Meet Jeff Goodwin. He's a freshman at a small MidWest college where Steakum is the mystery meat in the cafeteria, choosing the wrong seat in class can land you in the middle of the rain forest, and GOD lives in the basement of the Union. No, this isn't fantasy, either; it's 1994.The school's one and only mascot, Scabbie the gnat, has been stolen! Suddenly, college life is thrown upside-down and the freshmen are the apathetic ones. Struck with a desire to prove himself to his latest ...

This landmark volume brings together some of the titans of social movement theory in a grand reassessment of its status. For some time, the field has been divided between a dominant structural approach and a cultural or constructivist tradition. The gaps and misunderstandings between the two sides-as well as the efforts to bridge them-closely parallel those in the discipline of sociology at large. This book aims to further the dialogue between these two distinct approaches to social moveme...

Phenomenology and the Arts develops the interplay between phenomenology as a historical movement and a descriptive method within Continental philosophy and the arts. Divided into five themes, the book explores first how the phenomenological method itself is a kind of artistic endeavor that mirrors what it approaches when it turns to describe paintings, dramas, literature, and music. From there, the book turns to an analysis and commentary on specific works of art within the visual arts, li...

Providing a unique blend of cases, concepts, and essential readings The Social Movements Reader, Third Edition, delivers key classic and contemporary articles and book selections from around the world.Includes the latest research on contemporary movements in the US and abroad, including the Arab spring, Occupy, and the global justice movementProvides original texts, many of them classics in the field, which have been edited for the non-technical readerComb...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As climate change accelerates, our window for action is closing. To stay within the "Anthropocene" - an epoch in which humankind as the dominant force shaping the planet retains a degree of control over the destructive processes it has unleashed - global warming must be kept below 2° Celsius.This book explores the unprecedented technological and legal changes required to achieve this. Featuring contributions from leading ex...

For more than three decades, Jeff Ferguson has worked at the front lines of digital marketing and search engine optimization, watching the field rise from obscure beginnings into one of the most influential forces in modern business. Killing SEO collects both new and previously published essays that examine this evolution in detail, challenging the myths, misconceptions, and outright scams that have followed SEO since the early days of the internet. Drawing from his experience with major g...

Despite extensive theoretical debates over the utility of "political opportunities" as an explanation for the rise and success of social movements, there have been surprisingly few serious empirical tests. Contention in Context provides the most extensive effort to date to test the model, analyzing a range of important cases of revolutions and protest movements to identify the role of political opportunities in the rise of political contention.With evidence from more than ...

Despite extensive theoretical debates over the utility of "political opportunities" as an explanation for the rise and success of social movements, there have been surprisingly few serious empirical tests. Contention in Context provides the most extensive effort to date to test the model, analyzing a range of important cases of revolutions and protest movements to identify the role of political opportunities in the rise of political contention.With evidence from more than ...