Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action

DIE KONKRETE ANLEITUNG ZUM EFFEKTIVEN, GEWALTFREIEN WIDERSTAND von dem international bekannten »Widerstandsguru« (Tagesspiegel) und Politaktivisten Srdja PopovicNichts ist wirksamer als gewaltfreier Widerstand.

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.

Catastrophes unsettle our safe places within the world.

Successive waves of global protest since 1999 have encouraged leading contemporary political theorists to argue that politics has fundamentally changed in the last twenty years, with a new type of politics gaining momentum over elite, representative institutions.

The first full-length study of the historic 2006 immigrant rights protests in the US, in which millions of Latinos participated.

Originally published as a pamphlet in 1979 and again by Pluto in 1980, In and Against the State brought together questions of working-class struggle and state power, exploring how revolutionary socialists might reconcile working in the public sector with their radical politics.

Burgeoning national security programs; thickening borders; Wikileaks and Anonymous; immigrant rights rallies; Occupy movements; student protests; neoliberal austerity; global financial crises - these developments underscore that the fable of a hope-filled post-cold war globalization has faded away.

Investigates the conditions which lead workers to leave state-controlled unions and establish independent organizations under authoritarian rule in Egypt.

Across Europe, radical right-wing parties are winning increasing electoral support.

Are social movement organizations euro-sceptical, euro-pragmatic, or euro-opportunist?

The fascinating life story of Satish Kumar monk, peace activist, pilgrim and ecological campaigner.

Provides a holistic and cross-disciplinary approach to understanding why a regional democratic transition did not occur after the Arab Spring protests.

A timely exploration of the political history, growth, and impact of one of the most powerful religious groups in the United States.

What does it mean to have a voice in a formal democracy operating under neoliberal guidelines and with an almost entirely private media system?

The 1989 pro-democracy movement in China constituted a huge challenge to the survival of the Chinese communist state, and the efforts of the Chinese Communist party to erase the memory of the massacre testify to its importance.

What makes indignation 'political'?

An original study explaining why leaders in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia adopted more extensive women''s rights than their Middle Eastern counterparts.

Throughout history, innovations in media have had a profound impact on protest and dissent.

Political theorist Laurie M.

The 1972 Aboriginal Embassy was one of the most significant indigenous political demonstrations of the twentieth century.

New social movements have emerged in Bolivia over the ';price of fire'access to basic elements of survival like water, gas, land, coca, employment, and other resources.

For years prior to the Arab Spring, opposition activists in Egypt organized protests with limited success.

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.

Pathbreaking theoretically and innovative in treatment, Populism in Global Perspective is a seminal addition to the literature on arguably the most controversial and fervently discussed topic in political science today.

Social Theory and the Political Imaginary: Practice, Critique, and History is an innovative work of synthesis, critique and analysis.

Whether pushing for change at the hyper local level or at the international level, public leaders deploy a type of practice-based knowing that helps them advance their cause.

The rise of Maoism as one of the organized political movement in India is the outcome of a historical situation.

This book explores the new debates on Basque sovereignty and statehood that have emerged in the post-violence Basque political scenario.

Aus Anlass des 10-jährigen Bestehens des Senats der Wirtschaft beschreiben die Autoren die Geschichte und Entwicklung der politischen, wissenschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Schlüsselbegriffe "Gemeinwohl" und "Nachhaltigkeit", die im Mittelpunkt des Selbstverständnisses, des Gründungszwecks und der Arbeit des Senats der Wirtschaft stehen, und betrachten sie ausführlich aus integrativ-wissenschaftlicher Sicht.

The Artisan Republic uses the techniques and approaches of local, labour, and social history to test some of the recent theories about the dynamics of revolution, repression, and resistance.

Many contemporary social movements observe, copy, learn from, coordinate and cooperate with other movements abroad, and some mobilise to influence processes of global governance.

When a small group of women set out to march to Greenham one summer day at the end of August 1981, none of them could have imagined that this outing would change their lives forever.

This book, first published in 1973, examines seven revolutionary armies ranging from Cromwell's New Model Army to the Red Army of Mao Zedong.

This book revisits and analyzes three of the most accomplished twentieth century Black Diaspora activists: Malcolm X (1925-1965), Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998) and Walter Rodney (1942-1980).

Former prime minister of Turkey Davutoglu provides a new conceptualization for understanding crisis in the post-Cold War era.

Stories about institutions and regimes that have failed us are echoing worldwide.

The year 2009 marked the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution and the thirtieth anniversary of the Grenadian and Nicaraguan Revolutions, and as such offered an occasion to assess the complex legacies of revolutionary politics in the Caribbean.

This book comes at a time when the Egyptian nation is facing deep divisions about the notion and definition of 'revolution'.

The book discusses the ways in which the rabbinical elite of the Israeli West Bank settlers responded to Israeli territorial compromises.

In politischen Auseinandersetzungen wird "e;Gender"e; als Sammelbegriff fur Themen wie Frauen- und LGBTIQ + -Rechte, Gleichstellung der Geschlechter, sexuelle Bildung, feministisches Wissen und Geschlechterforschung verwendet.

The Clean Clothes Campaign is a worldwide movement that aims to improve the wages and conditions of sweatshop workers.

Digital and social media are increasingly integrated into the dynamics of protest movements around the world.

This book analyzes recent artistic and activist projects in order to conceptualize the new roles and goals of a critical theory and practice of art and photography.

Reveals a hidden history of women''s suffrage from the perspectives of working-class women employed as domestic servants.

Peaceful protest is a strong driver for democratization across the globe.

Wir sind aufgebracht.

This book provides an insightful and comprehensive look at the issues regarding the use of the Internet and social media by activists in more than 30 countries-and how many governments in these countries are trying to blunt these efforts to promote freedom.

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.

This book evaluates the transformational process of left populism across grassroots, national and European levels and asks what we can do to harness the power of broad-based, popular left politics.

The book examines some of the ways in which contemporary forms of political dissent are situated within processes of global ordering.