Putting social movements in their place : explaining opposition to energy projects in the United States, 2000-2005

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Putting social movements in their place : explaining opposition to energy projects in the United States, 2000-2005

Title remainder

explaining opposition to energy projects in the United States, 2000-2005

Statement of responsibility

Doug McAdam, Hilary Schaeffer Boudet

Creator

• McAdam, Doug

Contributor

• Boudet, Hilary, 1979-

Subject

• Soziale Bewegung
• Protest
• USA
• Protest movements
• Energy development -- Environmental aspects -- United States
• Energy development -- Environmental aspects
• United States
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government | General
• Protest movements -- United States
• Energiepolitik

Language

eng

Summary

• "This book reports the results of a comparative study of 20 communities earmarked for environmentally risky energy projects. The authors find the overall level of emergent opposition to the projects very low, and they seek to explain that variation and impact it had on the proposed projects"--
• "The field of social movement studies has expanded dramatically over the past three decades. But as it has done so, its focus has become increasingly narrow and, źmovement-centric., Ź When combined with the tendency to select successful struggles for study, the conceptual and methodological conventions of the field conduce to a decidedly Ptolemaic view of social movements: one that exaggerates the frequency and causal significance of movements as a form of politics. This book reports the results of a comparative study, not of movements, but of 20 communities earmarked for environmentally risky energy projects. In stark contrast to the central thrust of the social movement literature, the authors find that the overall level of emergent opposition to the projects to have been very low, and they seek to explain that variation and the impact, if any, it had on the ultimate fate of the proposed projects"--

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• Cambridge studies in contentious politics

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• Provided by publisher
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DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HD9502.U52

LC item number

M3915 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Cambridge studies in contentious politics