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Anti-nuclear Movements: Failed Projects or Heralds of a Direct Action Milieu?

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This paper adopts a qualitative approach to argue that direct action social movements originating within the environmental and anti-nuclear milieu of the 1970s can be characterised by a process of capacity building. Capacity building adopts Melucci's argument that social movements are ‘networks of networks’. The notion of capacity building is elaborated in terms of the mobilisation potential of movement actors and the diffusion of movement repertoires within the public sphere more generally. Empirically the paper draws on fieldwork covering 1970s / 1980s movement cross-overs in the UK and the conclusions are informed by recent ESRC sponsored work (R 000 22 3486) on the global ‘anti-capitalist’ movement.

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  • Ian Welsh, 2001. "Anti-nuclear Movements: Failed Projects or Heralds of a Direct Action Milieu?," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 6(3), pages 36-50, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:6:y:2001:i:3:p:36-50
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.642
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    1. Phil Johnstone & Andy Stirling, 2015. "Comparing Nuclear Power Trajectories inGermany And the UK: From ‘Regimes’ to ‘Democracies’ in Sociotechnical Transitions and Discontinuities," SPRU Working Paper Series 2015-18, SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Business School.
    2. Clare Saunders, 2009. "It's Not Just Structural: Social Movements are not Homogenous Responses to Structural Features, but Networks shaped by Organisational Strategies and Status," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 14(1), pages 26-41, January.

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