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unusual facts about social movements



Contentious politics

For example, historical sociologist Charles Tilly argues that the nature of contentious politics changed fairly dramatically with the birth of social movements in 18th-century Europe.


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David K. Jordan

Jordan has published on language, social structure, folk religion, and sectarianism in Taiwan and China and has written in and about Esperanto and the social movements associated with it and the associated area of interlinguistics.

Dieter Rucht

as an editor jointly with Donatella della Porta and Hanspeter Kriesi: Social Movements in a Globalizing world. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, ISBN 9780230235311; 023023531X

History of Chechens in the Russian Empire

Tsarist rule was marked by a transition into modern times including the formation (or re-formation) of a Chechen bourgeoisie, the emergence of social movements, reorientation of the Chechen economy towards oil, heavy ethnic discrimination at the expense of Chechens and others in favor of Russians and Kuban Cossacks, and a religious transition among the Chechens towards the Qadiri sect of Sufism.

History of responsa in Judaism

Responsa have been inspired or necessitated by economic growth, social movements, and advances in technology, which wrought sweeping changes in the lives and living conditions of the Jews in different countries, as well as within Judaic streams; e.g., those of Reform Judaism and Zionism.

New social movements

Paul Byrne ('97) described New Social Movements as 'relatively disorganised'.

Painful Easter

Even though he was periodically elected representing the Colorado Party and maintained the façade of a democracy, Stroessner was an authoritarian dictator that heavily repressed the political opposition and Social Movements.

ROAR Magazine

ROAR's political orientation can be described as broadly libertarian socialist in outlook, combining elements of traditional anarchism and autonomism with the horizontalist, leaderless and decentralized spirit of the contemporary social movements.

Sarah Maddison

Her first area of specialization is Australian social movements, including current research on the Indigenous rights movement and the women’s movement.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000

Under the joint imprint of the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York, Binghamton, and Alexander Street Press of Alexandria, Virginia, it is organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.