Jan Willem Duyvendak

André Krouwel

Barry D. Adam

Since the Stonewall rebellion in 1969, gay and lesbian movements have grown from small outposts in a few major cities to a worldwide mobilization. This book brings together stories of the emergence and growth of movements in more than a dozen nations on five continents, with a comparative look that offers insights for both activists and those who study social movements. Lesbian and gay groups have existed for more than a century, often struggling against enormous odds. In the middle of the twentieth century, movement organizations were suppressed or swept away by fascism, Stalinism, and McCarthyism. Refounded by a few pioneers in the postwar period, movements have risen again as more and more people have stood up for their right to love and live with persons of their choice. This book addresses both the mature movements of the European Union, North America, and Australia and the newer movements emerging in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and parts of Asia and Africa, examining the social and political conditions that shape movement opportunities and trajectories. It is rich in the details of gay and lesbian cultural and political life in different countries. Author note: Barry D Adam, Professor of Sociology, University of Windsor, is the author of The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement and Experiencing HIV (with Alan Sears). Jan Willem Duyvendak, Professor of Community Development, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, has published two books on the new social movements and one on the gay movement. André Krouwel is Assistant Professor of Comparative Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam.

National Imprints of a Worldwide Movement

The Global Emergence of Gay and Lesbian Politics

Menno Hurenkamp

Gewoontes zijn geruststellend. Ze maken het leven voorspelbaar en vertrouwd. Het voorkomt stress als de omstandigheden in je dagelijks leven niet te veel afwijken van de norm. Maar er schuilt ook iets venijnigs achter dat verlangen naar het gewone. Politici spreken graag over de gewone man en mensen die 'gewoon' moeten doen of anders wegwezen. De gewoonte wordt dan een keurslijf, een poging een verloren verleden te herstellen, een manier om anderen op kwaadaardige toon de les te lezen. In dit boek zetten de sociologen Menno Hurenkamp en Jan Willem Duyvendak hun vraagtekens bij de gewoonte om het gewone op te hemelen. Maar ze kijken ook naar de pogingen om het gewone te ontmantelen, die verrassend genoeg van zowel extreemrechts als radicaal-links komen.

Populisme in de polder

De macht der gewoonte

John R. Bowen

Christophe Bertossi

Mona Lena Krook

This book responds to debates about the place of Muslims in Western Europe by considering the way people draw on practical schemas.

European States and their Muslim Citizens

Theo Sandfort

Jeffrey Weeks

Judith Schuyf

This timely book seeks to demonstrate the coherence of lesbian and gay studies. It introduces the reader to the principal inter-disciplinary approaches in the field and critically assesses their strengths and weaknesses whilst asking: What is lesbian and gay studies? When did it emerge? And what are its achievements and research agenda? The gay and lesbian movement has emerged as a major political and cultural force. It poses a series of far reaching questions about the organization of identity, the operation of power and the limits of tolerance. Lesbian and Gay Studies has emerged as a vital and enriching field. It offers challenges to more traditional disciplines and requires new forms of thought about the connections between academic work and personal politics.

An Introductory, Interdisciplinary Approach

Lesbian and Gay Studies

Nancy Foner

Jan Rath

Rogier van Reekum

Immigration is dramatically changing major cities throughout the world. Nowhere is this more so than in New York City and Amsterdam, which, after decades of large-scale immigration, now have populations that are more than a third foreign-born. These cities have had to deal with the challenge of incorporating hundreds of thousands of immigrants whose cultures, languages, religions, and racial backgrounds differ dramatically from those of many long-established residents. New York and Amsterdam brings together a distinguished and interdisciplinary group of American and Dutch scholars to examine and compare the impact of immigration on two of the world’s largest urban centers. The original essays in this volume discuss how immigration has affected social, political, and economic structures, cultural patterns, and intergroup relations in the two cities, investigating how the particular, and changing, urban contexts of New York City and Amsterdam have shaped immigrant and second generation experiences. Despite many parallels between New York and Amsterdam, the differences stand out, and juxtaposing essays on immigration in the two cities helps to illuminate the essential issues that today’s immigrants and their children confront. Organized around five main themes, this book offers an in-depth view of the impact of immigration as it affects particular places, with specific histories, institutions, and immigrant populations. New York and Amsterdam profoundly contributes to our broader understanding of the transformations wrought by immigration and the dynamics of urban change, providing new insights into how—and why— immigration’s effects differ on the two sides of the Atlantic.

Immigration and the New Urban Landscape

New York and Amsterdam

Anita Hardon

Nicolas Dodier

This book examines a range of critical concepts that are central to a shift in the social sciences toward "pragmatic inquiry," reflecting a twenty-first century concern with particular problems and themes rather than grand theory. Taking a transnational and transdisciplinary approach, the collection demonstrates a shared commitment to using analytical concepts for empirical exploration and a general orientation to research that favors an attention to objects, techniques, and practices. The chapters draw from broad-based and far-reaching social theory in order to analyze new, specific challenges, from grasping the everyday workings of markets, courtrooms, and clinics, to inscribing the transformations of practice within research disciplines themselves. Each contributor takes a key concept and then explores its genealogies and its circulations across scholarly communities, as well as its proven payoffs for the social sciences and, often, critical reflections on its present and future uses. This carefully crafted volume will significantly expand and improve the analytical repertoires or toolkits available to social scientists, including scholars in sociology or anthropology and those working in science and technology studies, public health, and related fields.

Critical Concepts for Social Sciences

Pragmatic Inquiry

Ruud Koopmans

Kriesi Hanspeter

Marco G. Giugni

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A Comparative Analysis

New Social Movements In Western Europe

Reports from various parts of the world are accompanied by commentary on the global nature of the movement. The topics include moral regulation and the disintegrating Canadian state, building a Brazilian movement, the politics of accommodation in the Netherlands, eastern Europe, emerging visibility in southern Africa, Japan, and Australia. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

In the turbulent years of the 1960s and 1970s, France, like other European countries and the United States, was rocked by a new wave of social movements. The early development of a strong antinuclear movement during the 1970s made France the prototypical country for new social movements (NSMs). However, in the 1980s, these French NSMs experienced a strong decline. In this book, Jan Willem Duyvendak compares the surprising development of these NSMs in France—for peace, the environment, an end to nuclear technology, solidarity, squatters' rights, women's rights, and gay rights—to the development of similar campaigns in Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Although all of these countries share more or less the same economic characteristics, they have different political traditions. Duyvendak finds that by the 1980s, the new social movements were weaker in France because of France's tradition of "old" political conflicts. He concludes that because France was still beset with political splits between center periphery and urban-country as well as religious and class strife, the development of French society during the 1980s took place at the expense of these new social movements

New Social Movements In France

The Power Of Politics

Peter Van der Graaf

Bij het transformeren van probleemwijken naar prachtwijken is veel aandacht voor de fysieke, sociale en economische aspecten van achterstand. Weinig is bekend over de relatie tussen achterstand en emotionele binding: wat zijn de effecten van de stedelijke vernieuwing op het thuisgevoel en de bewoners? Dat staat centraal in dit onderzoek waarbij de praktijk in Nederland en Engeland met elkaar vergeleken worden.

een vergelijkend onderzoek naar de buurthechting van bewoners in Nederland en Engeland

Thuis voelen in de buurt: een opgave voor stedelijke vernieuwing

Evelien Tonkens

Peter Geschiere

The notion of citizenship has gradually evolved from being simply a legal status or practice to a deep sentiment. Belonging, or feeling at home, has become a requirement. This groundbreaking book analyzes how 'feeling rules' are developed and applied to migrants, who are increasingly expected to express feelings of attachment, belonging, connectedness and loyalty to their new country. More than this, however, it demonstrates how this culturalization of citizenship is a global trend with local variations, which develop in relation to each other. The authors pay particular attention to the intersection between sexuality, race and ethnicity, spurred on by their awareness of the dialectical construction of homosexuality, held up as representative of liberal Western values by both those in the West and by African leaders, who use such claims as proof that homosexuality is un-African.

Belonging and Polarization in a Globalizing World

The Culturalization of Citizenship

Loes Verplanke

Louise Hermina Verplanke

Willem Gerbert Jan Duyvendak

Joost Groenendijk

Vele chronisch psychiatrische patiënten en mensen met een verstandelijke beperking zijn de afgelopen jaren vanuit een inrichting in de bossen en de duinen naar woonwijken in de stad verhuisd. Dit is het gevolg van een ingrijpende omslag in het denken over de zorg voor deze groep mensen. Waar vroeger het idee was dat zij gedijden in inrichtingen in de natuur, groepsgewijs en met dag en nacht toezicht, is nu de dominante opvatting dat het juist heilzaam is om zo zelfstandig mogelijk in een eigen huis in een ‘normale’ stadsbuurt te wonen. Onder de mensen? Over het zelfstandig wonen van psychiatrische patiënten en mensen met een verstandelijke beperking gaat over de vraag hoe chronisch psychiatrische patiënten en mensen met een verstandelijke beperking deze verandering ervaren. Voelen zij zich thuis in hun nieuwe huis? En lukt het hen om te integreren in de buurt?

Over Het Zelfstandig Wonen Van Psychiatrische Patiënten en Mensen Met Een Verstandelijke Beperking

Onder de Mensen?

This book responds to the often loud debates about the place of Muslims in Western Europe by proposing an analysis based in institutions, including schools, courts, hospitals, the military, electoral politics, the labor market, and civic education courses. The contributors consider the way people draw on practical schemas regarding others in their midst who are often categorized as Muslims. Chapters based on fieldwork and policy analysis across several countries examine how people interact in their everyday work lives, where they construct moral boundaries, and how they formulate policies concerning tolerable diversity, immigration, discrimination, and political representation. Rather than assuming that each country has its own national ideology that explains such interactions, contributors trace diverse pathways along which institutions complicate or disrupt allegedly consistent national ideologies. These studies shed light on how Muslims encounter particular faces and facets of the state as they go about their lives, seeking help and legitimacy as new citizens of a fast-changing Europe.

The Impact of Institutions on Perceptions and Boundaries

Immigration is dramatically changing major cities throughout the world. Nowhere is this more so than in New York City and Amsterdam, which, after decades of large-scale immigration, now have populations that are more than a third foreign-born. These cities have had to deal with the challenge of incorporating hundreds of thousands of immigrants whose cultures, languages, religions, and racial backgrounds differ dramatically from those of many long-established residents. New York and Amsterdam brings together a distinguished and interdisciplinary group of American and Dutch scholars to examine and compare the impact of immigration on two of the world’s largest urban centers. The original essays in this volume discuss how immigration has affected social, political, and economic structures, cultural patterns, and intergroup relations in the two cities, investigating how the particular, and changing, urban contexts of New York City and Amsterdam have shaped immigrant and second generation experiences. Despite many parallels between New York and Amsterdam, the differences stand out, and juxtaposing essays on immigration in the two cities helps to illuminate the essential issues that today’s immigrants and their children confront. Organized around five main themes, this bookoffers an in-depth view of the impact of immigration as it affects particular places, with specific histories, institutions, and immigrant populations. New York and Amsterdam profoundly contributes to our broader understanding of the transformations wrought by immigration and the dynamics of urban change, providing new insights into how—and why— immigration’s effects differ on the two sides of the Atlantic.

John Richard Bowen

This book examines a range of critical concepts that are central to a shift in the social sciences toward 'pragmatic inquiry', reflecting a twenty-first century concern with particular problems and themes rather than grand theory. Taking a transnational and transdisciplinary approach, the collection demonstrates a shared commitment to using analytical concepts for empirical exploration, and a general orientation to research that favors an attention to objects, techniques, and practices. The chapters draw from broad-based and far-reaching social theory in order to analyze new, specific challenges, from grasping the everyday workings of markets, courtrooms and clinics, to inscribing the transformations of practice within research disciplines themselves. Each contributor takes a key concept, and then explores its genealogies and its circulations across scholarly communities, as well as its proven payoffs for the social sciences, and, often, critical reflections on its present and future uses. This carefully crafted volume will significantly expand and improve the analytical repertoires or toolkits available to social scientists, including scholars in sociology or anthropology, and those working in science and technology studies, public health, and related fields.

Jan Willem Duyvendak

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