Solidarity and Contention

Maryjane Osa

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 18
• Offers an innovative model for understanding how social movements occur in repressive societies After a series of failed attempts at mobilizing societ... Lees meer

Organizing Urban America

Heidi J Swarts

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 28
• Collective action through organized social movements has long expanded American citizens' rights and liberties. Recently, the Association of Community... Lees meer

Fighting for Peace

Lisa Leitz

• Hardcover | Social Movements, Protest and Contention
• Fighting for Peace brings to light an important yet neglected aspect of opposition to the Iraq War—the role of veterans and their families. Drawing on... Lees meer

Ecopopulism

Andrew Szasz

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 1
• Moment by moment the evidence mounts that unchecked modern industry is bringing us ever closer to environmental disaster. How can we move away from th... Lees meer

Leverage of the Weak

Hwa-Jen Liu

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 42
• Comparing Taiwan and South Korea strategically, Hwa-Jen Liu seeks an answer to a deceptively simple question: Why do social movements appear at differ... Lees meer

New Social Movements in Western Europe

Hanspeter Kriesi

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention
• Explores the ecology, gay rights, peace, and women's movements in Western Europe. New social movements are defined as those that have arisen since the... Lees meer

Methods of Social Movement Research

Bert Klandermans

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 16
• The definitive guide to conducting research in this dynamic field. Citing the critical importance of empirical work to social movement research, the e... Lees meer

Identity Work in Social Movements

• Hardcover | Social Movements, Protest and Contention
• 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

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

Changing Corporate America from Inside Out

Nicole C Raeburn

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 20
• Investigates how gays, lesbians, and bisexuals have succeeded in securing equitable benefits Despite the backlash against lesbian and gay rights occur... Lees meer

Fighting for Peace

Lisa Leitz

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 40
• Fighting for Peace brings to light an important yet neglected aspect of opposition to the Iraq War--the role of veterans and their families. Drawing o... Lees meer

Century of Revolution

John Foran

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 2
• Provides insight into the political currents that led to the Iranian revolution. Before late 1978 Iran did not occupy a large place in the public mind... Lees meer

Voice of Southern Labor

Vincent J Roscigno

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 19
• In 1929 and 1934, southern textile mill hands, about 400,000 of them, created one of the largest united labor mobilizations in U.S. history. They face... Lees meer

Liberation and Democratization

Mona N Younis

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 11
• The first comprehensive comparison of two of the century's most important liberation movements. Arising in the 1910s and emerging as legitimate govern... 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, Paul Statham, Marco Giugni, Florence Passy

• 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

Protesting Culture and Economics in Western Europe

Swen Hutter

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 41
• In this far-reaching work, Swen Hutter demonstrates the usefulness of studying both electoral politics and protest politics to better understand the i... Lees meer

Geography and Social Movement

Byron A Miller

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 12
• A comparative analysis of the implications of space, place, and scale in political mobilization. A comparative analysis of the implications of space, ... 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 ... 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 acti... Lees meer

Challenging Authority

Michael P Hanagan

• Paperback | Engels | Social Movements, Protest and Contention | nr. 7
• As long as there have been formal governments, there has been political contention, an interaction between ruler and subjects involving claims and cou... 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