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Putting social movements in their place : explaining opposition to energy projects in the United States, 2000-2005 /
"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&quo...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in contentious politics
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| Online Access: | http://books.google.co.in/books?id=eBMAIqJRgOIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=putting+social+movements+in+their+place&hl=en&sa=X&ei=M6YrVJ6DEdLnuQTlx4LgBg&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=putting%20social%20movements%20in%20their%20place&f=false |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. From Copernicus to Ptolemy and (hopefully) back again; 2. Comparing communities 'at risk' for mobilization; 3. Explaining variation in the level of opposition to energy projects; 4. Does opposition matter?: mobilization and project outcome; 5. From not my back yard to not in anyone's back yard: the emergence of regional movements against liquefied natural gas; 6. Back to the future: returning to a Copernican approach to the study of contention.