Demonstrations & Protest Movements

For most of human history the rules of power were clear: power was something to be seized, and then jealously guarded. Under this 'Old Power' we li...

Over the past year, international and national media have been full of stories about protest movements and tumultuous social upheaval from Tunisia ...

This book has analyzed the participation of various classes in civil protests, such as students, laborers and the working class, the middle class, ...

This is the first English translation of an important document in the history of the black presence in Germany and Europe: the autobiography of The...

Hardly a day goes by without South Africans going on a rampage over the provision of basic municipal services such as water, electricity, sanitatio...

Insecure temporary employment is growing in Europe, but we know little about how being in such jobs affects political preferences and behaviour. Co...

When violence occurs in democracies it is often characterized as an aberration. The state that saw human rights violations and failure of law and o...

The death of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests have made clear to everyone the vicious reality of racism that persists today....

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315474052, has been made available under a Creat...

The Politics of Agrarian Reform in Brazil examines the interrelationships among peasant mobilization, agrarian reform and cooperativism in contempo...

In an era of stark racial injustice and decisive action, Aaron Dixon dedicated his life to the struggle for change, founding the Seattle chapter of...

Prelude to Revolution is an essential history of the May 1968 protests and upheaval in France, during which French workers staged the first wildcat...

Lady Constance Lytton (1869-1923) was the most unlikely of suffragettes. One of the elite, she was the daughter of a Viceroy of India and a lady in...

SNCC: The New Abolitionists influenced a generation of activists struggling for civil rights and seeking to learn from the successes and failures o...

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

On a grey winter morning in Seattle, in February 1919, 110 local unions shut down the entire city. Shut it down and took it over, rendering the aut...

'This is mindful activism . . . thought-out, strategic and engaging' Guardian'I love what Sarah does! It's quiet activism for everyone including in...

This book examines, through an interdisciplinary lens, the relationship between political dissent and processes of designing.In the past twenty yea...

Within many societies across the world, new social and political movements have sprung up that either challenge formal parliamentary structures of ...

As LGBTQ movements in Western Europe, North America, and other regions of the world are becoming increasingly successful at awarding LGBTQ people r...

This book explores the conditions that encourage non-violent civic engagement in emerging civil societies. Gürbüz examines the radical transformati...

In May 2013, a small group of protesters made camp in Istanbul's Taksim Square, protesting the privatisation of what had long been a vibrant public...

Players and Arenas brings together a diverse group of experts to examine the interactions between political protestors and the many strategic playe...

Protestors across the world use aesthetics in order to communicate their ideas and ensure their voices are heard. This book looks at protest aesthe...

The very existence of diversionary wars is hotly contested in the press and among political scientists. Yet no book has so far tackled the key ques...

This volume examines the most spectacular struggle for democracy in post-handover Hong Kong. Bringing together scholars with different disciplinary...

In 1893, after a major British bank failure, a run on U.S. gold reserves, and a late-June stock-market crash, America was in the throes of a seriou...

In 1893, after a major British bank failure, a run on U.S. gold reserves, and a late-June stock-market crash, America was in the throes of a seriou...

A lightning rod for liberal and conservative opposition alike, affirmative action has proved one of the more divisive issues in the United States o...

Red Journeys is a firsthand account of the emergence and expansion of the red-shirt protests in Bangkok that took place in 2010. It traces the orig...

Mass protests have raged since the global financial crisis of 2008. Across the world students and workers and environmentalists are taking to the s...

_______'A history book that should be read by all' - Stylist. Set against the background of the campaign for women to win the vote, this is a story...