New Book: Coalition Building and Social Movements

Posted by on September 17, 2010

[posted from Comm-Org]

From: skinn077@umn.edu

The best current thinking on the conditions leading to successful activist coalitions

STRATEGIC ALLIANCES: Coalition Building and Social Movements
Nella Van Dyke and Holly J. McCammon, Editors
University of Minnesota Press | 376 pages | 2010
ISBN 978-0-8166-6734-5 | paperback | $27.50
ISBN 978-0-8166-6733-8 | hardcover | $82.50
Social Movements, Protest, and Contention Series, volume 34

Strategic Alliances provides pioneering analysis of the circumstances leading to movement alliances. Contributors investigate coalition dynamics among social movements, including antiwar, environmental, and labor movements, as well as ethnic organizations and women’s groups.  While many of the essays examine coalition formation in the United States, others consider coalitions in Britain, the former East Germany, East Asia, and Latin America.

Nella Van Dyke is associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Merced.

Holly J. McCammon is professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University.

For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book’s  webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/V/vandyke_strategic.html