Political Activism

For the past forty years, prominent pro-life activists, judges and politicians have invoked the history and legacy of American slavery to elucidate...

Following Venezuelas El Sistema, activists from across the globe are founding intensive orchestra programmes for children in need. Tricia Tunstall ...

Faction Displayed: Reconsidering the Impeachment of Dr. Henry Sacheverell features a collection of essays that examine the turbulent partisan cultu...

The autumn and winter of 2010 saw an unprecedented wave of student protests across the UK, in response to the coalition government's savage cuts in...

More than ever, diasporas have a direct impact on the politics of their homelands. Today's diasporic activists-empowered by new media and the ease ...

Violence and democracy may seem fundamentally incompatible, but the two have often been intimately and inextricably linked. In Ruffians, Yakuza, Na...

This report is an in-depth study of electoral commissions in six countries of West Africa 'Benin, Cape Verde, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Le...

Since Donald Trumps first day in office, a large and energetic grassroots Resistance has taken to the streets to protest his administrations plans ...

No topic is more polarizing than guns and gun control. From a gun culture that took root early in American history to the mass shootings that repea...

Issues around the policing of public order and political expression are as topical today as in the past, and are likely to remain so in the future....

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...

Bradley Manning was arrested, imprisoned in solitary confinement for nine months, and court-martialed for leaking nearly half a million classified ...

A definitive history of consumer activism, Buying Power traces the lineage of this political tradition back to our nation's founding, revealing tha...

'One of the most important and timely books I've had the privilege to read' Corinne Fowler, author of Green Unpleasant LandA revelatory historical ...

If I had to choose just one book that I want everybody of any age to read at this moment in time, this would be it Brian Eno ...

A well-known American academic and cofounder of Boston's first settlement house, Emily Greene Balch was an important Progressive Era reformer and a...