Challenging Codes
Challenging Codes
In Challenging Codes Melucci brings an original perspective to research on collective action which both emphasizes the role of culture and makes telling connections with the experience of the individual in postmodern society. The focus is on the role of information in an age which knows both fragmentation and globalisation, building on the analysis of collective action familiar from the author's Nomads of the Present. Melucci addresses a wide range of contemporary issues, including political conflict and change, feminism, ecology, identity politics, power and inequality.
- Groundbreaking approach to collective action which emphasises the role of culture (rather than usual political approach)
- Connects collective action and individual experience, offering unique perspective on contemporary social movements
- Covers wide range of social issues, drawing on sociology, anthropology, psychology and politics
Reviews & endorsements
'Melucci provides a magisterial presentation of his distinctive approach to the study of contemporary social movement.' Mayer Zald, University of Michigan
'Melucci's new book - his master book - is both the most comprehensive analytical study of social movements and an elaborate analysis of the new generation of collective actions which try to incorporate into private and collective experience the effects of a globalized and rapidly changing social context'. Alain Touraine, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Product details
September 1996Paperback
9780521578431
456 pages
229 × 152 × 26 mm
0.737kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Theory of Collective Action:
- 1. The construction of collective action
- 2. Conflict and change
- 3. Action and meaning
- 4. The process of collective identity
- Part II. Contemporary Collective Action:
- 5. conflicts of culture
- 6. Invention of the present
- 7. The time of difference
- 8. Roots for today and for tomorrow
- 9. A search for ethics
- 10. Information, power, domination
- Part III. The Field of Collective Action:
- 11. A society without a centre
- 12. The political system
- 13. The state and the distribution of social resources
- 14. Modernization, crisis, and conflict: the case of Italy
- Part IV. Acting Collectively:
- 15. Mobilization and political participation
- 16. The organization of movements
- 17. Leadership in social movements
- 18. Collective action and discourse
- 19. Forms of action
- 20. Research on collective action.
