Authors Meet Critics: Players and Arenas & Breaking Down the State

Jan Willem Duyvendak (University of Amsterdam) and James Jasper (City University of New York) will be present to respond to questions and critiques regarding the two volumes they edited that were published in 2015 by Amsterdam University Press, Players and Arenas: The Interactive Dynamics of Protest and Breaking Down the State: Protestors Engaged. Both edited volumes are comprised of articles that engage with and attempt to further develop the micro-sociological and agency-based strategic interaction perspective within social movement studies.

Aidan Mcgarry (University of Brighton), Guya Accornero (University Institute of Lisbon), and Robert J. Davidson (University of Amsterdam) will each provide comments and critiques of both edited volumes. The book panel participants will specifically focus on exploring the broader theoretical implications of approaches utilizing the strategic interaction perspective by examining two questions: 1) In what ways is it possible to combine micro-sociological analyses of social movements with theory construction, and 2) What kind of theory (and a theory of what) can be built through analyses based on the strategic interaction perspective?

References:

Duyvendak, Jan Willem and Jasper, James, eds. Players and Arenas. The Interactive Dynamics of Protest. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015.

Duyvendak, Jan Willem and Jasper, James, eds. Breaking Down the State. Protestors Engaged. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015.