifesto, an investigation, a travel book: an introduction to the new politics of resistance which shows there's much more to the anti-globalisation movement than trashing Starbucks. It could turn out to be the biggest political movement of the twenty-first century: a global coalition of millions, united in resisting an out-of-control global economy, and already building alternatives to it. It emerged in Mexico in 1994, when the Zapatista rebels rose up in defiance of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The West first noticed it in Seattle in 1999, when the World Trade Organisation was stopped in its tracks by 50,000 protesters. Since then, it has flowered all over the world, every month of every year. The 'anti-capitalist' street protests we see in the media are only the tip of its iceberg. It aims to shake the foundations of the global economy, and change the course of history. But what exactly is it? Who is involved, what do they want, and how do they aim to get it? To find out, Paul Kingsnorth travelled across four continents to visit some of the epicentres of the movement. In the process, he was tear-gassed on the streets of Genoa, painted anti-WTO puppets in Johannesburg, met a tribal guerrilla with supernatural powers, took a hot bath in Arizona with a pie-throwing anarchist and infiltrated the world's biggest gold mine in New Guinea. Along the way, he found a new political movement and a new political idea. Not socialism, not capitalism, not any 'ism' at all, it is united in what it opposes, and deliberately diverse in what it wants instead -- a politics of 'one no, many yeses'. This movement may yet change the world. This book tells its story.
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• Introduction-- P.Ibarra Are the Social Movements Protagonists in the Extension and Consolidation of Democracy?-- C.Tilly Transnationalization and Globalization of Social Movements-- D.Rucht The Transformation of the National Political Space in a Globalizing World-- H.Kriesi From Interests to Identity and from Identity Back to Interests-- K.Eder Landscapes of Political Interest Intermediation-- H.Kitchelt Leadership and Representation in Local Movements' Networks-- M.Diani The Resurgence of Protest and the Revitalization of Democracy in Britain-- C.Rootes Social Movements and Representative Democracies at the Turn of the Millennium: The Italian Case-- D.della Porta Participation, Public Policies, and Democracy-- P.Ibarra.
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Present-day democracies are being called into question from new and different fronts: by globalization, by the fragmentation of postmodernity, by strong and exclusive collective identities. The demands of the social movements challenge democracy in as much as they call for readjustments in its decision-making processes. Yet at the same time the social movements are forms of collective action that help the democracies by keeping them in tension to respond to the challenges arising from the other fronts. The book as a whole deals with this double relationship between social movements and democracy, the movements as challengers and as "maintainers" of democracy.
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• List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction
• Chapter 1. Politics Beyond Parties
• Chapter 2. Social Movements and the Traditional Left: A Cautious Reception
• Chapter 3. "And Yes It Moves!": The Unexpected Response of Centrist Parties to Social Movements Conclusion: It Was the Effort
• Appendix I: Election Outcomes and Government Coalitions
• Appendix II: List of Consulted Documents
• Appendix III: Social Movements' Themes in Party Manifestos Bibliography Index.
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Across the West, the explosion of social movement activity since the late 1960s has constituted a "participatory revolution" that has posed profound challenges for formal political parties. Through an analysis of new interviews, institutional documents, and a host of other largely unexploited sources, Daniela R. Piccio provides a rich and empirically grounded exploration of the wide-ranging responses to these movements. Focusing on Italy and the Netherlands since the 1970s, Party Responses to Social Movements demonstrates how political parties have incorporated the demands of movements to a surprising extent, even as both have grappled with fundamental and inevitable tensions between their respective roles and aims.
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• La politique des droits de l'Homme et le "révolutionnarisme". Propos introductifs
• Penser les révolutions conceptuelles des droits de l'Homme
• Le concept de révolution, d'un champ du savoir à l'autre : la théorie de T. S. Kuhn, la science du droit et les droits de l'Homme
• Les droits de l'Homme sans la loi ?
• Conception(s) et effectivité des droits de l'Homme en droit français
• Les paradoxes d'une prétendue révolution sociale
• Le genre, un concept utile pour repenser le droit de la non-discrimination
• Les effets des révolutions sur les droits de l'Homme
• Les lois sur l'avortement (1975-2013) : une autonomie procréative en trompe-l'oeil ?
• L'impact du tournant néolibéral sur les dispositifs de protection des droits et libertés
• Sexting : les adolescents victimes (consentantes ?)
• Amélie de la révolution numérique.

"Il y a quelques années encore, s'interroger sur les rapports entre les droits de l'Homme et le concept de révolution aurait pu être jugé désuet, voire trahir un vieux fonds nostalgique. Pourtant, depuis la chute du mur de Berlin, des observateurs avisés s'accordent pour qualifier un nombre significatif de phénomènes politiques, technologiques, économiques ou sociaux de transformations majeures ou de révolutions. Le mot "révolution" est dorénavant rapidement brandi pour désigner un évènement dont il est pressenti ou voulu qu'il bouleverse un ordre ou des certitudes établis. Parallèlement, la période se caractérise par un fort tropisme, tant de la part des juristes que des nouvelles formes de revendications politiques et sociales, pour le vocabulaire des droits et libertés. Les interactions qui se dessinent alors entre ce qui est identifié comme une révolution et les droits de l'Homme adoptent des formes complexes et ambivalentes. C'est ce propose de montrer ce volume."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction: The Radicalization of Social Movements and Political Parties
• Chapter 1. Revolutionizing Terrorism: The Radicalization of Hasan al-Banna and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood
• Chapter 2. Radicalizing Ekin: The Transformation of Euzkadi ta Askatasuna (ETA)
• Chapter 3. Forsaking Colombia: The Creation and Radicalization of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC)
• Chapter 4. Ceylon Tigers: The Creation and Radicalization of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Conclusion and Analysis.
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Although many scholars have studied terrorism, few scholars have ever studied terrorism from the aspect of its initial origins in social movements. Not only is research concerning this phenomenon outdated, but there has also been no consensus as to what causes terrorism. Many contemporary terrorist organizations were once social movements that formed for a specific purpose using nonviolent tactics to accomplish their agenda. Eventually, terrorist tactics became the method of choice for these once peaceful social movements. Volatile Social Movements and the Origins of Terrorism: The Radicalization of Change, by Christine Sixta Rinehart, focuses on why this transition occurred; why did a peaceful social movement transition to a terrorist organization? The case studies in this book include the Muslim Brotherhood, the ETA, the FARC, and the LTTE. The study focuses on the individual characteristics, group dynamics, and external forces that caused social movements to use terrorist tactics. It is ascertained who made the decision to use terrorism, and why and how that person or group of people ascended to a leadership position within the social movement. After the (person) people, time, and place are found pertaining to the first decision to use terrorism, Sixta Rinehart examines why terrorism became an attractive option for each social movement. Volatile Social Movements and the Origins of Terrorism asks a necessary question for scholars and researchers in counterterrorism and international policy: Under what conditions do social movements resort to the use of terrorist tactics?
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• List of Illustrations Preface
• Introduction: Rethinking Memorialization: The Concept of Grassroots Memorials Peter Jan Margry and Cristina Sanchez-Carretero
• PART I: NEGOTIATING SOCIETAL VIOLENCE
• Chapter 1. "Difficult Remembrance": Memorializing Mafi a Victims in Palermo Deborah Puccio-Den
• Chapter 2. Ritual Mediations of Violent Death: An Ethnography of the Theo van Gogh Memorial Site, Amsterdam Irene Stengs
• Chapter 3. Between Commemoration and Social Activism: Spontaneous Shrines, Grassroots Memorialization, and the Public Ritualesque in Derry Jack Santino
• Chapter 4. Memorializing Shooters with Their Victims: Columbine, Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University Sylvia Grider
• PART II: CONTESTING OBJECTIONABLE DEATH
• Chapter 5. Marking Death: Grief, Protest, and Politics after a Fatal Traffic Accident Monika Rulfs
• Chapter 6. Ghost Bikes: Memorialization and Protest on City Streets Robert Thomas Dobler
• Chapter 7. Mourning the Polish Pope in Polish Cities Ewa Klekot
• Chapter 8. Remembering La Tragedia: Commemorations of the 1999 Floods in Venezuela 208 Sandrine Revet
• PART III: SOCIABILITY AND REFLEXIVE ANTITERRORISM
• Chapter 9. Street Shrines and the Writing of Disaster: 9/11, New York, 2001 Beatrice Fraenkel
• Chapter 10. The Madrid Train Bombings: Enacting the Emotional Body at the March 11 Grassroots Memorials Cristina Sanchez-Carretero
• Chapter 11. Purification and Remembrance: Eastern and Western Ways of Dealing with the Bali Bombing Huub de Jonge
• PART IV: INSTRUMENTALIZING REPOSITORIES OF MEMORY
• Chapter 12. September
• 11: Museums, Spontaneous Memorials, and History James B. Gardner
• Chapter 13. Piazza Carlo Giuliani - G8 Summit, Genoa
• 2001: Death, Testimony, Memory Fabio Caffarena and Carlo Stiaccini
• Chapter 14. Memorializing a Controversial Politician: The "Heritagization" of a Materialized Vox Populi Peter Jan Margry
• Notes on Contributors Index.
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Grassroots memorials have become major areas of focus during times of trauma, danger, and social unrest. These improvised memorial assemblages continue to display new and more dynamic ways of representing collective and individual identities and in doing so reveal the steps that shape the national memories of those who struggle to come to terms with traumatic loss. This volume focuses on the hybrid quality of these temporary memorials as both monuments of mourning and as focal points for protest and expression of discontent. The broad range of case studies in this volume include anti-mafia shrines, Theo van Gogh's memorial, September 11th memorials, March 11th shrines in Madrid, and Carlo Giuliani memorials in Genoa.
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What role do social movements play in a democracy? Political theorist S. Laurel Weldon demonstrates that social movements provide a hitherto unrecognised form of democratic representation, and thus offer a significant potential for deepening democracy and overcoming social conflict. Through a series of case studies of movements conducted by women, women of colour, and workers in the United States and other member nations of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Weldon examines processes of representation at the local, state, and national levels. She concludes that, for systematically disadvantaged groups, social movements can be as important-sometimes more important-for the effective articulation of a group perspective as political parties, interest groups, or the physical presence of group members in legislatures. When Protest Makes Policy contributes to the emerging scholarship on civil society as well as the traditional scholarship on representation. It will be of interest to anyone concerned with advancing social cohesion and deepening democracy and inclusion as well as those concerned with advancing equality for women, ethnic and racial minorities, the working class, and poor people.
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• Introduction: Movements, marginalization, and representation
• Representing women in democratic policy processes
• Social movements, representation, and family policy
• Intersectionality, labor, and representation in the 50 U.S. states
• Inclusion, identity, and women's movements : state policies on violence against women of color
• Women's movements, representation, and civil society
• The advocacy state.

What role do social movements play in a democracy? Political theorist S. Laurel Weldon demonstrates that social movements provide a hitherto unrecognised form of democratic representation, and thus offer a significant potential for deepening democracy and overcoming social conflict. Through a series of case studies of movements conducted by women, women of colour, and workers in the United States and other member nations of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Weldon examines processes of representation at the local, state, and national levels. She concludes that, for systematically disadvantaged groups, social movements can be as important-sometimes more important-for the effective articulation of a group perspective as political parties, interest groups, or the physical presence of group members in legislatures. When Protest Makes Policy contributes to the emerging scholarship on civil society as well as the traditional scholarship on representation. It will be of interest to anyone concerned with advancing social cohesion and deepening democracy and inclusion as well as those concerned with advancing equality for women, ethnic and racial minorities, the working class, and poor people.
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• List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgments Notes on the Contributors Organizational Structures and Visions of Democracy in the Global Justice Movement: An Introduction-- D.della Porta Global Justice Movement Organizations: The Organizational Population-- D.della Porta Participatory Traditions within the Global Justice Movement-- H.Reiter Consensus in Movements-- D.della Porta Social Movements and Multilevel Governance: The External Dimension of Democracy-- D.della Porta Why Are Social Movement Organizations Deliberative? Structural and Cultural Determinants of Internal Decision Making in the Global Justice Movement-- M.Giugni & A.Nai Organizational Size and Democratic Practices: Can Large Be Beautiful?-- C.Saunders Forms of Action of Global Justice Movement Groups: Do Conceptions and Practices of Democracy Matter?-- D.Rucht& S.Teune Unconventional Politics Online: Internet and the Global Justice Movement-- L.Mosca & D.della Porta The Generational Issue: The Impact of Organizations' Age on Visions of Democracy-- H.Combes, N.Haeringer& I.Sommier Crossing Borders: Transnational Activism in European Social Movements-- M.Pianta, R.Marchetti& D.Zola Democracy in Movement: Some Conclusions-- D.della Porta References Index.
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This collection explores how principles and practices of democracy are elaborated and implemented within the global justice movement, both in their internal organization and in experiments of public decision-making. The issue of internal democracy is particularly relevant for a multifaceted and heterogeneous movement which has denounced the democratic deficits of decision-making processes and stressed the need for radical democratic reforms. In addition, and in part as a response to these demands for greater levels of citizen participation, experiments in participatory and deliberative forms of democracy are underway. Taking an empirical perspective, this collection investigates the development of new conceptions and practices of democracy, integrating research into approximately 250 European and transnational social movement organizations.
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