Social Stratification and Social Movements: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on an Ambivalent Relationship

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
1. Social stratification and social movements: an introduction
	Bringing stratification back into social movement research
	Why has social movement research largely abandoned research on social divisions and differentiations in societies?
	Bringing stratification back in
	Different approaches to study social movements and stratification
	Note
	References
2. Social movements, stratification, and international political economy: integrating insights
	Social movements and what kind of capitalism?
	Social movements, stratification, and national economies
	Varieties of capitalism and varieties of activism
	Transnational mobilization shaping the international political economy
	Conclusion: a political-economic perspective on social movements
	Notes
	Literature
3. Social movement unionism: theoretical foundations and empirical evidence
	Introduction
	Social movement unionism
	The ‘Jena power resource approach’
	The new conflict formation: regulation of labour between
two worlds
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
4. New cleavages in the knowledge society?: social movements and the production, use, and valorization of knowledge
	Introduction
	Conflict and change
	IPRs in the knowledge society
	The politicization of intellectual property
	Contentious mobilizations about IP
	IP conflicts and social change
	References
5. Class counts, but social background matters: habitus-structure conflicts and social inequality in protest research
	Introduction – class counts, but social background matters!
	Social protest and social inequality
	Habitus-structure conflicts and symbolic violence as
an analytical heuristic
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
6. Crowd-cleavage alignment: do protest issues and protesters’ cleavage position align?
	Introduction
	The formation of a cleavage
	Alignment of cleavages and protesting crowds
	Research questions
	Data
	Measurements
	Results
	Conclusion and discussion
	Notes
	References
7. Adapting environmental and climate justice to local political struggles in South Africa
	Introduction
	Inequality and the environment: conceptual reflections
	Inequality and the environmental movement in South Africa –
a long history
	Frame analysis of the South African environmental movement
	The diffusion of the climate justice frame
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
	Interviews
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8. Movement goals and recruitment strategies: how mitigation and adaptation shape inclusion in climate justice projects
	Introduction
	Introducing goals into the question of recruitment and inclusivity
	Case-selection and methods
	Adapting recruitment strategies?
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
9. Mobilization of the most deprived: insights from Brazilian movements of homeless people and recyclable materials collectors
	Introduction
	Living conditions and difficulties typically faced by homeless
people – a short overview
	To what extent does organizational structure contribute to mobilizing poor people?
	How to attract the homeless to participate in SMOs
	Mobilizing homeless people in Brazil, the cases of
MNPR and MNCR
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
10. Social movements and intersectionality: the case of migrants’ social activism
	Introduction
	Scholarship: intersectionality as theory and methodology
	Research: intersectionality in/and social movements studies
	Action: transnational migrants’ activism through intersectional lenses
	Discussion: between intersectionality in the movement and intersectional activism
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
Index