<p><b>The most up-to-date and thorough compendium of scholarship on social movements</b></p><p>This second edition of <i>The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements</i> features forty original essays from the field. With contributions from both established and ascendant scholars, the <i>Companion</i> seeks to present current research on social movements in all its diversity. It is the most up-to-date, comprehensive volume of social science research on social movements available today.</p><p>The essays address: facilitative and constraining contexts and conditions; social movement organizations, fields, and dynamics; strategies and tactics; micro-structural and social psychological dimensions of participation; consequences and outcomes; and various thematic intersections, including the intersection of social movements and social class, gender, race and ethnicity, religion, human rights, globalization, political extremism and more.</p><ul><li>Offers an illuminating guide to underst