Alberto Melucci

Challenging Codes

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 886g
• ISBN-13: 9780521570510
• ISBN-10: 0521570514
• Artikelnr.: 28531307

Inhaltsangabe

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.