Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action

This book is a collection of key legal decisions affecting Indigenous Australians, which have been re-imagined so as to be inclusive of Indigenous people's stories, historical experience, perspectives and worldviews.

The establishment of democracy on both sides of the Atlantic has not been a smooth evolution towards an idealized presumed endpoint.

Protest has proliferated in the early part of the twenty-first century, forcing change in political systems and challenging established patterns of behaviour.

In 2012 and 2013, masses of French citizens took to the streets to demonstrate against a bill on gay marriage.

The German abandonment of nuclear power represents one of the most successful popular revolts against technocratic thinking in modern times the triumph of a dynamic social movement, encompassing a broad swath of West Germans as well as East German dissident circles, over political, economic, and scientific elites.

This book, first published in 1987, is a solid, analytical exploration of the complex dynamics of the revolutionary economic transformation from 1979 to 1986.

This book, first published in 1989, examines the creation and implementation of Communist policy in Vietnam during the crucial period between the 1954 Geneva Conference and the establishment of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam in December 1960.

Analyzes how protest became a key part of organizational maintenance and how organizations use protest as a political tool.

Since the 1970s, environmental blockades disrupting the exploitation and destruction of forests, rivers, and other biodiverse places have been one of the most attention-grabbing and contentious forms of political action.

Catalonia: A New Independent State in Europe examines the main issues of the political process which is taking place in Catalonia today.

Home to the largest Muslim minorities in Western Europe and Asia, France and India are both grappling with crises of secularism.

Critical research and theorizing on the Anti- or Alter-Globalization Movement has exploded over the last two decades.

Popular uprisings and revolts across the Arab Middle East have often resulted in a democratic faragh or void in power.

The Class Gap in Protest Participation discusses a theoretically grounded empirical analysis of the relationship between class and protest involvement across Central Eastern and Western Europe.

For most of human history the rules of power were clear: power was something to be seized, and then jealously guarded.

This book, first published in 1992, examines the attitudes of local elites - the hinge between Indian state and rural society - towards protest and participation in development, illuminating arguments about the nature of the state as well as the development process.

This book, first published in 1967, examines the implications of a now-forgotten minor riot that occurred in 1833, a turbulent year with the working classes striving for recognition in a changing social order.

To celebrate Singapore's fiftieth anniversary for its independence from Malaysia in 2015, 35 students, academics and activists came together to discuss and write about pioneering Singaporean human rights activists and their under-reported stories in Singapore.

In this book, Tamar Groves and Inbal Ofer explore the effects of social movements' activism on the changing practices and conceptions of citizenship.

Art is not political action.

This book, first published in 1966, focuses on the stories of ordinary people who have stood up to tyrants around the world.

Although questions of how a social group's shared experiences growing up in particular historical and social contexts shapes their identities, including their political identities, have engaged sociologists of family, youth, citizenship, culture, and political change, few books have so far examined the specific role of generations and generational consciousness in social movement activism.

Sudden change in North Africa manifested through popular protests followed by the end of authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya revitalised the scholarly concern with democracy in the region.

Looks at how Nigeria''s political parties compete for power in a context of transition, terrorism, and religious and ethnic tension.

A novel history of the politics of race in British society over the past few decades that draws on original research at local and national levels.

Mexican American women have endured several layers of discrimination deriving from a strong patriarchal tradition and a difficult socioeconomic and cultural situation within the US ethnic and class organization.

The word 'populism' has come to cover all manner of sins.

This fully revised and updated edition of Social Movements and Protest Politics provides interdisciplinary perspectives on the sociology of protest movements.

The volume sheds light on the backsliding process of Turkish democratization from the early 2010's until 2018.

Draws new attention to popular protest in medieval English towns, away from the more frequently studied theme of rural revolt.

Wenn wir nichts ändern, ändert sich nichts: Nehmen wir die Dinge (wieder) selbst in die Hand"Könnte besser sein": Das trifft mittlerweile auf so ziemlich alles zu, was in der Welt passiert.

In the autumn of 2014, thousands of people, young and educated in their majority, occupied the chief business district and seat of the government in Hong Kong.

The world is increasingly becoming less democratic and this trend has not left Southeast Europe untouched.

The politics of the twenty-first century is marked by dissent, tumult and calls for radical change, whether through food riots, anti-war protests, anti-government tirades, anti-blasphemy marches, anti-austerity demonstrations, anti-authoritarian movements and anti-capitalist occupations.

France is a bellwether for the postcolonial anxieties and populist politics emerging across the world today.

The western economic and financial crisis began with the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 and led the European Union countries into recession.

The Greek philosopher, Socrates, posed a guardian model that would protect his Athenian world, the custodes (watchmen), yet mused who would guard them but themselves.

The Wicked Wine of Democracy is a frank account by a political operative and practicing lobbyist who in the early 1950s went from being a journalist in Seattle to working on the campaigns of such important political figures as Warren G.

Examines the impact of anti-base movements on base politics and the role bilateral alliance relationships play in shaping movement outcomes.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the police role from within a broader philosophical context.

This book, first published in 1999, compares the strategies of France and Japan in trying to win economic and political influence in the newly emerging Vietnam, which opened to the international community only after the Vietnamese Communist Party had started economic reforms in 1986.

With the rise of both populist parties and social movements in Europe, the role of emotions in politics has once again become key to political debates, and particularly in the Spanish case.

Despite the frequency with which the word 'solidarity' is invoked the concept itself has rarely been subjected to close scrutiny.

France and Fascism: February 1934 and the Dynamics of Political Crisis is the first English-language book to examine the most significant political event in interwar France: the Paris riots of February 1934.

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.

The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) is world's largest civil society movement fighting against poverty and inequality, incorporating over 100 affiliated country-level coalitions.