The Troubles in Northern Ireland and Theories of Social Movements

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The Troubles in Northern Ireland and Theories of Social Movements / edited by Lorenzo Bosi and Gianluca De Fazio.

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This volume focuses on a number of research questions, drawn from social movement scholarship: How does nonviolent mobilisation emerge and persist in deeply divided societies? What are the trajectories of participation in violent groups in these societies? What is the relationship between overt mobi...

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TeilnehmendeR:
De Fazio, Gianluca,
Bosi, Lorenzo,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Protest and Social Movements
Physical Description:1 online resource (240 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Contextualizing the Troubles: Investigating Deeply Divided Societies through Social Movements Research / Bosi, Lorenzo / De Fazio, Gianluca
  • 2. What Did the Civil Rights Movement Want? Changing Goals and Underlying Continuities in the Transition from Protest to Violence / Dochartaigh, Niall Ó.
  • 3. Vacillators or Resisters? The Unionist Government Responses to the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland / Turner, Erin-Beth / De Fazio, Gianluca
  • 4. White Negroes and the Pink IRA. External Mainstream Media Coverage and Civil Rights Contention in Northern Ireland / Maney, Gregory
  • 5. 'We Are the People': Protestant Identity and Collective Action in Northern Ireland, 1968-1985 / Campbell, Sarah
  • 6. Ulster Loyalist Accounts of Armed Mobilization, Demobilization, and Decommissioning / Ferguson, Neil / McAuley, James W.
  • 7. Social Movements and Social Movement Organizations:Recruitment, Ideology, and Splits / White, Robert W. / Demirel-Pegg, Tijen
  • 8. Movement Inside and Outside of Prison: The H-Block Protest / O'Hearn, Denis
  • 9. 'Mother Ireland, Get Off Our Backs': Republican Feminist Resistance in the North of Ireland / O'Keefe, Theresa
  • 10. 'One Community, Many Faces': Non-sectarian Social Movements and Peace-building in Northern Ireland and Lebanon / Nagle, John
  • 11. The Peace People: Principled and Revolutionary Non-violence in Northern Ireland / Smithey, Lee A.
  • Afterword: Social Movements, Long-term Processes, and Ethnic Division in Northern Ireland / Ruane, Joseph / Todd, Jennifer
  • List of Authors
  • Index

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