We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Social movements engage in action and action can be broken down into events. But what do students of contention mean by events? And how do events relate to the broader concepts of episodes, campaigns, and cycles of contention? The Oxford English Dictionary (Compact Edition 1971: 338) gives us the following as its main definition of the term “event”:
The (actual or contemplated) fact of anything happening; the occurrence of. Now chiefly in phrase In the event of: in the case (something specified) should occur.
A second meaning of the term for the OED is “anything that happens … an incident or occurrence; a third is “that which follows upon a course of proceedings”; a fourth is “what becomes of or befalls (a person or thing” (339); and a fifth is a combination of meanings two and three. A lot of meanings these!
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
