Social Movements, Rebellion, and Insurgency by Jeff Goodwin
Political Science Quarterly, 2024
Mark R. Beissinger's The Revolutionary City is a tour de force that will interest a wide range of... more Mark R. Beissinger's The Revolutionary City is a tour de force that will interest a wide range of readers. It charts both the decline of social revolutions and the rise of a new kind of rebellion, what Beissinger calls the urban civic revolt. Beissinger also analyzes the many ways in which these revolts differ from previous ones. These new rebellions have been minimalist in character, aiming to overthrow despotic regimes but eschewing any effort to redistribute wealth on a large scale or transform class relations. Beissinger's "spatial theory of revolution," however, only partially illuminates these new urban rebellions, and it leads him to the premature conclusion that social revolutions will never occur again.
European Journal of Sociology, 2007
An adequate theory of terrorism need not explain political violence in general, but it must accou... more An adequate theory of terrorism need not explain political violence in general, but it must account for violence directed against random civilians. Richardson’s ‘‘triple-cocktail’’ formula does not provide such a theory.
we explore whether Goodwin's hypothesis that social movement scholars are ignoring the relationsh... more we explore whether Goodwin's hypothesis that social movement scholars are ignoring the relationship between social protest and the structure of capitalism.
Papers by Jeff Goodwin
Oxford Handbook on Terrorism, Mar 14, 2019
Terrorism, understood as the killing of noncombatants in order to frighten, intimidate, or provok... more Terrorism, understood as the killing of noncombatants in order to frighten, intimidate, or provoke others, has long been an important method of warfare or contention for both states and non-state groups. Yet states and rebels clearly do not attack just any noncombatants. Indeed, both states and rebels are also usually interested in securing the support of noncombatants. So who are the noncombatants whom warriors choose to attack? Armed groups have an incentive to attack and terrorize those noncombatants who support enemy states or rebels politically or economically. Terrorism is thus a method of undermining indirectly one’s armed enemies. By contrast, armed groups do not have an incentive to attack noncombatants who do not support enemy states or rebels. Whether noncombatants are supporters of states or rebels, in other words, is the key to understanding why terror tactics are or are not likely to be employed against them in any particular conflict.
Page 1. EDITED BY STRUCTU AND I PEOPLE, PASSIONS, A Page 2. Page 3. Rethinking Social Movements P... more Page 1. EDITED BY STRUCTU AND I PEOPLE, PASSIONS, A Page 2. Page 3. Rethinking Social Movements Page 4. People, Passions, and Power Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the Political Process John C. Green ...
Routledge eBooks, 2007
Volume 1: Crowd Behavior and Psychological Perspectives 1. Classics 2. Relative Deprivation, Soci... more Volume 1: Crowd Behavior and Psychological Perspectives 1. Classics 2. Relative Deprivation, Social Breakdown, and Emergent Norms 3. Rethinking Crowds and Collective Behaviour Volume 2: Organization and Infrastructure 1. Resource Mobilization 2. Organizational Forms 3. Networks and Recruitment 4. International Networks and Mobilization Volume 3: Politics and Strategy 1. Structural Opportunities 2. Political Processes 3. Leaders, Decisions, Strategy 4. Creativity and Outcomes Volume 4: Culture and Emotion 1. Programmed Societies 2. Grievances, Values, Meaning 3. Framing 4. Forms of Talk 5. Collective Solidarities 6. Emotions in Action
Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, & Conflict, 2008
Contemporary Sociology, 1995
American Journal of Sociology, 2001
Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 2000
In recent years sociologists have made great strides in studying the emotions that pervade social... more In recent years sociologists have made great strides in studying the emotions that pervade social life. The study of social movements has lagged behind, even though there are few arenas where emotions are more obvious or important. We hope to understand this lag as well as make some suggestions for catching up. To do this we examine the history of scholarship on social movements, finding that emotions were poorly specified in the early years, ignored entirely in the structural and organizational paradigms that emerged in the 1960s, and still overlooked in the cultural era of the 1980s and 1990s. Despite isolated efforts to understand the emotions of social movements, they remain today a fertile area for inquiry.
Contemporary Sociology, 2002
Passionate politics: Emotions and social …, 2001
Parents and carers have an important role to play in supporting children’s emotional development.... more Parents and carers have an important role to play in supporting children’s emotional development. They do this through responding effectively to children’s emotions, through providing examples of how they manage feelings, and through talking with children about feelings and how to manage them. In similar ways, school staff can provide important support for children’s emotional development. Children’s emotional development
American Journal of Sociology, 2001
This intriguing volume is a direct challenge to Theda Skocpol's States and Social Revolutions... more This intriguing volume is a direct challenge to Theda Skocpol's States and Social Revolutions (1979); by inserting "ideology" into the title, Parsa claims that Skocpol left out something important. He makes good on his effort to dem- onstrate the importance of ideology in recent Third World revolutions, but the book offers far more than that. Several authors have compared the Iranian and Nicara- guan revolutions, which occurred in 1979, but to my knowl- edge this is the first book-length treatment to add the Philippines revolution against Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.
This paper argues for analyses of the changing conditions of collective action on the internation... more This paper argues for analyses of the changing conditions of collective action on the international stage using the method of incorporating comparisons. Third World revolutions, national liberation movements, and related peasant-urban revolts of the 1950s and 1960s took place in a context shaped decisively by emerging states, developmental projects, and international sponsorship and control. Since the early 1980s, the "Third World" and developmental state has been increasingly submerged in a globalizing neo-liberal regime orchestrated by the interests of free trade, capital expansion, and structural adjustment. The transformation has shifted the fulcrum of political conflict from redistributional reforms of the developmental period to market-driven global integration and accumulation. The transformation does not necessarily affect the frequency of international political conflict, but it does change its form, potential, and objective. The argument is developed using case s...
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