Leadership and Social Movements

by Colin Barker (Editor), Alan Johnson (Editor), Michael Lavalette (Editor)

Despite the explosion of social movement research in Europe and the US in the last 20 years, the question of leadership has been relatively neglected. This probing examination of the theory and practice of social movement leadership critically re-examines a series of classic cases. The essays illuminate the complex dynamics and competing forms taken by social movement leadership as well as its impact on movement successes and failures.

272 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Colin Barker was a British sociologist as well as a Marxist historian and writer.