Cracking Under Pressure: Narrating the Decline of the Amsterdam Squatters' Movement

by Lynn Owens

Social movements excite and energize their participants in their early phases, with expectations high and ambitions yet unchecked by reality. Consequently, the academic study of social movements has focused primarily on the stages of mobilization and growth. But all movements eventually decline, and it is important to understand why they do, when they do, and what the effects of decline are. Lynn Owens aims to broaden and enrich social movement theory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271034629
• ISBN13: 9780271034621
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"