Methodological Advances in Research on Social Movements, Conflict, and Change
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The 21st century has brought many changes to peacebuilding, armed conflicts, and social movements. Organizations and scholars alike have developed new techniques for bridging cultural divides and enhancing democracy and respect for human rights. Moreover, technological changes have significantly altered conflict spaces.
Methodological Advances in Research on Social Movements, Conflict, and Change explores methods for studying contentious politics in the context of these broader social changes. Contributors advance methodological scholarship by developing new tools, discussing new sources of data and their relative value, and addressing controversies and ethical issues that have emerged in the process of collecting or analyzing data.
Acknowledging how more movements are using a wider range of tactics to influence a rapidly changing, deeply interconnected world, Methodological Advances in Research on Social Movements, Conflict, and Change appeals to scholars interested in how the study of social movements, peace, and conflict has developed and adapted to keep pace with ongoing socio-political and technological change.
Foreword; Lisa Leitz
- Navigating Interests and Cultivating Innovation in the Study of Social Movements, Conflict, and Change; Thomas V. Maher and Eric W. Schoon
- Section I. Innovations in Data Collection and Processing
- Chapter 1. Beyond Protests: Using Computational Text Analysis to Explore a Greater Variety of Social Movement Activities; Brayden G. King and Laura K. Nelson
- Chapter 2. The Use of Digitized Newspaper Archives for World-Historical Research on Social Conflicts: The State-Seeking Nationalist Movements Database; Şahan Savaş Karataşlı
- Chapter 3. Satellite Images in Conflict Research: Methodological and Ethical Considerations; Fiona Rose Greenland and Michelle D. Fabiani
- Chapter 4. Instant Archives: Social Media and Social Movement Research; Elle Rochford, Baylee Hudgens, and Rachel L. Einwohner
- Section II. Epistemology and Reflexivity
- Chapter 5. Moments of Interrogation: Doing Feminist Ethnography in the Archives; Jo Reger
- Chapter 6. Developing Ethical Standards for Student Participation in Protest Research; Laura J. Heideman
- Chapter 7. Insider-Outsider Dynamics and Identity in Qualitative Studies of Social Movements; Kathleen A. Ragon and Daisy Verduzco Reyes
- Section III. Novel Analytics
- Chapter 8. How to Analyze the Influence of Social Movements with QCA: Combinational Hypotheses, Venn Diagrams, and Movements Making Big News; Edwin Amenta, Neal Caren, and Weijun Yuan
- Chapter 9. Measuring Event Diffusion Momentum (EDM): Applications in Social Movement Research; Tony Huiquan Zhang and Tianji Cai
- Chapter 10. Coalitions Under Threat: Analyzing the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Protests Using Telegram Social Media Data; Weijun Yuan
Thomas V. Maher is Assistant Professor, Clemson University, USA. His research focuses on the intersection between social movements, organizations, and political sociology.
Eric W. Schoon is Associate Professor, The Ohio State University, USA. His recent work examines methodology as a form of social practice, exploring how social processes structure methodological choices and how methodology shapes theory. His research also explores cultural dimensions of contentious politics.