Introduction to the Special Issue: Foregrounding social movement futures: collective action, imagination, and methodology.
The future – as a theme, research orientation, and mode of framing societal challenges – is becoming important in the social sciences. Yet the absence of collective action in many such accounts makes clear the potential contribution of social movement studies. In social movement studies, meanwhile,...
| Publicado en: | Social Movement Studies Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 429 - 446 |
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