Comparing Antinuclear Activism in the Boston Area /
Byron A. Miller.
Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
c2000.
(Baltimore, Md. :
Project MUSE,
2015)
1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-205) and index.
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Missing Geography: Social Movements on the Head of a Pin?; 2. A Geographic Model of Social Movement Mobilization; 3. Place Matters: Interests, Resources, and Opportunities; 4. Space, Place, and Mobilization; 5. Geographic Scale, Mobilization, and the Representation of Defense Investment; 6. Local and Central State Political Opportunity Structures: Material Interests and the Shifting Scale of Struggle; Conclusion: The Difference Geography Makes; Notes; References; Index.
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Byron A. Miller directly addresses the implications of space, place, and scale in social movement mobilization, and then demonstrates their significance in a detailed comparative analysis of peace movements in three municipalities around Boston.