Unraveling the Garment Industry

Ethel C Brooks

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 27
• Unraveling the Garment Industry is an ambitious investigation of the politics of labor and protest within an industry that has come to define the poss... Lees meer

Contested Citizenship

Ruud Koopmans, Paul Statham, Marco Giugni, Florence Passy

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention
• From international press coverage of the French government's attempt to prevent Muslims from wearing headscarves to terrorist attacks in Madrid and th... Lees meer

Civil Resistance

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 43
• In the past quarter century the world has witnessed dramatic social and political transformations, due in part to an upsurge in civil resistance. Ther... Lees meer

The World Says No to War

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 33
• On February 15, 2003, the largest one-day protest in human history took place as millions of people in hundreds of cities marched in the streets, rall... Lees meer

Between Feminism and Islam

Zakia Salime

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention
• There are two major women's movements in Morocco: the Islamists who hold shari'a as the platform for building a culture of women's rights, and the fem... Lees meer

Contested Citizenship

Ruud Koopmans

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 25
• From international press coverage of the French government's attempt to prevent Muslims from wearing headscarves to terrorist attacks in Madrid and th... Lees meer

Strategies for Social Change

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 37
• The theory and practice of social movements come together in strategy-whether, why, and how people can realize their visions of another world by actin... Lees meer

Out in Africa

Ashley Currier

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 38
• Visibility matters to activists-to their social and political relevance, their credibility, their influence. But invisibility matters, too, in times o... Lees meer

Strategic Alliances

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 34
• Social researchers in the past have paid surprisingly little theoretical or empirical attention to movement alliances. Strategic Alliances provides a ... Lees meer

Rhyming Hope and History

David Croteau

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 24
• Rhyming Hope and History exposes the frayed relations between activism and social movement scholarship and examines the causes and consequences of thi... Lees meer

The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan

Rory McVeigh

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 32
• Rediscovering the Ku Klux Klan as a national movement in the 1920s In 1915, forty years after the original Ku Klux Klan disbanded, a former farmer, ci... Lees meer

The Politics of Social Protest

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 3
• The Politics of Social Protest was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once aga... Lees meer

Policing Protest

Donatella Della Porta Della Porta

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 6
• The first international examination of how police respond to political protests. The way in which police handle political demonstrations is always pot... Lees meer

Globalization From Below

Donatella Della Porta Della Porta

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 26
• When violence broke out at the demonstrations surrounding the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, the authors of this book were there. The protests proved... Lees meer

How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism

Tina Fetner

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 31
• An unexpected analysis of the battle between opposing activist movements While gay rights are on the national agenda now, activists have spent decades... Lees meer

Repression and Mobilization

Christian Davenport

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 21
• Brings together leading scholars from political science and sociology Recent events-from the collapse of Leninist regimes in Eastern Europe to the dem... Lees meer

Routing the Opposition

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 23
• On one side are the policy makers, on the other, the movements and organizations that challenge public policy. Where and how the two meet is a critica... Lees meer

Fields of Protest

Raka Ray

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 8
• A comparative analysis of women's struggle for change in India. The women's movement in India has a long and rich history in which millions of women l... Lees meer

Identity Work in Social Movements

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 30
• Movements for social change are by their nature oppositional, as are those who join change movements. How people negotiate identity within social move... Lees meer

Fighting for the Future of Food

Rachel Schurman

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 35
• When scientists working in the agricultural biotechnology industry first altered the genetic material of one organism by introducing genes from an ent... Lees meer

Strategic Alliances

• Hardcover | Social Movements, Protest and Contention
• The best current thinking on the conditions leading to successful activist coalitions. Lees meer

Between Feminism and Islam

Zakia Salime

• Hardcover | Social Movements, Protest and Contention
• How feminists and Islamists have constituted each other's agendas in Morocco Lees meer