Political Activism

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

In 1948, inspired by changes to federal law, Massachusetts government officials started hatching a plan to build multiple highways circling and cut...

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

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 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 ...

In 1930, on 1 September, 100,000 workers, employed and unemployed, marched through Budapest under the slogan 'Work and Bread!'. Many were injured a...

In its heyday, the United Farm Workers was an embodiment of its slogan Yes, we can-in the form ¡Sí, Se Puede!-winning many labor victories, securin...

Since the first wave of uprisings in 2011, the euphoria of the Arab Spring has given way to the gloom of backlash and a descent into mayhem and war...

The 1980s saw one of the largest social movements in US history, as activists fought to change the Reagan Administrations policy of supporting righ...

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...

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...

In 1946 many Jewish soldiers returned to their homes in England imagining that they had fought and defeated the forces of fascism in Europe. Yet in...

A sweeping overview of civil resistance movements around the world that explains what they are, how they work, why they are often effective, and wh...

Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in ...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest-rallying others aro...

In the space of a year, Laurie Penny has become one of the most prominent voices of the new left. This book brings together her diverse writings, s...