Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change

Series and Focus

This latest volume in the august Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change series carries on a long tradition of featuring only the best data-driven and multi-method research upon which useful theory can be painstakingly built.

Part One: Media and Mobilization

Part one focuses on old and new media platforms and their intersections with mobilization issues, highlighting protest websites and the US Tea Party movement.

Part Two: Elites and Campaigns

Part two investigates the roles elites play in advancing movement campaigns for increased rights and decreased inequalities in the US and Peru.

Part Three: Conflict Transformation

The third section spotlights best and worst practices in conflict transformation and peacebuilding ventures in Croatia and Israel/Palestine.

Part Four: Consensus Building

The fourth section interrogates the use of consensus building processes in Local Social Forums and in the Occupy Movement.

Special Anniversary Reflection

Finally, on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Neil Smelser's A Theory of Collective Behavior, we close with a creative combining of Smelser's structural functionalist approach with social identity models for understanding crowd behaviors in the context of university party riots.