The issue of climate change poses something of a puzzle. For all the attention accorded the
issue, climate change/global warming has spawned surprisingly little grassroots activism in …

Recent research has focused on the role of social networks in facilitating participation in
protest and social movement organizations. This paper elaborates three currents of …

ISBN 978-987-722-634-8© Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales| Queda hecho
el depósito que establece la Ley 11723. El contenido de este libro expresa la posición de …

Waging war has historically been an almost exclusively male endeavor. Yet, over the past
several decades women have joined insurgent armies in significant and surprising numbers …

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 …

Participation in social movements is a multifaceted phenomenon. Indeed, there are many
different forms of movement participation. Two important dimensions to distinguish forms of …

Abstract Using American Citizen Participation Survey data (Verba et al 1995a), we perform
logistic regression analyses to adjudicate between three core explanations for individual …

Social movements emerge as a result of the efforts of purposeful actors (individuals,
organizations) to assert new public values, form new relationships rooted in those values …

Following the high-profile deaths of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri,
and twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, both cities erupted in protest …