Challenging Codes
Collective Action in the Information Age
Published on 12. September 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
456 pages
978-0-521-57843-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'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, ParisMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
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Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
735 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-57843-1 (9780521578431)
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09/1996
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Content
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.