Reviews for Contentious Politics

The average rating for Contentious Politics based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-11-28 00:00:00 Kaye Steeno Expectations are very high given that the authors are two prominents figures of social movements literature. Unfortunately, the broad range of issues and historical cases covered in the book prevent it from achieving a certain depth in analysis. There was a rather mechanical framework with emphasis on the analytical utility of concepts like events, episodes, mechanisms, processes and repertoires that were very well back up by historical and contemporary references of contention. However, there was also a lot that was left out, most probably deliberately externalized to keep the focus of the book on track. There was not enough reference to the relationship between contention and state making, not enough on the crisis of the nation-state and possibilities of addressing contention outside of the domain of the state -as some movements are leaning towards-, not enough of the role of international actors and/or economic contention among actors in shaping contention. The book provides a nicely put analytical framework for a student of social movement research, yet with limited theoretical insight as to how the field could be expanded.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-11-09 00:00:00 George Patrick We read this for class and the edition we read was supposed to clear up some of the problems with previous editions. It still fails to answer the issues to sought to correct.