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Author:   Ricca Edmondson ,  Ricca Edmondson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.566kg
ISBN:  

9780415169417

ISBN 10:   0415169410
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 October 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: the context of collective political action, Ricca Edmondson; Part 1 Relations between context and action: knowledge and ontology; Chapter 1 Movement in context: women and miners' campaigns in Britain, Karen Beckwith; Chapter 2 The merging of context into collective action, Matti Hyvarinen; Chapter 3 Technology and context: the impact of collective action on the development of knowledge, Irmela Gorges; Chapter 4 Social movement theory and the political context of collective action, Joe Foweraker; Part 2 Collective action in political context; Chapter 5 Shaping collective action: structure, contingency and knowledge, Chris Rootes; Chapter 6 Soil pollution, community action and political opportunities, Kees Aarts; Chapter 7 Context and interpretation in managing the long-term unemployed: implementing an 'active labour-market policy' in Dutch cities, Peter van Leeuwen, Wim van der Voort, Ben van den Brande; Chapter 8 Problems of collective action for associations of the unemployed in France and in Ireland, Frederic Royall; Chapter 9 Neighbourhoods in the city: contexts for Part icipation in politics?, Dominique Joye; Part 3 Collective action: knowledge, power and democracy; Chapter 10 Part icipatory expertise and the politics of local knowledge: a post-positivist perspective, Frank Fischer; Chapter 11 Integrating contexts: are there general rules for contextualising political decision-making?, Rainer Schmalz-Bruns; Chapter 12 Knowledge, rhetoric and political action in context, Ricca Edmondson, Frank Nullmeier;

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Ricca Edmondson lectures in the Department of Political Science and Sociology at University College Galway, where she is Director of the Centre for Intercultural Studies.

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