Social movements and violence : participation in underground organizations

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Social movements and violence : participation in underground organizations

volume editor, Donatella della Porta

(International social movement research : a research annual, vol. 4 (1992))

JAI Press, c1992

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Description

Part of a series which presents research on international social movements, this volume focuses on social movements and violence. Topics discussed include: individual motivations in underground political organizations; decisions to use terrorism; and ethnic and socio-revolutionary terrorism.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Theories and methodologies: introduction - on individual motivations in underground political organizations, Donatella della Porta
  • decisions to use terrorism - psychological constraints on instrumental reasoning, Martha Crenshaw. Part 2 Case studies: from protest to terrorism - the case of the SDS and the weathermen, Richard G. Braungart
  • political violence by the non-aggrieved - explaining the political participation of those with no apparent grievances, Robert W. White
  • going underground in Argentina - a look at the founders of a guerrilla movement, Maria Jose Moyano. Part 3 Women's studies: conservative and feminist images of women associated with armed, clandestine organizations in the United States, Gilda Zwerman
  • lacerations in the memory - women in the Italian underground organizations, Luisa Passerini. Part 4 Comparative studies: left-wing and right-wing terrorist groups - a comparison for the German case, Friedhelm Neidhardt
  • ethnic and sociorevolutionary terrorism - a comparison of structures, Peter Waldmann
  • political socialization in left-wing underground organizations - biographies of Italian and German militants, Donatella della Porta.

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