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Law, Mobilization, and Social Movements

Law, Mobilization, and Social Movements

Taylor, Whitney K.
Tarrow, Sidney

Hardcover

Series: Elements in Contentious Politics

General Sociology

ISBN10: 1009493019
ISBN13: 9781009493017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 28 2024
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Legal and social movement scholars have long puzzled over the role of movements in moving, being moved by, and changing the meanings of the law. But for decades, these two strands of scholarship only dovetailed at their edges, in the work of a few far-seeing scholars. The fields began to more productively merge before and after the turn of the century. In this Element, the authors take an interactive approach to this problem and sketch four mechanisms that seem promising in effecting a true fusion: legal mobilization, legal-political opportunity structure, social construction, and movement-countermovement interaction. The Element also illustrates the workings and interactions of these four mechanisms from two examples of the authors' work: the campaign for same-sex marriage in the United States and social constitutionalism in South Africa.

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