Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action

A concise account of the roots of Russia''s invasion of Ukraine, describing how the 2013–14 intra-Ukrainian political clashes were exploited by Russia.

The mainstream agri-food system in Thailand has been shaped to aid capital accumulation by domestic and transnational hegemonic forces, and is currently sustained through hegemonic agri-food production-distribution, governance structures and ideational order.

This book, first published in 1981, examines the issues inspiring working-class movements after 1848 in France, Germany and Britain, with some consideration also of Austria, Italy, Spain and Russia.

This timely and compelling volume furthers understandings of contemporary art education in international contexts and the position of alternative art colleges in relation to the neoliberal academy and arts economy.

War and revolution, economic crises and political conflict are the very stuff of modern history.

This book examines the evolution of global terrorism, including the people and groups who have perpetuated the worst attacks and the people and agencies working to stop them.

This book, first published in 1965, is a scrupulously fair study of the origins and evolution of Castroism and an assessment of the impact of the Cuban revolution and of Castro's subsequent domestic and foreign policies on the rest of Latin America.

This book, first published in 1998, is an original and comprehensive study of a key period of Russian history, between the success of the autocracy in retaining power in the 1905 Revolution and the debacle of the Tsar's crushing defeat in 1917.

This is the first systematic study of Black–Latino intergroup relations at the national level of United States politics.

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 twentieth century, the related Black Power movement has taken a more complex path through the nation's history.

Travelling from Madrid to The Valley of the Fallen, through Castile and Le n and across the fiercely contested region of Catalonia, Christopher Finnigan meets a remarkable cast of characters behind some of the biggest political events Spain has witnessed in decades.

Criminalization of Activism draws on a multiplicity of perspectives and case studies from the Global South and the Global North to show how protest has been subject to processes of criminalization over time.

Allegiance in Church and State (1928) examines the evolution of ideas and ideals, their relation to political and economic events, and their influence on friends and foes in seventeenth-century England - which witnessed the beginning of both the constitutional and the intellectual transition from the old order to the new.

Although academics have paid much attention to contentious politics in China and elsewhere, research on the outcomes of social protests, both direct and indirect, in non-democracies is still limited.

Ob Occupy Wall Street, Stuttgart 21 oder der Arabische Frühling: Proteste sind historisch gewachsene Ausprägungen sozialer Auflehnungsbewegungen, die auf den gesellschaftlichen Wandel anpassungsfähig reagieren.

The Advantage of Disadvantage provides insights for scholars and activists into how marginalized groups gain representation through protest.

From the co-author of Let This Radicalize You, a collection of letters to inspire activists to continue the fightOrganizers are well seasoned in defeat.

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

In the last decades, political participation expanded continuously.

This book, the result of more than a decade of research, focuses on the socio-political dynamics and civil-military relations in a little studied country: Mauritania, located in the troubled North-western part of Africa.

From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy.

Across the world, ecosystems are for sale.

This book, first published in 1999, analyses the history and major economic features of the Vietnamese reform process.

A timely and innovative study on how the decolonization movement is transforming universities, curricula and campuses.

This book explores the complex assemblage of biopolitics, citizenship, ethics and human rights concerns in South Asia focusing specifically on women poets, writers and artists and their explorations on marginalisation, violence and protest.

Across the world, ecosystems are for sale.

This book explores how anti-nuclear social movements impact the state's civil nuclear policy and its implementation by presenting a historical-comparative case study of anti-nuclear movements in India.

The irruption of WikiLeaks, Anonymous, Snowden and other tech-savvy actors onto the global political stage raises urgent questions about the impact of digital activism on political systems around the world.

A play-by-play account of the elite politics that led to the military crackdown during the 1989 Tiananmen protests in China.

Never before has the idea of democracy enjoyed the global dominance it holds today, but neoliberalism has left the practice of democracy in deep crisis.

Space Invaders argues for the importance of a radical geographic perspective in enabling us to make sense of protests and social movements around the world.

This book, first published in 1998, studies the social impact of Doi Moi, a policy of economic renovation, on the living conditions in state forest enterprises and agricultural cooperatives in northern Vietnam.

The radical response to conservative heritage tours and banal day-tripper guides, Rebel Footprints brings to life the history of social movements in the capital.

Rural workers in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England were not passive victims in the face of rapid social change.

Radicalization, and the terrorism that is frequently linked to it, have been subject to much study and governmental intervention.

Thirty years ago, a social movement helped bring down one of the most powerful British Prime Ministers of the 20th Century.

This ground-breaking collection of writings explores how progressive third parties in the U.

The volume brings together readings describing a range of less-traversed aspects and transferences of women's rights and struggles in India and develops a comprehensive understanding of the interface between women's activism and politics.

Across the West, the explosion of social movement activity since the late 1960s has constituted a participatory revolution that has posed profound challenges for formal political parties.

The Advantage of Disadvantage provides insights for scholars and activists into how marginalized groups gain representation through protest.

Sexual violence has been a regular feature of communal conflict in India since independence in 1947.

* Shortlisted for the Academy of British Cover Design Awards, 2015*Greece's recent political turmoil captured the imagination of the left across Europe.

In the midst of the political upheavals that engulfed Myanmar from 2010 to 2011, international attention was fixed upon the military regime and its dissident opponents.

As the United States and the countries of Western Europe have sought to promote democratic rule in those parts of the world that have not enjoyed the blessings of liberty, they have failed to consider an important factor.

This book, first published in 1973, examines the period when wars, famines and epidemics bred widespread conflicts, culminating in the revolutionary years of 1378-82 with the Florentine 'Ciompi', revolts in Flanders and France and the risings among English labourers.

The Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Asia is an interdisciplinary resource, covering one of the most dynamically expanding sectors in contemporary Asia.

The armed anti-Soviet resistance movement which arose in the second half of 1944 in Lithuania, as Soviet forces began to reoccupy the Baltic countries and Galicia, sparking a nearly decade-long fierce military conflict, has yet to become established in the common narrative of contemporary European history.

This book explores the impact of war and political crisis on the national identity of Jews, both in the multinational Habsburg monarchy and in the new nation-states that replaced it at the end of World War I.

Party in the Street explores the interaction between political parties and social movements in the United States.