期刊名称：Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest
电子版ISSN：2330-1392
出版年度：2016
卷号：3
期号：2
页码：1-4
出版社：Punctum Books
摘要：Whilst the first of these issues concentrated on the riots in England following the globalfinancial crash of 2008, this second issue focuses on the social movements that emergedin this context. Whilst defining a social movement is conceptually problematic- either becauseit could be so narrow to exclude, or, to broad to include, any type of collective action, there arecertain features that we can point to. Edwards (2014: 4-5) provides four conceptual distinctions:(a) Social movements are collective, organized efforts at social change, rather thanindividual efforts at social change. (b) [They] exist over a period of time by engaging ina conflictual issue with a powerful opponent, rather than being one off events. (c) Themembers… are not just working together but share a collective identity. (d) They activelypursue change by employing protest
