Introduction: Current routes to the study of contentious politics and social change

Theory and Society

Volumn 33, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 275-279

  Kousis, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

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EID: 20844462722     PISSN: 03042421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:RYSO.0000038645.24864.8d     Document Type: Editorial

References (12)

1. The conference was sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Bettiko Foundation, and the University of Crete. We gratefully acknowledge their financial support.
2. R. Aminzade, J. Goldstone, D. McAdam, E. Perry, W. Sewell, Jr., S. Tarrow, and C. Tilly, Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 7, 55.
3. C. Tilly, "Contentious Politics and Social Change," African Studies 56 (1997): 51-65.
4. For example, J. Smith and H. Johnston, editors, Globalization and Resistance: Transnational Dimensions of Social Movements (Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002).
5. C. Tilly, "Contentious Politics and Social Change," argues that the notion of social change resembles the abstract idea of a current and he proposes exploring whether a set of social changes depicts covariation, directionality, or recurrence.
6. C. Tilly, "Social Movements Enter the Twenty-First Century," paper prepared for the conference on "Contentious Politics and the Economic Opportunity Structure: Mediterranean Perspectives," University of Crete, Rethimno, October 17-18, 2003.
7. C. Tilly, "Social Movements Enter the Twenty-First Century," S. Tarrow, "From Lumping to Splitting: Specifying Globalization and Resistance," and M. Giugni, "Explaining Cross-National Similarities among Social Movements," in J. Smith and H. Johnston, editors, Globalization and Resistance; D. Rucht, "The Internet as a New Opportunity for Transnational Protest Groups," in M. Kousis and C. Tilly, editors, Economic and Political Contention in Comparative Perspective (Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm Publishers, 2004).
8. C. Tilly, "Social Movements Enter the Twenty-First Century," S. Tarrow, "From Lumping to Splitting: Specifying Globalization and Resistance," and M. Giugni, "Explaining Cross-National Similarities among Social Movements," in J. Smith and H. Johnston, editors, Globalization and Resistance; D. Rucht, "The Internet as a New Opportunity for Transnational Protest Groups," in M. Kousis and C. Tilly, editors, Economic and Political Contention in Comparative Perspective (Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm Publishers, 2004).
9. C. Tilly, "Social Movements Enter the Twenty-First Century," S. Tarrow, "From Lumping to Splitting: Specifying Globalization and Resistance," and M. Giugni, "Explaining Cross-National Similarities among Social Movements," in J. Smith and H. Johnston, editors, Globalization and Resistance; D. Rucht, "The Internet as a New Opportunity for Transnational Protest Groups," in M. Kousis and C. Tilly, editors, Economic and Political Contention in Comparative Perspective (Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm Publishers, 2004).
10. C. Tilly, "Social Movements Enter the Twenty-First Century," S. Tarrow, "From Lumping to Splitting: Specifying Globalization and Resistance," and M. Giugni, "Explaining Cross-National Similarities among Social Movements," in J. Smith and H. Johnston, editors, Globalization and Resistance; D. Rucht, "The Internet as a New Opportunity for Transnational Protest Groups," in M. Kousis and C. Tilly, editors, Economic and Political Contention in Comparative Perspective (Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm Publishers, 2004).
11. See C. Tilly, "Contentious Politics and Social Change."
12. D. McAdam, "Harmonizing the Voices: Thematic Continuity Across the Chapters," in Aminzade et al., editors, Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics, 234-239.