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Tangled up in Red, White, and Blue
Christine Kelly
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Description for Tangled up in Red, White, and Blue
Paperback. This text discusses the role of social movements in the recovery and expansion of democracy and justice in the 21st century. The topics covered include political and social theory, movement history, institutional analysis, ideology, activism, and the instigation of change. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBA; JHMC; JPA; JPF; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 11. Weight in Grams: 285.
In Tangled Up in Red, White, and Blue, Christine Kelly examines the role that progressive social movements might play in the recovery and expansion of democracy and justice in the new millennium. Kelly simultaneously combines an analysis of several modernization theses with respect to the role of social movements, with a unique sense of the way that the American ideological and institutional context has shaped progressive social movements, for better and worse, in our era. Kelly candidly confronts contemporary American radicalism from the perspective of a movement participant—included is a rare treatment of the 1980s student movement—but with an eye on the future. Tangled Up in Red, White, and Blue is a bold and sophisticated study combining the frequently divorced interests of political theory, institutional analysis, and social movement studies—both European and American.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742508132
SKU
V9780742508132
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About Christine Kelly
Christine Kelly is assistant professor of political science and women's studies at the University of Northern Colorado.
Reviews for Tangled up in Red, White, and Blue
Christine Kelly's Tangled Up in Red, White, and Blue is what scholarship on the left ought to be and rarely is—irreverent toward intellectual fashions, courageous in facing the dark side of the times, and graced with humor and reasoned hope. Kelly's argument extends beyond her critique of the theory of New Social Movements: she brings American political culture into an engaging and searching dialogue with political theory.
Wilson Carey McWilliams, Rutgers University Resource mobilization and opportunity structure theorists will have to go back to their drawing boards to make room for Christine Kelly's book—the most enlightening and refreshing work on social movements I have seen in many years. Ideas, ideologies, and institutions are back, and her middle-level theory promises more than the truistic and the circular. Tangled Up in Red, White, and Blue provides all the ingredients of a 'tragedy of social action.'
Theodore Lowi, Cornell University, former president of the Policy Studies Organization Clearly and engagingly written, the book is recommended for undergraduate sociology and political science classes in social problems and movements and political sociology.
CHOICE
Christine Kelly offers a sophisticated review of the social movement literature, sharpened by her extensive knowledge and experience with student activism, and by her deep interest and commitment to critical theory and a normative politics. This is an original and illuminating study.
Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven
Wilson Carey McWilliams, Rutgers University Resource mobilization and opportunity structure theorists will have to go back to their drawing boards to make room for Christine Kelly's book—the most enlightening and refreshing work on social movements I have seen in many years. Ideas, ideologies, and institutions are back, and her middle-level theory promises more than the truistic and the circular. Tangled Up in Red, White, and Blue provides all the ingredients of a 'tragedy of social action.'
Theodore Lowi, Cornell University, former president of the Policy Studies Organization Clearly and engagingly written, the book is recommended for undergraduate sociology and political science classes in social problems and movements and political sociology.
CHOICE
Christine Kelly offers a sophisticated review of the social movement literature, sharpened by her extensive knowledge and experience with student activism, and by her deep interest and commitment to critical theory and a normative politics. This is an original and illuminating study.
Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven