Demonstrations & Protest Movements

A Must-Read Book of 2020 - TIME'Should be read around the world.' Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist'Garza is ferociously smart and ...

In 1981, a group of women marched from Cardiff to the Greenham Common RAF base in Newbury to protest the siting of US nuclear missiles on British s...

A History of Riots is the result of a conference held by the London Socialist Historians Group in early 2012, designed to look again at the histori...

The so-called Democratic Antifascist Youth Movement Nashi represents a crucial case of a post-Orange government-organised formation whose values ha...

This book is about the global crisis and the right to resistance, about neoliberal biopolitics and direct democracy, about the responsibility of in...

In January 2007, the students of the radical Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) took over a childrens library in protest of the Government of Pakistans decisi...

Policing Transnational Protest offers an original perspective on the history of police surveillance of anticolonial activists in France, Britain, a...

From the upheavals of recent national elections to the success of the #MyDressMyChoice feminist movement, digital platforms have already had a dram...

Protest Politics in the Marketplace examines how social media has revolutionized the use and effectiveness of consumer activism. In her groundbreak...

How do some national-secessionist campaigns get on the global agenda whereas others do not? Which projects for new nation-states, Philip Roeder ask...

How can we understand and contest the global wave of violence against women? In this book, Alison Brysk shows that gender violence across countries...

In October 1932, the streets of Belfast were gripped by vicious and widespread rioting that lasted the best part of a week. Thousands of unarmed de...

A vivid story of the men and women who took a stand when sport mixed with politics. In 1971, when the racially selected all-white Springbok rugby...

The events that led up to and include the shootings of May 4, 1970 are part of a story that continues to be written. This We Know succinctly docume...

The young generation aren't apathetic. We're disenfranchised, under or unemployed, insecure and anxious. But we're also angry. We know there are al...

This is the first collection of essays on Chartism by leading social historian Dorothy Thompson, whose work radically transformed the way in which ...

This volume of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change is divided into two parts. Part I presents a series of cases that tie together na...

In this remarkable book, David-Emil Wickström traces the transcultural flow of popular music production emanating from St. Petersburg, a central hu...

The papers presented in this volume analyze the civil uprising known as Euromaidan that began in central Kyiv in late November 2013, when the Ukrai...

Annoyed? Upset? Distraught? Want to stab a sharp object into something? Then this book is for you. Stitching for public protest is not new. Firs...

Young Americans know the story of 1773''''s Boston Tea Party - in which 100 colonists (disguised as Native Americans) charged three British ships a...

Protest Politics in the Marketplace examines how social media has revolutionized the use and effectiveness of consumer activism. In her groundbreak...

'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-vi...

Women are not persons.' That was the ruling of the Court of Appeal when Gwynneth Bebb challenged the Law Society to allow her to take exams and bec...

In the wake of the Arab uprisings, al-Nahda voted to transform itself into a political party that would for the first time withdraw from a preachin...

Here is one of the first books to assert that mass protest movements in disparate places such as Greece, Argentina, and the United States share an ...

The Bible, the Bullet, and the Ballot provides a balanced account of the role of Christians, Christian organisations, and churches in sociopolitica...

CJ Hinke was arrested in more than 35 civil disobedience actions organized by the pacifist movement from 1963 to 1969.  He was the last American ar...

The spring of 2011 produced a wave of demonstrations and revolution in the Arab world. Beginning in December, 2010 revolutions swept through Tunisi...

A vibrant, groundbreaking history of American radicalism since the SixtiesWhat happened to the American left after the Sixties? This engrossing acc...