Britain Re-Creates the Social Movement: Contentious (and Not-so-contentious) Networks in Glasgow

Diani, Mario (2002) Britain Re-Creates the Social Movement: Contentious (and Not-so-contentious) Networks in Glasgow. In Proceedings Contentious Politics and the Economic Opportunity Structure, University of Crete, Rhetimno, Greece.

Abstract

Looking at networks of civic organizations in Glasgow, I try to single out social movement dynamics from a broader set of collaborative interactions and shared memberships between organizations mobilizing on environmental, ethnic and minority, and social exclusion issues. In doing so, I also draw attention to the persistent usefulness of the concept of social movement, which recent work by Tilly (McAdam et al., 2001) seems to have placed in a less central position.