The Political Context of Collective Action: Power, Argumentation and Democracy

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Series Editor's Preface vii
• Tables x
• Introduction: the Context of Collective Political Action 1
• Part I - Relations Between Context and Action: Knowledge and Ontology 13
• 1 - Movement in Context: Women and Miners' Campaigns in Britain 15
• 2 - The Merging of Context into Collective Action 33
• 3 - Technology and Context: the Impact of Collective Action on the Development of Knowledge 47
• 4 - Social Movement Theory and the Political Context of Collective Action 64
• Part II - Collective Action in Political Context 79
• 5 - Shaping Collective Action: Structure, Contingency and Knowledge 81
• 6 - Soil Pollution, Community Action and Political Opportunities 105
• 7 - Context and Interpretation in Managing the Long-Term Unemployed: Implementing an 'Active Labour-Market Policy' in Dutch Cities 126
• 8 - Problems of Collective Action for Associations of the Unemployed in France and in Ireland 146
• 9 - Neighbourhoods in the City: Contexts for Participation in Politics? 163

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Series Editor's Preface vii
• Tables x
• Introduction: the Context of Collective Political Action 1
• Part I - Relations Between Context and Action: Knowledge and Ontology 13
• 1 - Movement in Context: Women and Miners' Campaigns in Britain 15
• 2 - The Merging of Context into Collective Action 33
• 3 - Technology and Context: the Impact of Collective Action on the Development of Knowledge 47
• 4 - Social Movement Theory and the Political Context of Collective Action 64
• Part II - Collective Action in Political Context 79
• 5 - Shaping Collective Action: Structure, Contingency and Knowledge 81
• 6 - Soil Pollution, Community Action and Political Opportunities 105
• 7 - Context and Interpretation in Managing the Long-Term Unemployed: Implementing an 'Active Labour-Market Policy' in Dutch Cities 126
• 8 - Problems of Collective Action for Associations of the Unemployed in France and in Ireland 146
• 9 - Neighbourhoods in the City: Contexts for Participation in Politics? 163
• Part III - Collective Action: Knowledge, Power and Democracy 181
• 10 - Participatory Expertise and the Politics of Local Knowledge: a Post-Positivist Perspective 183
• 11 - Integrating Contexts: Are There General Rules for Contextualising Political Decision-Making? 196
• 12 - Knowledge, Rhetoric and Political Action in Context 210
• Index 239