Kurt Schock

Title: Associate Professor of Sociology, Member of the Graduate Faculty in Global Affairs

Telephone: 973 353-5343

Office: 605 Hill Hall

e-mail: kschock@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Education

Ph.D. in Sociology, The Ohio State University, 1995

Research Interests

Social movements; comparative political sociology and social change; and nonviolence.

Current Projects

Professor Schock is currently researching land reform and land rights movements in the global south. He is examining how various methods of civil resistance, such as protest marches and land occupations, are being used to promote a more equitable distribution of land and resources. He is also interested in how constructive programs such as rural cooperatives and small-scale sustainable agriculture are being used to promote agrarian reform. More broadly his research seeks to understand how methods of nonviolent action and 'people power' movements are able to successfully challenge state domination and economic exploitation.

Selected Publications

Schock, Kurt. 2008. "People Power and Alternative Politics." Pp. 186-207 in Politics in the Developing World (2nd edition), edited by Peter Burnell and Vicky Randall. London: Oxford University Press.

Schock, Kurt. 2005. Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Nondemocracies. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press.

Awarded Best Book of the Year (co-winner) by the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association.

Published in Spanish as Insurrecciones No Armadas: Poder Popular en Regimenes No Democráticos. Bogotá, Colombia: Editorial Universidad del Rosario, 2007.

Schock, Kurt. 1999. "People Power and Political Opportunities: Social Movement Mobilization and Outcomes in the Philippines and Burma". Social Problems 46, 3 (August): 355-375.

Schock, Kurt. 1996. "A Conjunctural Model of Political Conflict: The Impact of Political Opportunities on the Relationship between Economic Inequality and Violent Political Conflict". Journal of Conflict Resolution 40, 1 (March): 98-133.

Jenkins, J. Craig and Kurt Schock. 1992. "Global Structures and Political Processes in the Study of Domestic Political Conflict". Annual Review of Sociology 18: 161-185.

Selected Invited Presentations

"Unarmed Insurrections and Democratization." Dialogo Mayor: Accion Politica Noviolenta y Reconciliacion para Avanzar Hacia la Democracia, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia. November 2, 2006.

"Nonviolent Struggles for Land and Resources in the Global South." Globalism Institute, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne, Australia. May 10, 2006; and Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia. April 4, 2006.

"The Global Emergence of Radical Land Reform Movements". World Social Forum, Panel on Land Rights. Mumbai, India. January 20, 2004.