@article{Leonard_2010, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={Environmental Politics}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/environmental-politics}, abstractNote={In putting together this collection, we have attempted to find syllabi and exercises that go beyond single textbooks, thus expanding our sense of what might be possible in a social movements course. We are excited about this collection, and what it suggests about the current moment in social movement scholarship. Syllabi by Staggenborg, Olzak, Schwartz and Esparza, Wood, Roth, Munson, Tilly and Conley offer different perspectives on the state of the field. While Olzak, Staggenborg and Munson emphasize movement emergence and dynamics, Wood considers the role of political economy, and Tilly and Conley place movements into the larger context of contentious politics. Over the past few years, social movement research and writing has begun to speak more explicitly about the processes and dynamics that underlie mobilization, recruitment, alliance building and communication. Exercises like Caren’s Social Movement Board Game, Bowman’s exercise on designing a social movement, and Conley’s project on analyzing a stream of contention allow the students to wrestle with these processes in ways that will sharpen both their analysis, and build their sense of themselves as active participants in society.}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Leonard, Liam}, year={2010}, month={Apr.} }