The future of social movement research : dynamics mechanisms and processes Are the dynamics of contention changing This is the question confronted by the contributors of this volume some of the most influential scholars in the field of social movements. The answers arriving at a time of extraordinary worldwide turmoil not only provide a wide ranging and varied understanding of how social movements arise and persist but also engender unanswered questions pointing to new theoretical strands and fields of research. The Future of Social Movement Research asks: How are the dynamics of contention shaped by globalization By societies that are becoming increasingly more individualized and diverse By the spread of new communication technologies such as social media cell phones and the Internet Why do some movements survive while others dissipate Do local and global networks differ in nature The authors essays explore such questions with reference to changes in three domains of contention: the demand of protest (changes in grievances and identities) the supply of protest (changes in organizations and networks) and how these changes affect the dynamics of mobilization. In doing so they theorize and make empirically insightful how globalization individualization and virtualization create new grievances new venues for action new action forms and new structures of contention. The resulting work brought together through engaging discussions and debates between the contributors is interdisciplinary and unusually broad in scope constituting the most comprehensive overview of the dynamics of social movements available today. Contributors: Marije Boekkooi VU U Amsterdam; Pang Ching Bobby Chen U of California Merced; Donatella della Porta European U Institute; Mario Diani U of Trento Italy; Jan Willem Duyvendak U of Amsterdam; Myra Marx Ferree U of Wisconsin Madison; Beth Gharrity Gardner; Ashley Gromis; Swen Hutter U of Munich; Ruud Koopmans WZB Berlin; Hanspeter Kriesi U of Zurich; Nonna Mayer National Centre for European Studies; Doug McAdam Stanford U; John D. McCarthy Pennsylvania State U; Debra Minkoff Barnard College Columbia U; Alice Motes; Pamela E. Oliver U of Wisconsin Madison; Francesca Polletta U of California Irvine; Jacomijne Prins VU U Amsterdam; Patrick Rafail Tulane U; Christopher Rootes U of Kent Canterbury; Dieter Rucht Free U of Berlin; David A. Snow U of California Irvine; Sarah A. Soule Stanford U; Suzanne Staggenborg U of Pittsburgh; Sidney Tarrow Cornell U; Verta Taylor U of California Santa Barbara; Marjoka van Doorn; Martijn van Zomeren U of Groningen; Stefaan Walgrave U of Antwerp; Saskia Welschen. Machine generated contents note: Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Changing Dynamics of Contention Jacquelien van Stekelenburg and Conny Roggeband Part I. Grievances and Identities: The Demand Side of Participation 1. The Dynamics of Demand Bert Klandermans 2. Is the Internet Creating New Reasons to Protest Francesca Polletta Pang Ching Bobby Chen Beth Gharrity Gardner and Alice Motes 3. Social Movement Participation in the Global Society: Identity Networks and Emotions Verta Taylor 4. Protest against whom : The Role of Collective Meaning Making in Politicization Marjoka van Doorn Jacomijne Prins and Saskia Welschen Discussion: Opening the Black Box of Dynamics in Theory and Research on the Demand Side of Protest Martijn van Zomeren Part II. Organizations and Networks: The Supply Side of Contention 5. The Changing Supply Side of Mobilization: Questions for Discussion Conny Roggeband and Jan Willem Duyvendak 6. Bringing Organizational Studies Back into Social Movement Scholarship Sarah A. Soule 7. Organization and Community in Social Movements Suzanne Staggenborg 8. Organizational Fields and Social Movement Dynamics Mario Diani 9. Social Movement Structures in Action: Conceptual Propositions and Empirical Illustration Dieter Rucht Discussion: The Changing Supply Side of Mobilization: Impressions on a Theme Debra Minkoff Part III. Dynamics of Mobilization 10. Changing Mobilization of Individual Activists Stefaan Walgrave 11. Mobilizing for Change in a Changing Society Jacquelien van Stekelenburg and Marije Boekkooi 12. Ethnicity Repression and Fields of Action in Movement Mobilization Pamela E. Oliver 13. Identity Dilemmas Discursive Fields Identity Work and Mobilization: Clarifying the Identity Movement Nexus David A. Snow 14. Movements of the Left Movements of the Right Reconsidered Swen Hutter and Hanspeter Kriesi Discussion: Mobilization and the Changing and Persistent Dynamics of Political Participation Christopher Rootes Part IV. The Changing Context of Contention 15. The End of the Social Movement as We Know It: Adaptive Challenges in Changed Contexts Ruud Koopmans 16. Social Movements and Elections: Toward a Broader Understanding of the Political Context of Contention Doug McAdam and Sidney Tarrow 17. Social Movements Power and Democracy: New Challenges New Challengers New Theories Donatella della Porta 18. Recent Trends in Public Protest in the U.S.A.: The Social Movement Society Thesis Revisited John D. McCarthy Patrick Rafail and Ashley Gromis 19. The Contentious French Revisited Nonna Mayer Discussion: Meaning and Movements in the New Millennium: Gendering Democracy Myra Marx Ferree Afterword Bert Klandermans Contributors Index