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Book SynopsisMobilization against apartheid, the campaign against blood diamonds, the women's movement in Liberia where Africa's first female head of state was elected in 2005: these are all examples of socially based movements that have had a major effect on Africa's recent history. Yet the most influential theories concerning social movements worldwide have paid little heed to Africa, basing themselves more often on cases drawn from other continents. This volume draws together contributions from some leading writers on social movements in Africa, setting empirical studies alongside a couple of theoretical chapters. Africa’s social movements have distinctive features that are related to the continent’s specific history.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 1 Introduction: African social movements or social movements in Africa? Stephen Ellis & Ineke van Kessel 2 Social movement theory: Past, presence & prospects Jacquelien van Stekelenburg & Bert Klandermans 3 Speaking to global debates through a national and continental lens: South African and African social movements in comparative perspective Adam Habib & Paul Opoku-Mensah CASE STUDIES 4 African civil society, ‘Blood Diamonds’ and the Kimberley Process Lansana Gberie 5 The Islamic Courts Union: The ebb and flow of a Somali Islamist movement Jon Abbink 6 Liberia’s women acting for peace: Collective action in a war-affected country Veronika Fuest 7 Nurtured from the pulpit: The emergence and growth of Malawi’s democracy movement Boniface Dulani 8 Bare-foot activists: Transformations in the Haratine movement in Mauritania Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem 9 An Islamic social movement in contemporary West Africa: NASFAT of Nigeria Benjamin Soares 10 The United Democratic Front’s legacy in South Africa: Mission accomplished or vision betrayed? Ineke van Kessel 11 ‘Campus Cults’ in Nigeria: The development of an anti-social movement Stephen Ellis Bibliography List of authors

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Book SynopsisThis book uses empirical research to bring together a broad range of protest contexts in twelve chapters. From the formation of Maroon societies in the early colonial period, to female mobilisation in authoritarian contexts, via urban youth culture, women or mineworkers in trade unionism, as well as pro- and anti- gay rights activists, the protagonists here all insist upon their rights to protest in a variety of ways. Sometimes popular protest is expressed through religion, often (and sometimes violently) by young people, exasperated by their long wait for social achievement. Electoral wars and the formation of militias reveal a geography of violence in urban areas, which, in some sectarian excesses, can be displaced to rural areas, as described in the study on Boko Haram. Cet ouvrage regroupe un éventail comprenant douze contextes de contestation. De la formation de communautés marronnes au début de la colonisation, aux mobilisations féminines en contexte autoritaire, en passant par les cultures urbaines, les cultures syndicales des femmes et des travailleurs dans les mines, les contestations pro ou contre la liberté des homosexuels, tous font prévaloir leur pouvoir de contestation de manière plurielle. La voie religieuse est un domaine où s’exerce parfois de manière violente, les protestations de populations souvent jeunes, en attente de mobilité sociale. Les guerres électorales et la constitution de milices dessinent une géographie de la violence en milieu urbain, violence qui trouve à se déplacer en milieu rural dans certaines dérives sectaires comme en témoigne l’étude sur Boko Haram. Contributors are: Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga, Raphaël Botiveau, Christophe Broqua, Michel Cahen,Thomas Fouquet, Adam Hizagi, Alcinda Honwana, Alexander Keese, Marie-Nathalie LeBlanc, Dominique Malaquais, Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle, Ophélie Rillon, Johanna Siméant, Benjamin Soares, Kadya Tall.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction 1. On the banality of mobilisation in Africa / De la banalité des mobilisations en Afrique Michel Cahen, Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle, Kadya Tall Part I De l’attente des jeunes et leurs formes de contestation / Waithood or youth longing for real changes 2. Alcinda Honwana : “Enough is enough!”: Youth protests and political change in Africa. 3. Benjamin Soares & Marie-Nathalie Leblanc: Islam, jeunesse et trajectoires de mobilisation en Afrique de l’Ouest à l’ère néolibérale : un regard anthropologique. 4. Kadya Tall : Dieu, le Pape et la Sainte Vierge : un mouvement de contestation de l’Église catholique au Bénin. 5. Thomas Fouquet : La trame politique des cultures urbaines : motifs dakarois. Part II Quand des minorités sociales manifestent / When social minorities demonstrate 6. Alexander Keese : Colonialism and fugitive communities in West Central Africa, 1920-1955 : Seeking parallels with Maroon societies. 7. Ophélie Rillon : Mobilisations féminines en contexte autoritaire : la “dépolitisation” comme outil d’émancipation dans le Mali des années 1970. 8. Christophe Broqua : Les pro, les anti et l’international : mobilisations autour de l’homosexualité en Afrique de l’Ouest. 9. Raphaël Botiveau : Changing leadership representations and loss of union authority in South Africa’s mineworkers’ strikes. Part III Violence et état d’exception / Violence and state of exception 10. Dominique Malaquais: Geographies of violence: Urban imaginaries in Douala. 11. Johanna Siméant: Shadow of the state, fear of violence, and the memory of 1991 : Marches and riots in Bamako, Mali (1992-2011). 12. Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga : Les “guerres électorales” et les mobilisations violentes au Congo-Brazzaville. 13. Adam Higazi : Mobilisation into and against Boko Haram in North-East Nigeria. Index

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Book SynopsisThe international “Atheist Bus Campaign” generated news coverage and controversy, and this volume is the first to systematically and thoroughly explore and analyze each manifestation of that campaign. It includes a chapter for each of the countries which enacted – or attempted to enact – localized versions of the original United Kingdom campaign which ran the slogan, “There’s Probably No God. Now Stop Worrying and Enjoy Your Life,” prominently on public buses. Its novel focus, using a singular micro-level event as a prism for analysis, allows for cross-country comparison of legal and social reactions to each campaign, as well as an understanding of issues pertaining to the historical and contemporary status of religion and the regulation of nonreligion in various national settings.

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Guy Debord, the Situationist International, and the Revolutionary Spirit presents a history of the two avant-garde groups that French filmmaker and subversive strategist Guy Debord founded and led: the Lettrist International (1952–1957) and the Situationist International (1957–1972). Debord is popularly known for his classic book The Society of the Spectacle (1967), but his masterwork is the Situationist International (SI), which he fashioned into an international revolutionary avant-garde group that orchestrated student protests at the University of Strasbourg in 1966, contributed to student unrest at the University of Nanterre in 1967–1968, and played an important role in the occupations movement that brought French society to a standstill in May of 1968. The book begins with a brief history of the Lettrist International that explores the group’s conceptualization and practice of the critical anti-art practice of détournement, as well as the subversive spatial practices of the dérive, psychogeography, and unitary urbanism. These practices, which became central to the Situationist International, anticipated many contemporary cultural practices, including culture jamming, critical media literacy, and critical public pedagogy. This book follows up the edited book Détournement as Pedagogical Praxis (Sense Publishers, 2014), and together they offer readers, particularly those in the field of Education, an introduction to the history, concepts, and critical practices of a group whose revolutionary spirit permeates contemporary culture, as can be seen in the political actions of Pussy Riot in Russia, the “yellow vest” protesters in France, the #BlackLivesMatter movement, and the striking teachers and student protesters on campuses throughout the U.S. See inside the book.

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Guy Debord, the Situationist International, and the Revolutionary Spirit presents a history of the two avant-garde groups that French filmmaker and subversive strategist Guy Debord founded and led: the Lettrist International (1952–1957) and the Situationist International (1957–1972). Debord is popularly known for his classic book The Society of the Spectacle (1967), but his masterwork is the Situationist International (SI), which he fashioned into an international revolutionary avant-garde group that orchestrated student protests at the University of Strasbourg in 1966, contributed to student unrest at the University of Nanterre in 1967–1968, and played an important role in the occupations movement that brought French society to a standstill in May of 1968. The book begins with a brief history of the Lettrist International that explores the group’s conceptualization and practice of the critical anti-art practice of détournement, as well as the subversive spatial practices of the dérive, psychogeography, and unitary urbanism. These practices, which became central to the Situationist International, anticipated many contemporary cultural practices, including culture jamming, critical media literacy, and critical public pedagogy. This book follows up the edited book Détournement as Pedagogical Praxis (Sense Publishers, 2014), and together they offer readers, particularly those in the field of Education, an introduction to the history, concepts, and critical practices of a group whose revolutionary spirit permeates contemporary culture, as can be seen in the political actions of Pussy Riot in Russia, the “yellow vest” protesters in France, the #BlackLivesMatter movement, and the striking teachers and student protesters on campuses throughout the U.S. See inside the book.

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Book SynopsisWords of the Prophets treats graffiti as a form of political prophecy. Whether we consider austerity in Thessaloniki, Camorra infiltration in Naples, the fall of Communism in Gdansk, or the rise of gang warfare in Chicago, graffiti is a form of democratic self-expression that dates back to Periclean Athens and the Book of Daniel. Words of the Prophets offers close readings of 400 original photographs taken between 2014 and 2021 in Philadelphia, Venice, Milan, Florence, Syracuse, and Warsaw, alongside literary works by Pawel Huelle, films by Andrezj Wajda, Antonio Capua, and music videos by Natasha Bedingfield and Beyoncé. A third of the book is dedicated to interviews with Krik Kong, Iwona Zajac, Ponchee.193, Jay Pop, Ser, Simoni Fontana, and Mattia Campo Dall’Orto.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction: from “Kilroy Was Here” to Krik Kong Part 1 Four Murals and Their Environs 1 Thessaloniki: a Born-Again Faith in Graffiti  1 Graffiti in Thessaloniki, 2014  2 Athens, Exarchia, and Missolonghi  2.1 The Street Is My Gallery  3 Exarchia  3.1 St. Paul Six Years Later: Graffiti Has Now Become Inartistic Sloganeering  3.2 Messolonghi  4 Conclusion 2 Naples, Graffiti in Naples, or Rubbish Is Gold  1 Two Visits to Naples  2 “Rubbish Is Gold”: Three Films on Neapolitan Garbage  2.1 “We Want to Breathe! It’s Our Right!”  3 Parking among the Corpses of Syracuse  4 Approaching Florence  4.1 Florence: Masterworks outside the Uffizi  4.2 On Bullshit in Florence  5 Venice  6 Between Venice and Milan, 2020  7 Approaching Milan  8 Roma Termini 3 Gdańsk: Remembering Solidarity  1 An Unguided Tour of Gdańsk  2 Krik Kong  3 Solidarity Museum  4 Courtesy Solidarity Museum, Gdańsk  5 Fonts of Fascism, or the Heaviness of the Solidarity Museum  5.1 Westerplatte Tour  5.2 A Closer Look at Krik Kong  6 My Interview with Krik Kong  6.1 Art School vs. Street Knowledge  7 Conclusion: from Andrez Wajda’s Man of Iron to Warsaw 4 Welcome to Chicago  1 Welcome to Chicago/ We Can Change the World (1971)  1.1 Welcome to Chicagoland: Redux  1.2 Is Rap a Black Art Form  2 Conclusion: Chicago, Philadelphia, New York  2.1 Philadelphia  2.2 New York  2.3 One Last Mural Part 2 Graffiti as Narrative Art 5 Byron, Blake, and the George Floyd Protests: the Evolution of Fonts  1 Lord Byron: Graffiti Artist  1.1 Byron’s Name at Ferrara  1.2 Graffiti: Local and Global Practices  2 Graffiti Practices in England  3 Visions of Belshazzar: Ortygia, Syracuse, and the Book of Daniel  4 Graffiti in the South Bronx  5 Who’s John Lennon?  6 Lady Pink and Lord Byron: the Museum of Graffiti in Miami Beach 6 Orozco, Pomona College’s Prometheus  1 Blake, Orozco, and the Graffiti/Mural Tradition  2 The Parable of the Ten Virgins  3 Lady Pink and the Art of Pointing  4 George Floyd: “Corporate Media, Graffiti, and the Visualizations of the George Floyd Protests” in 2020  5 Calligraphy: from Istanbul to the South Bronx  6 Hagia Sophia  7 Words of the Prophets on Walls and Curtains  8 Cultural Riches vs. Benign Neglect 7 Conclusion Appendix: In the Words of Contemporary Artists Notes on Artists and Interviewers References Index

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Book SynopsisIn this important book, Jan Willem Duyvendak and James M. Jasper bring together an internationally acclaimed group of contributors to demonstrate the complexities of the social and political spheres in various areas of public policy. By breaking down the state into the players who really make decisions and pursue coherent strategies, these essays provide new perspectives on the interactions between political protestors and the many parts of the state“from courts, political parties, and legislators to police, armies, and intelligence services. By analyzing politics as the interplay of various players within structured arenas, Breaking Down the State provides an innovative look at law and order versus opposition movements in countries across the globe.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Players and Arenas Formerly Known as the State. By James M. Jasper Part One: The Rules of Law Chapter 1: The Courts: Criminal Trials as Strategic Arenas: Graeme Hayes and Brian Doherty Chapter 2: Political Parties and Legislators: Kate Krimmel Chapter 3: Political Parties in Latin America: Hélène Combes Chapter 4: Contentious governance: Local governmental players as social movement actors: Christian Broer and Imrat Verhoeven Part Two: The Forces of Order Chapter 5: The Police: Donatella della Porta and K?vanç Atak Chapter 6: Armies and Militia: Ian Roxborough Chapter 7: Infiltrators: David Cunningham and Roberto Soto-Carrion Chapter 8: Dictators: Vince Boudreau Part Three: International Orders Chapter 9: Opposed Movements in International arenas: Gay vs. Anti-Gay Players in the United Nations Arena Clifford Bob Conclusion: Jan Willem Duyvendak and James M. Jasper

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Book SynopsisThe past few years have seen an unexpected resurgence of street-level protest movements around the world, from the uprisings of the Arab Spring to the rise of the anti-austerity Indignados in Spain and Greece to the global spread of the Occupy movement. This collection is designed to offer a comparative analysis of these movements, setting them in international, socio-economic, and cross-cultural perspective in order to help us understand why movements emerge, what they do, how they spread, and how they fit into both local and worldwide historical contexts. As the most significant wave of mass protests in decades continues apace, this book offers an authoritative analysis that could not be more timely.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction. "From the Indignad@s to Occupy : Prospects for Comparison" (Dufour, Nez, Ancelovici) The introduction of the book explains our collective positioning regarding the object of analysis (the recent emergence of protest in Europe and North America). We argue that from a comparative perspective, it is possible to consider these protests as equivalent units of analysis (they have sufficient commonalities) but not necessarily as belonging to a single or common wave or cycle. This is an empirical question addressed by individual chapters. The framework introduced here highlights both similarities at a certain level of comparison and differences in the empirical development of protests. This chapter is divided into two main sections. We begin by surveying the growing body of literature on the 2011-12 protests. This section represents a strong contribution to the literature as it surveys more than 150 academic references published in the last 3 years. We then propose to define this new family of protests on the basis of three dimensions: a political economy, a constitutive tension with representative democracy, and specific modes of action (at least in the initial phases of the protest). Each chapter of the book addresses (with various levels of detail) these three dimensions. We also incorporate the issue of diffusion as a transversal process that cuts across cases and informs the comparisons. Finally, we briefly present the layout of the book. PART 1: HOW STRUCTURAL FACTORS SHAPE MOBILIZATION Chapter 2: Chapter 2: "The Crisis and Its Victims: Austerity and Spaces for Protest?" (George Ross) The huge economic crisis that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 spread rapidly throughout the global financial sector and severely damaged " real economies " everywhere. The wealthy market societies of North America and Europe were hit very hard. Crises that do such widespread damage are rare, but when they do occur they rapidly dislocate the structures of peoples' lives, create confusion and uncertainty for them, challenge identities, and cause great desperation. Mapping such disorienting changes does not allow us to predict how those experiencing them will respond, but it is safe to say that such radical disruptions cab lead some to rebel, protest, and mobilize in social movements. This chapter will review the evolution of the present economic crisis in its American "Wall Street" manifestations and its later transmogrification into the Euro-zone crisis with the goal first of outlining the socioeconomic structural effects of the crises to specify those social groups most dislocated by the crises' impacts. Chapter 3: "Mobilization of Protest in the Age of Austerity" (Hanspeter Kriesi) Taking the mobilization of protest in the age of austerity as the point of reference, this chapter aims at linking the two worlds of social movements and political parties, with the experience of protest mobilization in three countries: Greece, Spain and the US. These three cases show that movements are linked to national political contexts. Thus, in all three countries, the target of the mobilization was the incumbent government, and this government was a centre-left one. But they were challenged for quite different reasons and the forces in opposition that benefited from the mobilization were quite different, too. However, and this is the point all three cases share, the mobilizations have had a tremendous impact on electoral politics, the party system, and the political process more generally. Electoral choices and protest, mobilization by political parties and social movements are part and parcel of one and the same process of political interest intermediation that continuously links the different forms of interests articulation, in the various channels and arenas of the political system. Chapter 4: "The Spanish Indignados and Israel's Social Justice Movement: The Role of Political Cleavages in Two Extensive Protests"

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Book SynopsisSocial movements throughout the world have been central to history, politics, society, and culture. Observing Protest from a Place examines the impact of one such campaign, the global justice movement, as seen from the southern hemisphere. Drawing upon a collective survey from the 2011 World Social Forum in Dakar, the essays explore a number of vital issues, including the methodological problems of studying international activist gatherings and how scholars can overcome those challenges. By demonstrating the importance of the global justice movement and the role of nongovernmental organizations for participants in the southern hemisphere, this volume is an important addition to the literature on community action.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction - Johanna Siméant, Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle and Isabelle Sommier What can quantitative surveys tell us about GJM activists? - Isabelle Sommier Activist encounters at the World Social Forum - Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle Mapping a population and its taste in tactics - Johanna Siméant, with Ilhame Hajji Women’s issues and activists at the World Social Forum in Dakar - Julie Castro Division of labor and partnerships in transnational social movements - Hélène Baillot, Isaline Bergamaschi and Ruggero Iori Making waste (in)visible at the Dakar World Social Forum - William Herrera, Alice Judell and Clément Paule Latin Americans at the World Social Forum in Dakar - Isaline Bergamaschi, Tania Navarro Rodríguez and Héloïse Nez Groups and organizations at the WSF - Johanna Siméant, with Ilhame Hajji Stepping back from your figures to figure out more - Ilka Vari-Lavoisier Conclusion - Johanna Siméant Technical appendix: Surveying an international event through a multinational team General data on participants Appendix to Chapter 8 on groups and organizations: Clusters obtained by Ascending Hierarchical Clustering Questionnaire for participants to the Dakar World Social Forum Editors' Biographies Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the conditions that encourage non-violent civic engagement in emerging civil societies. Gürbüz examines the radical transformations over the past decade in the politics of Turkey's Kurdish minority. On the eve of the new millennium, the Turkish state was still openly denying the existence of Kurds, calling them "mountain Turks," and Kurdish populated cities were ruled under martial law. Kurdish politics in Turkey was dominated by a revolutionary movement, the PKK, which engaged in violent clashes with the state. Less than a decade later, the PKK's rebellion had all but ended, and Kurdish political and civic movements of numerous stripes had emerged. The Turkish state even introduced an official Kurdish-language TV channel. How did this rapid change occur? Gürbüz proposes that contending social movements has transformed the politics of the region, ushering in an era of post-conflict political and cultural competition.Trade Review"Dr. Gürbüz provides readers with an original and very engaging, theoretically informed and compelling account of competing Kurdish social movements in Turkey. Kurdish groups in Turkey do not just oppose or support the state; they also compete with each other. Dr. Gubruz masterfully lays out the main axes of such competition." -- David Romano, Thomas G. Strong Chair in Middle East Politics at Missouri State University and author of The Kurdish Nationalist Movement "Gürbüz shows how globalization and competition among Kurdish opposition groups has shaped the trajectory of Turkey-Kurdish relations. His multi-institutional approach is a fresh advance and essential for understanding the cycles of violence, repression, and reconciliation." -- Jack A. Goldstone, Hazel Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University "Mustafa Gürbüz makes an important new contribution to the study of Turkey's Kurdish question in comparing the secular Kurdish movement with two Islam-inspired movements that are competing with it in the region - the Kurdish Hizbullah and the Gülen movement. He also shows how the movements have mutually influenced one another in the course of their competition, Hizbullah acquiring a more explicit Kurdish character and the PKK reaching out to the pious segments of the population. This book will help the reader to understand the complexities of the situation." -- Martin van Bruinessen, Utrecht UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter I. Kurdish Movements in the Southeast Chapter II. Exogenous Shocks at the Eve of the Millenium Chapter III. Civic Competition and Conflict Transformation Chapter IV. Resemblance and Difference: Constructing Kurdish Civil Society Chapter V. Going Native: Contesting Kurdish Islam Chapter VI. Islam Careser e: Islamic Activists Discover Kurdish Chapter VII. Enemies of the "Deep State": Narrative Conquests and Symbolic Localization Conclusion References

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Book SynopsisResearch on social movements has historically focused on the traditional weapons of the working class, especially labour strikes and street demonstrations-but everyday actions, such as eating or singing, which can also be turned into a means of protest, have yet to be fully explored. An interdisciplinary and comparative history of these modes of action, Bodies in Protest reveals how hunger strikes and music ranging from gospel songs to rock anthems can efficiently convey political messages and mobilize the masses. Common to both approaches, the contributions show, is a direct appeal to the emotions and a reliance on the physical, concrete language of the human body. This book was originally published as La musique en colère by Christophe Traini (2008), and La grève de la faim by Johanna Siméant (2009)Table of ContentsPREFACE - James M. Jasper HUNGER STRIKES - Johanna Siméant Introduction 1. From fast to hunger strike 2. An atypical and irrational method? 3. The meaning of bodily violence 4. Hunger strikes, media and politics 5. Hunger strikers and injustics 6. When hunger strikes arise Conclusion Select bibliography ANGRY MUSIC - Christophe Traïni Introduction 1. Protest put to music 2. Amplifying protest 3. Music and political tactics 4. Protest, art and commerce Conclusion Select bibliography INDEX LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES

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Book SynopsisAs LGBTQ movements in Western Europe, North America, and other regions of the world are becoming increasingly successful at awarding LGBTQ people rights, especially institutional recognition for same-sex couples and their families, what becomes of the deeper social transformation that these movements initially aimed to achieve? The United States is in many ways a paradigmatic model for LGBTQ movements in other countries. Sexuality, Subjectivity, and LGBTQ Militancy in the United States focuses on the transformations of the US LGBTQ movement since the 1980s, highlighting the relationship between its institutionalization and the disappearance of sexuality from its most visible claims, so that its growing visibility and legitimation since the 1990s have paradoxically led to a decrease in grassroots militancy. The book examines the issue from the bottom up, identifying the links between the varying importance of sexuality as a movement theme and actors’ mobilization, and enhances the import of subjectivity in militancy. It draws attention to cultural, sometimes infrapolitical, forms of militancy that perpetuate the role of sexuality in LGBTQ militancy.Trade Review"Sexuality, Subjectivity, and LGBTQ Militancy in the United States advances a provocative perspective on the LGBTQ movement that could generate debate on potential directions for the post-Obergefell LGBTQ movement in the United States." - Jonathan S. Coley Oklahoma State University, Mobilization Winter 2019Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1 Introduction Subjectivity, militancy, and political opportunities A micro-sociological approach "from below" Why the united states? Terminology Chapter 2 Of homosexualities and movements The homophile movement The gay liberation movement and the eruption of sexuality Gay communitarianism and the privatization of sexuality The advent of aids and the resurgence of activism Sexualization and strategic essentialism Legitimation, integrationism, and desexualization Recognition of marriage and desexualization Chapter 3 From fragmentation to coalescence The moral conservatism of the 1980s Act up: provocative lesbian and gay activism Aids, lesbianism, and male homosexuality Depolarization, appeasement, and assimilationism Institutionalization, status, and conduct Substantive rights and collective mobilization Chapter 4 Sexual fulfillment and political disenchantment Militant disengagement Privatization and commodification LGBTQ pride controversies An idealized identity Authenticity Gratification, engagement, and disappointment Idealized identity, homogeneity, and aids Reasons for engagement, reasons for withdrawal Chapter 5 Sexuality and empowerment Subjectivity, erotics, and mobilization Young people's sexuality LGBTQ youth as social actors Daring to talk about lgbtq young people's sexuality Homosociality, desire, and ethnicity/race Sexuality and public spaces: sex panic! Sexuality, intimacy, and empowerment Sexualizing lesbianism The "doldrums" and abeyance structures Refocusing action on pleasure Chapter 6 Mobilization on the threshold of the political Guerrilla theater Maintaining grassroots activism Subaltern action Infrapolitics An extreme case: the sisters of perpetual indulgence Three sisters The significance of insignificance Chapter 7 Conclusion: toward new identity forms A winning movement Polymorphic mobilization What can we learn from this? The interviewees References Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisJuly 15, 2004, Imphal (Manipur, India): An amazing scene unfolds in front of Kangla Fort, the headquarters of the Assam Rifles, a unit of the Indian army. Soldiers and officers watch aghast as twelve women, all in their sixties and seventies, position themselves in front of the gates and then, one by one, strip themselves naked. The imas, the mothers of Manipur, are in a cold fury, protesting the custodial rape and murder by the army of Thangjam Manorama, a 32-year-old woman suspected of being a militant. The women hold aloft banners and shout, “Indian Army Rape Us” and “Take Our Flesh.” Never has this happened before and the army is appalled. Very soon, news of the protest goes viral. People around the country are shocked. Can this be possible? A naked protest in India by mothers? In this unusual book, journalist Teresa Rehman tells the story of these twelve women, the momentous decision they took, and how they carried it out with precision and care. In doing so she connects the reader to the broader history of conflict-torn Manipur and the courage and resistance of its people—in particular its women.

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Book SynopsisRecent years have seen a new development in the growth and spread of popular protest: protests that began as local, homogeneous events-such as Occupy Wall Street or the protests of the Arab Spring-quickly left their original locations and local specificity behind and became global. This book looks at the development of this wave of protests, with an eye on protests against austerity and neoliberal economic policies, and offers a global view, covering events in Turkey, Brazil, Venezuela, South Africa, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and other locations.Table of Contents1. Riding the Wave: Protest Cascades, and What We Can Learn from Them Donatella della Porta 2. The Spirit of Gezi: A Relational Approach to Eventful Protest and Its Challenges Donatella della Porta and Kivanc Atak 3. Brazil’s Popular Awakening — June 2013: Accounting for the Onset of a New Cycle of Contention Mariana S. Mendes 4. Making sense of 'La Salida': Challenging Left-Wing Control in Venezuela Juan Masullo 5. The Marikana Massacre and Labour Protest in South Africa Frank O’Connor 6. Left in Translation: The Curious Absence of an Austerity Narrative in the 2013 Bulgarian Protests Julia Rone 7. 'Sow Hunger, Reap Anger': From Neoliberal Privatization to New Collective Identities in Bosnia Herzegovina Chiara Milan 8. A Spirit of Maidan? Contentious Escalation in Ukraine Daniel P. Ritter 9. Riding the Wave: Some Conclusions Donatella della Porta

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Book SynopsisMigrant protest has proliferated worldwide in the last two decades, explicitly posing questions of identity, rights, and equality in a globalized world. Nonetheless, such mobilizations are often considered anomalies in social movement studies, and political sociology more broadly, due to "weak interests" and a particularly disadvantageous position of "outsiders" to claim rights connected to citizenship. In an attempt to address this seeming paradox, Migrant Protest: Interactive Dynamics in Precarious Mobilizations explores the interactions and spaces shaping the emergence, trajectory, and fragmentation of migrant protest in unfavorable contexts of marginalization. Such a perspective unveils both the odds of precarious mobilizations and the ways they can be temporarily overcome. While adopting the encompassing terminology of "migrant," this book focuses on precarious migrants, including both asylum seekers and "illegalized" migrants.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Theorizing Precarious Migrant Protest Chapter 2: The Context of Precarious Migrant Protest Chapter 3: Fragile Alliances - The "Bourse du Travail" Protests in Paris Chapter 4: Precarious Resistance - The "La Chapelle" Protests in Paris Chapter 5: Contested Spaces - The "Oranienplatz" Protests in Berlin Chapter 6: Threatened Lives - Afghan Protests Against Deportations in Berlin Conclusion Appendix Index

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Book SynopsisContesting Austerity compares the contentious responses to austerity in Portugal and Spain between 2008 and 2015. While in Spain a sustained wave of mobilisation lasted for three years and led to a transformation of the party system, in Portugal social movements mobilised only in specific instances, trade unions dominated protest and institutional change was limited. Contesting Austerity shows that trajectories and outcomes in these countries are linked to the nature and configurations of the players in the mobilisation process.Trade Review"Contesting Austerity is a landmark work. Its innovative perspective highlights how the distinct political cultures of Spain and Portugal shaped reactions to the crisis. A must-read for all interested in Iberian politics and society." . Pedro Ramos Pinto, Associate Professor in International Economic History, University of Cambridge "Contesting Austerity brings new insights into how movements and parties interacted in Spain and Portugal during the ‘age of austerity’. Anyone interested in understanding the effect of protest in these cases, and more generally in the post-2008 period, can do no better than to turn to this outstanding book." . David. J. Bailey, Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham "This book investigates the Spanish and Portuguese protest cycle in times of austerity. It brings back into social movement studies a debate on capitalism filling a gap in existing literature. With a dynamic view of a complex process in unsettled times, it contributes to the understanding of how the financial crisis and ensuing crisis of legitimacy opened spaces for contentious actors." . Donatella della Porta, Director of Centre on Social Movements Studies, Scuola Normale SuperioreTable of ContentsAcronyms Acknowledgments Introduction Starting point The contentious politics of neoliberalism European crisis The politics of austerity in the Southern European countries Contesting austerity in Southern Europe Contesting austerity: social movements and the left 1 Cycles, arenas and claims: A players-based approach Cycles of protest, political opportunity structures and eventful protests Blurring the lines: a multi-player perspective Repertoires, discourses and claim-making Research design, methods and data collection 2 Preludes to the anti-austerity mobilisations: From Democratisation to the Great Recession Contentious transitions Contention under consolidating democracies New millennium contentious transitions Anti-austerity antecedents (2005-2010) Diverging paths to the anti-austerity cycle of protest 3 Turning points: Going beyond the core Setting the scene for austerity Networks and players Turning points in Portugal Turning points in Spain Going beyond the core: a summary Between democracy, precarity and austerity: movement culture and frames Networks of resistance Opening the way forward 4 Enduring austerity: From representation to redistribution Enduring austerity Players and claim-making between 2009-2015 Overlapping dynamics of contention in Spain Mareas as a hybrid: between social movements and trade unions Housing, civil disobedience and relation with Institutions Recentralisation, platforms and protest events: post-15M dynamics Labour from below From movement void to strategic alliance building in Portugal Trade unions and movement void Constitutional break and the QSLT – Alliance building and exclusions Claim-making and repertoires in the QSLT Demobilisation A plural arena 5 From the streets to institutions: Reconfiguration of the left after the anti-austerity mobilisations Dynamics of demobilisation Reshaping the left: between party elites and social movements Breaking hegemony: Podemos and the party-constellation Municipal projects: the case of Madrid Podemos, IU and the recomposition of the left The road to the general elections and the party-constellation Resilience and the recomposition of the left in Portugal Left Bloc from 2011 to 2015: crisis, internal dynamics and reshaping of the Left in Portugal From Congresso Democratico das Alternativas to a recomposition of the left Political outcomes and post-2015 alliances Conclusion Appendices Appendix I Chronology Appendix II Interviews Appendix III Protest Event Analysis Codebook Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSocial movements are not only remembered in personal experience, but also through cultural carriers that shape how later movements see themselves and are seen by others. The present collection zooms in on the role of photography in this memory-activism nexus. How do iconographic conventions shape images of protest? Why do some images keep movements in the public eye, while others are quickly forgotten? What role do images play in linking different protests, movements, and generations of activists? Have the affordances of digital media made it easier for activists to use images in their memory politics, or has the digital production and massive online exchange of images made it harder to identify and remember a movement via a single powerful image? Bringing together experts in visual culture, cultural memory, social movements, and digital humanities, this collection presents new empirical, theoretical, and methodological insights into the visual memory of protest.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction, (Ann Rigney and Thomas Smits) Producing Memorable Images 1. Photojournalism, the World Press Photo Awards, and the Visual Memory of Protest, (Marco Solaroli) 2. The Photographs of Nair Benedicto and the Memory of Protest in Brazil, (Erika Zerwes) 3. Deniz Gezmi. takes to the Streets: From Photograph to Silhouette [tbc], (Duygu Erbil) Reproduction and Remediation 1. Photography, Memory and Women in May ’68, (Antigoni Memou) 2. Scarcity in Visual Memory: Creating a Mural of Sylvia Pankhurst, (Clara Vlessing) 3. Memory, Iconicity and Virality in Action: Exploring Protest Photos Online, (Samuel Merrill) Mobilizing Visual Memory 1. Visual Memory in Grassroots Mobilizations: The Anti-Corruption Movement of 2011 in India, (Alice Mattoni and Anwesha Chakraborty) 2. Visual Activism in Protest against Disappearances: The Photo-Portraits of the 43 Ayotzinapa Students, (Sophie Dufays) 3. Space and Place in Online Visual Memory: The Tank Man in Hong Kong, 2013–2020, (Thomas Smits and Ruben Ros) List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Index of Names

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Book SynopsisProtestors across the world use aesthetics in order to communicate their ideas and ensure their voices are heard. This book looks at protest aesthetics, which we consider to be the visual and performative elements of protest, such as images, symbols, graffiti, art, as well as the choreography of protest actions in public spaces. Through the use of social media, protestors have been able to create an alternative space for people to engage with politics that is more inclusive and participatory than traditional politics. This volume focuses on the role of visual culture in a highly mediated environment and draws on case studies from Europe, Thailand, South Africa, USA, Argentina, and the Middle East in order to demonstrate how protestors use aesthetics to communicate their demands and ideas. It examines how digital media is harnessed by protestors and argues that all protest aesthetics are performative and communicative.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface: Devisualize Nicholas Mirzoeff Introduction: The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication Aidan McGarry, Itir Erhart, Hande Eslen-Ziya, Olu Jenzen, and Umut Korkut PART I: PERFORMANCE, ART AND POLITICS Chapter 1: Queer Visual Activism in South Africa Tessa Lewin Chapter 2: The Use of Visibility in Contentious Events in Northern Ireland Katy Hayward and Milena Komarova Chapter 3: Maybe We Will Benefit From Our Neighbour's Good Fortune: An Exhibition on Collectivity, Community and Dialogue in Turkey Isil Egrikavuk Chapter 4: Political Street Art in Social Mobilization: A Tale of Two Protests in Argentina Holly Eva Ryan Chapter 5: Archiving Dissent: (Im)material Trajectories of Political Street Art in Istanbul and Athens Julia Tulke Chapter 6: The Introvert's Protest: Handwriting the Constitution and the Performance of Politics Interview with Morgan O'Hara by Aidan McGarry PART II: VISUAL ACTIVISM AND DIGITAL CULTURE Chapter 7: Photography and protest in Israel/Palestine: The Activestills online archive Simon Faulkner Chapter 8: Drones, Cinema, and Protest in Thailand Noah Viernes Chapter 9: Bearing Witness to Authoritarianism and Commoning through Video Activism and Political Film-Making after the Gezi Protests Özge Özdüzen Chapter 10: Music Videos as Protest Communication: The Gezi Park Protest on YouTube Olu Jenzen, Itir Erhart, Hande Eslen-Ziya, Derya Güçdemir, Umut Korkut, and Aidan McGarry Chapter 11: The Activist Chroniclers of Occupy Gezi: Counterposing Visibility to Injustice Dan Mercea and Helton Levy Chapter 12: When Twitter got #woke: Black Lives Matter, DeRay McKesson, Twitter, and the Appropriation of the Aesthetics of Protest Farida Vis, Simon Faulkner, Safiya Umoja Noble and Hannah Guy PART III: CONCLUSION Chapter 13 Conclusion: Reflections on Protest and Political Transformation since 1789 Jim Aulich Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the social uprisings in Santiago de Chile to the radical municipalism experiments in Naples, this volume takes the reader on an intellectual journey at the frontlines across global South and global North where climate breakdown meets social innovations. While the effects of the climate crisis are becoming more extreme and tangible across the globe with every passing day, urban social movements and their radical strategies to resist climate injustice often remain concealed from sight. Contributors to this volume ask how would it be to look at the politics of urban loss-and-damage not from the highly securitized zones of climate summits, but from favelas in Rio de Janeiro, flood-prone communities in São Paulo, urban gardens in Naples, or neighborhoods resisting climate gentrification in New York City? This book explores diverse worlds and praxis of urban social movements resisting the rising tides of climate crisis and social injustice.Table of ContentsList of figures Acknowledgements Foreword: From Occupy Climate Change! to Confronting Loss and Damage - David Naguib Pellow 1. Occupy Climate Change: An introduction - Marco Armiero, Salvatore Paolo De Rosa, and Ethemcan Turhan 2. Hope in something: An earthly tragedy in five acts - Vanesa Castán Broto 3. Struggles for democratic decarbonization: Lessons from New York City - Ashley Dawson 4. Disobey, block, organize: The politics and strategies of grassroots climate activism in Malmö and Sweden - Salvatore Paolo De Rosa 5. Catalyzing transformational action for climate change adaptation: The Ala Wai management plan in Honolulu, U.S.A. - Valentine Huet 6. Turning urban fragilities into resources for a just climate governance - Gilda Berruti and Maria Federica Palestino 7. Narratives on Babylon Hill: Exploring the making of a community and its urban forest through oral and environmental history (1985-2015) - Lise Sedrez and Natasha Augusto Barbosa 8. Repositioning marginal spaces in climate adaptation: Periphery, power and possibility - Karen Paiva Henrique 9. Immigrant communities in Europe as situated knowledge-holders for postcolonial and feminist urban adaptation to climate health risks - Panagiota Kotsila 10. Small towns facing big problems: Sustainable development, social choice and the challenge of local-level organizing for the environment Insights from Flagler Beach, U.S.A. - Chad Boda 11. Practices of resilience: questioning urban adaptation in the Chilean social upsurge - Cristina Visconti 12. A user manual for just cities? - Aurash Khawarzad Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe Roma issue is generally treated as a European matter. Indeed, the Roma are the largest European minority—their presence outside of Europe is a result of various waves of migration over the past four hundred years. Likewise, the stereotypes associated with the Roma—the problematized, stigmatized status of a “Gypsy” as well as the historical and contemporary manifestations of antigypsyism—are also of European origin. This book claims, however, that the perception of Roma being strictly a European issue is flawed, and that re-connecting the Roma issue globally represents an important learning experience and an added value. The book offers a critical exploration of Romani political activism in Colombia and Argentina, and compares it to that in Spain, narrated from the intimate perspective of Romani actors themselves. By outlining parallel lineages of Romani activism in three countries and on two continents, the author arrives at broad conclusions regarding the nature of ethnic mobilization. Mirga-Kruszelnicka proposes a new synergetic conceptualization of this multidirectional concept as an interplay between political opportunities, mobilizing structures, and frames of identity. Contributing to the vivid debate about the relationship between the researcher and the researched, the book also includes an original discussion of the positionality of scholars of Romani background.Table of ContentsFOREWORD by Ethel Brooks INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1. DEFINING ETHNIC MOBILIZATION – A SYNERGIC APPROACH Ethnic mobilization – a conceptual puzzle Defining ethnic mobilization Understanding Romani ethnic mobilization Framing Romani activism – literature overview Delineating Romani ethnic mobilization – actors and processes Defining Romani mobilizing structures Pro-Roma actors and Romani ethnic mobilization CHAPTER 2. POLITICAL OPPORTUNITIES – UNDERSTANDING THE BROADER CONTEXT Setting the scene: Ethnic mobilization in Europe and Latin America Roma as political subjects Roma in Europe and Latin America: Comparable cases? CHAPTER 3. ROMANI ETHNIC MOBILIZATION IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE. LOOKING INTO THE CASE-STUDY COUNTRIES Argentina, Colombia and Spain: majority contexts, minority struggles Reconstructing the genealogy of Romani presence In search of windows of political opportunity Anno Domini 2017 – Status of Roma CHAPTER 4. WHO IS DOING THE MOBILIZING? ANATOMY OF ROMANI ETHNIC MOBILIZATION THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE ACTORS Anatomy of a movement – birth and growth of Romani actors Argentina Panorama of Romani mobilizing structures: an overview Leadership and composition patterns Multiple voices: Between fragmentation and consolidation Rationale for ethnic mobilization CHAPTER 5. MOBILIZING FRAMES? IDENTITY AND INTERESTS INTERTWINED Identity and interests – and potential of collective agency Romani identity frames Romani frames of collective interest Mobilizing frames? Frame alignment and frame correspondence vis-à-vis Romani constituency CHAPTER 6. MOBILIZING ROMANI ETHNICITY FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION Targets of mobilization – why is this important? Targeting structures of power – external upward mobilization Building support and seeking allies – external sideways mobilization Internal mobilization – community as a resource? Conclusion CONCLUSIONS: MOBILIZING FOR CHANGE? LIMITS AND POTENTIAL OF ROMANI ETHNIC MOBILIZATION Roma issue as a global issue – importance of the trans-continental perspective Contributions to Romani Studies Romani agency in the world politics – possibilities and opportunities BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Book SynopsisSCMP's reporting team looks back at Hong Kong's most wrenching political crisis since its return to Chinese rule in 1997. Anti-extradition bill protests that morphed rapidly into a wider anti-government movement in 2019 left no aspect of the city untouched, from its social compact to its body politic to its open economy. The demonstrations which continued well into 2020 have tested every institution of the city, from the civil service to the police to the courts and even its rail transport operator, and from offices and businesses to universities and schools, and from churches to families and even friends.This book is for anyone seeking to understand not just what Hong Kong has gone through but also the global phenomenon of increasingly leaderless protest movements. Fueled by profound angst about the place of millennial youth in society, widening income inequality, and the speed of digital communications, Hong Kong was in retrospect ripe to be the laboratory for a new-age protest movement, nearly a decade after the Middle East's Arab spring.The essays in the book collectively compose a picture of a society in trauma, bent and broken, but showing signs of an uncanny ability to bounce back. What shape it will be in a few years from now, however, is much harder to predict.Related Link(s)

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