1. Explaining the fuel protests.
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Doherty, Brian, Paterson, Matthew, Plows, Alexandra, and Wall, Derek
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SOCIAL movements ,PUBLIC demonstrations ,FUEL ,SOCIAL history - Abstract
Abstract We describe and analyse the fuel protests in the UK in September and November 2000. We draw on theories of social movements to explain the success of the first of these protests and the failure of the second. We show how the loose, network forms of organisation contributed to the success in September, and the attempts to impose more formal organisations helped to cause the failure in November. We also show how the success of the protests depended on the articulation of the aims of the protesters with dominant social forces in British politics, in particular the oil companies, the police, and the mass media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2003
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