Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change

ISSN: 0163-786X

Editor: Dr Patrick G. Coy
Subject: Sociology and Public Policy (view other series in this subject area)
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Editorial Objectives
Key Benefits
Key Audiences
Coverage
Submissions
Guest Editorship
About the Editor
Contact the Editorial Team
Call for Papers

Editorial Objectives

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change is a well-respected outlet where top-level peer-reviewed research is published, research that has helped define and advance scholarship in social movements, conflict resolution, and social and political change for more than 30 years.

The series was established in 1977 by founding editor, Louis Kriesberg, the Maxwell Professor of Social Conflict Studies at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. The intention, and the successful result, was to create a scholarly publication outlet that would encourage dialogue and cross-fertilization across a number of related but too disconnected research traditions: social movements, conflict resolution, and social and political change.

Today the RSMCC series continues its leading role as being an important outlet for quantitative and qualitative data-driven research as well as for articles focused on theory-building.

Key Benefits

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change creates new knowledge about enduring and central aspects of human life: why and how we organize into movements for political and social change, and why and how we engage social conflicts.
Social movement scholars have used the RSMCC series to tackle cutting edge problems in moving social movement theory forward even while other scholars have used the RSMCC series to explore new frontiers in conflict resolution practice and theory.

Key Audiences

The RSMCC series is essential reading for scholars of social movements and of conflict resolution. It enjoys a wide library subscription base. Many leading scholars have published their work in RSMCC, including Elise Boulding, John Burton, Amitai Etzioni, Myra Marx Ferree, John Foran, Johan Galtung, William Gamson, Andre Gunder Frank, Craig Jenkins, Lester Kurtz, Jane Mansbridge, Doug McAdam, John D. McCarthy, Alberto Melucci, David Meyer, Christopher Mitchell, Sharon Erickson Nepstad, Pamela Oliver, Karl Dieter Opp, Sarah Soule, Suzanne Staggenborg, Jackie Smith, David Snow, Verta Taylor, Charles Tilly, and Mayer Zald.

Coverage

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change welcomes papers focused on only one or another of the tripartite themes reflected in the series title, even while the series also provides a unique opportunity to more deeply connect cognate research traditions within an international, fully peer-reviewed platform. Please peruse the table of contents of previous volumes for a window into the high quality RSMCC world.

Submissions

Send article submissions as a WORD document attached to an email to Patrick Coy, RSMCC editor, at pcoy@kent.edu Remove all self-references (in text and in bibliography) save for on the title page, which should include full contact information for all authors. Include the paper’s title and the abstract on the first page of the text itself. For initial submissions, any standard social science in-text citation and bibliographic system is acceptable. Generally speaking, you may expect a decision in 8-10 weeks.

About the Editor

Patrick G. Coy is Professor and Director of the Center for Applied Conflict Management at Kent State University, USA. He has edited RSMCC since 2000. His co-authored article, “Discursive Legacies: The US Peace Movement and ‘Support the Troops,’” published in Social Problems, received the “Best Published Article Award for 2008” by the American Sociological Association’s section on Peace, War and Social Conflict. Patrick G. Coy’s publications also includes journal articles and book chapters on cooptation and social movements, the nonviolent accompaniment work of Peace Brigades International, community mediation in the US, conflict transformation, emotions and social movements, disabilities and mediation, religious discourses during war, ethnography in conflict settings, the Catholic Worker movement, and other topics.

For more information or to access Coy’s publications, follow this link:
http://www.kent.edu/cacm/faculty/~pcoy/

Contact the Editorial Team

Series Editor
Patrick G. Coy
Kent State University, USA
pcoy@kent.edu

Publisher
Tom Dark
tdark@emeraldinsight.com

Reviews

"A venerable series started by Louis Kreisberg...this is perhaps the longest running annual social movement research series...Social movement scholars have come to rely on the series for solid innovations in theory, and valuable empirical contributions to the literature on diverse movements and conflicts. This year's volume is no different. Editor Coy, of the Center for Applied Management at Kent State, brings together a talented group of social scientists (overwhelmingly sociologists) to investigate the intersection of three of the most important issues in social movement studies...Scholars working on political change and social movements are fortunate to have this series' annual volumes in order to stay up with the latest research. I am already looking forward to next year's edition."
Professor Steven Breyman, writing in Contemporary Sociology

Call for Papers

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, an annual peer-reviewed volume published by Emerald Group Publishing encourages submissions for Volumes 36 and 37 of the series. These two volumes will be non-thematic: submissions appropriate to any of the three broad foci reflected in the RSMCC series title will be considered.

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (RSMCC) is a fully peer-reviewed series of original research that has been published annually for 35 years. We continue to publish the work of many of the leading scholars in social movements, social change, and peace and conflict studies. Although RSMCC enjoys a wide library subscription base for the book versions, all volumes are published both in book form and are also available online via Emerald Insight through subscribing libraries. This ensures wider distribution and easier access to your scholarship while maintaining the book series at the same time.

To be considered for inclusion in Volumes 36 or 37, papers must arrive by Nov. 1, 2012.　 Earlier submissions are especially welcomed.

Send submissions as a Word document attached to an email to Patrick Coy, RSMCC editor, at pcoy@kent.edu. Remove all self-references (in text and in bibliography) save for on the title page, which should include full contact information for all authors. Include the paper’s title and the abstract on the first page of the text itself. For initial submissions, any standard social science in-text citation and bibliographic system is acceptable.

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In order to honor the valuable time of our peer-reviewers, Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change does not accept articles under consideration at other publication outlets, or that contain substantial material or findings that have been previously published elsewhere. By submitting your paper to the RSMCC series you are agreeing to this standard professional policy.

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