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***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/ ***** Dear socnetters I send you details of a book that might be of interest to some of you. Best wishes, MD Social Movements and Networks Relational Approaches to Collective Action Edited by Mario Diani and Doug McAdam Oxford/New York, 2003: Oxford University Press For the first time in a single volume, social movement researchers map the full range of applications of network concepts and tools to their field of inquiry. They illustrate how networks affect individual contributions to collective action in both democratic and non-democratic organizations; how patterns of inter-organizational linkages affect the circulation of resources both within movement milieus and between movement organizations and the political system; how network concepts and techniques may improve our grasp of the relationship between movements and elites, of the configuration of alliance and conflict structures, of the clustering of episodes of contention in protest cycles. Social Movements and Networks casts new light on our understanding of social movements and cognate social and political processes. Mario Diani is Professor of Sociology at the University of Trento, Italy, and the European Editor of Mobilization. Doug McAdam is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, and Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. 320 pp.; ISBN 0-19-925178-9; $24.95 Introduction 1 Mario Diani: Social movements, contentious actions, and social networks: 'from metaphor to substance'? Part I. Individual networks 2 Florence Passy: Social Networks Matter. But How? 3 Helmut Anheier: Movement development and organizational networks: The role of 'single members' in the German Nazi party, 1925-1930 Part II. Interorganizational networks 4 Maryjane Osa: Networks in opposition: Linking organizations through activists in the Polish People's Republic 5 Mario Diani: 'Leaders' or brokers? Positions and influence in social movement networks 6 Christopher Ansell: Community embeddedness and collaborative governance in the San Francisco Bay Area environmental movement Part III. Networking the political process 7 Charles Tilly and Lesley J. Wood: Contentious connections in Great Britain, 1828-1834 8 Pamela Oliver and Daniel Myers: Networks, diffusion, and cycles of collective action 9 Jeffrey Broadbent: Movement in context: Thick networks and Japanese environmental protest Part IV. Theories of networks, movements, and collective action 10 Roger Gould: Why do networks matter? Rationalist and structuralist interpretations 11 Ann Mische: Cross-talk in movements: Reconceiving the culture-network link 12 Doug McAdam: Beyond structural analysis: toward a more dynamic understanding of social movements 13 Mario Diani: Networks and social movements: A research programme Mario Diani Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale Università di Trento Via Verdi 26 38100 Trento Italy Tel. +39 0461 881479 (direct) 881322 (secretary) Fax +39 0461 881348 _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.