Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action

Explains how the core principles of the Tea Party defines the movement and predicts its effect on the American political landscape.

Soldiers and Students (1975) adopts an original approach to the confrontation of deprived and possessing parties under conditions of scarcity.

How citizens get government officials to provide them with public services in rural China.

For more than twenty years, Environmental Policy and Politics has kept instructors and students abreast of the challenges presented by contemporary environmental, energy, and natural resource problems in the United States.

Sites of Protest examines the global resurgence of protest movements and the ways in which they use public and private space - both physical and 'immaterial' - to secure attention for a wide variety of causes, cultural events and moral campaigns.

The Court and the Country (1969) offers a fresh view and synthesis of the English revolution of 1640.

Winner of the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing Award 2021 In 2016, a United Nations report found the UK government culpable for 'grave and systematic violations' of disabled people's rights.

Die polemischen Schriften in diesem Band handeln von der vielschichtigen Beziehung zwischen Geschichte, Philosophie und Politik.

This book offers an in-depth investigation of the emergence and spread of social mobilizations that transcend ethnicity in societies violently divided along ethno-national lines.

Globalised neo-liberalism has produced multiple crises - social, ecological, political.

This book provides unique and detailed perspectives on different aspects of dissent, protest and disputes and how these have, in turn, continued to pose challenges in Africa.

As awareness of the commodification of food for profit at the expense of our health and the planet grows, this book foregrounds the communicative dimensions of resistance by food movements.

Presents a new conceptual framework drawing on human security to evaluate the claim that climate change caused the conflict in Syria.

Building on Timothy Mitchell's seminal 1991 exploration of the "e;Limits of the State,"e; this book brings together contributions on the state in the Arab world from the past and present in an edited volume.

In Challenging Social Inequality, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars and development workers explores the causes, consequences, and contemporary reactions to Brazil's sharply unequal agrarian structure.

Democratic Frontiers: Algorithms and Society focuses on digital platforms' effects in societies with respect to key areas such as subjectivity and self-reflection, data and measurement for the common good, public health and accessible datasets, activism in social media and the import/export of AI technologies relative to regime type.

This book provides a comprehensive account and analysis of the Rwenzururu movement in Western Uganda.

This Element explores the government response to protests in China, and its consequences for the mobilization of collective action.

The figure of the traitor plays an intriguing role in modern politics.

The years 2008 to 2013 saw a new generation of political protestors take to the streets.

This book examines the complex relationship between the state and civil society and the impact that this has had on democratization processes in Nigeria from colonial times to the present.

The very existence of diversionary wars is hotly contested in the press and among political scientists.

This ground-breaking textbook describes and explains the global manifestations of populism.

This book argues that South Africa is haunted by the spectre of reparation.

This volume brings together a number of international scholars to offer an original analysis of far-right movements and politics, challenging the existing literature through a very different methodological and theoretical perspective.

A new and innovative form of dissent has emerged in response to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

This book provides an in-depth and thematic analysis of socially engaged art in Mainland China, exploring its critical responses to and creative interventions in China's top-down, pro-urban, and profit-oriented socioeconomic transformations.

This book examines how civil society actors operate under authoritarian constraints, and examines how this is linked to regime change.

Examines the Arab Spring, seen as a series counter-revolutions, rather than failed revolutions, in six Arab countries.

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

Etudes rassemblees par la Societe royale du Canada at editees par Leopold Lamontagne, M.

While there has been much focus in recent times on the rise of right-wing populism in Europe, there has been surprisingly little material on the phenomenon of left-wing populism.

Austerity, a response to the aftermath of the financial crisis, continues to devastate contemporary Britain.

Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy is the first full account of Ward's life and work.

Most Americans assume that U.

Play the game to win "e;More and more CEOs are discovering that managing one's businessenvironment is as important as managing operations, finance, andsales.

By focusing on the textually mediated reactions of local residents, social movements, and media producers to policy changes implemented in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, this book studies the development of literacy as a tool to mobilize, perform, and disseminate protest.

This book focuses on global activism and uses a power perspective to provide an in-depth and coherent analysis of both the possibilities and limitations of global activism.

Both in Greece in 2012 and Italy in 2013, it took two elections to form a government.

Ireland has been marketed as the poster boy of EU austerity.

Thailand's politics has been contentious in recent years.

What do cities tell us about power?

In Unearthing Conflict Fabiana Li analyzes the aggressive expansion and modernization of mining in Peru since the 1990s to tease out the dynamics of mining-based protests.

This book is about the role of emotions in the creation and dissipation of feminist collectives and grapples with difficult questions that have been circulating for a while in activist circles but are far from answered.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures introduced to purportedly contain its spread have wrought an unprecedented global social transformation.

This book, first published in 1984, examines the lifetime of Georges Cuvier, and in his constant and varying struggles to retain his position both as a politician and as a leading naturalist we find displayed almost all of the political tensions of Restoration France.

Leslie Pal explores a phenomenon unique to Canadian politics - the direct funding of advocacy groups by the government - and makes a significant contribution to the debate on the role of the state in shaping society.

This book investigates the role of social groups in mobilizing resources for protests in repressive contexts.

This book provides a comprehensive interpretation of the multiple manifestations of populism using Italy, the only country amongst consolidated constitutional democracies in which populist political forces have been in government on various occasions since the early 1990s, as the starting point and benchmark.