Political Activism

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, ...

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...

'An enlightening, thoughtful and intelligent study.' The Independent There is a new anger brewing in Britain. In the pubs and estates, the cafes a...

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

In February 1946, when the 21-year-old Malcolm Little was sentenced to eight to ten years in a maximum-security prison, he was a petty criminal and...

In February 1946, when the 21-year-old Malcolm Little was sentenced to eight to ten years in a maximum-security prison, he was a petty criminal and...

The official account - complete with full-colour illustrations - of how four ordinary people managed to expose the government's hypocrisies through...

This book examines the relationship between International Environmental Law and Human Rights Law regarding the protection of the environment in tim...

This book offers a renewed defense of traditional just war theory and considers its application to certain contemporary cases, particularly in the ...

Contemporary Military Strategy and the Global War on Terror offers an in-depth analysis of US/UK military strategy in Afghanistan and Iraq from 200...

This volume of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change analyzes examples of nonviolent resistance from across the globe. It covers how r...

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

When Andy Ngo was attacked in the streets by Antifa in the summer of 2019, most people assumed it was an isolated incident. But those who'd been fo...

Despite numerous warnings from intelligence services, ISIS' rise to power has left countries around the world floundering for solutions. Today, we ...

Starting in 2001, much of the world media used the image of Osama bin Laden as a shorthand for terrorism. Bin Laden himself considered media manipu...

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

How do we engage with the pressing challenges of xenophobia, radicalism and security in the age of the 'war on terror'? The widely felt sense of in...

This special issue is a key text in the current study of social movements. It introduces new analytical concepts for understanding visuals in socia...

Clever images of dissent are not a recent phenomenon in the United States. . . . [Signs of Resistance is] visually fascinating. . . . [and] there i...

In 2009 Ugandas Anti-Homosexuality Bill became a top global news story. Two years later Hillary Clinton declared Gay rights are human rights and hu...

This Special Issue of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change reflects upon global student and youth activism 50 years after the infamou...

The Black Power movement, often associated with its iconic spokesmen, derived much of its energy from the work of people whose stories have never b...

Sophonisba Breckinridge's remarkable career stretched from the Civil War to the Cold War. She took part in virtually every reform campaign of the P...

As the acclaimed author of And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts became the country's most recognized voice on the HIV/AIDS epidemic. His success em...