Citation

Tejerina B. Nations Nationalism 2001; 7(1): 39-57.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/1469-8219.00003

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A close look at the groups, organisations and social movements among which a terrorist organisation seeks refuge and support, will provide a fundamental and strategic view of its evolution. By means of the concept of a protest cycle, I analyse the relationship between political violence and social movements in the Basque Country. With the help of Tarrow's fundamental variables in the political structure, to which I have added the degree of consciousness-raising and mobilisation in civil society, I aim to study the protest cycle of ETA's violence from its social origins at the start of the 1960s, through its consolidation in the 1970s, to its decline from the mid-1980s onwards.