Tuesday, June 27, 2006

"What have the Romans ever done for us?"

"What have the Romans ever done for us?" Academic and activist forms of movement theorizing

Colin Barker (Manchester Metropolitan University) & Laurence Cox (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)

http://www.iol.ie/~mazzoldi/toolsforchange/afpp/afpp8.html

" Secondly, the 'field' of social movements theory was expanded considerably (on a practical level, this enabled its construction as an 'international' field, since RMT was held to be 'American' and NSMT to be 'European') by the construction of a synthesis on the basis of the belated recognition that the two theories were in fact talking about different things. As Cohen (1985) put it, NSMT offered a 'why' and RMT a 'how"

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