
Putting Social Movements in their Place
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The field of social movement studies has expanded dramatically over the past three decades. But as it has done so, its focus has become increasingly narrow and ''movement-centric''. When combined with the tendency to select successful struggles for study, the conceptual and methodological conventions of the field conduce to a decidedly Ptolemaic view of social movements: one that exaggerates the f...
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The field of social movement studies has expanded dramatically over the past three decades. But as it has done so, its focus has become increasingly narrow and ''movement-centric''. When combined with the tendency to select successful struggles for study, the conceptual and methodological conventions of the field conduce to a decidedly Ptolemaic view of social movements: one that exaggerates the f...
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