Putting Social Movements in Their Place: Explaining Opposition to Energy Projects in the United States, 2000 - 2005 (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics) - Hardcover

Doug McAdam, Hilary Boudet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107020662 ISBN 13: 9781107020665

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

This book reports the results of a comparative study of twenty communities earmarked for environmentally risky energy projects.

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Doug McAdam is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and the former Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). He is the author or co-author of 13 books and some 75 articles in the area of political sociology, with a special emphasis on the study of social movements and revolutions. Among his best known works are Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970, a new edition of which was published in 1999; Freedom Summer (1988), which was awarded the 1990 C. Wright Mills Award as well as being a finalist for the American Sociological Association's best book prize for 1991; and Dynamics of Contention (2001) with Sid Tarrow and Charles Tilly. He is also the author of the forthcoming book, A Theory of Fields (with Neil Fligstein). He is a two-time former Fellow of CASBS, a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003).

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1107020662
• ISBN 13: 9781107020665
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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