The expanded second edition of the definitive interdisciplinary reference work on social and political movements, updated with more than 200 new entries
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements provides authoritative and up-to-date coverage of important social movements, revolutions, and related collective phenomena worldwide. Unparalleled in depth and scope, this comprehensive resource contains 600+ entries written by an international panel of contributors from disciplines such as sociology, political science, anthropology, human geography, and social psychology. Alphabetically organized entries encompass a comprehensive range of historical and modern movements, protests and topics that reflect a diversity of social contexts and theoretical perspectives, concepts, processes, and methods.
The second edition incorporates significant social and political changes and movements that have occurred over the past decade, including contemporary environmentalism, the rise of populist nationalism, the Black Lives Matter and me too movements, the January 6 assault on the United States Capitol, the anti-vaccine movement, independence movements in Hong Kong and Catalonia, and more. Throughout the encyclopedia, peer-reviewed entries written and revised by an international team of leading scholars describe an array of social protests, collective action initiatives, and political developments and changes while providing a deeper understanding of the social worlds in which they emerge and operate. This work:
- Presents broad-based and interdisciplinary coverage of major social and political movements throughout different historical periods and geographic regions
- Contains hundreds of state-of-the-art entries organized and edited by a prestigious editorial team of leading scholars in their fields
- Explores key social and political historical developments such as the French Revolution, the Chinese Communist Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and the American civil rights movement
- Includes entries on gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, identity, class, religion, and social control structured in a user-friendly A-Z format
Available online or as a four-volume print set, The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements is an invaluable reference for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers in the fields of social movements, sociology, political science, human geography, anthropology, and social psychology.
Volume I
Editors vii
Advisory Editors ix
Contributors xi
Alphabetical List of Entries xxxv
List of Entries by Topic xliii
Timeline lxiii
Introduction lxxi
Social and Political Movements ACompa 1
Volume II
Social and Political Movements CompeG 467
Volume III
Social and Political Movements HN 957
Volume IV
Social and Political Movements OR 1473
Volume V
Social and Political Movements SZ 1891
Index 2355
DAVID A. SNOW is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, USA, where he also serves as the Co-Director of the Center for Citizens Peacebuilding. He has authored and edited several books and numerous articles and contributions to edited volumes on aspects of social movements and collective action, including A Primer on Social Movements (2010) and The Wiley Blackwell Companion To Social Movements (2e 2019, Wiley Blackwell).
DONATELLA DELLA PORTA is Professor of Political Science and Founding Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy, where she also leads the Center on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos). Among her 90 books are Where Did the Revolution Go? (2017), Can Social Movements Save Democracy? (2020), Social Movements: An Introduction (3e 2020, Wiley Blackwell), and the most recent Contentious Politics in Emergency Critical Junctures (2022). She has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022.
DOUG McADAM is the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor at Stanford University, USA. He is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of the political process model in social movement analysis. His books include Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency (1982), Freedom Summer (1988), Dynamics of Contention (with Sid Tarrow and Charles Tilly, 2001) and, Deeply Divided: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Postwar America (2014). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.
BERT KLANDERMANS is Professor of Applied Social Psychology at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands. He has published extensively on the social psychology of protest and social movement participation. His authored and edited works include Social Psychology of Protest (1997), Extreme Right Activists in Europe (2005), Handbook of Social Movements Across Disciplines (2007), and The Future of Social Movement Research: Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes (2013).
