James M. Jasper
, Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements
ed. Goodwin, Jeff; Polletta, Francesca; Jasper, James,, Contention in Context: Political Opportunities and the Emergence of Protest
ed. Goodwin, Jeff; Jasper, James,Designed as a series of ‘empirical tests’ to identify the role of political opportunities in the rise of protest movements.
Jasper, James, The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity in Social Movements
Takes up the challenge that ‘most academic theories of social movements are not prepared to explain the full range of protest goals and activities, especially those of privileged rather than oppressed citizens’, specifically drawing on the US environmental, anti-nuclear energy, and animals rights movements.