The Palgrave Handbook of Social Movements, Revolution, and Social Transformation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Introduction: Dynamics of Social Movements, Revolution, and Social Transformation

   • Berch Berberoglu

   Pages 1-14

3. Theoretical, Methodological, and Historical Approaches to Social Movements, Revolutions, and Social Transformation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Classical and Contemporary Conventional Theories of Social Movements

      • Clayton D. Peoples

      Pages 17-34

   3. Methodological Approaches to Movement Waves and the Making of History

      • Ben Manski

      Pages 35-63

   4. The Marxist Theory of Social Movements, Revolution, and Social Transformation

      • Berch Berberoglu

      Pages 65-83

   5. Twentieth-Century Socialist Revolutions and Their Class Components: Russia, China, Cuba, and Vietnam

      • James F. Petras

      Pages 85-113

4. Social Movements and Social Change: Varieties of Social Movements in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115

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   2. Repression, Resistance, and Development of the Labor Movement in the United States

      • Andrew Kolin

      Pages 117-149

   3. Decade of Turbulence: Social Movements and Rebellion in the 1960s

      • Alan J. Spector

      Pages 151-176

   4. Neoliberalism and Social Movements in Latin America: Mobilizing the Resistance

      • James F. Petras, Henry Veltmeyer

      Pages 177-211

   5. Neoliberalism, State Repression and the Rise of Social Protest in Africa

      • Patrick Bond

      Pages 213-231

   6. The Naxalite Movement, the Oppressive State, and the Revolutionary Struggle in India

      • Ashok Kumbamu

      Pages 233-247

   7. Neoliberalism, Contentious Politics, and the Rise of Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia

      • Walden Bello

      Pages 249-267

   8. Nationalism and Nationalist Movements in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization

      • Berch Berberoglu

      Pages 269-298

5. Social Movements, Revolution, and Social Transformation in the Twenty-First Century

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 299-299

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   2. Global Justice Movements: Past, Present, and Future

      • Lauren Langman, Tova Benski

      Pages 301-324

   3. Neoliberalism, the Global Capitalist Crisis, and the Occupy Wall Street Movement

      • Levin Welch

      Pages 325-351

   4. Neoliberal Globalization and Transnational Women’s Movements in the Early Twenty-First Century

      • Ligaya Lindio-McGovern

      Pages 353-372

   5. Social Movements and New Technology: The Dynamics of Cyber Activism in the Digital Age

      • Victoria Carty, Francisco G. Reynoso Barron

      Pages 373-397

This handbook on social movements, revolution, and social transformation analyzes people’s struggles to bring about social change in the age of globalization. It examines the origins, nature, dynamics, and challenges of such movements as they aim to change dominant social, economic, and political institutions and structures across the globe. Departing from a theoretical introduction that explores major classical and contemporary theories of social movements and transformation, the contributions collected here use a class-based approach to examine key cases of social movements, rebellions, and revolutions worldwide from the turn of the twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries. Against this wide-ranging background, the handbook concludes by charting the varied and competing future developments and trajectories of social movements, revolutions, and social transformations.

• social protests
• social uprisings
• social movements
• mobilization
• rebellions
• protests

“An alternative approach and means of understanding the root causes of social movements is necessary, and this volume may offer precisely that. For this reason, students of sociology and politics would stand to gain from reading the volume.” (George Regkoukos, Progress in Development Studies, December 11, 2021)

• Department of Sociology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, USA

  Berch Berberoglu

Berch Berberoglu is Foundation Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA. He has written and edited 32 books and many articles.  He is the editor of the Palgrave Macmillan book series Social Movements and Transformation.

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