In their efforts to create change in the larger society, social movements generally try to influence public opinion, recruit members, and in some way put pressure on politicians or other powerful targets to institute legal and structural changes. In all of this, social movements are embedded in...

In Conflicts in the Knowledge Society, Sebastian Haunss demonstrates how conflicts related to the international system of intellectual property have resulted in new cleavages in the knowledge society. He argues that new collective actors have emerged from these conflicts with the ability to...