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Introduction
Eugene Nulman currently works at the Department of Criminology and Sociology, Birmingham City University.
Additional affiliations
September 2011 - January 2015
September 2009 - September 2012
Education
September 2010 - March 2014
September 2009 - September 2010
August 2007 - December 2008
Publications
Publications (46)
Contemporary social movements and organizations have increasingly embraced the notion of ‘leaderfulness’. This development has the possibility of affecting the current struggles these movements face as well as the activist landscapes of the future. Due to its distinct contribution to developing an analysis of leadership, this article seeks to posit...
In this roundtable discussion, we revisit Edward Said’s Representations of the Intellectual (1993) as a departure for examining how and where academic activism can take place. This is situated both within and apart from existing public struggles, including #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) and other current movements. Academic activism will be explored as an...
Using in-depth interview data of young adults who participated in the University of Kent student occupation, this paper (1) explores the process by which young people enter into and engage in high-intensity mobilisation and (2) seeks to understand how this mobilisation (and prior engagement) impacts future political trajectories of these youth acti...
While neo-imperialism is becoming increasingly discussed within academia and by public intellectuals, this paper hypothesises that, due to resource needs of social movement organisations, neo-imperialism is not a major diagnostic frame used by international solidarity organisations in the Global North. We tested this hypothesis by examining diagnos...
The social movement literature in Western Europe and North America has oriented much of its theoretical work towards micro-, meso-, and macro-level examinations of its subject of study but has rarely integrated these levels of analysis. This review article broadly documents the leading theoretical perspectives on social movements, while highlightin...
Climate Change and Social Movements is a riveting and thorough exploration of three important campaigns to influence climate change policy in the United Kingdom. The author delves deep into the campaigns and illuminates the way policymakers think about and respond to social movements.
Social Movements often incorporate masculinity into protest events as a means of achieving media attention. This attention is then used to mobilize, increase membership, and generate social and political outcomes. This article explores the media attention potential of novel social movement actions that deal with ‘domestically feminine’ elements of...
This paper reviews the literature on environmental nongovernmental organizations’ (ENGOs’) digital communication practices in the context of the growing use of digital technology in the public and political sphere. Specifically it explores the existing and potential uses of digital tools in information flows across a range of stakeholders and publi...
While the literature on dynamics of contention has proliferated, its focus on movement onset, mobilisation, and outcomes could be used to understand interactions between actors during episodes of contention. While the authors of Dynamics of Contention acknowledge the importance of these interactions, more insight is needed into what shapes these re...
After three decades of European political parties becoming more ideologically homogenous, several factors (including a larger and more integrated European Union, a financial crisis, and high levels of corruption) have provoked a shift towards non-traditional and often ideologically distinct political parties within Europe. This shift became highly...
Climate change mitigation requires an international effort. But as I will argue in this chapter, policies at the national level are an important element of international progress on climate change. Environmentalists and activists that form the climate change movement did not initially focus on national mitigation policies. Their efforts arose from...
This book set out to better understand the role of social movements and civil society in policy change, looking in particular at a social, political, and environmental problem whose full impact we cannot predict: climate change. As social movements often seek to influence policy, it is important to investigate what specific elements of the policy p...
Gamson’s classic text on social movement outcomes, The Strategy of Social Protest (1975), examines strategic variables, among others, finding that several strategic choices made by movement organizations affected outcomes. His research showed that groups that provided incentives for their members corresponded to achieving change for the group’s con...
This chapter looks at the histories of the three cases we will analyze in this book: the Big Ask campaign that called on the government to pass a law creating greenhouse gas emission reduction targets; the campaign against a third runway proposed at Heathrow Airport which, if constructed, would increase emissions from aviation; and the campaign for...
Social movements do not operate in a vacuum. Their efforts, strategies, and tactics (see Chapter 6) are not the sole determining factors in a movement’s ability to influence policymakers and create policy outcomes. Political contexts, processes, and structures all help shape the abilities of a movement to influence policy. This argument underlies t...
To understand social movement outcomes, we investigate what those outcomes are. Saying that a campaign preceded policy change is not enough. We must show that the movement played a role in that policy change. Using the case of the climate change movement in the UK, specifically looking at the campaigns to create the Climate Change Act, stop the thi...
Mechanisms represent causal processes that produce an effect (Hedström and Ylikoski, 2010). By exploring mechanisms of movement outcomes, we can develop an understanding of how social movements influence policy. While the use of particular mechanisms can be the result of strategic choices by campaigners (see Chapter 6), we are not interested in the...
The Handbook presents a most updated and comprehensive exploration of social movement research. It not only maps, but also expands the field of social movement studies, taking stock of recent developments in cognate areas of studies, within and beyond sociology and political science. While structured around traditional social movement concepts, eac...
While social movement research has blossomed over the past twenty years, much of it lacks the necessary aim, scope and/or language to be used as a tool for practical application by the movement actors themselves. Though many movement scholars support the efforts of the activists they study, a wide variety of factors have inhibited the potential of...
The Hollywood film has become a force of cultural globalization and the image of women in popular Hollywood films may have an important impact on cultural ideas of gender, sexuality and the role of women in the public and private spheres. I examine the top box office films from the 1990s to the present and explore the characteristics women characte...
Social Movements often incorporate masculinity into protest events as a means of achieving media attention. This attention is then used to mobilize, increase membership and generate social and political outcomes. This paper explores the media attention potential of novel social movement actions that deal with ‘domestically feminine’ elements of pro...
The Genoa G8 Summit of 2001 was marred by violence and conflicts between police and activists. Afterwards, these different groups constructed clashing discourses about the events. In turn, these discourses sustained different types of social representations about the nature of the conflict. Earlier analyses of hegemonic social representations exami...
Though little has been written directly on the topic, the definition of a social movement may not include what some commentators have called the ‘climate change movement’ in the UK. While the term may be used heuristically, I explore if the concept of a social movement does indeed incorporate activism in the UK regarding climate change, looking at...
Scientists all over the world have come to a broad consensus of the potentially disastrous effects of climate change. In fact, we may even now be experiencing some of these effects with record temperatures, poor harvests and the social conflicts they ensue. While many individuals acknowledge the problem and actively pursue a lifestyle of greenhouse...
This paper discusses the process of becoming politically active using biographical data – including autobiographies, biographies and interviews - of members of the American student movement organization Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The analysis reveals the importance of family and peer links to activism. A large number of activists were...
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Abstract Deadline: 15th April 2015
Symposium: 25-26 June 2015, Birmingham City University
Please email your abstracts to:
After three decades of European political parties becoming more ideologically homogenous, several factors (including a larger and more integrated European Union, a financial crisis, and high levels of corruption) have provoked a shift towards non-traditional and often ideologically distinct political parties within Europe. This shift became highly visible as the results for the 2014 European Union elections were announced, showing not only that parties at the ideological poles received greater support, but so did non-aligned political parties. As the results and polls for recent and upcoming national elections respectively show, these changes are occurring beyond the level of the European Parliament. Nationally, political parties whose ideologies can be labelled counter-hegemonic are seeing their public support grow. The development of these parties also threatens two party systems (Lijphart 1999) and the stability of electoral coalitions.
These changes that are occurring within the electoral political sphere are interrelated with the dynamics of contention within civil society. Grassroots social movements across Europe have had a complicated and heterogeneous relationship with these political parties. Organized civil society has, for example, helped instigate the formation of parties (e.g. Podemos in Spain), provide parties with material and moral support or opposition (e.g. Syriza in Greece, UKIP in the UK), and shake the foundations of political stability (e.g. protests in Bulgaria). These relations are not a trivial part of the transformations that are occurring and deserve further investigation, particularly at a time when recent and upcoming elections may play a role in the future direction of the EU.
This call for papers targets research on recent and upcoming national elections within European countries – with a particular interest in the intersection between political parties and social movements. Together, these papers will inform a discussion on a) what extent the outcome of the European Union elections is a warning to national elections or simply the symbolic punishment of current governments (Hix and Marsh 2007), and b) the diversity and density of interactions between organized civil society and political parties.
The symposium will cover recent and current elections with special attention paid to elections in Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
We aim to develop a special issue following the symposium.
I am curious to know how much the opinion of mainstream political parties will influence public opinion on any given issue.
The event is sponsored by Contention Journal, INSPR and Kent IOPS.
