Social Movements and Networks: Relational Approaches to Collective Action

Introduction 1. Social movements, contentious actions, and social networks: 'from metaphor to substance'? PART I. INDIVIDUAL NETWORKS 2. Social Networks Matter. But How? 3. Movement development and organizational networks: The role of 'single members' in the German Nazi party, 1925-1930 PART II. INTERORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS 4. Networks in opposition: Linking organizations through activists in the Polish People's Republic 5. 'Leaders' or brokers? Positions and influence in social movement networks 6. Community embeddedness and collaborative governance in the San Francisco Bay Area environmental movement PART III. NETWORKING THE POLITICAL PROCESS 7. Contentious connections in Great Britain, 1828-1834 8. Networks, diffusion, and cycles of collective action 9. Movement in context: Thick networks and Japanese environmental protest PART IV. THEORIES OF NETWORKS, MOVEMENTS, AND COLLECTIVE ACTION 10. Why do networks matter? Rationalist and structuralist interpretations 11. Cross-talk in movements: Reconceiving the culture-network link 12. Beyond structural analysis: toward a more dynamic understanding of social movements 13. Networks and social movements: A research programme