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...Thad Williamson © 2012 Caucus for a New Political Science 2012 New Political Science, Volume 34, Number 3, September 2012 Sytnposiutn Engaging Etnancipatory Social Science and Social Theory: A Sytnposiutn on Erik Olin Wright's Envisioning Real Utopias Thad Williamson, Guest Editor...

...Peter N. Funke Abstract This article examines the World Social Forum and the global social forum process it has spurred by encouraging the creation of autonomous social forums on various levels, from the local to the global. The article argues that social forums, these “open spaces” for groups...

...Timothy P. R. Weaver Abstract Social justice in the city has re-emerged as a critical issue in recent years. Especially important has been Clarissa Rile Hayward and Todd Swanstrom’s 2011 edited volume, Justice and the American Metropolis, which contains essays by a series of leading urbanists...

...Timothy W. Luke © 1989 Caucus for a New Political Science 1989 Timothy W. Luke Class Contradictions and Social Cleavages in Informationalizing Post-Industrial Societies: On the Rise of New Social Movements* This study argues that new social movements are an important new form of organized...

...Marco Andreu Abstract Recent years have seen the emergence of social impact bonds (SIBs), geared toward funding social interventions while earning financial returns. The article proposes to conceive of SIBs as a practice of contemporary humanitarianism. In an effort to trace the politics...

...R. Claire Snyder-Hall Benjamin Shepard , Queer Political Performance and Protest: Play, Pleasure, and Social Movement , New York : Routledge , 2010 , xix + 320 pp. © 2012 R. Claire Snyder-Hall 2012 Book Reviews 99 of Obama was the reaffirmation of a long struggle for democracy...

.... Republican theory can benefit from attention to the emergence of social democracy in the early twentieth century, and to the role of republican ideas in that emergence. Jean Jaurès, perhaps the most prominent exponent of social democracy at that time, drew on the republican tradition to defend a concept...

... seems to endorse) may be intertwined in ways that go unexplored in this book. JESSICA BLATT Marymount Manhattan College, USA © 2013 Jessica Blatt httpdx.doi.org/l 0.1 080/07393148.2012. 754674 George Katsiaficas, Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 1: South Korean Social Movements in the 20th Century...

... in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as the Arab Spring in 2011, reveal an action-alternative to both Soviet-style state socialism and Western capitalism (p. 17). This claim appears to reflect Katsiaficas's charge that Eurocentrism has marginalized non-Western societies and their history. Only the future will prove...

...Jennifer Leigh Disney; Virginia S. Williams Abstract This article explores the shift to the left in Latin America within the context of understanding power relations among, within, and between social movements and the state. We examine the emergence and development of social movement resistance...

...James A. Chamberlain Abstract Working in private homes, often isolated from the community and denied the legal rights and protections that most other workers enjoy, paid domestic laborers make up some of the most socially marginalized, vulnerable, and exploited workers in the United States today...

...Theodor Tudoroiu Abstract This article argues that during the Arab Spring social media served as a tactical tool of mobilization, communication, and coordination; as an instrument of domestic and international revolutionary contagion; and, critically, as a means of enhancing pan-Arab consciousness...

... British newspapers is provided to frame and criticize how the riots were portrayed. The article then turns to the conceptual framework provided by Charles Taylor’s work on social imaginaries and the modern moral order. The author argues that the media enacted the kind of moralizing impulse that Taylor...

...Michael T. Rogers The Identity Dilemma: Social Movements and Collective Identity , edited by Aidan M. McGarry and James M. Jasper , Philadelphia, PA , Temple University Press , 2015 , 217 pp., $29.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-43991-252-2 © 2017 Michael T. Rogers 2017...

...James K. Rowe Abstract This article explores the growing use of mind/body practices such as meditation and yoga in Left social movements. The analysis is rooted in interviews with activists participating in the transformative movement-building current: the growing number of organizations...

...Robert Michael Noonan Social movements in times of austerity: bringing capitalism back into protest analysis , by Donatella della Porta , Malden, MA : Polity , 2015 , 249 pp. © 2016 Robert Michael Noonan 2016 @452 BOOK REVIEWS Notwithstanding such limitations in the framing...

... decisions about the power relations that shape our lives. © 2013 Caucus for a New Political Science 2013 New Political Science, 2013 Vol. 35, No.3, 417-431, httpdx.doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2013.813694 I~ Routledge Taylor & Francis Group Occupy the Social Contract! Participatory Detnocracy and Iceland's...

...Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh Abstract This article explores moral stances in social movement research. The article first identifies three moral orientations (and their corresponding world views) that have become common since the end of the Cold War. The second section uses Friedrich Nietzsche’s praise...

...David Lempert Jacquelien van Stekelenburg , Conny Roggeband , and Bert Klandermans (eds), The Future of Social Movement Research: Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes , Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2013 , 469 pp. © 2014, David Lempert 2014 284 Book Reviews...

... Group Reforlll or Radicalislll: Left Social Movelllents frolll the Battle of Seattle to Occupy Wall Street James K. Rowe & Myles Carroll University of Victoria Abstract We examine two recent cases of relative Left success-the Battle of Seattle and Occupy Wall Street-and argue that in each case...