Jeff Goodwin

Jeff Goodwin is a professor of sociology at New York University. He holds a BA, MA (Sociology) and PhD (Sociology) from Harvard University.

His research interests include visual sociology, social movements, revolutions, political violence, and terrorism. He is a past chair of the Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA).

The underlying argument of his most known book, "No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991", is that revolutionary movements are not only a response to economic inequality or exploitation, but are also a response to political repression and violence.

elect publications

Books

*"No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001 ISBN 978-0521620697
*"Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements". Co-edited with James M. Jasper and Francesca Polletta. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001 ISBN 978-0226303994
*"Rethinking Social Movements: Structure, Culture, and Emotion". Co-edited with James M. Jasper. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. ISBN 978-0742525962
*"The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts". Co-edited with James M. Jasper. New York: Blackwell, 2003. ISBN 978-0631221968

Articles

* "'The Struggle Made Me a Non-Racialist': Why There Was So Little Terrorism in the Antiapartheid Struggle," Jeff Goodwin (2007), Mobilization, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 193-203.
* "How Not to Explain Terrorism," Jeff Goodwin (2006), (a review essay on Louise Richardson, What Terrorists Want [2006] ), European Journal of Sociology, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 477-82.
* "A Theory of Categorical Terrorism," Jeff Goodwin (2006), Social Forces, Vol. 84, No. 4, pp. 2027-46.
* "What Do We Really Know About (Suicide) Terrorism?," Jeff Goodwin (2006), Sociological Forum, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 315-30.
* "What Must We Explain to Explain Terrorism," Jeff Goodwin (2004), (a review essay on Jessica Stern, Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill [2004] , Social Movement Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 259-65.

External links

* [http://www.jeffgoodwin.net/ Personal homepage]
* [http://sociology.fas.nyu.edu/object/jeffgoodwin.html Homepage at NYU]