Recent developments in social movement research have evidenced a greater underlying
consensus in the field than one might have assumed. Efforts have been made to bridge …

Resource mobilization theory has recently presented an alternative interpretation of social
movements. The review traces the emergence and recent controversies generated by this …

Megaprojects are social tools that are designed by humans to produce large-scale, capital-
intensive technology. Intriguingly, despite major advances in megaproject management …

In Europe, as in the rest of the Western world, scholarly interest in social movements
developed with the wave of protest that, in the late sixties, shook confidence in the 'end of …

An emerging research agenda focuses on social media's influence on political activism.
Specific attention has recently been paid to digital social movement organizing and action …

Citizen participation has undergone a radical shift since anxieties about" bowling alone"
seized the nation in the 1990s. Many pundits and observers have cheered America's twenty …

Con un lenguaje claro, ameno y accesible, la obra de Donatella della Porta y Mario Diani
sigue siendo, hoy por hoy, una referencia obligada para los investigadores, además de un …

Political protest and social movements are ubiquitous phenomena. This book focuses on the
current theoretical approaches that aim at explaining them: the theory of collective action …

Civil society is frequently conceived as a field of multiple organizations, committed to highly
diverse causes and interests. When studied empirically, however, its properties are often …

Organizational theory emphasizes how new organizational forms are produced by
technological innovation but has glossed over the role of cultural innovation. This chapter …