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The Contexts Reader

Meet the Authors

Jeff Goodwin edited Contexts magazine with James Jasper from 2005 to 2007. He is the author of No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991 (2001) and coeditor (with Jasper) of The Social Movements Reader (2003) and Rethinking Social Movements (2004). He teaches sociology at New York University.

James M. Jasper is an independent scholar living in New York. His most recent book is Getting Your Way: Strategic Dilemmas in Real Life (2006), a sociological alternative to game theory that incorporates culture and emotions.