The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements

• 1: Donatella della Porta and Mario Diani: Introduction: The Field of Social Movement Studies


• I. Core Theoretical Perspectives


• 2: Klaus Eder: Social Movements in Social Theory


• 3: Ondrej Cisar: Social movements in Political Science


• 4: John Markoff: Historical Analysis and Social Movement Research


• 5: Sidney Tarrow: Contentious Politics


• 6: Stephen Wulff, Mary Bernstein, and Verta Taylor: New Theoretical Directions from the Study of Gender and Sexuality Movements


• II. Social Movements and Structural Processes


• 7: Beverly J. Silver and Sahan Savas Karatasli: Historical Dynamics of Capitalism and Labor Movements


• 8: Jack A. Goldstone: Demography and Social Movements


• 9: Nina Eggert and Marco Giugni: Migration and Social Movements


• 10: Lasse Lindekilde and Lene Kühle: Religious Revivalism and Social Movements


• 11: Diego Muro: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Social Movements


• 12: Massimiliano Andretta, Gianni Piazza, and Anna Subirats: Urban Dynamics and Social Movements


• III. Micro-Dynamics of Contention


• 13: Bert Klandermans: Motivations to Action


• 14: David B. Tindall: Networks as Constraints and Opportunities


• 15: Pamela Oliver: Rational action


• 16: Helena Flam: Micromobilization and Emotions


• 17: Olivier Fillieule: Demobilization and Disengagement in a Life Course Perspective


• IV. How Movements Organize


• 18: Frank den Hond, Frank G.A. de Bakker, and Nikolai Smith: Social Movements and Organizational Analysis


• 19: Mario Diani and Ann Mische: Network Approaches and Social Movements


• 20: Holly J. McCammon, and Minyoung Moon: Social Movement Coalitions


• 21: Hatem M. Hassan and Suzanne Staggenborg: Movements as Communities

Donatella Della Porta is Professor of Sociology at the European University Institute, where she directs the Center on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos). She is also directs a major ERC project Mobilizing for Democracy, on civil society participation in democratization processes in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. Among her very recent publications are: Methodological Practices in Social Movement Research (Oxford University Press, 2014), Spreading Protest (ECPR Press 2014, with Alice Mattoni), Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014, with Joan Font and Yves Sintomer), Mobilizing for Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2014), and Can Democracy be Saved? (Polity Press, 2013). In 2011, she was the recipient of the Mattei Dogan Prize for distinguished achievements in the field of political sociology.

Mario Diani is Professor of Sociology at the University of Trento, and ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. His research focuses primarily on social movements, collective action, and political networks. Publications include The Cement of Civil Society: Studying Networks in Localities (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Social Movements (with Donatella della Porta, Blackwell, 2006), and Social Movements and Networks (co-edited with Doug McAdam, Oxford University Press, 2003), as well as articles in leading journals such as American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology and Social Networks. He was European Editor of Mobilization from 1997-2005 and a board member of INSNA-International Network for Social Network Analysis from 2010-2013.