Demonstrations & Protest Movements

This book examines the connection between affects, mobilisation, and political transformation. Offering unique insights into the affective and emot...

What explains the popularity and widespread appeal of numerous post-Yugoslav feminist and LGBTQ+ festivals in the last decade? This book argues tha...

This handbook brings national and thematic case studies together to examine a variety of populist politics from local and comparative perspectives ...

This book explores the roles of civil society organisations (CSOs) when engaging in public diplomacy activities and their impact on community devel...

The Greek philosopher, Socrates, posed a guardian model that would protect his Athenian world, the custodes (watchmen), yet mused who would guard t...

When speaking colloquially of political participation or civic action, one thinks, in the first instance, of groups and organizations such as polit...

While the history of the non-violent Civil Rights Movement, from Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King, is one of the great American stories of the twen...

From Egypt to South Africa, Nigeria to Ethiopia, a new force for political change is emerging across Africa: popular protest. Widespread urban upri...

In light of the limited achievements of the Arab Spring and other pro-democracy movements, volume 39 examines and unpacks arguments that these prot...

The countries of the southern and eastern Mediterranean-- Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria--have undergone major turmo...

The edited book brings together country experts on populism, ethno-territorial politics, and party competition. It consists of twelve empirical cha...

Crafted for those who dare to challenge the status quo, this is a radical guide for activists. Drawing from frontline experiences in trade unions,...

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply shaken societies and lives around the world. This ...

From the squares of Spain to indigenous land in Canada, protest camps are a tactic used around the world. Since 2011 they have gained prominence in...

Athena Athanasiou departs from recent discussions of mourning, including in the work of Judith Butler, by raising an altogether original question w...

This book provides a lively account of the gilets jaunes, the yellow vest movement that has shaken France since 2018. Charles Devellennes assesses ...

The Capitol Riots maps out the events of the January 6, 2021 insurrectionary riots at the United States Capitol building, providing context for und...

This ground-breaking textbook describes and explains the global manifestations of populism. It reviews controversies about its relationships with d...

What is the relationship between economic crises and protest behaviour? Does the experience of austerity, or economic hardship more broadly defined...

This book, first published in 1998, studies the social impact of Doi Moi, a policy of economic renovation, on the living conditions in state forest...

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the state of political institutions, the military establishment and political parties in Pakistan. It ...

In the late twentieth century, nothing united union members, progressive students, Black and Chicano activists, Native Americans, feminists, and me...

This book explores the politics of anti-nuclear activism in Tokyo after the Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011. Analyzing the protests in the...

In a time of rising inequality and plutocratic government, citizens movements are emerging with growing frequency to offer populist challenges to t...

The concept of Westview Special Studies is a response to the continuing crisis in academic and informational publishing. Library budgets are being ...

In the autumn of 2014, thousands of people, young and educated in their majority, occupied the chief business district and seat of the government i...

In 2011 the U.K. Government reviewed its counter terrorism Prevent Strategy to include all forms of extremism with an emphasis on right-wing extrem...

This book is an urgent and compelling account of the Occupy movements: from the M15 movement in Spain, to the wave of Occupations flooding across c...

This volume probes the intersections between the fields of social movements and nonviolent resistance. Bringing together a range of studies focusin...

This book asks the fundamental question of how new human rights issues emerge in the human rights debate. To answer this, the book focuses on nongo...