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Mobilization

Mobilization \Mob`i*li*za"tion\, n. [F. mobilization.] The act of mobilizing.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mobilization

1799, "a rendering movable," from French mobilisation, from mobiliser (see mobilize). Military sense is from 1866.

Wiktionary
mobilization

n. 1 The act of mobilize 2 The marshalling of troops and national resources in preparation for war. 3 The process by which the armed forces of a nation are brought to a state of readiness for a conflict. 4 (context geology English) The softening of rock such that geochemical migration can take place 5 (context genetics English) The transport of a copy of a gene from one chromosome, or one organism to another

WordNet
mobilization
  1. n. act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: "mobilization of the troops" [syn: mobilisation, militarization, militarisation] [ant: demobilization]

  2. act of marshaling and organizing and making ready for use or action; "mobilization of the country's economic resources" [syn: mobilisation]

Wikipedia
Mobilization

Mobilization is the act of assembling and making both troops and supplies ready for war. The word mobilization was first used, in a military context, in order to describe the preparation of the Russian army during the 1850s and 1860s. Mobilization theories and techniques have continuously changed since then. The opposite of mobilization is demobilization.

Mobilization became an issue with the introduction of conscription, and the introduction of the railways in the 19th Century. Mobilization institutionalized the mass levy of forces that was first introduced during the French Revolution, and that had changed the character of war. A number of technological and societal changes promoted the move towards a more organized way of assembling armies. These included the telegraph, which allowed rapid spreading of orders, the railways, which allowed rapid concentration of troops, and conscription, which provided a trained reserve of soldiers available in the case of war.

Mobilization (journal)

Mobilization is an academic journal that publishes original research and academic reviews of books concerned mainly with sociological research on protests, social movements, and collective behavior.

The journal was established in 1996 by Hank Johnston ( San Diego State University). Johnston edited the journal for eleven years after which he was succeeded by Daniel J. Myers ( University of Notre Dame) and then Rory McVeigh ( University of Notre Dame). During Johnston’s run as editor, the journal moved first from two to three issues per year and, starting with volume eleven, eventually became a quarterly journal. The current editor-in-chief is Neal Caren ( University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2010 impact factor of 0.467, ranking it 92nd out of 132 journals in the category "Sociology".

Mobilization (disambiguation)

Mobilization can refer to:

  • Mobilization of military forces; see also: Mobilization Device
  • Joint mobilization, a type of passive movement of a skeletal joint
  • Mobilization: The International Quarterly Review of Social Movement Research, a social movement journal
  • Mass mobilization (also known as social or popular mobilization), a social science theory related to mobilizing the population in mass meetings, parades, and other gatherings
  • Resource mobilization, a social science theory related to mass mobilization in the social movements context
  • National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam

Usage examples of "mobilization".

Indian subcontinent, mitigated only by the rapid mobilization of hundreds of kinetics when the precog had come in.

Indian subcontinent, mitigated only by the rapid mobilization of hundreds of kinetics when the precog provide had come in.

Our Glorious Sultan means great efforts will be made to catch my rogue murderer, including the mobilization of torturers, but I do know this: that accursed man is now in the courtyard, among the other miniaturists and calligraphers, wearing a dignified and exceedingly tormented expression as he gazes at my coffin.

When in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the concept of nation was taken up in very different ideological contexts and led popular mobilizations in regions and countries within and outside Europe that had experienced neither the liberal revolution nor the same level of primitive accumulation, it still always was presented as a concept of capitalist modernization, which claimed to bring together the interclass demands for political unity and the needs of economic development.

Chief of Department of the NYPD ordered a second Level 4 mobilization, bringing the total number of NYPD officers responding to close to 2,000.

In the postcolonial countries, discipline required first of all transforming the massive popular mobilization for liberation into a mobilization for production.

Poland ordered army mobilization along the Czechoslovakian border, and there were boisterous mass demonstrations in Warsaw and in other Polish cities.

On July 11, 1944, Diefenbaker had read into Hansard a return of the call-up by mobilization districts, which showed that Kingston, Ontario, had fifteen times as many recruits as Quebec City, although the two areas had about the same population.

When in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the concept of nation was taken up in very different ideological contexts and led popular mobilizations in regions and countries within and outside Europe that had experienced neither the liberal revolution nor the same level of primitive accumulation, it still always was presented as a concept of capitalist modernization, which claimed to bring together the interclass demands for political unity and the needs of economic development.

America entered the war and began the mobilization of its forces and resources, the Quartermaster at Chicago was ordered to obtain bids for the delivery of 35,000 motortrucks of one and one-half tons capacity and 35,000 trucks of three tons capacity.

Romantic liberalism, including the mobilization of support for the Greek Revolution after that cause attracted the intense interest of Romantics and liberals in all parts of Europe and the United States in the 1820s.

The German and French armies each required two weeks to complete mobilization before a major attack could begin on the fifteenth day.

On leaving home on the morning of the fourth day of the mobilization Desnoyers, instead of betaking himself to the centre of the city, went in the opposite direction toward the rue de la Pompe.

Militiamen were rushing to their mobilization stations, air-raid wardens in their new armbands and helmets were standing on stepladders to tape over the streetlights, and everybody and his Aunt Sally were milling around talking to each other.

There were forty-four steps in Kahn's ladder, going from the first, Ostensible Crisis, up gradually through categories like Political and Diplomatic Gestures, Solemn and Formal Declarations, and Significant Mobilization, then more steeply through steps like Show of Force, Harassing Acts of Violence, Dramatic Military Confrontations, Large Conventional War, and then off into the unexplored zones of Barely Nuclear War, Exemplary Attacks Against Property, Civilian Devastation Attack, and right on up to number forty-four, Spasm or Insensate War.