Book review: the future of social movement research: dynamics, mechanisms, and processes

Are the dynamics of contention changing? This is the question confronted by the contributors of this volume. The answers, arriving at a time of extraordinary worldwide turmoil, aim not only to provide a wide-ranging and varied understanding of how social movements arise and persist, but also engender unanswered questions, pointing to new theoretical strands and fields of research. The Future of Social Movement Research is an excellent account of the current position of sociological research in the larger scope of contemporary political change and protest movements, concludes Alexei Anisin.