This article uses a structural approach to the investigation of the continuity and discontinuity between ‘old’ urban and ‘new’ environmental protest, opening further space for analysis of the relationship between different mobilizations in Northern Ireland. In particular, I suggest that the ‘novelty’ and strength of social movements' challenges can be assessed in terms of their capacity to promote participation and cooperation between the opposite poles of established cleavages, especially when one engages in the analysis of socio-politically polarized contexts. In this article I focus on two mobilizations. On the one hand, I show that the first Westlink protest of the 1970s was not the product of an integrated social movement but, rather, ...
As it is often the failure of governments to meet the perceived needs of identity groups in a divide...
The 15-year-long resistance to Shell’s pipeline project in NW Ireland has become a strategic and sym...
This research looks at the role of alliances in the context of one of the largest collective strugg...
A major environmental campaign currently in progress in Northern Ireland opposes a £40 million road ...
This volume focuses on a number of research questions, drawn from social movement scholarship: How d...
This article explores strategic conceptions within the alter-globalisation movement in Ireland. Base...
This article extends our understanding of social movement development through a qualitative longitud...
This article explains how the contingent of complex interactions among pre-existing structural setti...
This article explains how the contingent of complex interactions among pre-existing structural sett...
This article assesses how the concept of territoriality can expand our understanding of the relation...
A notable feature of the recent political landscape has been the increasing incidents of confrontati...
This article uses empirical evidence on networks of voluntary organizations mobilizing on ethnic min...
This volume focuses on a number of research questions, drawn from social movement scholarship: How d...
The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement between the 1960s and early 1970s shifted from an inclus...
This article focuses on the mobilization cycle of Occupy in Ireland. It looks first at factors which...
As it is often the failure of governments to meet the perceived needs of identity groups in a divide...
The 15-year-long resistance to Shell’s pipeline project in NW Ireland has become a strategic and sym...
This research looks at the role of alliances in the context of one of the largest collective strugg...
A major environmental campaign currently in progress in Northern Ireland opposes a £40 million road ...
This volume focuses on a number of research questions, drawn from social movement scholarship: How d...
This article explores strategic conceptions within the alter-globalisation movement in Ireland. Base...
This article extends our understanding of social movement development through a qualitative longitud...
This article explains how the contingent of complex interactions among pre-existing structural setti...
This article explains how the contingent of complex interactions among pre-existing structural sett...
This article assesses how the concept of territoriality can expand our understanding of the relation...
A notable feature of the recent political landscape has been the increasing incidents of confrontati...
This article uses empirical evidence on networks of voluntary organizations mobilizing on ethnic min...
This volume focuses on a number of research questions, drawn from social movement scholarship: How d...
The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement between the 1960s and early 1970s shifted from an inclus...
This article focuses on the mobilization cycle of Occupy in Ireland. It looks first at factors which...
As it is often the failure of governments to meet the perceived needs of identity groups in a divide...
The 15-year-long resistance to Shell’s pipeline project in NW Ireland has become a strategic and sym...
This research looks at the role of alliances in the context of one of the largest collective strugg...