Demonstrations & Protest Movements

Political theorist Laurie M. Johnson deals with Jungs analysis of the effects of modern scientific rationalism on the development of communism, fas...

Over the past decade, there has been an unprecedented mobilization of street protests worldwide, from the demonstrations that helped bring progress...

This book explores radical challenges to Indian governments' legitimacy and power and the responses of the Indian state and central governments to ...

The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century brings together a wide range of geographical, cultural, historical, and con...

Originally published in 1971. On May 4th, 1970, shots fired by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University were heard around the world. People...

This illuminating volume explores the often-overlooked relationship between college student activism and well-being, drawing on a multi-phase study...

One of the best analyses of the impact of Tiananmen throughout China in the years since 1989. --The New York Times Book Review On June 4, 1989, Pe...

This groundbreaking collection interrogates protest camps as sites of gendered politics and feminist activism. Drawing on case studies that range f...

Articulating Dissent analyses the new communicative strategies of coalition protest movements and how these impact on a mainstream media unaccustom...

Independence protests are on the rise across Europe, as Spain, the UK, and other states have faced severe secessionist challenges. The largest wave...

Since the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, with mass media and social media playing a key role, anti-vax protests have received sustained a...

This edited volume traces the rise of far right vigilante movements some who have been involved in serious violence against minorities, migrants a...

Revolution in the Air is the definitive study of how radicals from the sixties movements embraced twentieth-century Marxism, and what movements of ...

Since 2003 and following the U.S.-led invasion, Iraq witnessed tremendous changes to its political, social, and economic structures, and this book ...

What makes indignation political and why should we care about it? Drawing on fieldwork among four movements in Belgium (2017-2021) The Youth for C...

Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches...

**Winner of the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose**'A devastating front-line account of the police killings and the young act...

Theories of Civil Violence provides both a new look at the origins of civil upheaval and a critical examination of society theory itself. James B. ...

The Transformation of Discontent demonstrates that far from disappearing from the workplaces of the Global North, labor protest has merely changed ...

Chinese nationalism is powered by a narrative of China's century of shame and humiliation in the hands of imperialist powers and calls for the Chin...

The core idea shared by all cosmopolitan views is that all human beings belong to a single community and the ultimate units of moral concern are in...

Green activism played a critical role in the downfall of Soviet-style communism in Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s. After the revolutions, e...

A Financial Times 'Best Thing I Read This Year' LONGLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDGoogle. Amazon. Facebook. The m...

The most up-to-date and thorough compendium of scholarship on social movements This second edition of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movem...

While much of the political science literature on populism focuses on key political actors within the party system, a good deal less attention has ...

In Social Movements and Radical Populism in the Andes: Ecuador and Bolivia in Comparative Perspective, Jennifer N. Collins examines why the new lef...

From Revolution to Revolution (1973) examines England, Scotland and Wales from the revolution of 1688 when William became King, to the American Rev...

Leveller Manifestoes (1944) is a collection of primary manifestoes issued by the Levellers, the group which played an active and influential role i...

Reflections on the Puritan Revolution (1986) examines the damage done by the Puritans during the English Civil War, and the enormous artistic losse...

Cromwell and Communism (1930) examines the English revolution against the absolute monarchy of Charles I. It looks at the economic and social condi...

Beyond the Law's Reach? argues that fundamental assumptions in contemporary political philosophy need to be rethought in the face of pervasive poli...

Jackie Sheehan traces the background and development of workers clashes with the Chinese Communist Party through mass campaigns such as the 1956-7 ...

This book, first published in 1970, examines significant protest movements of the twentieth century and looks at the similarities and differences b...

'A rich and readable account of left-wing activism in the West and opposition to Soviet-style communism in the East' Katja Hoyer, The Spectator'A d...

TV portraits of the Miners' strike of 1984/5 stressed the violence of the pickets and responsible policing. This book challenges those images, look...

Sunday Times Smart Thinking Book of the Year 2022 New York Times Bestseller WINNER OF THE GLOBAL POLICY INSTITUTE AWARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Financ...

Adivasi movements played a very important, if not determining, role in the Indias freedom struggle. Gandhis idea of mass mobilization couldnt have ...

The revolutionary wave that swept the Middle East in 2011 was marked by spectacular mobilization, spreading within and between countries with extra...

The crusade against nuclear weapons in Great Britain, West Germany, France, and the Netherlands in the early 1980s dwarfed all previous protest mov...

The 2021 Capitol Hill Riot marked a watershed moment when the old world of factbased systems of representation was briefly overwhelmed by the emerg...