Political Activism

'A shocking story of serial killers, twisted idealism and a country that looked away' Rory Carroll, bestselling author of Killing That...

This book explores why some episodes of mass political violence and genocide are so much deadlier than others and under what conditions perpetrator...

An inspiring, landmark book that traces 100 years of protest and resistance in Britain, edited by Academy Award-winning film director ...

Nationalism is a political phenomenon with deep roots in Southeast Asia. Yet, state attempts to create homogenous nations met with resistance. This...

Nationalism is a political phenomenon with deep roots in Southeast Asia. Yet, state attempts to create homogenous nations met with resistance. This...

This book draws on empirical research from North America, Europe and Australia to present a nuanced picture of the far right and analyses micro and...

This edited volume traces the tragic history of state collapse and statebuilding, radicalisation and conflict in Chechnya, focusing on the conteste...

Exploring a wide variety of examples of activist performances, such as David Buckels self-immolation, and the January 6th capitol insurrection, thi...

This book intends to reflect the variety and diversity of the musical responses that arose in favour of the Republic and against fascism during the...

This book investigates the ways in which the lethality of terrorist violence depends on how rebel organizations finance their rebellion.The leaders...

Since long before the age of celebrity activism, literary authors have used their public profiles and cultural capital to draw attention to a wide ...

This book brings together leading interdisciplinary scholars to broaden and deepen the conversation about moral injury. In the original chapters, t...

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

This volume is a timely contribution to the current debates and potential efforts to study and counter the phenomena of extreme right violence in a...

Over the past decade, there has been a burgeoning interest in the realm of art activism within the Southwest Asia and North Africa region, shedding...

This book analyses the main events and turning points in the building of pre- and post-independent South Sudan. It covers the historical perspectiv...

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...

What guidance can Buddhism provide to those involved in armed conflict and to belligerents who must perhaps kill or be killed or defend their famil...

This volume examines how protest movement counter-conducts the ways in which the citizens have been governed. It studies the rationale, forms, tech...

This book focuses on centrifugal disasters that impact a group of seemingly unconnected people congregated temporarily often by chance, unlike cent...

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

This book improves our understanding of battlefield coalitions, providing novel theoretical and empirical insight into their nature and capabilitie...

The war against ISIS is often explained through the groups own rise to power. The American side of the story has not yet been told. This book recor...

This book examines Indigenous responses to mining and their connection to peacebuilding, focusing on the experience of the Nasa Indigenous people o...

This volume helps us understand the transformations of terrorist organisations, and the conflicts they are involved in, by broadening the perspecti...

For over a century, Muslim women have championed their own brand of feminism, rooted in human rights principles and a deep understanding of their d...

For over a century, Muslim women have championed their own brand of feminism, rooted in human rights principles and a deep understanding of their d...

Azmi Bisharas seminal study of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution chronicles in granular detail the lead up to the momentous uprisings and the subsequent...

Drawing on unprecedented access to the video archives of BTselem, an Israeli NGO that distributes cameras to Palestinians living in the West Bank, ...