Economic and Political Change in Asia and Europe: Social Movement Analyses (Paperback, 2013)

Acknowledgements.- List of Abbreviations .- List of Tables, Figures, and Appendices.- 1: Collective Action and Relatively Powerless People in Europe and Asia: Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan and Frederic Royall.- Part I: Economic, Political and Social Globalization in Asia and Europe .- 2: Economic Change and Social a Dynamics: Converging and Diverging Trends Across Different Economies: Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan.- 3: European Integration, Social Cohesion and Political Contentiousness: Christian Lahusen.- 4: Images and Frameworks of Collective Action in China: Carsten Storm.- 5: European Governance and Democracy: Didier Chabanet.- 6: Agricultural Markets and Food Riots: The European Union and Asia Compared: M. Bruna Zolin.- Part II: Social Movements in a Transnational Perspective .- 7: Marginalization and Transnationalizing Social Movements: How One Relates to the Other: Pascale Dufour .- 8: Transnational Collective Action and the European Network of the Unemployed: Frederic Royall.- Part III: National Examples .- 9: The British and French Hunger Marches of the 1930s:An Exclusive Mode of Protest, a Cultural Transfer and a Fulcrum Of Success: Matt Perry.- 10: Comparing Mobilizations Against Three Social Reforms in the 2000s in Belgium: Jean Faniel.- 11: Employment Status and Political Participation: Does Exclusion Influence the Protest Behavior of the Young Unemployed?: Marco Giugni and Jasmine Lorenzini .- 12: The Practical Uses of Administrative and Cultural Categories Across the Field of Pro-Gypsy Activities in France Today: Activist Constructions and Adaptations to Political Categorizations: Anne-Cecile Renouard .- 13 : Challenges of Social Engagement: NGO Work in the People's Republic of China : Birgit Hase.- 14: The Suicide Problem in Contemporary Japanese Society: Its Economic and Social Backdrop and Religious Reactions: Michiaki Okuyama .- 15:Constructing and Controlling People's Power from the Grassroots.- Philippine Social Movement Activism in a Historical Perspective: Dominique Caouette .- Part IV: Commentary .- 16: What Do Social Scientists Do When They Do Comparative Work?: Lilian Mathieu.- Bibliography.- Contributors.- Index Part II: Social Movements in a Transnational Perspective .- 7: Marginalization and Transnationalizing Social Movements: How One Relates to the Other: Pascale Dufour .- 8: Transnational Collective Action and the European Network of the Unemployed: Frederic Royall.- Part III: National Examples .- 9: The British and French Hunger Marches of the 1930s:An Exclusive Mode of Protest, a Cultural Transfer and a Fulcrum Of Success: Matt Perry.- 10: Comparing Mobilizations Against Three Social Reforms in the 2000s in Belgium: Jean Faniel.- 11: Employment Status and Political Participation: Does Exclusion Influence the Protest Behavior of the Young Unemployed?: Marco Giugni and Jasmine Lorenzini .- 12: The Practical Uses of Administrative and Cultural Categories Across the Field of Pro-Gypsy Activities in France Today: Activist Constructions and Adaptations to Political Categorizations: Anne-Cecile Renouard .- 13 : Challenges of Social Engagement: NGO Work in the People's Republic of China : Birgit Hase.- 14: The Suicide Problem in Contemporary Japanese Society: Its Economic and Social Backdrop and Religious Reactions: Michiaki Okuyama .- 15:Constructing and Controlling People's Power from the Grassroots.- Philippine Social Movement Activism in a Historical Perspective: Dominique Caouette .- Part IV: Commentary .- 16: What Do Social Scientists Do When They Do Comparative Work?: Lilian Mathieu.- Bibliography.- Contributors.- Index.