عنوان

Transforming politics :

1349274291

9781349274291

b383991

Transforming politics :

[Book]

power and resistance

edited by Paul Bagguley and Jeff Hearn.

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire

Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press,

1999.

(xiii, 303 pages)

Explorations in sociology.

1. Transforming Politics: Power and Resistance / Paul Bagguley and Jeff Hearn -- 2. Empowerment and Resistance: 'Collective Effervescence' and other Accounts / Colin Barker -- 3. Inter-Group Dynamics of Empowerment: a Social Identity Model / Clifford Stott and John Drury -- 4. Power, Politics and Everyday Life: the Local Rationalities of Social Movement Milieux / Laurence Cox -- 5. Resisting Colonisation: the Politics of Anti-Roads Protesting / Wallace McNeish -- 6. Social Movements in a Multi-Ethnic Inner City: Explaining their Rise and Fall over 25 Years / Max Farrar -- 7. 'Very British Rebels': Politics and Discourse within Contemporary Ulster Unionism / James White McAuley.

Transforming politics is the theme that runs through the contributions to this collection. The relationships between political transformation, power and resistance are of recurrent importance in all societies and have a special relevance within contemporary sociological analysis. The social divisions and political questions that run through this book reflect the major social changes since the 1970s. These changes",,,,,"Transforming politics is the theme that runs through the contributions to this collection. The relationships between political transformation, power and resistance are of recurrent importance in all societies and have a special relevance within contemporary sociological analysis. The social divisions and political questions that run through this book reflect the major social changes since the 1970s. These changes show the widening intellectual and social impact of social movements and this is reflected in this collection where questions of class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and the environment loom large.Transforming politics is the theme that runs through the contributions to this collection. The relationships between political transformation, power and resistance are of recurrent importance in all societies and have a special relevance within contemporary sociological analysis. The social divisions and political questions that run through this book reflect the major social changes since the 1970s. These changes show the widening intellectual and social impact of social movements and this is reflected in this collection where questions of class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and the environment loom large.This volume examines the transformation of political action at the levels of identity, mobilisation, and the impact of social movements on the state. There is particular emphasis on the ways in which the British state has incorporated and 'tamed' certain radical agendas for social change. The final contributions to the book consider the broader intellectual debates stimulated by recent political movements.,"Transforming politics is the theme that runs through the contributions to this collection. The relationships between political transformation, power and resistance are of recurrent importance in all societies and have a special relevance within contemporary sociological analysis. The social divisions and political questions that run through this book reflect the major social changes since the 1970s. These changes show the widening intellectual and social impact of social movements and this is reflected in this collection where questions of class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and the environment loom large.Transforming politics is the theme that runs through the contributions to this collection. The relationships between political transformation, power and resistance are of recurrent importance in all societies and have a special relevance within contemporary sociological analysis. The social divisions and political questions that run through this book reflect the major social changes since the 1970s. These changes show the widening intellectual and social impact of social movements and this is reflected in this collection where questions of class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and the environment loom large.This volume examines the transformation of political action at the levels of identity, mobilisation, and the impact of social movements on the state. There is particular emphasis on the ways in which the British state has incorporated and 'tamed' certain radical agendas for social change. The final contributions to the book consider the broader intellectual debates stimulated by recent political movements.

Paul Bagguley

Jeff Hearn

[Book]

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