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The study of law and social movements provides an ideal lens for rethinking fundamental questions about the relationship between law and power. This Research Handbook takes up that challenge, framing a more global, dynamic, reflexive, and contextualised phase of social movement studies. Featuring international and interdisciplinary contributions, chapters focus on democratic and authoritarian rule, social movement strategies, identities, social positions, and the relationship between narratives and power. This Research Handbook not only asks why movements succeed or fail, but more broadly how law and movements become conduits for entrenching or resisting power. Calling for novel approaches to law and social movements scholarship, it provides an expansive range of case studies on the topic, and grapples with questions of governmental regimes, power, and social change. This interdisciplinary Research Handbook will be of great value to sociologists, political scientists, and other sociolegal scholars with an interest in global perspectives on social movements, democracy, and authoritarianism. It will also be a relevant read for policymakers, activists, and legal professionals.

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'Steven Boutcher, Corey Schdaimah and Michael Yarbrough's new title Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change, goes beyond legal strategies and legal mobilization to expand our notions of when and how the law intersects with forms of democracy and authoritarianism, the constitution of law through practice, and the role of narrative in advancing/challenging forms of legal thinking. The book goes well outside the precincts of the global North to deal with law's intersections with a variety of historical and social contexts.' -- Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University, US 'This Handbook revisits and reinvigorates the law and social movements literature. Chapters connect old debates on law's mobilization in power disputes with new developments in social thought, political organization, and the geopolitics of knowledge. Amid the end of the liberal-democratic consensus and growing skepticism of law, it sets a new research agenda for socio legal scholars and offers valuable insights for practitioners and activists who will not give up on change.' -- Fabio de Sa e Silva, University of Oklahoma, US

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Edited by Steven A. Boutcher, Executive Officer, Law and Society Association, Corey S. Shdaimah, Daniel Thursz Distinguished Professor of Social Justice, University of Maryland, School of Social Work and Michael W. Yarbrough, Associate Professor of Law and Society, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, US

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