List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Contributors

Transforming Politics: Power and Resistance

Paul Bagguley

Jeff Hearn

PART I EMPOWERMENT, IDENTITY AND RESISTANCE

Empowerment and Resistance: `Collective Effervescence' and other Accounts

Colin Barker

The Inter-Group Dynamics of Empowerment: a Social Identity Model

Clifford Stott

John Drury

Power, Politics and Everyday Life: the Local Rationalities of Social Movement Milieux

Laurence Cox

Resisting Colonisation: the Politics of Anti-Roads Protesting

Wallace McNeish

PART II RESISTANCE AND CHANGE IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Social Movements in a Multi-Ethnic Inner City: Explaining their Rise and Fall over 25 Years

Max Farrar

`Very British Rebels': Politics and Discourse within Contemporary Ulster Unionism

James White McAuley

Resisting the Green: Political Culture and Environmental Activism

Beth Simpson

Brian Elliott

PART III TRANSFORMING THE STATE AND STATE RESISTANCE

Re-Conceptualising Feminist Agency in the State: a Study of the Implementation of Women's Equal Opportunity Policy in British Loca Government

Cinnamon Bennett

Social Movements and Equal Opportunities Work

Elizabeth Lawrence

Nicholas Turner

Modernity, Anti-Racism and Ethnic Managerialism

Ian Law

PART IV POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND SOCIAL THEORY

Reading the Community: a Critique of Some Postmodern Narratives of Citizenship and Community

Valerie Hey

Will Hutton: Closet Durkheimian?

Ruth Levitas

In Defence of Outing

Paul Reynolds

Radical Sociology: What's Left?

John Holmwood

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