Transforming Politics

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; P.Bagguley & J.Hearn PART I: EMPOWERMENT, IDENTITY AND RESISTANCE Empowerment and Resistance: 'Collective Effervescence' and Other Accounts; C.Barker The Inter-Group Dynamics of Empowerment: A Social Identity Model; C.Stott & J.Drury Power, Politics and Everyday Life: The Local Rationalities of Social Movement Milieux; L.Cox Resisting Colonisation: The Politics of Anti-Roads Protesting; W.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; M.Farrar 'Very British Rebels': Politics and Discourse within Contemporary Ulster Unionism; J.W. McAuley Resisting The Green: Political Culture and Environmental Activism; B.Simpson & B.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 Local Government; C.Bennett Social Movements and Equal Opportunities Work; E.Lawrence & N.Turner Modernity, Anti-Racism and Ethnic Managerialism; I.Law PART IV: POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND SOCIAL THEORY Reading The Community: A Critique of Some Postmodern Narratives of Citizenship and Community; V. Hey Will Hutton: Closet Durkheimian?; R.Levitas In Defence of Outing; P.Reynolds Radical Sociology: What's Left?; J.Holmwood Index