FRONT COVER -- RESEARCH IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, CONFLICTS AND CHANGE -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: OLD AND NEW MEDIA AND MOBILIZATION -- SPREADING THE WORD OR SHAPING THE CONVERSATION: ''PROSUMPTION'' IN PROTEST WEBSITES -- INTRODUCTION -- THE RISE OF DIGITAL MEDIA AND AMATEUR PRODUCTION -- FORMALIZATION, PROFESSIONALIZATION, AND DIGITIZATION IN PROTEST -- DATA AND METHODS -- FINDINGS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- MEDIA, MOVEMENTS, AND MOBILIZATION: TEA PARTY PROTESTS IN THE UNITED STATES, 2009-2010 -- THEORY -- CASE SELECTION -- DATA AND METHOD -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- LIMITATIONS -- FUTURE RESEARCH -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PART II: ELITES AND ADVANCEMENTS IN RIGHTS -- STRATEGIC ACTION FIELDS AND THE CONTEXT OF POLITICAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: HOW DISABILITY RIGHTS BECAME PART OF THE POLICY AGENDA -- INTRODUCTION -- STRATEGIC ACTORS IN STRATEGIC ACTION FIELDS -- POLICY COMMUNITIES AND STRATEGIC ACTION FIELDS -- SOCIAL SKILL AND POLITICAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- DATA AND METHODS -- INNOVATION IN DISABILITY: HOW ENTREPRENEURS IN A SAF PROMOTED A RIGHTS AGENDA -- DISCUSSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- INCONSISTENCY IN POLICY ELITES' SUPPORT FOR MOVEMENT CLAIMS: FEMINIST ADVOCACY IN TWO REGIONS OF PERU -- INTRODUCTION -- FEMINIST ADVOCACY AND POLITICAL CHANGE IN CONTEMPORARY PERU -- BRIDGING POLITICAL AND CULTURAL APPROACHES TO ENHANCE THEORY -- METHODOLOGY -- PRESENTATION OF THE FINDINGS -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PART III: PEACEBUILDING PATHOLOGIES AND BEST PRACTICES -- PATHOLOGIES IN PEACEBUILDING: DONORS, NGOs, AND COMMUNITY PEACEBUILDING IN CROATIA -- INTRODUCTION -- NGO FAILURES: EXPLANATIONS -- PEACEBUILDING -- METHODS AND CASE -- PRODUCING DYSFUNCTION -- PATHOLOGIES IN PEACEBUILDING.

COUNTEREXAMPLE: THE CHARLES STUART MOTT FOUNDATION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX: ACRONYMS -- ORGANIZATIONAL ADAPTATION AND SURVIVAL IN A HOSTILE AND UNFAVORABLE ENVIRONMENT: PEACEBUILDING ORGANIZATIONS IN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE -- INTRODUCTION -- ORGANIZATIONAL AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT THEORY -- PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE ORGANIZATIONS IN THEIR ENVIRONMENTS -- METHODOLOGY AND GROUPS STUDIED -- ADAPTATION AND SURVIVAL -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PART IV: CONSENSUS IN OCCUPY AND IN SOCIAL FORUMS -- LEARNING CONSENSUS DECISION-MAKING IN OCCUPY: UNCERTAINTY, RESPONSIBILITY, COMMITMENT -- OCCUPY MOVEMENT -- CONSENSUS -- A BRIEF HISTORY OF CONSENSUS IN OCCUPY DAME STREET -- LEARNING DECISION-MAKING IN OCCUPY DAME STREET -- OCCUPY - ACTING IN AN INTERSTITIAL SPACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PRACTICES OF LOCAL SOCIAL FORUMS: THE BUILDING OF TACTICAL AND CULTURAL COLLECTIVE ACTION REPERTOIRES -- INTRODUCTION: LOCAL SOCIAL FORUM EXPERIENCES -- METHODOLOGY -- WHY THE LSF LABEL MIGHT BE A MISNOMER -- LSF AS A TACTICAL AND CULTURAL REPERTOIRE -- LSFS AS PRODUCERS OF NEW SOCIAL TIES -- CONCLUSION: LSFS AS A TACTICAL AND CULTURAL REPERTOIRE OF COLLECTIVE ACTION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX A: DIMENSIONS OF THE BUILDING PROCESS OF LOCAL SOCIAL FORUMS IN QUÉBEC AND FRANCE -- APPENDIX B: DIMENSIONS OF THE FORMAL ORGANIZATION OF LOCAL SOCIAL FORUMS IN QUÉBEC AND FRANCE -- APPENDIX C: DECISION-MAKING IN THE LOCAL FORUMS -- APPENDIX D: RULES OF DELIBERATION IN THE LOCAL SOCIAL FORUMS IN QUÉBEC AND FRANCE -- PART V: 50 YEARS LATER: SMELSER REAPPLIED -- YOU HAVE TO FIGHT! FOR YOUR RIGHT! TO PARTY! STRUCTURE, CULTURE, AND MOBILIZATION IN A UNIVERSITY PARTY RIOT -- INTRODUCTION -- TOWARD AN INTEGRATED APPROACH FOR EXPLAINING RIOTOUS BEHAVIOR -- DATA AND METHODS.

CULTURE AND STRUCTURAL CONDUCIVENESS AT JMU -- STRUCTURAL STRAIN AND GENERALIZED BELIEF -- PARTY ''TRADITION'' AS MOBILIZATION AND THE FAILURE OF SOCIAL CONTROL -- POLICE-STUDENT INTERACTIONS AND THE FAILURE OF SOCIAL CONTROL -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS.