… ’ political imaginary, in which the central problem of justice is recognition.With this shift, the
most salient social movements … The result is decoupling of cultural politics from social politics, …

… We have been charged in this chapter with reviewing work on the “political contexts” of
social movements. Our interest in movements has always been, first and foremost, motivated by …

… This work emerged in an epistemological and political conjuncture not unlike that faced by …
that social movements research highlights precisely the questions of political practice that can …

… and how principles should apply in practice.5 Principles once … forged in decades of social
movement conflict over Brown v. … Social movement advocacy played an equally central role in …

… tained that the new social movements must by definition be of a progressive nature, for there
are no'privileged points for the unleashing of a socialist political practice; this hinges upon a'…

… and politically limited ways social movements have been defined and put into discourse
– a definition created largely without the input of anthropology and dominated by political …

… In relating the emergence and behaviour of social movements to the political … political
system. Moreover the state itself can change in response to social movements: social movements …

… Most political ecology work on social movements incorporates some combination of all of
these contributions, but in this chapter, we outline the four separately and illustrate each with …

… We call these "knowledge-practices." Building on interdisciplinary approaches to the study
of social movements, we argue that when we recognize movements as processes through …

… extensively grounded in social movement theory, building on political process models but
… simple view about the role of law in social movements, adopting instead a tragic view about …