Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action

Daniel Berriganspowerful, poetic commentary on the biblical book of Daniel brings to life a prophet who has as much to say to our hedonistic, warring world as he did to the people of Old Testament times.

The Christian Right wields massive political power in the United States and beyond.

This book is a unique, single-volume treatment offering original source material on the life, accomplishments, disappointments, and lasting legacy of one of American history's most celebrated social reformers-Cesar Chavez.

This book introduces and critically explores walking as an innovative method for doing social research, showing how its sensate and kinaesthetic attributes facilitate connections with lived experiences, journeys and memories, communities and identities.

This topical book explores the phenomenon of when and why people 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.

There was once a time when 'work' was inextricably linked to survival and self-preservation; where the farmer ploughed the land so their family could eat.

Civil disobedience is a form of protest with a special standing with regards to the law that sets it apart from political violence.

Warum es sich trotzdem lohnt, für eine bessere Zukunft zu kämpfen: Zum zehnjährigen Jubiläum der Stiftung FUTURZWEI versammelt das Handbuch, herausgegeben von Dana Giesecke und Harald Welzer, kreative Strategien fürs Durchhalten und Weitermachen.

An increasing number of rural and urban-based movements are realizing some political traction in their demands for democratization of food systems through food sovereignty.

Wir sind aufgebracht.

Football Fandom, Protest and Democracy offers an in-depth and inside approach to the socio-political history of football in Turkey, where fandom is often revered as part of the national identity, presenting the historical context for football events in the country.

Right-wing nationalist populism poses direct attacks on social tolerance, human rights discourse, political debates, the survival of the welfare state and its universal services, impacting on the roles of social work.

This book examines the notion of citizenship for Muslims who were displaced after the Godhra violence in Gujarat in 2002.

Challenging scholarly emphasis on French Revolutionary violence, this book instead examines the prevalence of peaceful, democratic methods in Parisian protest.

Crisis and Control explains how neoliberal transformations of political and economic systems are militarising the policing of protest, based on a compelling empirical study of police agencies and practices from 1995 until the present.

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

1970s South Korea is characterized by many as the "e;dark age for democracy.

The voice of reason in a world that won t shut up.

Grassroots social movements played a major role electing left-leaning governments throughout Latin America.

The throngs at Woodstock, Jane Fonda in Hanoi, I Have a Dream, burning draft cards, fire in the streets--these images of the 1960s are still very much alive today.

The populist radical right is one of the most studied political phenomena in the social sciences, counting hundreds of books and thousands of articles.

In a time of renewed interest in insurrectionary movements, urban protest, and anti-austerity indignation, the idea of resistance is regaining its relevance in social theory.

This book traces the role of the UGTT (the Tunisian General Labour Union) during Tunisia's 2011 revolution and the transition period that ensued - Tunisia being the Arab country where trade unionism was the strongest and most influential in shaping the outcomes of the uprising.

A study of the poor''s movements in response to the ever-widening gap between the poor and the state in Latin American politics.

This cutting-edge new casebook challenges the dominant White-centric narrative of public administration, offering a fresh array of perspectives, with the lofty aim of ending the marginalization of communities in public policy implementation.

This book critiques a modern U.

In the past decade the Asia-Pacific region has become a focus of international politics and military strategies.

Shifting attention away from policy achievements and effects on democracy, this book focuses on the charismatic function of populist discourse - comprising antagonistic narratives, transgressive style and appeals to the common people.

British troops, which arrived as a temporary measure, would remain in Ireland for the next 38 years.

A new explanation of the rise, development and demise of social movements and cycles of protest in autocracies.

This book, first published in 1979, presents a series of important investigations into the German Peasant War of 1525 - the last great peasant revolt and the first modern revolution.

The 'Western' green movement has grown rapidly in the last three decades: green ministers are in government in several European countries, Greenpeace has millions of paying supporters, and green direct action against roads, GM crops, the WTO and neo-liberalism, have become ubiquitous.

This book assesses local civil society responses to conflict, militarism, climate change, and disease in the global south.

The uprising in Tunisia has come to be seen as the first true revolution of the twenty-first century, one that kick-started the series of upheavals across the region now known as the Arab Spring.

This interdisciplinary book offers a new analysis of the concepts, spaces, and practices of activism that emerge under diverse authoritarian modes of governance in Asia.

John Gerassi went to North Vietnam as a member of the first investigating team for the International War Crimes Tribunal set up by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation.

There has been clear recognition of tendencies towards uncritically celebrating resistance and the need for critical appraisal within the literature on globalization and contestation.

Zibechi goes to Bolivia to learn.

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

Using surveys, experiments, and fieldwork from several countries, this book tests a new theory of participation in elections and protests.

'As a movement for social change it is important that we understand our own history.

The street protests that erupted in Tunisia in December 2010 and spread quickly throughout the Middle East surprised not only the entrenched dictators of the region but also international observers who collectively had taken for granted the durability of Middle Eastern authoritarianism.

This unprecedented behind the scenes analysis of public order policing, first published in 1994, investigates the impact of increased police powers and equipment on basic democratic freedoms, describing and analysing police operations from protest marches to riots, and from royal ceremonials to street carnivals.

Robert Hornsby draws on a range of declassified archival material to analyse political protest and government repression in post-Stalin USSR.