01893nam a2200133   4500008004100000020005700041245011900098210006900217260006100286520122000347100001701567700001901584856015601603       2012                        eng d  a9781107020665  1107020662  9781107650312  110765031300aPutting social movements in their place : explaining opposition to energy projects in the United States, 2000-20050 aPutting social movements in their place explaining opposition to  aCambridge; New YorkbCambridge University Pressc2012///3 a<p>"This book reports the results of a comparative study of 20 communities earmarked for environmentally risky energy projects. The authors find the overall level of emergent opposition to the projects very low, and they seek to explain that variation and impact it had on the proposed projects"-- "The field of social movement studies has expanded dramatically over the past three decades. But as it has done so, its focus has become increasingly narrow and ,zmovement-centric.,Z When combined with the tendency to select successful struggles for study, the conceptual and methodological conventions of the field conduce to a decidedly Ptolemaic view of social movements: one that exaggerates the frequency and causal significance of movements as a form of politics. This book reports the results of a comparative study, not of movements, but of 20 communities earmarked for environmentally risky energy projects. In stark contrast to the central thrust of the social movement literature, the authors find that the overall level of emergent opposition to the projects to have been very low, and they seek to explain that variation and the impact, if any, it had on the ultimate fate of the proposed projects"--</p>1 aMcAdam, Doug1 aBoudet, Hilary  uhttps://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/biblio/sociology/putting-social-movements-their-place-explaining-opposition-energy-projects-united-states-2000-2005