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Not to advertise my own work, but on this theme it may be useful to take a
look at my book, Environmental Politics in Japan: Networks of Power and
Protest (Cambridge U Press 1998). Using network analytical concepts, the
book examines the interaction between a developmentalist community (and
national) power structure and environmental protest movements in a Japanese
"hinterland" prefecture. It is based on my qualitative fieldwork that
involved 2.5 years of residence in the community, participant observation,
archival records and about 500 interviews all conducted in the language by
myself. The study prioritizes the "grounded" emic reality of the many
different particpants themselves, using their statements and experiences to
build a multi-perspective rendition of their conflicted reality. Thought
bringing in outside theory with agnostic care, the study does build upon the
community and national power study traditions, incorporating them with
social movement theory into a dialectical analysis of the transformation of
power relations over time. From a meso-relational level (among mainly
organizational actors), the study delves deeply into the constitutive
meaning and power elements, relationships and processes of both the power
structure and the movements. Using the "relational" network viewpoint, it
analyzes the ensuing politicial dynamic process over a fifteen year span.
Moving from social networks, the book advances our use of network techniques
into the study of vectors of influence and domination (only some portions of
which are strictly "social" in their component relational sanctions) within
a dynamic field of actors. Aside from the book, I have reported on more
focused aspects of this research in Broadbent, "Strategies and Structural
Contradictions," ASR 54, 1989, and Broadbent, "Movement in Context" in Diani
and McAdam (editors) Social Movements and Networks (Oxford U Press, 2003).
This book won two prizes, one from the ASA and one from a Japanese
foundation. Robert Bellah said of the book, "I know of no other study which
so effectively combines careful ethnography of a local movement with a full
consideration of the national context and response. This is a model in the
field of social movements and an exciting book to read" (on dust jacket).
Jeffrey Broadbent
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Institute for Global Studies
909 Social Science Building
University of Minnesota
267 19th Ave. S.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
USA 55455
Tel. 612-624-1828
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Subject: Community Power, Elites, Leadership
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Dear Networkers,
Greetings from Mizoram.
I would like to read articles on community power structure, leadership,
elites etc. Kindly send me the web resources Yours Dr.E.Kanagaraj LEcturer
Department of Social Work Mizoram University Aizawl India 796 012
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