Advocacy and Social Movements.

Question:

What are some of the principal issues of topical interest and concern in the study of contemporary social movements, as well as the key contributions to their study? Consider the full range of theoretical insights, patterns, or sociological truths that seem most pertinent to an understanding of the contemporary landscapes of dissent, offering a discussion that demonstrates a grasp of key issues involved, and ask yourself, What is really important to know about social movements today?

This essay should please use these sources ONLY:

Bonilla, Yarimar and Jonathan Rosa. 2015. #Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States. American Ethnologist 42 (1): 4-17.
Castells, Manuel. 2013. Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age. Wiley.
Haugerud, Angelique. 2016. Public Anthropology in 2015: Charlie Hebdo, Black Lives Matter, Migrants, and More. American Anthropologist 118 (3): 585-601.
Freeland, Chrystia. “The rise of the new global elite”. The Atlantic, vol. 307, no. 1, Jan.-Feb. 2011, p. 44+.
Lindholm, Charles and Jose Zuquete. 2011. The Struggle for the World: Liberation Movements for the 21st Century. Stanford Univ Press.
Sorge, Antonio. 2018. Navigating the Mediterranean Refugee “Crisis”: Alter-globalization Activism and the Sediments of History on Lampedusa, in Messy Europe: Crisis, Race, Nation-State in Postcolonial World, ed. by C. Loftsdottir et al. Berghahn Books.
Anthropologist Scott Atran speaks to the UN Security Council on radicalization and de-radicalization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlbirlSA-dc
A strange and disturbing story: Man in Florida Told the Police He Killed Neo-Nazi Roommates for Disrespecting His Muslim Faith. NY Times. 24 May 2017.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/us/neo-nazi-roommate-murder.html

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AGAIN, PLEASE DO NOT USE ANY OTHER SOURCES SEPARATE FROM THE ONES I HAVE PROVIDED WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS. PLEASE AND THANK YOU!!