Movement-relevant Theory: Rethinking Social Movement Scholarship and Activism
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Movement-relevant Theory: Rethinking Social Movement Scholarship and Activism
The dominant American social movement scholarship has become detached from the concerns of actual social movements. But the dramatic growth of social movement activity in recent years, especially the global justice movement, is creating the conditions for an emerging new direction in social movement scholarship which prioritizes the relevance of such work to the movements themselves. A problem ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Movement Studies
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1474-2837,1474-2829
DOI: 10.1080/14742830500329838