Transforming Politics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Transforming Politics: Power and Resistance

   1. Transforming Politics: Power and Resistance

      • Paul Bagguley, Jeff Hearn

      Pages 1-7

3. Empowerment, Identity and Resistance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Empowerment and Resistance: ‘Collective Effervescence’ and other Accounts

      • Colin Barker

      Pages 11-31

   3. The Inter-Group Dynamics of Empowerment: A Social Identity Model

      • Clifford Stott, John Drury

      Pages 32-45

   4. Power, Politics and Everyday Life: The Local Rationalities of Social Movement Milieux

      • Laurence Cox

      Pages 46-66

   5. Resisting Colonisation: The Politics of Anti-Roads Protesting

      • Wallace McNeish

      Pages 67-84

4. Resistance and Change in Social Movements

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. Social Movements in a Multi-Ethnic Inner City: Explaining their Rise and Fall over 25 Years

      • Max Farrar

      Pages 87-105

   3. ‘Very British Rebels’: Politics and Discourse within Contemporary Ulster Unionism

      • James White McAuley

      Pages 106-125

   4. Resisting the Green: Political Culture and Environmental Activism

      • Beth Simpson

      Pages 126-158

5. Transforming the State and State Resistance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159

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   2. Re-Conceptualising Feminist Agency in the State: A Study of the Implementation of Women’s Equal Opportunity Policy in British Local Government

      • Cinnamon Bennett

      Pages 161-182

   3. Social Movements and Equal Opportunities Work

      • Elizabeth Lawrence, Nicholas Turner

      Pages 183-205

   4. Modernity, Anti-Racism and Ethnic Managerialism

      • Ian Law

      Pages 206-226

6. Political Transformations and Social Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227

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   2. Reading the Community: A Critique of Some Postmodern Narratives of Citizenship and Community

      • Valerie Hey

      Pages 229-244

   3. Will Hutton: Closet Durkheimian?

      • Ruth Levitas

      Pages 245-259

   4. In Defence of Outing

      • Paul Reynolds

      Pages 260-276

   5. Radical Sociology: What’s Left?

      • John Holmwood

      Pages 277-293

This volume examines the transformation of politics and social movements at various levels. Starting with a transformation of identity within social movements, it goes on to discuss changes in the scale of social movement mobilisation. The impact of social movements on the state is also considered, with a particular focus upon the ways in which the state is able to incorporate apparently radical political agendas. Finally, the book examines those intellectual and theoretical debates stimulated by recent political transformations.

• community
• environment
• feminism
• government
• identity
• Milieu
• Policy
• politics
• Protest
• social theory
• sociology
• transformation

• University of Leeds, UK

  Paul Bagguley

• Faculty of Economic and Social Studies, University of Manchester, UK

  Jeff Hearn

COLIN BARKER Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University CINNAMON BENNETT Research Student, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University LAURENCE COX Director of the Centre for Research on Environment and Community, Waterford Institute of Technology JOHN DRURY worked as a Researcher at the University of Sussex and the Trust for the Study of Adolescence, Brighton BRIAN ELLIOTT Professor of Sociology and Head of Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver MAX FARRAR Sociology Lecturer, School of Cultural Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University VALERIE HEY Senior Researcher in Culture, Communication and Societies, Institute of Education, London University JOHN HOLMWOOD Reader in Sociology and Director of the Graduate School in Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh IAN LAW Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds ELIZABETH LAWRENCE Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Sheffield Hallam University RUTH LEVITAS Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol JAMES W. MCAULEY School of Human and Health Studies, University of Huddersfield WALLACE MCNEISH Department of Sociology, University of Glasgow PAUL REYNOLDS Senior Lecturer in Politics and Sociology, Edge Hill University College BETH SIMPSON Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver CLIFFORD STOTT School of Social Sciences, University of Abertay NICHOLAS TURNER previously Research Assistant, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University

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