The Routledge Handbook of Social Movements

Summary

The Routledge Handbook of Social Movements — the Routledge (Taylor & Francis) handbook for social-movement research, peer-reviewed academic handbook covering the four decades of social-movement scholarship (resource-mobilisation, political-opportunity / process, contentious politics, framing, and new-mechanism work). Registered here as stub with link-only license (publisher book product page — full contents are paywalled / non-public). [source: routledge-social-movements]

Body

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The Handbook (Della Porta, Diani, and others as co-editors across multiple editions) is the canonical Routledge social-movement reference handbook and the most-cited academic handbook on the field. For Routledge handbook-type sources, treat the canonical venue as the book product page; cite chapters by editor / chapter-author / DOI when used.

Use it for

Citing The Routledge Handbook of Social Movements as the canonical Routledge social-movements academic handbook; locating the live product URL (likely under routledge.com/ followed by an updated product slug) before promoting to emerging; framing it as the canonical academic handbook companion to contentious-politics and dynamics-of-contention when grounding cross-disciplinary social-movement scholarship.

Related

• campaigns-vs-movements
• citizen-lobbying
• civil-resistance
• coalition-building
• constructive-programme
• framing-and-narrative
• incidencia-politica
• pillars-of-support
• power-mapping
• spectrum-of-allies
• the-campaign-cycle
• the-tactic-star
• theory-of-change
• three-and-a-half-percent-rule

Sources & verification

• sources/routledge-social-movements — grounding: secondary — RAW (332 chars; routledge.com returned 404 — publisher product-page wrapper)

Open Questions

• Recover the live Routledge product URL for The Routledge Handbook of Social Movements via the Routledge catalogue search (routledge.com/search/) before promotion.