Abstract

PEREIRA, Matheus Mazzilli. Social movements and Political context: interview with David S. Meyer. Rev. psicol. polít. [online]. 2018, vol.18, n.41, pp. 199-208. ISSN 1519-549X.

David S. Meyer has dedicated his career to social movement studies. Theoretically aligned to the "political process theories", his research gives emphasis to the connection between social movements and the institutional political environment in which they act, as well as to the synchronic and diachronic relations between movements. In this interview, Meyer talks about his main empirical investigations, among them, his study on the Nuclear Freeze Movement in the United States. Meyer also talks about the main theoretical contributions of his research and of the contextual framework as a whole to the study of social movements, Finally, the author talks about how academic research can contribute for political activism.

Keywords : social movements; political context; Nuclear Freeze; spillover; countermovements.

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