Description: Exploring how social movements have been influenced by growing Europeanization and globalization, this groundbreaking work analyzes the developing efforts of European citizens to make demands upon the supranational level of European government through social movements, protest...
Brief description: Andrew Martin is the author of the novel Early Work, a New York Times Notable book of 2018, and the story collection Cool for America, longlisted for the 2020 Story Prize. His essays and stories have appeared frequently in The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, and Harper's, as well as in The Yale Review, The Atlantic, McSweeney's, The Times Book Review and elsewhere. He teaches in Brooklyn and New Hampshire, and lives in New York City with his family.
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"Imig and Tarrow have assembled a group of scholars who are at the cutting edge of new methodologies and current political and social transformations. . . . Rich and provocative research. . . . Strongly recommended." --Choice Reviews
"An important work [that] firmly establishes the relationship between social movement literature and European integration studies. . . . Contentious Europeans is rich in detail and judicious in conclusions, and the case studies are first-rate in terms of information and evaluation." --Robert Ladrech, Race Relations Abstracts "As a study that contributes in multiple ways to two important topics of research, the authors should be praised for their methodological approach as well as for their ability to present a clear typology of social movements' activity within the EU context. All the chapters in the book contribute to shift the focus of analysis from a merely cross-border approach, to the potential for more comprehensive levels of action." --European Political Science "Imig and Tarrow's latest publication is a pioneering work in the field of social movements. It introduces a European dimension to contentious politics, an brings together in one analysis various groups organized around a wide range of issues." --E-Extreme "This is an attractive and valuable collection of scholarship. This is research at its best, and the book deserves wide readership." --American Journal of Sociology "Thoughtful and open-minded, lucid and carefully organized.... It is at the cutting edge of debate about both the European Union and social movements.... This is research at its best, and the book deserves wide readership." --John A. Hall, McGill University, Contemporary Sociology