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Book SynopsisHow to Win in Washington describes how to lobby government successfully using case histories of winning campaigns and interviews with members and effective lobbyists.Table of ContentsOpening moves; organizing a lobbying campaign; orchestrating the theme.

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Book SynopsisNonviolent Social Movements is the first book to offer a truly global overview of the dramatic growth of popular nonviolent struggles in recent years.Trade Review"At the end of the bloodiest century in human history it is vital that we learn how to solve problems and generate effective social and political change non-violently. This book demonstrates that many brave people in diverse political situations are effective because they have decided that the means are as important as the ends, that one does not defeat evil with more evil, repression with repression, violence with violence. Scholars and activists alike will find much to ponder in this collection. I commend it to everyone with an interest in the future of the human species." Kevin Clements, George Mason University "This is an excellent collection of case studies knitted together by the editors' presentation of a sound set of theoretical issues. Both help us understand the dynamics of nonviolent social movements." Paul Joseph, Tufts University "A timely book." Pacifica ReviewTable of ContentsSources and Acknowledgments. Notes on Editors and Contributors. Introduction. PART I. PERSPECTIVES ON NONVIOLENT MOVEMENTS. 1. Nonviolence and Power in the Twentieth Century (Kenneth E. Boulding). 2. You Can’t Kill the Spirit: Women and Nonviolent Action (Pam McAllister). PART II. THE MIDDLE EAST. Introduction. 3. Unarmed Resistance in the Middle East and North Africa (Stephen Zunes). 4. Nonviolent Resistance in the Occupied Territories: A Critical Reevaluation (Souad Dajani). PART III. EUROPE. Introduction. 5. The Grassroots Movement in Germany, 1972-1985 (Matthew Lyons). 6. "We Have Bare Hands": Nonviolent Social Movements in the Soviet Bloc (Lee Smithey and Lester R. Kurtz). PART IV. ASIA. Introduction. 7. The Origins of People Power in the Philippines (Stephen Zunes). 8. Imagery in the 1992 Nonviolent Uprising in Thailand (Chaiwat Satha-Anand). 9. Violent and Nonviolent Struggle in Burma: Is a Unified Strategy Workable (Michael A. Beer). PART V. AFRICA. Introduction. 10. The Ogoni Struggle for Human Rights and a Civil Society in Nigeria (Joshua Cooper). 11. The Role of Nonviolence in the Downfall of Apartheid (Stephen Zunes). PART VI. LATIN AMERICA. Introduction. 12. Advocating Nonviolent Direct Action In Latin America: The Antecedents and Emergence of SERPAJ (Ronald Pagnucco and John D. McCarthy). 13. The Brazilian Church-State Crisis of 1980: Effective Nonviolent Action in a Military Dictatorship (Daniel Zirker). PART VII. NORTH AMERICA. Introduction. 14. Nonviolent Social Movements in the United States: A Historical Overview (Charles Chatfield). Conclusion (Stephen Zunes and Lester R. Kurtz). Index.

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Book SynopsisNonviolent Social Movements is the first book to offer a truly global overview of the dramatic growth of popular nonviolent struggles in recent years.Trade Review"At the end of the bloodiest century in human history it is vital that we learn how to solve problems and generate effective social and political change non-violently. This book demonstrates that many brave people in diverse political situations are effective because they have decided that the means are as important as the ends, that one does not defeat evil with more evil, repression with repression, violence with violence. Scholars and activists alike will find much to ponder in this collection. I commend it to everyone with an interest in the future of the human species." Kevin Clements, George Mason University "This is an excellent collection of case studies knitted together by the editors' presentation of a sound set of theoretical issues. Both help us understand the dynamics of nonviolent social movements." Paul Joseph, Tufts University "A timely book." Pacifica ReviewTable of ContentsSources and Acknowledgments. Notes on Editors and Contributors. Introduction. PART I. PERSPECTIVES ON NONVIOLENT MOVEMENTS. 1. Nonviolence and Power in the Twentieth Century (Kenneth E. Boulding). 2. You Can’t Kill the Spirit: Women and Nonviolent Action (Pam McAllister). PART II. THE MIDDLE EAST. Introduction. 3. Unarmed Resistance in the Middle East and North Africa (Stephen Zunes). 4. Nonviolent Resistance in the Occupied Territories: A Critical Reevaluation (Souad Dajani). PART III. EUROPE. Introduction. 5. The Grassroots Movement in Germany, 1972-1985 (Matthew Lyons). 6. "We Have Bare Hands": Nonviolent Social Movements in the Soviet Bloc (Lee Smithey and Lester R. Kurtz). PART IV. ASIA. Introduction. 7. The Origins of People Power in the Philippines (Stephen Zunes). 8. Imagery in the 1992 Nonviolent Uprising in Thailand (Chaiwat Satha-Anand). 9. Violent and Nonviolent Struggle in Burma: Is a Unified Strategy Workable (Michael A. Beer). PART V. AFRICA. Introduction. 10. The Ogoni Struggle for Human Rights and a Civil Society in Nigeria (Joshua Cooper). 11. The Role of Nonviolence in the Downfall of Apartheid (Stephen Zunes). PART VI. LATIN AMERICA. Introduction. 12. Advocating Nonviolent Direct Action In Latin America: The Antecedents and Emergence of SERPAJ (Ronald Pagnucco and John D. McCarthy). 13. The Brazilian Church-State Crisis of 1980: Effective Nonviolent Action in a Military Dictatorship (Daniel Zirker). PART VII. NORTH AMERICA. Introduction. 14. Nonviolent Social Movements in the United States: A Historical Overview (Charles Chatfield). Conclusion (Stephen Zunes and Lester R. Kurtz). Index.

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Book Synopsis“Fascinating and alarmingly true.”—Time Magazine. The true story of a plot to overthrow Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the nearly forgotten Marine who saved American Democracy.Many simply don’t know that in 1933, a group of wealthy industrialists—working closely with groups like the K.K.K. and the American Liberty League—planned to overthrow the U.S. government and run F.D.R. out of office in a fascist coup.Americans may be shocked to learn of the plan to turn unhappy war veterans into American “brown shirts,” depose F.D.R., and stop the New Deal. They asked Medal of Honor recipient and Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler to work with them and become the “first American Caesar.” Fortunately, Butler was a true patriot. Instead of working for the fascist coup, he revealed the plot to journalists and to Congress.Historian Julies Archer here offers a compelling account of a plot that would have turned FDR into fascist puppet, threatened American democracy and changed the course of history. This book not only reveals the truth behind this shocking episode in history, but also tells the story of the man whose courage and bravery prevented it from happening.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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Book SynopsisHow insurgencies—enabled by digital devices and a vast information sphere—have mobilized millions of ordinary people around the world. In the words of economist and scholar Arnold Kling, Martin Gurri saw it coming. Technology has categorically reversed the information balance of power between the public and the elites who manage the great hierarchical institutions of the industrial age: government, political parties, the media. The Revolt of the Public tells the story of how insurgencies, enabled by digital devices and a vast information sphere, have mobilized millions of ordinary people around the world. Originally published in 2014, The Revolt of the Public is now available in an updated edition, which includes an extensive analysis of Donald Trump’s improbable rise to the presidency and the electoral triumphs of Brexit. The book concludes with a speculative look forward, pondering whether the current elite class can bring about a reformation of the democratic process and whether new organizing principles, adapted to a digital world, can arise out of the present political turbulence.Trade Review“All over the world, elite institutions from governments to media to academia are losing their authority and monopoly control of information to dynamic amateurs and the broader public. This book, until now only in samizdat (and Kindle) form, has been my No. 1 handout for the last several years to anyone seeking to understand this unfolding shift in power from hierarchies to networks in the age of the internet.” —Marc Andreessen, cofounder, Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz “We are in an open war between publics with passionate and untutored interests and elites who believe they have the right to guide those publics. Gurri asks the essential question: Can liberal representative democracy survive the rise of the public?” —Roger Berkowitz, founder and academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center, professor of politics and human rights at Bard CollegeTable of ContentsPRELUDE TO A TURBULENT AGEHODER AND WAEL GHONIMMY THESISWHAT THE PUBLIC IS NOTPHASE CHANGE 2011A CRISIS OF AUTHORITYTHE FAILURE OF GOVERNMENTNIHILISM AND DEMOCRACYCHOICES AND SYSTEMSFINALE FOR SKEPTICSRECONSIDERATIONS: TRUMP, BREXIT, AND FAREWELL TO ALL THAT

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Book SynopsisNewcastle’s most notorious riot lives on in the lyrics of Cold Chisel’s 1980 song Star Hotel, grainy YouTube videos and Novocastrian mythology. But beneath thecompelling images of surging crowds, hurled beer cans and flaming police cars was a radical intent that has been all but forgotten …The Star Hotel in Newcastle has become a site of defiance for the marginalised young and dispossessed working class. To understand the whole story of the Star Hotel riot, it should be seen alongside other moments of resistance, Newcastle-style, such as the 1890 Maritime Strike, the Rothbury miners’ lockout in 1929 and the recent battle for the Laman Street fig trees. Radical Newcastle brings together short essays from academics, local historians, journalists and present-day radicals to document the region’s radical past.

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Book SynopsisThe EU is at a crossroads. Should it choose the path towards protectionism or the path towards free trade? This book convincingly argues that lobbying regulation will be a decisive first step towards fulfilling the European dream of free trade, in accordance with the original purpose of the Treaty of Rome. Without the regulation of lobbyists to try and prevent undue political persuasion, there is a greater risk of abuse in the form of corruption, subsidies and trade barriers, which will come at the expense of consumers, tax payers and competitiveness.This interdisciplinary approach - both theoretical and methodological - offers a wealth of knowledge concerning the effect of lobbying on political decision-making and will appeal to academics across the social sciences, practitioners and policy-makers.Trade Review'Brandt's and Svendsen's study of EU lobbying activity is just that and more. The book focuses tightly on the EU Commission, where lobbying is not regulated in any way. In doing so, the two authors provide a thorough and convincing theory-based analysis of special interest demand for political favors. The book is a must-read for academics, policy makers, politicians, and yes, even for lobbyists who want to know more about how the EU's Commission operates and how special interest demand has led to potentially troublesome policy outcomes. The book will be especially appreciated by academics and policy analysts who prize creative use of price theory. In presenting their well-honed arguments, Brandt and Svendsen also provide strong analysis of the EU carbon permit trading and fisheries policy. They conclude with eight recommendations for making EU lobbying activity transparent and accountable.' --Bruce Yandle, Clemson University and George Mason University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Power Centralization 3. Bureaucracy 4. The EU Emission Trading System (ETS) 5. Green Industries, Switch Point and First-movers 6. Countervailing Lobbying 7. Alignment of Incentives 8 Should Lobbying be Regulated in the EU? Index

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Book SynopsisPower, Policy and Profit investigates the many ways in which corporate actors attempt to influence political activities. Through the intensified globalization of markets, the restructuring of welfare services and the accumulation of private capital, opportunities for corporate influence in politics affairs are shown to have multiplied. Bringing together different fields of global governance studies, this book addresses the rising political influence of corporate actors both nationally and internationally. Corporate influence on policy is now commonplace through lobbying, advocacy and campaign contributions; funding analysis and research; creating or adopting standards for social responsibility and shaping transparency guidelines. Key chapters show how corporations can now have leverage in broad political affairs: an activity central to the organization of markets.Power, Policy and Profit will be of great interest to students and academics of business and management, politics and governance studies. Policy professionals will find this a timely read on the complexities of corporate engagement in politics and governance.Contributors include: F. Aggeri, E. Boxenbaum, J.-Y. Caneill, M. Cartel, M.L. Djelic, H. Dumez, M. Flyverbom, C. Garsten, A. Jeunemaitre, A. Nyqvist, M. Perezts, X. Philippe, S. Picard, B. Rothstein, A. Sörbom, V. Steyer, R. Thedvall, A. Tyllström, D.A. WestbrookTrade Review'An expansive, incisive analysis documenting the sprawling and fast-evolving growth of corporate power in policymaking venues across the globe. Pushing the narrative far beyond a simple money-in-politics storyline, the authors illustrate how corporations exert increasing influence in the public sphere and often gain the upper hand vis-à-vis nation-states. Anyone concerned about democratic standards and accountable governance will find this book a must-read.' --Janine R. Wedel, George Mason University, US'This challenging book revisits the relationships between state and market by accounting for the unexpected development of corporations as policymakers, an emergent, global phenomenon. The authors address this fascinating issue in its multiple dimensions. They describe, examine and analyze the way corporations craftily ''bricole'' political and economic interests; the ambiguous status and roles of international non-state organizations; the permanent duality between doing-good and making money that corporations embrace. They uncover a rather discrete but central transformation of today's definition of public intervention.' --Christine Musselin, SciencesPo, Paris, France'Power, Policy and Profit tackles the important and understudied problem of how firms attempt to shape their environment, especially their political and institutional environments. The essays go well beyond examining well-known activities to shed light on venues, strategies and events to which researchers have previously given scant attention. As such, the volume makes an important contribution and promises to stimulate important new lines of research on corporate power.' --Stephen R. Barley, University of California, Santa Barbara, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Political affairs in the global domain Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom. 1. Building an architecture for political influence: Atlas and the transnational institutionalization of the neoliberal think tank Marie-Laure Salles-Djelic 2. Global policy bricolage: The role of business in the World Economic Forum Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom 3. Policy making as collective bricolage: The role of the electricity sector in the Making of the European carbon market Mélodie Cartel, Eva Boxenbaum, Franck Aggeri and Jean-Yves Caneill 4. Lobbying in Practice: An ethnographic field study of public affairs consultancy Anna Tyllström 5. Firms’ political strategies in a new public/private environment: The Boeing case Hervé Dumez and Alain Jeunemaître 6. Corporate advocacy in the internet domain: Shaping policy through data visualizations Mikkel Flyverbom 7. Talking like an institutional investor: On the gentle voices of financial giants Anette Nyqvist 8. Leading the war on epidemics: exploring corporations’ predatory modus operandi and their effects on institutional field dynamics Sébastien Picard, Véronique Steyer, Xavier Philippe and Mar Pérezts 9. Political chocolate: Branding it fairtrade Renita Thedvall 10. Preventing markets from self-destruction Bo Rothstein Reflections: Leaving Flatland? Planar discourses and the search for the G-axis. David A. Westbrook Index

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Book SynopsisChinese citizens are far from docile, and regularly and vociferously rise up in collective protest. In some cases they have successfully applied pressure, forcing political and economic elites to satisfy their demands. In others, they have been brutally suppressed. More often than not, however, the results have been mixed. This Handbook explores individual and collective acts of protest and resistance in China since 1989, examining their key unifying underlying themes and their effect on relations between the government and society. Featuring twenty-nine chapters of original research from top scholars, this Handbook spans the broad range of protest and resistance in contemporary China. Its coverage of popular contention related to labour, land, the environment, nationalism, home ownership, information and communication technologies, the law, religion, Hong Kong and ethnic minority groups illuminates the complexity and diversity of citizen actions. The Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China suggests that while these protests and acts of resistance might threaten the ruling Chinese Communist Party, in order to strengthen and legitimise the Party's rule governing authorities best course of action may be to allow space for citizens to air their grievances, and to prioritise the resolution of complaints. This Handbook will be an invaluable resource for scholars and graduate students of Chinese and comparative politics, as well as for policy makers and interested readers seeking up to date data on protest and resistance in China, and to better understand the problems and perspectives of Chinese citizens.Trade Review'This collection is the most comprehensive study on various forms of popular contention by different groups in contemporary China. By analysing group-specific action, varied government response and the effect of contention, this book coherently and convincingly explains the political rationale for the coexistence of popular contention and regime stability in an authoritarian state that has been undergoing significant political and socio-economic changes. This collection makes important contributions to the understanding of contentious politics, political participation, and state-society relations in contemporary China.' --Yongshun Cai , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology'Made up of chapters by an appealing mix of well established and more junior scholars, this volume brings together in one place illuminating work on the widely varied forms that protest and resistance have been taking across the People's Republic of China and continue to take even in a time of ratcheted up controls. As different as the sources of discontent and styles of agitation are in disparate parts of the country and among disparate groups, something is lost when varied struggles are considered only in isolation. Wright's carefully put together and very effectively introduced Handbook show how much we can learn from placing side-by-side actions as varied as petition drives and marches occurring in settings as dissimilar as Hong Kong and Hunan.' --Jeffrey Wasserstrom, University of California, Irvine, US'No book on popular contention in China covers this much territory. All the important social groups are here as well as every conceivable type of resistance. This Handbook will provide a ''one-stop shopping'' for students of Chinese protest and repression for years to come.' --Kevin J. O'Brien, University of California, Berkeley, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Teresa Wright Part I Overviews 1. Unrest and regime survival Andrew Wedeman 2. Social unrest in China: a bird’s eye view Christian Göbel Part II Protest, dissent, and the law 3. Governing political expression: legitimacy and legal culture Pitman B. Potter 4. Legal advocacy as liberal resistance: the experience of China’s human rights lawyers Eva Pils 5. Mass disputes and China’s legal system Hualing Fu 6. Dissent below the radar: contention in the daily politics of grassroots organizations Sophia Woodman Part III Urban labor 7. Labor legislation, workers, and the Chinese state Jenny Chan and Mark Selden 8. Worker protests and state response in present-day China: trends, characteristics, and new developments, 2011-2016 Lu Zhang 9. China’s contentious cab drivers Manfred Elfstrom 10. Thinking like a state: doing labor activism in South China Darcy Pan Part IV Rural residents 11. Collective petitions and local state responses in rural China Lei Guang and Yang Su 12. Land protests in rural China Christopher Heurlin Part V Urban homeowners 13. Homeowners’ rights protection actions in China: why some succeed and others fail Zhiming Sheng 14. Homeowners' activism in urban China: old goals, new strategies Dragan Pavlićević, Long Sun, and Zhengxu Wang Part VI Environmental protest 15. Environmental public interest campaigns: a new phenomenon in China’s contentious politics H. Christoph Steinhardt 16. Networked contention against waste incinerators in China: brokers, linkages and dynamics of diffusion Björn Alpermann and Maria Bondes 17. Possibilities for environmental governance in China? Anti-incinerator activists turned participants in municipal waste management in Guangzhou Natalie W.M. Wong 18. Anti-nuclear protest in China Simona A. Grano and Yuheng Zhang Part VII Religion 19. Religious charity, repurposing, and “claim-staking” resistance: the case of Gospel Rehab Susan K. McCarthy 20. Informality as Resistance among Catholics and Protestants in China Marie-Eve Reny 21. Protestant resistance and activism in China’s official churches Carsten Vala Part VIII Information and communications technologies 22. From mobilization to legitimation: Digital media and the evolving repertoire of contention in contemporary China Jun Liu 23. Patriotism without state blessing: Chinese cyber nationalists in a predicament Rongbin Han 24. Microblog dissent and censorship during the 2012 Bo Xilai scandal Christopher Cairns Part IX Hong Kong 25. Hong Kong’s struggle to define its political future Suzanne Pepper 26. Dissenting media: post-1997 Hong Kong Joyce Y.M. Nip Part X Ethnic minorities 27. The environmental protest movement in Inner Mongolia Uchralt Otede 28. Ethnic unrest and China’s multiple problematic others Tom Cliff 29. More creative, more international: shifts in Uyghur-related violence Justin V. Hastings Index

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Book SynopsisThe battle for freedom in Putin's Russia. Twelve Russians from across the country’s social spectrum all have one thing in common: their participation in the historic March of the Dissidents. Held in 2007 to protest the eroding state of affairs in Russia, the march was held in flagrant violation of increasingly stringent laws forbidding public demonstrations. Though each of these men and women had personal reasons for joining the demonstration, they shared a belief that the government of Vladimir Putin was betraying the promise of Russia’s future. Risking the threats and violent retaliation inflicted on Russian journalists who dare to question the powers that be, Panyushkin boldly illuminates the lives and convictions of these twelve brave men and women.Trade Review“A powerful interwoven narrative.” * Publishers Weekly *“Panyushkin writes in vivid tableaux.” * Los Angeles Times *

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Book SynopsisIf you think you are living in an era of post-truth, you likely are. If something sounds like magical thinking, it is. Nationalism makes no country great; it often leads to war, genocide, terror, destroyed economies and the turning of cities into rubble. Technology will not get us to paradise. It has made us more unequal than ever, polluted democracy, heightened job risk (displacement), created ever more billionaires, continued the rapid pace of the destruction of the planet, and transformed us from citizens into consumers, often with our active support. The free market is not free; too often it isn’t even a market (because we live in an age of monopoly). The road to serfdom is paved by demagogues, not the state; the state and its institutions are all we have. Trust expertise. Truth does not come from he who shouts the loudest. You are approaching a one-party-state when facts are relativized, science is denied, experts are mocked and threatened, alternative facts are embraced, minorities are criminalized, and lying is normalized. Farewell to Democracy? reminds us that we have been here before. It tells us that we can avoid a repetition of the past, but we must first know what that past was (and is). Farewell to Democracy? insists that nothing is inevitable. That we are not powerless. That we have institutions to help protect us, which we must protect in turn. It shows us what happens when we speak truth to power. It details the strength of mass protest. It pulls back the veil on Post-Truth. It urges all of us to bear witness and to "show up."

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Book SynopsisAcross the world, millions of people are taking to the streets demanding urgent action on climate breakdown and other environmental emergencies. Extinction Rebellion, Fridays for Future and Climate Strikes are part of a new lexicon of environmental protest advocating civil disobedience to leverage change. This groundbreaking book -- also a Special Issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment -- critically unveils the legal and political context of this new wave of eco-activisms. It illustrates how the practise of dissent builds on a long tradition of grassroots activism, such as the Anti-Nuclear movement, but brings into focus new participants, such as school children, and new distinctive aesthetic tactics, such as the mass ‘die-ins’ and ‘discobedience’ theatrics in public spaces.Expert international authors offer fresh insights into the strategies and goals of these protest movements, the changing vocabulary of environmental activism, such as the ‘climate emergency’, and the contribution of specific protest actors, particularly youth and Indigenous peoples. They also consider how some governments have responded to these actions with draconian anti-protest legislation, and by using the Covid-19 pandemic as cover to keep protesters off the streets. The scholarly analyses are complemented with first-hand interviews of some leading protagonists, including Extinction Rebellion leaders and Green Party politicians. The result is an unrivalled analysis of the role of new environmental protest movements seeking to drive a new generation of policies and laws for climate action and social justice.This impressive book will prove an important and insightful read for students and scholars interested in environmental law, climate law, and grass roots activism specifically.Trade Review’Extinction Rebellion, children’s climate strikes, Indigenous anti-pipeline protests and proliferating citizen science brigades have lent new urgency to the perennial question of the role of direct action and civil disobedience in struggles for environmental and racial justice. This timely, eclectic, interdisciplinary volume provides invaluable insight into the sources, goals, tactics, prospects and impacts of -- and often draconian governmental reactions to -- these exciting contemporary movements that employ non-violent mass mobilisation to spur action on ecological and social emergencies. It makes a landmark contribution to empirical and theoretical knowledge in this rapidly evolving field.’ -- Stepan Wood, Canada Research Chair in Law, Society & Sustainability, University of British Columbia, CanadaTable of ContentsVolume 11, Special Issue, 2020 Contents: Editorial Introduction Benjamin J. Richardson Articles Can climate activism deliver transformative change: Extinction Rebellion, business & people power Neil Gunningham Cultivating ethics of decolonizing allyship in climate organizing: reflections on Extinction Rebellion Vancouver Dana James and Trevor Mack Moral education in the face of orthodoxy – environmental crisis and dissent Francine Rochford Exploring legitimization strategies for contested uses of citizen-generated data for policy? Anna Berti Suman, Sven Schade and Yasuhito Abe Victim, litigant, activist, messiah: the child in a time of climate change Nicole Rogers A colonized COP: Indigenous exclusion and youth climate justice activism at the United Nations climate change negotiations Corrie Grosse and Brigid Mark Pipelines in the time of Indigenous resurgence Tyler McCreary Interviews XR representatives Claire Burgess and Rupert Reed Green politicians Jonathan Bartley, Paul Manley and Chloe Swarbrick

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Book SynopsisThis cutting-edge book explores and advances contemporary geographical understandings of resistance. Calling for geographers to focus on the emergence of resistance and to avoid making assumptions on the forms it takes, chapters critically interrogate concepts of resistance and illustrate the political potential of re-thinking them.Engaging with anarchist, feminist and postcolonial scholarship, this book traces existing debates on resistance in geography and suggests how they can be productively reanimated. Contributors explore multiple and everyday spaces, subjects, and temporalities of resistance, reconsidering the study of resistance in light of recent ontological developments, including in non-representational theory, the non-human, post-politics and more-than-human geographies. Using detailed case studies, the book examines what critical geographies of resistance might look like in practice, providing insight on how geography can respond to and engage with the contemporary world.Featuring a Foreword by Professor Cindi Katz, this book will be a fascinating read for scholars and students of human, social and cultural geography, geopolitics, sociology, and those studying resistance across the social sciences. It will also be of interest to activists looking to formulate alternative resistant claims and practices.Trade Review‘Sarah Hughes and contributors challenge geographers to think of resistance as emergent, often quotidian, and diffuse. Arguing against intentionality as necessary for resistance, Hughes et al. offer a thought-provoking argument and range of cases to illustrate that geographical attention to resistance may identify nascent political claims and alternative spaces.’ -- Deborah G Martin, Clark University, US‘Critical Geographies of Resistance revisits the discipline’s engagement with resistance from the perspective of contemporary feminist materialism. Addressing many pressing political issues through practices of cross-species friendship, solidarity and posthumanism, the book offers timely reinterpretations of which acts, and which agents, create resistance.’ -- Jo Sharp, University of St Andrews, UK‘Critical Geographies of Resistance reanimates and rethinks the problematic of resistance that has gone fallow in geography for the last twenty years. It collects together new voices who passionately engage with a wide variety of different situations of inequality and injustice, using new approaches to unsettle familiar domination/resistance binaries. The authors take us beyond a purely oppositional imagination, offering instead emergent, relational and always-in-process accounts of resistance. They attend to bodies and places often seen as “outside” the political or simply targets of the political. New maps of resistance are offered, creating expanded possibilities for political paths not yet taken.’ -- Steve Pile, The Open University, UK‘In a turbulent world, how is it possible to recognise the plural politics of resistance? Critical Geographies of Resistance is a landmark collection for the human geography of our times. Tracing the pathways of resistances across multiple spaces and forms, the authors refigure what resistance could mean in human geography.’ -- Louise Amoore, Durham University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xiv 1 Introduction to Critical Geographies of Resistance 1 Sarah M. Hughes PART I RETHINKING RESISTANCE, REFRAMING DEBATES 2 Feminism, resistance and the archive 26 Maria Fannin and Julie MacLeavy 3 Resisting beyond the human: animals and their advocates 41 Catherine Oliver 4 Resistance without subjects: friction and the non-representational geography of everyday resistance 59 Sage Brice 5 Towards a more-than-human theory of resistance: reflections on intentionality, political collectives and opposition 76 Carlotta Molfese 6 Activism and resistance: activist dispositions and the hidden hierarchies of action 92 Charlotte Lee 7 Making space: relational ethnography and emergent resistance 107 Sarah Zell and Amelia Curran PART II EMERGENT RESISTANCE: REFLECTIONS FROM THE FIELD 8 ‘My existence is resistance’: an analysis of disabled people’s everyday lives as an enduring form of resistance 124 Angharad Butler-Rees 9 ‘Bollocks to Brexit’: the geographies of Brexit protest stickers, 2015‒21 138 Hannah Awcock 10 Struggles around housing: La Plaza De La Hoja in Colombia 153 Karen Schouw Iversen 11 ‘What size is the room?’: using the law to resist the UK’s bedroom tax 168 Mel Nowicki 12 Bearing witness at a Home Office reporting centre 182 Amanda Schmid-Scott 13 ‘Unleashing the beast’: emergent resistance in White charity 199 Kahina Meziant 14 Around, despite, and without reference to domination: crafting oppositional human geographies in migrant detention 217 Leah Montange Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. This Advanced Introduction is an accessible and critical review of the most important theories and concepts in the field of social movements and political protests. Karl-Dieter Opp precisely outlines the strengths and weaknesses of the different approaches and investigates how they can be unified into a structural-cognitive model. Key Features: Application of general action theory Investigation of the conditions for deterrence and concessions by autocracies Analysis of the influence of social networks and social media on protests and protesters Precise definitions of central concepts and clear formulation of explanatory hypotheses. This timely Advanced Introduction will be crucial reading for scholars interested in political participation, political protest, and social movements as well as those looking for an excellent introduction to this fascinating ever evolving area of study.Trade Review‘This truly impressive book offers an integrated theoretical approach to social movements and political protests. Opp applies his approach to help our understanding of major events, past and present, like the spread of the Protestant Reformation, and protests against the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. A must-read for social scientists.’ -- Sascha O. Becker, Monash University, Australia and University of Warwick, UK‘Opp—one of our most insightful analysts of social protest—has produced a remarkably sophisticated and theoretically rich account of how protests work, focusing as much on how targets and publics react as on the mechanisms of protest participation. This multi-sided approach opens new avenues for understanding social protests and their impact on diverse societies.’ -- Jack A. Goldstone, George Mason University, US‘This is a careful book on an important topic. It is well worth reading as it offers many new insights into a complex phenomenon with applications for current social issues, including wars.’ -- Bruno Frey, University of Basel, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction to Social Movements and Political Protests 2. Social movements and political protests as collective action 3. Extending the context of protest: political opportunities and societal resources 4. Extending the motivational basis of protest I: framing, cognitive balance, and the goals-beliefs theory 5. Extending the motivational basis of protest II: the identity perspective 6. When protests change politics: explaining the behavior of the protest targets 7. When protests change protesters and bystanders 8. How to put all this together: the structural-cognitive model, the Protestant Reformation, the protests against the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, and some guidelines for explaining social movement phenomena References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. This Advanced Introduction is an accessible and critical review of the most important theories and concepts in the field of social movements and political protests. Karl-Dieter Opp precisely outlines the strengths and weaknesses of the different approaches and investigates how they can be unified into a structural-cognitive model. Key Features: Application of general action theory Investigation of the conditions for deterrence and concessions by autocracies Analysis of the influence of social networks and social media on protests and protesters Precise definitions of central concepts and clear formulation of explanatory hypotheses. This timely Advanced Introduction will be crucial reading for scholars interested in political participation, political protest, and social movements as well as those looking for an excellent introduction to this fascinating ever evolving area of study.Trade Review‘This truly impressive book offers an integrated theoretical approach to social movements and political protests. Opp applies his approach to help our understanding of major events, past and present, like the spread of the Protestant Reformation, and protests against the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. A must-read for social scientists.’ -- Sascha O. Becker, Monash University, Australia and University of Warwick, UK‘Opp—one of our most insightful analysts of social protest—has produced a remarkably sophisticated and theoretically rich account of how protests work, focusing as much on how targets and publics react as on the mechanisms of protest participation. This multi-sided approach opens new avenues for understanding social protests and their impact on diverse societies.’ -- Jack A. Goldstone, George Mason University, US‘This is a careful book on an important topic. It is well worth reading as it offers many new insights into a complex phenomenon with applications for current social issues, including wars.’ -- Bruno Frey, University of Basel, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction to Social Movements and Political Protests 2. Social movements and political protests as collective action 3. Extending the context of protest: political opportunities and societal resources 4. Extending the motivational basis of protest I: framing, cognitive balance, and the goals-beliefs theory 5. Extending the motivational basis of protest II: the identity perspective 6. When protests change politics: explaining the behavior of the protest targets 7. When protests change protesters and bystanders 8. How to put all this together: the structural-cognitive model, the Protestant Reformation, the protests against the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, and some guidelines for explaining social movement phenomena References Index

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Book SynopsisThis cutting-edge and authoritative Handbook covers a broad spectrum of social movement research methodologies, offering expert analysis and detailed accounts of the ways in which research can effectively be carried out on social movements and popular protests. Addressing practice-oriented questions, this Handbook engages with both theoretical and political dimensions, unpacking the multidimensional nature of social movement research for new and established scholars alike and for movement-based as well as academic researchers across many disciplines.Divided into three thematic sections, this stimulating Handbook dives deep into discussions relating to the methodological challenges raised by researching social movements, the technical questions of how such research is conducted, and then to more practical considerations about the uses and applications of movement research. Expert contributors and established researchers utilise real-world examples to explore the methodological challenges from a range of perspectives including classical, engaged, feminist, Black, Indigenous and global Southern viewpoints. The Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Social Movements will not only appeal to experienced researchers, but also to activists who have started to think about researching their own movements and to politically engaged students. It speaks to new and established scholars in relevant disciplines such as sociology, political science, anthropology, geography, development studies, gender studies, and race and ethnic studies, and particularly those looking to better appreciate the different research methods for understanding social movements.Trade Review‘The editors have assembled a powerful toolbox for students and scholars of global social movements. The chapters include data rich analyses that illustrate innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to participatory, collaborative and community-based research. The contributors make a strong case for the urgency of research that can produce ethical dialogues, movement strategies, and principled actions.’ -- Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, University of Pennsylvania, US and author of Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil‘A copious compilation for social movement research, attentive to movement-relevant knowledge and conscious of western ventriloquism and the political diminishment of southern movements as empirical fodder for northern theorizing. For academic and activist alike, a politically productive resource that will travel across forests, fields, shantytowns, factories, university classrooms and libraries.’ -- Dip Kapoor, University of Alberta, Canada and author of Research, Political Engagement and Dispossession: Indigenous, Peasant and Urban Poor Activisms in the Americas and Asia (2019)Table of ContentsContents: 1 How can we research social movements? An introduction 1 Alberto Arribas Lozano, Anna Szolucha, Sutapa Chattopadhyay and Laurence Cox PART I APPROACHES TO RESEARCHING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS 2 Researching global movements: practices, dialogues and ethics 24 Geoffrey Pleyers 3 Feminist methodologies in social movement studies: gender, positionality and research in practice 36 Özge Yaka and Sevil Çakır Kılınçoğlu 4 Research from, with and for indigenous social movements 50 Xochitl Leyva Solano and Axel Köhler 5 Social movements as learning communities, researchers and knowledge producers 63 Alberto Arribas Lozano 6 A Marxist approach to researching social movements 77 John Krinsky 7 Researching social movements in authoritarian states: preparing and conducting fieldwork in Iran and Turkey 91 Paola Rivetti 8 Cross-sectoral dialogues with social movements in Southeast Asia: translating values, affects, and practices in a polymorphic region 102 Gabriel Facal, Catherine Scheer, Sarah Anaïs Andrieu, Joel Mark Baysa-Barredo, Giuseppe Bolotta, Gloria Truly Estrelita, Rosalia Sciortino, Saskia Wieringa, and Wijayanto 9 Methodological pluralism in social movement studies: why and how 115 Donatella della Porta PART II DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS IN SOCIAL MOVEMENT RESEARCH 10 Learning within freedom movements: using critical oral history methodology 128 Geri Augusto, Danita Mason-Hogans, and Wesley Hogan 11 Doing digital ethnography: a comparison of two social movement studies 144 John Postill 12 Media and communication activism: doing ethnography with ultra-right and progressive social movements 159 Cinzia Padovani 13 Visual research with Mayan social movements in Guatemala: a critical approach 168 Carlos Y. Flores 14 Back and forth: militant ethnography in the ‘crowded fields’ 182 Magdalena Sztandara 15 Making sense of the Narmada movements through Adivasi narratives 197 Sutapa Chattopadhyay 16 The art of talks and conversations in Indigenous research: decolonising interview methods 214 Keneilwe Phatshwane 17 Researching social movement participation in the Global South: what to do after discovering and recording plural and ambiguous narratives in the field? 230 Minati Dash 18 Using surveys to study demonstrators 243 Emily Rainsford and Clare Saunders 19 Analysing protest events: a quantitative and systematic approach 257 Tiago Carvalho 20 How do grievances become manifestos? Developing frame analysis in social movement research 271 Aurora Perego and Stefania Vicari 21 Researching identity and culture in place-based struggles 290 Ayse Sargin 22 Researching ideologies and social movements: why and how? 306 Susann Pham 23 ‘Repertoires of contention’: examining concept, method, context and practice 321 Arnab Roy Chowdhury 24 Searching for mechanisms of social movement success: research on political and cultural underpinnings of protestors’ impact 336 David W. Everson and Robert M. Fishman 25 Historical approaches to researching social movements 349 Stefan Berger PART III APPLICATIONS OF SOCIAL MOVEMENT RESEARCH 26 A story of three activists: the value of activist action research in social movement learning 365 Jane Burt, Tokelo Mahlakoane, Eustine Matsepane and Mmathapelo Thobejane 27 Community-based research: approaches, principles and challenges 377 Anna Szolucha 28 Participatory research as activism: Orlando Fals Borda and the Latin American tradition of engaged research 387 Joanne Rappaport 29 Participatory action research in social movements 399 Laurence Cox 30 Using research in movement strategy 409 Natasha Adams 31 Research methods for studying collective action outcomes 420 Katrin Uba 32 Civil resistance research: how can we make our work more useful to activists and organizers? 432 Steve Chase Index

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Book SynopsisThis dynamic Handbook offers state-of-the-art analysis of the new generation of youth activists who are demanding change. Bringing together eminent scholars, rising academic stars and youth activists, this Handbook provides a unique and essential insight into the power of youth activism today.Jerusha Conner deftly brings together contributors from the global north and south who explore youth activism through a range of multidisciplinary methods including systematic literature reviews, ethnographic studies, photo-voice exhibits and first-hand narrative accounts. Chapters cover the nature of youth activism in different geopolitical contexts, the invisible labour of youth activism, and the effects of youth activism on youth, their institutions, and societies. Presenting findings from cutting-edge research, this Handbook highlights how youth activists are sparking important conversations about what is right and what must change in their institutions, nation-states, and the world in order to secure a just and viable future for themselves and others.An authoritative analysis of the field, this Handbook will be an invaluable resource for academics, students and researchers specialising in politics and public policy, sociology and social policy, education policy and the sociology of youth and childhood. It will also be of interest to youth activists and their allies to better understand, assess, and improve their movements’ efficacy.Trade Review‘This Handbook provides a remarkable compendium of the essential work young people are doing to demand change at the local, national, and transnational levels. Although warned by the editors not to romanticize youth activists, it is impossible to walk away from this book without a deep sense of hope for the future.’ -- Amy J. Binder, Johns Hopkins University, US‘Jerusha Conner has pulled together a remarkable collection that reflects the diversity of the burgeoning field of research on youth activism. Like the field itself, these chapters are interdisciplinary, international, multi-method, and engaged with a wide range of theoretical traditions, but united in their commitment to taking youth activists seriously as a source of both social transformation and academic insight. This Handbook will be invaluable to anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the cultural, social, and political dynamics of contemporary youth activism.’ -- Jessica Taft, University of California, Santa Cruz, US‘This important book takes a much-needed global and environmental perspective to key issues of our time, providing new insights about how activism impacts young people, society, and their communities. Its deep description of local contexts and new methodologies honors the complexity of how young people challenge intersecting systems of power.’ -- Matthew Diemer, University of Michigan, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: youth activism in a context of global uncertainty and biographical precarity xix Jerusha Conner, Uyiosa Elegon and Alison K. Cohen PART I THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF YOUTH ACTIVISM 1 The political participation of young people in times of crisis: a framework for analysis 2 Daniela Chironi, Donatella della Porta and Chiara Milan 2 Developmental foundations of environmental activism 16 Alisa A. Pykett, Erin Gallay and Constance Flanagan 3 The disruptive power of recognition and young environmental activists 31 Judith Bessant and Sarah Pickard 4 Using a human rights lens: learning from children’s activism 46 E. Kay M. Tisdall and Patricio Cuevas-Parra PART II YOUTH ACTIVISM IN SPECIFIC GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXTS 5 Youth activism in Ukraine before and during the Russia–Ukraine war 61 Olena Nikolayenko 6 Why and how South Asian youth are involved in politics: a systematic review of literature 75 Yog Raj Lamichhane and Bharat Raj Dhakal 7 Charting youth activism in Chile: contemporary areas and trends 91 Juan Pablo Rodríguez, Lucía Miranda Leibe, Rodrigo Torres, Nicolás Ortiz and Nicolás Angelcos PART III METHODOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN THE STUDY OF YOUTH ACTIVISM 8 Methods for a multimodal, collaborative, and engaged research practice: mapping youth activism and cultural production across time and space 107 Maurice Rafael Magaña, Anthony Gerard Wright and Jurhamuti José Velázquez Morales 9 By us, for us: a women of color student activist photo-narrative exhibit for sociopolitical wellbeing 123 Jesica Siham Fernández and Danielle N. Aguilar 10 Visual politicization and youth challenges to an unequal public sphere: conceptual and methodological perspectives 140 Eeva Luhtakallio, Taina Meriluoto and Carla Malafaia 11 Ambivalent narratives of the political self: notes on the coproduction of audio-visual stories in Cape Town and Luanda 154 Chloé Buire PART IV THE NATURE OF YOUTH ACTIVISTS’ LABOR 12 Keeping the store in order: an ethnography of youth activism’s everyday work 169 Ilaria Pitti 13 Coming out in solidarity: the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy as a space of support and experimentation for queer youth 183 Gavin Brown 14 Racism and youth climate activism: what can we learn from racism allegations about the image exclusions of black women activists? 196 Brendon Barnes 15 Enabling conditions and challenges of youth sexual and reproductive rights activism in Indonesia 210 Rinaldi Ridwan and Putri Widi Saraswati 16 An ideal activist in a privileged society: studying the internal negotiations and practices of being a young Danish activist 226 Maria Bruselius-Jensen PART V EFFECTS OF YOUTH ACTIVISM ON YOUTH 17 Reframing school engagement: relationships to school among youth organizing participants working for educational justice 241 Sara McAlister 18 Movements forward: finding healing through activism 257 Marlene Palomar, Abraham Jones and Ben Kirshner 19 Black youth, digital activism, and racial battle fatigue: how Black youth enact hope, humor, and healing online 272 Tiera Tanksley and Alexis E. Hunter 20 Political context and Russian youth: the political socialization of young activists under authoritarianism 289 Svetlana Erpyleva PART VI EFFECTS OF YOUTH ACTIVISM ON THEIR INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETY 21 “These are my greatest accomplishments”: how US youth activists frame their biggest wins 304 Oladimeji Fatoki, Amanda Galczyk, Christopher M. Wegemer, Laura Wray-Lake and Jerusha Conner 22 “Real change takes time”: building multi-dimensional youth community power in a participatory design collective 319 Kathryn Y. Morgan, Kayla Anderson, Joseph KaiKai, Lema Shaltaf and Brian D. Christens 23 On and off: representations and omissions of youth activism in political campaign ads (Brazil and Argentina, 1980s and 2010s) 336 Dolores Rocca Rivarola 24 #WeAreRemovingADictator: the 2021 Uganda election crisis, the possibilities and limits of youth digital activism 351 M. Ainomugisha and Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire 25 The White Ribbon movement and its achievement in uprooting the conservative Thai state 365 Kanokrat Lertchoosakul

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Book SynopsisRevealing the politics underlying the rapid globalization of facial recognition technology (FRT), this topical book provides a cutting-edge, critical analysis of the expanding global market for FRT, and the rise of the transnational social movement that opposes it.With the use of FRT for policing, surveillance, and business steadily increasing, this book provides a timely examination of both the benefits of FRT, and the threats it poses to privacy rights, human rights, and civil liberties. Interviews with analysts and activists with expertise in FRT find that the anti-FRT movement is highly uneven, with disproportionate influence in Western democracies and relatively little influence in authoritarian states and low-income countries in the developing world. Through a global analysis of the uptake and regulation of FRT, chapters create a holistic understanding of the politics behind this technology. Concluding with a look towards the future prospects of FRT in the face of the growing size, reach, and power of its opposition, the book reflects more broadly on the power of transnational social movements and civil society activism to prevent the globalization and normalization of new technologies.A visionary exploration of FRT, this book will be invaluable to students and scholars of politics and policy, alongside activists, stakeholders, and policy makers interested in the growing power of social movements to resist new technology.Trade Review‘Facial recognition technologies (FRT) are spreading rapidly worldwide, and have become embedded in numerous everyday government and corporate practices. This widespread adoption has prompted extensive criticism, particularly from civil society groups concerned about human rights abuses and discriminatory impacts for marginalized and vulnerable communities. In Identified, Tracked, and Profiled, Peter Dauvergne provides a much-needed and thoroughly comprehensive overview of the regulatory issues and policy disputes around FRT. This book is essential reading for those interested in political contests over our changing digital landscape.’ -- Ron Deibert, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Introducing facial recognition technology 2. Resisting the normalization of facial recognition PART II REINING IN FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY 3. The movement to oppose facial recognition 4. The politics of facial recognition bans in the United States 5. Regulating facial recognition in the United States 6. Rising global opposition to face surveillance PART III THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FACIAL RECOGNITION 7. The corporate politics of facial recognition 8. The everyday politics of facial recognition in China 9. The globalization of facial recognition technology PART IV CONCLUSIONS 10. The future of facial recognition technology Appendix: interviews Index

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Book Synopsis'A fascinating, passionate and political case for art's world-changing power, by a fizzingly good writer' - Robert Macfarlane'A rich and broad overview of socially purposeful art. Everyone interested in social change should read it' - Brian EnoIn Acts of Resistance, Amber Massie-Blomfield writes about the artists who have treated the protest site as their canvas and contributed to movements that have transformed history - from the musicians in Auschwitz to the four-year Siege of Sarajevo, from the to ACT UP's 1989 invasion of the New York Stock Exchange, to the Niger Delta and indigenous communities in Bolivia.Including stories and artists from across the globe, including Susan Sontag, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and Claude Cahun - alongside collectives, communities, amateurs and anonymous creators who have used their art as an expression of resistance - this fascinating book asks what is the purpose of art in

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Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking Handbook provides a theoretical overview of the wide variety of anti-environmentalisms and offers an integrative research agenda for future research on the topic. Probing the ways in which groups have organized to oppose environmental movements and pro-environmental policies in recent decades, it examines those involved in these countermovements and studies their motivations and support systems.International contributors investigate the ways in which anti-environmentalism differs across regions and by the nature of the issue, alongside unique coverage of the critiques of environmental movements coming from sources that are not anti-environmental. This Handbook explores core topics in the field, including contestation over climate change, wind power, mining, forestry, food sovereignty, oil and gas pipelines and population issues. Chapters also analyse our understanding of countermovements, the effect of public opinion on environmental policy, and original empirical case studies from North America, Oceania, Europe and Asia.Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the Handbook of Anti-Environmentalism will be a key resource for scholars and students of environmental politics and policy, environmental sociology, environmental governance and social movements.Trade Review‘Over the last decades, many systematic accounts have been provided of the main social and political movements currently active on the globe. Far less attention has been paid to their opponents and critics. Focusing on reactions to environmental movements, and edited by three foremost analysts of environmental politics, this Handbook is likely to have an impact which goes well beyond that particular field. It will appeal to all those interested in the study of “counter-movements” at large.’ -- Mario Diani, University of Trento, Italy‘In an era where scientific misinformation and disinformation are proliferating globally, there is a clear and pressing need for this state-of-the-art overview of anti-environmental actors, messages and campaigns. The editors of the Handbook have assembled a stellar roster of international contributors who interrogate every aspect of the problem from media framing, to climate denial networks, to neoliberal governance. Highly recommended to university libraries and to environmental activists and scholars.’ -- John Hannigan, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: foreign-funded radicals x James Hoggan PART I INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW 1 The contours of anti-environmentalism: an introduction to the Handbook of Anti-Environmentalism 2 Mark C.J. Stoddart, David Tindall and Riley E. Dunlap PART II THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 2 Understanding countermovements 23 Suzanne Staggenborg and David S. Meyer 3 Against environmentalism for the common good: a theoretical model 43 Nicholas Scott PART III ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALISM DISCOURSE AND FRAMING 4 ‘Total preservation is just as bad as total logging’: forests and environmental attitudes and behaviours in an anti-environmentalist countermovement 63 David Tindall, Mark C.J. Stoddart and Valerie Berseth 5 Climate change scepticism in front-page Czech newspaper coverage: a one man show 84 Petr Ocelík PART IV VALUES, ATTITUDES AND PUBLIC OPINION 6 Understanding opposition to the environmental movement: the importance of dominant American values 108 Riley E. Dunlap 7 The effect of public opinion on environmental policy in the face of the environmental countermovement 133 Kerry Ard, Tiffany Williams and Paige Kelly 8 Anti-environment, or pro-livelihood? Dissecting environmental conflict and its key drivers in Northern New South Wales 153 Vanessa Bible PART V SOCIAL NETWORKS AND ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALISM 9 Climate change counter movement organisations: an international deviant network? 173 Ruth E. McKie 10 Fossil networks and dirty power: the politics of decarbonisation in Australia 192 Adam Lucas 11 Regime of obstruction: fossil capitalism and the many facets of climate denial in Canada 216 William K. Carroll, Shannon Daub and Shane Gunster 12 The Koch Brothers and the climate change denial social movement 234 Patrick Doreian and Andrej Mrvar PART VI EXTRACTIVE DEVELOPMENT AND ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALISM 13 Neoliberal governance of environmentalism in the post-9/11 security era: the case of pipeline debates in Canada 248 S. Harris Ali 14 Fashioning anti-environmentalism in Turkey: the campaign against the Bergama movement 268 Hayriye Özen PART VII AGRICULTURE AND ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALISM 15 Food sovereignty and anti-regulation from the left 284 James S. Krueger 16 Agrarian reform movement in the Betung Kerihun National Park: mobilisation of hunter–gatherer communities against nature protection in Kalimantan 304 Martin C. Lukas 17 Wind energy development and anti-environmentalism in Alberta, Canada 329 Aleksandra Afanasyeva, Debra J. Davidson and John Parkins PART VIII ETHNICITY AND RACE 18 The end of population-environmentalism: dissonance over human rights and societal goals 345 Pamela McMullin-Messier 19 The environmental state and the racial state in tension: does racism impede environmentalism? 365 Ian R. Carrillo PART IX OTHER SPHERES OF ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALISM 20 Skin in the game: the struggle over climate protection within the US labor movement 381 Todd E. Vachon 21 Reflexive religious anti-environmentalism on Indigenous lands: decolonization and religious environmental organizations (REOs) in the Trans Mountain resistance, Canada 399 Victor W.Y. Lam 22 Anti-environmentalism in critical social science and new conservation 423 Helen Kopnina, Haydn Washington and Joe Gray PART X CONCLUSION 23 Moving forward in the study of anti-environmentalism: combining tools from different tool kits 440 David Tindall, Mark C.J. Stoddart and Riley E. Dunlap Index

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together an extraordinary wealth of experience and will be an eye-opener for many readers. It seeks to provide an introduction to the history of major social movements - including Occupy and the Global Justice Movement, major green campaigns, peace and anti-war resistance and feminist and LGBT struggles - over the last 70 years, and to signpost contemporary developments in these movements. It provides brief background summaries and a range of references from movement periodicals and websites, scholarly journals, and books by activists as well as academic studies. It focuses on social movements of all kinds, with emphasis on nonviolent action and protest, it includes material on conventional political action and legal action, and literature providing some general historical and theoretical background.Trade Review'A great resource for finding valuable source material about the resistance of millions of people around the world intent on social change to create a better world.' Angie ZelterTable of ContentsContents: Preface, Foreword, Introduction, General Introductory Titles; Part A: Campaigns for Social and Economic Justice, Campaigns by Workers, Urban Campaigns against High Rents, Forced Evictions and Homelessness, Struggles over Land, Resistance to Multinationals, Transnational Solidarity with Exploited Workers: Campaigns against Sweatshops, Global Justice Movement, Opposing IMF Policies and Privatization, Resistance since Financial Crisis of 2008. Part B: Indigenous Movements, Campaigns for Civil, Political and Cultural Rights, Indigenous Resistance to Government and Corporate Threats to their Environment. Part C: Green Campaigns and Protests; Green Movements, Campaigns on Specific Issues. Part D: Peace Movements Since 1945, General: National and Transnational Movements, Opposition to Nuclear Weapons since the 1950s, Autonomous Peace Protest in the Soviet Bloc up to 1989, Protests Against Militarism. Part E: Resistance Movements Against Specific Wars, Introduction and resistance to French war in Algeria, Resistance to the Vietnam War, 1961-73, Opposing Wars Against Iraq: The Gulf War 1991 and US-led Invasion 2003, Opposing Other Wars and Occupations. Part F: Feminist Movements and Protests, The "Second Wave" of Feminism: Pressure and Protests in the West, Women under Communism and Post-Communism, The Global Women's Movement:1970s-2000s, Feminism in the West: From Third to Fourth Wave, War and Women's Resistance. Part G: LGBT: Campaigns for Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Rights, The 'Homophile' Movement and Rise of Gay Liberation in the West: 1950s-1970s, Global Struggles for LGBT rights in 21st Century, Minorities within LGBT. Part H: Campaigns Against Government, Challenging Authoritarianism, Neoliberalism, Corruption and Misspending 2013-2014, Campaigns for Transparency and Against Corruption: Focus on India, Campaigning for Just Taxes, Poll Tax Protests, Britain, 1989-90. Part I: Regional Campaigns for Civic, Cultural or National Rights, Welsh Nationalism, Northern Ireland. Part J: Preparation and Training for Nonviolence, Planning and Development of Campaigns, Training for Nonviolent Action. Addendum: Selected Titles on Nonviolent Action and Movements in French, German and Spanish. Author Index.

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Book SynopsisOn a perfect summer’s day in August – as a faint breeze cooled the heat of the noonday sun and gently lifted the flags to display their mottoes and emblems – a huge crowd, mainly of working people, gathered on St Peter’s Field in Manchester to discuss the universal right to vote that we now all take for granted. Conspicuously present at the meeting were women, the breeze dishevelling their long hair as they enthusiastically doffed their hats to cheer. Suddenly, before the proceedings could begin, the peaceful crowd was savagely dispersed, the work of charging cavalrymen wielding recently sharpened sabres, backed up by the truncheons of the constabulary and the bayonets of the infantry. When the screams had subsided and the dust had settled on the blood-stained ground, the true horror of the attack started to become clear. Over 650 were injured and more than 17 died, many women and children among them Drawing on eight surviving casualty lists, full of information about the victims and their attackers, Professor Michael Bush gives us the first truly objective assessment of the day’s events. He shows that this was no mere act of dispersal. It was an act of terror and humiliation worthy of the epithet `massacre’, and unequalled in the history of Britain.Table of ContentsTables and maps vi Preface vii Abbreviations xv 1. Analysis of casualty 1 16 August 1819 1 The surviving casualty lists 4 A true mirror of the crowd at Peterloo? 13 Residence of casualties 17 Occupation of casualties 24 Casualties of Irish extraction 28 The judgment on Peterloo 29 Treatment of the women 30 Treatment of the men 33 Treatment of youth and age 35 Motives for attack 37 A massacre? 41 The perpetrators 50 Payment of compensation 55 Notes to Chapter I 57 II. The Peterloo casualty lists 63 Index 161

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Book SynopsisExponentially increasing levels of unemployment and simmering racial tension in Moss Side, inner Manchester, exploded into mass riots on the 8th of July 1981, following the siege of a police station. In the Moss frames the events from the perspectives of Janet, a student nurse working in A&E, and Nav, a Sikh police officer on the streets. Both crave a return to normality and just want to fit in, but when violence breaks out and a teenage boy is stabbed, they are thrust together and forced to confront questions that arise about what really happened in the Moss.Trade ReviewIn praise of Fridge, Zadow's first play: 'Every word of this script, from stage directions to dialogue, does so much heavy lifting, so that, for a slim volume, the emotional resonance is huge. I am very grateful to have had the chance to discover this talented playwright.' (Ellie Hawkes) 'I would highly recommend you pick up this delightful jewel of a play… an intricate, highly plotted story that twists and turns, leaving you feeling unsettled and yet strangely calm.' (Zoe Radley) 'This play is proof that you don’t need much to make a great story: 3 characters and 1 fridge.' (Anne Galmiche-Johnson) 'Zadow offers a powerful and thought-provoking look at the intricacies of memory, nostalgia and the tribulations of early adulthood.' (James Bell, A Younger Theatre)

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Book SynopsisAN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF PROTEST AND ACTIVISM IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALANDTrade Review'This book is a valuable koha to those who missed class or were born away from the roots of knowledge. It is a fresh taonga for the bookshelf, and necessary for anyone who tells you how perfect New Zealand is' - Jessica Thompson Carr, Landfall Review Online; 'From a strong pool of contenders, one book stood above the others, not only achieving excellence in writing, illustration and design, but also – crucially – tackling a vast and significant topic worthy of these urgent times'; ‘Readers are drawn into Aotearoa’s rich and raw stories from contact to now. Engaging, insightful and incredibly well-researched texts by multiple authors provide a cohesive and strong overall narrative, covering a huge breadth of our history and the themes that define us as a nation' - Ockham judges' comments;Table of Contents06 Preface 10 Protest, remember and survive 18 Collisions 48 War 98 Anti-nuclear protest 126 Mana motuhake 166 Apartheid 212 Women & Protest 250 LGBTQI+ protest 270 Civil rights 314 Class & economic protest 354 Environment 398 Acknowledgements 400 Notes 404 Select bibliography 406 About the contributors 408 Index

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Book SynopsisThis is a broad history of the various reform and radical groups of the 1960s who went under the name of the Movement. It demonstrates what profound influence the Movement had upon the period and the reasons why it fragmented and disappeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This is the first major interpretative history of this subject.Trade Review"Terry Anderson has written the best book yet on the broad protest movement that dominated American life in the 1960s. Unlike earlier writers, who focus on elites or just one group, he offers a kaleidoscopic view that stresses the grass-roots involvement of American youth as they challenged both the politics and the values of their elders in a frontal assault on the established Cold War culture. It is a tour de force."--Robert A. Divine, George W. Littlefield Professor in American History, University of Texas at Austin"A splendid study, exhaustively researched and engagingly written, and a useful--indeed essential--corrective to the new conventional wisdom about a tumultuous era."--George C. Herring, Professor of History, University of Kentucky"A marvelous tour de force....Anderson's book is an indispensable tool for anyone trying to understand the perplexing range of movements during the 1960s. It should be on the bookshelf of every serious student of social activism."--Mary King, author of Freedom SongAnderson has written a very detailed and absorbing account of these events..a detailed description of events, this is a useful book * Socialist Review *"A disturbing tale, well told in exhaustive detail....It is the merit of Terry Anderson's book that it captures the tone, as well as the events, of a decade in which America finally emerged from cold-war simplicities and began the painful discovery of itself."--The Economist"Hundreds of voices resound in this thoroughgoing analysis of '60s radicalism....A highly accessible survey that should be the standard for years to come."--Kirkus Reviews"A valuable, refreshingly unbiased reassessment of the '60s legacy." --Publishers Weekly"Anderson's well-written, accessible history is much more than nostalgic reading for baby boomers, the great majority of whom sat on the sidelines during most of the decade while a minority acted. Neither is it a polemic in unquestioning defense of '60s activists. Instead, it attempts to understand the motives of 'the movement' and place its actions in the context of the times. In doing so, it provides a valuable counterpoint to the reductionist and revisionist views now prevalent."--The Christian Science Monitor"For those already tested in the political fires of the '60s, [Anderson's] book is a reminder to keep alert and stay active. For a younger generation, he provides a concise and closely packed history that precedes the roil and boil of today's political activity."--The Seattle Times"Perceptive....Anderson takes on all strands of the Movement."--Booklist (starred review)"Ably surveys a busy, complex era....This is a resonant book. Most of all, it recalls a not-so-distant past when Americans thought we could and should reform our society."--The Dallas Morning NewsThis volume is a lively account of the turbulence experienced by American society after two decades of Cold War...While the whole book is compelling, chapter 6, entitled "Power and Liberation", is particularly incisive...a welcome addition to the literature of the period. Written with both passion and control. * The Historian *"A fascinating, extensively researched account of a time when the younger generation opened pop culture's Pandora's box, and an estranged segment of America took to the streets and said: 'We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore.'...Dig it, man. It's a trip."--Fort Worth Star-Telegram"Anderson leaves no lunch counter unturned. It is all there, from Rosa Parks and the Summer of Love to bra burnings and the March on the Pentagon, complete with selected quotations from various songs of the era atop each chapter."--William McGurn, writing in The Wall Street Journala very detailed and absorbing account * Socialist Review, November 1996 *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction, Spawning Ground: Cold War Culture I. The First Wave: The Surge, 1960 to 1968 1. The STruggle 2. The Movement and the Sixities Generation 3. Days of Decision 4. 1968: Rip Tides II. The Second Wave: The Crest, 1968 to the early 1970s 5. Counterculture 6. Power and Liberation 7. The Movement Toward a New America Legacies, The Sea Change

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Book SynopsisThis is the first major study of the personalities, achievements, and tactics of British feminist leaders between the wars. It brings out the breadth and scale of their activities, and explains their contribution towards broadening women''s political, occupational, and family roles at home and abroad. Dr Harrison clarifies the organizational context and ancestry of inter-war feminism through creating a portrait gallery of sixteen prominent but very different feminists. Some (Lady Astor and Ellen Wilkinson, for example) are well-known, but are approached from a new angle; others, equally significant and interesting, are now almost forgotten. Overall, the book provides a composite portrait of the reforming personality, and illuminates the tactical and strategic dilemmas that face the reformer who aims to transform a hostile climate by working through democratic institutions.Drawing on interviews as well as a wide range of manuscript and other sources, Prudent Revolutionaries throws new lTrade Review'Brian Harrison has produced an enjoyable and instructive book. It is academic history at its best.' Independent'Harrison's elegantly written book provides a rich and challenging source of new biographical material' Times Literary Supplement'Harrison's conclusion is often stimulating and offers some searching questions ... on the nature of women's political involvement. ... this is a scholarly, liberal-minded but deeply traditional work' Dorothy Zaborszky, Laurentian University. RFR/DRF'this book is exemplary in its use of oral sources: Harrison has spent an enormous amount of time patiently collecting useful information from his subjects, or those who knew them; but he never overrates the significance of this material, and always integrates it closely with all the other available source materials" Arthur Marwick, The Open University, The English Historical Review, January 1991

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Trade ReviewWell researched, clearly written, and even more comprehensive than it claims...offers readers a concise study of twentieth-century urban racial violence in the three selected cities and serves as a good starting point for those interested in researching urban racial violence in more depth. * African American Review *Abu-Lughod brings to this new book on riots an enormous amount of knowledge about the economic context of New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles...this book provides good fodder for debate...and contains some provocative commentary and thoughtful discussion of riots, American style. * Political Science Quarterly *Seeks to shed light on the ever changing nature of race relations in American cities and in America at large... The individual chapters on politics, race relations and civil unrest in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles are masterful, describing the long-term transformations of the each city's spatial, racial, and political character and locating each riot event within those transformative moments... ultimately a rewarding read. * Urban Affairs *In this new book, she Abu-Lughod neatly balances the historical facts of each of these cities with a deeply informed interpretation that clearly advances our knowledge of how both large and small riots unfold... rich with evidence and insight... As an urbanist, the author is without parallel when she dissects the U.S. federal effort to address the housing needs of the population. * Anthropological Quarterly *Abu-Lughod should be commended for her scholarly contribution and for drawing attention to these pivotal events as important signs or indicators of tectonic shifts" (pp. 255, 260) taking place in the racial and political landscape of American cities...As Abu-Lughod convincingly argues, the future of urban areas, and the likelihood of future riots, will indeed depend on how American society chooses to deal with the enduring issues of racial and spatial inequality.. * City & Community *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments ; List of Maps ; List of Tables ; CHAPTER 1. An Overview of Race Riots in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles ; PART I - CHICAGO'S STRUGGLES TO CONTROL SPACE ; CHAPTER 2. The Bloody Riot of 1919 and its Consequences ; CHAPTER 3. The Black Uprising after King's Assassination in 1968 ; Epilogue post-1968 ; PART II - NEW YORK'S STRUGGLES FOR EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ; CHAPTER 4. The Harlem Revolts of 1935 and 1943 ; CHAPTER 5. The Harlem-Bedford Stuyvesant Uprising of 1964 ; Epilogue ; PART III - LOS ANGELES' FUTILE UPRISINGS ; CHAPTER 6. The Watts Rebellion of 1965 ; CHAPTER 7. Riot Redux: South Central, 1992 ; Epilogue ; CHAPTER 8. Explaining Differences, Predicting Convergence ; A Look to the Future ; Bibliographies ; General and Comparative Sources ; The Chicago Case ; The New York Case ; The Los Angeles Case ; Index

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Book SynopsisFrom Gandhi''s movement to win Indian independence to the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, an expanding number of citizens have used nonviolent action to win political goals. While such events have captured the public imagination, they have also generated a new surge of scholarly interest in the field of nonviolence and civil resistance studies. Although researchers have produced new empirical data, theories, and insights into the phenomenon of nonviolent struggle, the field is still quite unfamiliar to many students and scholars. In Nonviolent Struggle: Theories, Strategies, and Dynamics, sociologist Sharon Nepstad provides a succinct introduction to the field of civil resistance studies, detailing its genesis, key concepts and debates, and a summary of empirical findings. Nepstad depicts the strategies and dynamics at play in nonviolent struggles, and analyzes the factors that shape the trajectory and outcome of civil resistance movements. The book draws on a vast array of historical examples, including the U.S. civil rights movement, the Indonesian uprising against President Suharto, the French Huguenot resistance during World War II, and Cesar Chavez''s United Farm Workers. Nepstad describes both principled and pragmatic nonviolent traditions and explains various categories of nonviolent action, concluding with an assessment of areas for future research. A comprehensive treatment of the philosophy and strategy of nonviolent resistance, Nonviolent Struggle is essential reading for students, scholars, and anyone with a general interest in peace studies and social change.Trade ReviewIt is not an easy task to capture a moving target, but Nepstad has successfully done so, having effectively woven the different threads of this emerging field together. Nonviolent Struggle provides a comprehensive overview of this still under-researched phenomenon and in that sense is clearly one of the foundational academic works... Nonviolent Struggle is a must-read for scholars, students, practitioners and anyone with a general interest in conflict transformation, peace studies, social change and social movements. * Siddharth Tripathi, Democratization *Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures ; Preface ; Acknowledgements ; Chapter 1: What Nonviolence Is and What It Is Not ; Chapter 2: Religious and Ethical Positions on Violence and Nonviolence ; Chapter 3: The Strategy of Nonviolent Resistance ; Chapter 4: Types of Nonviolent Action ; Chapter 5: Dynamics of Nonviolent Struggles ; Chapter 6: Outcomes and Consequences of Nonviolent Struggles ; Chapter 7: Armed Forces, Defections, and Nonviolent Change ; Chapter 8: The Global Diffusion of Nonviolence ; Chapter 9: Future Directions in Civil Resistance Research ; Appendix: Discussion Questions ; Endnotes ; Glossary of Terms ; References

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Book SynopsisList of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgments Notes on the Contributors Organizational Structures and Visions of Democracy in the Global Justice Movement: An Introduction; D.della Porta Global Justice Movement Organizations: The Organizational Population; D.della Porta Participatory Traditions within the Global Justice Movement; H.Reiter Consensus in Movements; D.della Porta Social Movements and Multilevel Governance: The External Dimension of Democracy; D.della Porta Why Are Social Movement Organizations Deliberative? Structural and Cultural Determinants of Internal Decision Making in the Global Justice Movement; M.Giugni & A.Nai Organizational Size and Democratic Practices: Can Large Be Beautiful?; C.Saunders Forms of Action of Global Justice Movement Groups: Do Conceptions and Practices of Democracy Matter?; D.Rucht & S.Teune Unconventional Politics Online: Internet and the Global Justice Movement; L.Mosca & D.della Porta The Generational Issue: The Impact of Organizations' Age onTrade Review'Della Porta's new edited book, the culmination of years of group effort, shows that there is no contradiction between collaborative research and thematic closure, or between culturally-inspired and empirically executed work. Democracy in Social Movements eloquently shows how, from many different sources and with different ideological origins, the Global Justice Movement has painstakingly developed a method of internal consensus- building and deliberative democracy as it faces the forces of neo-liberalism. This is a book well worth having in the library of all scholars of social movements and contentious politics.' - Sidney Tarrow, Professor of Government and Sociology, Cornell University, USA 'This is an excellent book on an under-researched but very important theme, and it explores this theme in the context of the major social movement of our day. Della Porta has done a wonderful job in pulling together a collection...which tackles the issue of 'democracy of movement' from all major relevant angles. Activists and academics alike have much to learn from the book and will find it a real treat.' - Nick Crossley, University of Manchester, UKTable of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgments Notes on the Contributors Organizational Structures and Visions of Democracy in the Global Justice Movement: An Introduction; D.della Porta Global Justice Movement Organizations: The Organizational Population; D.della Porta Participatory Traditions within the Global Justice Movement; H.Reiter Consensus in Movements; D.della Porta Social Movements and Multilevel Governance: The External Dimension of Democracy; D.della Porta Why Are Social Movement Organizations Deliberative? Structural and Cultural Determinants of Internal Decision Making in the Global Justice Movement; M.Giugni & A.Nai Organizational Size and Democratic Practices: Can Large Be Beautiful?; C.Saunders Forms of Action of Global Justice Movement Groups: Do Conceptions and Practices of Democracy Matter?; D.Rucht & S.Teune Unconventional Politics Online: Internet and the Global Justice Movement; L.Mosca & D.della Porta The Generational Issue: The Impact of Organizations' Age on Visions of Democracy; H.Combes, N.Haeringer & I.Sommier Crossing Borders: Transnational Activism in European Social Movements; M.Pianta, R.Marchetti & D.Zola Democracy in Movement: Some Conclusions; D.della Porta References Index

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Book SynopsisPresents a controversial view of the origins of fascism, locating them in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Anti-Enlightenment, a far earlier date than most historians. This book contends that J G Herder, Edmund Burke, and Joseph de Maistre can be connected to the origins of the Anti-Enlightenment.Trade Review"Few scholars comprehend the nexus between Counter-Enlightenment discourse and fascist ideology as well as Zeev Sternhell. In Anti-Enlightenment Tradition, Sternhell provides a series of provocative and disturbing arguments to demonstrate convincingly just how fraught and intimate those linkages were. Anti-Enlightenment Tradition represents a landmark and transformative contribution to the political history of ideas."—Richard Wolin, author of The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism -- Richard Wolin"Zeev Sternhell is one of the most original scholars dealing with the historical roots of fascism and the European Right. This new book is a masterly synthesis which will generate vigorous debate and open new vistas for the understanding of contemporary political thought."—Saul Friedlander, author of The Years of Extermination -- Saul Friedlander"In his The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition, Professor Sternhell has provided us another work of impeccable scholarship and intellectual stimulation. It is recommended to all who are interested in the fate of our civilization."—A. James Gregor, University of California, Berkeley -- A. James Gregor"Everything Zeev Sternhell writes is powerful and challenging, and this book is no exception. At a time when Enlightenment values are again under attack, this history of anti-Enlightenment thought is important and timely."—Robert Tombs, University of Cambridge -- Robert Tombs“In this learned and impassioned book, Zeev Sternhell mounts a major offensive against thinkers—be they conservative or liberal, from Edmund Burke to Isaiah Berlin—that he considers as the enemies of Enlightenment values. Even readers who disagree with Sternhell's thesis will have to admire the scope and force of his argument. This book is a crowning achievement of his long and distinguished career.”—Susan Suleiman, author of Crisis of Memory and the Second World War -- Susan Suleiman"Few people know the power of evil ideas more intimately than Zeev Sternhell."—Adam Kirsch, Tablet Magazine -- Adam Kirsch * Tablet Magazine *

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Book SynopsisThe early twentieth century is usually remembered as an era of rising nationalism and military hostility, culminating in the disaster of the First World War. This book explores the role of artists and writers in the formation of a modern, secular peace movement in Britain, and the impact of ideas about 'positive peace' on their artistic practice.Trade Review“Lavishly illustrated . . . written in a lively style . . . Ms. Brockington deftly focuses on an important yet often neglected facet of Modernism.”—William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal -- William Anthony Hay * Wall Street Journal *"Photos, rarely reproduced art, and thorough documentation of sources demonstrate considerable archival sleuthing."—Russell T. Clement, Library Journal -- Russell T. Clement * Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on the outcomes of social movements in Brazil. It provides an extensive analysis of how and when collective mobilization and protest activities brought about social and political change.Charting the dynamics and characteristics of Brazilâs social movements from the abolition of slavery in 1888 to the present day, the contributors to this edited volume demonstrate the processes of social movement activism in Brazil, and its relations with political institutions across various types of governments and political regimes. They bring to light both political opportunity structures of different historical periods, and the political and cultural consequences of mobilization stemming from the collective action of social movements. Showcasing various approaches, the book encompasses a plurality of methodological perspectives including network analysis, collective memory, trajectories, and quantitative techniques of process analysis. Ultimately, the authors present

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Book SynopsisThis book is about power. The power wielded over others â by absolute monarchs, tyrannical totalitarian regimes and military occupiers â and the power of the people who resist and deny their rulers' claims to that authority by whatever means. The extraordinary events in the Middle East in 2011 offered a vivid example of how non-violent demonstration can topple seemingly invincible rulers. This book considers the ways in which the people have united to unseat their oppressors and fight against the status quo and probes the relationship between power and forms of resistance. It also examines how common experiences of violence and repression create new collective identities. This brilliant, yet unsettling book affords a panoramic view of the twentieth and twenty-first century Middle East through occupation, oppression and political resistance.Trade Review'This spirited account carries conviction and by telling it Tripp has made an important contribution in supplementing the record of national liberation struggles.' Morning Star'This important and erudite book is written with clarity and illuminated with a commanding knowledge of the Middle East and its complexities. It should be read by anyone hoping to calibrate their moral and political bearings in this difficult and problematic region.' The Times Literary Supplement'Charles Tripp has written a remarkable book that provides historical depth and rigorous insight into the long arcs of protest in the Middle East and North Africa. Ranging from Morocco to Iran and from the nineteenth century to the 'Arab Spring', Tripp dissects the pathways of popular resistance to authoritarian power. Mixing country case-studies with reflections on the nature of violence, authority and symbolism, he demonstrates how they have for decades undermined the edifice of autocracy in often surprising and effective ways. At a time of profound regional upheaval and great uncertainty over the general 'direction of travel', the book provides a timely and highly original insight into power and politics in the modern Middle East.' Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, International Affairs'In this book, Tripp looks at recent movements across the Middle East for those hidden causes and underlying motivations that often remain unseen and ignored by both scholars and policy makers, much to their analytical detriment … Tripp gives readers the opportunity to understand the issue of civil unrest and potential uprising regardless of geography or specific case study … This insightful work is organized in a comprehensive, probing manner likely to maintain its significance well into the future. It makes sense and is accessible to all: a much-needed addition to the literature. Summing up: highly recommended. All readership levels.' M. D. Crosston, Choice'… incredibly useful as a core text for a course on resistance movements in the Middle East, and scholars already familiar with the topic and historical context should gain something from Tripp's ability to weave these seemingly diverse and unconnected events together in a single book.' H-Net ReviewsTable of Contents1. State capture and violent resistance; 2. Contesting public space: resistance as the denial of authority; 3. Imposition and resistance in economic life; 4. Body politics: women's rights and women's resistance; 5. History wars: contesting the past, reclaiming the future; 6. Symbolic forms of resistance: art and power.

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Book SynopsisWhere did the non-violent protests of the 1960s originate from? This book uncovers their history in an earlier generation's intense struggles to understand and emulate the activities of Mahatma Gandhi. It documents these efforts, traces their influence on later events, and contemplates their significance.Trade Review'There are many books available on Gandhi, perhaps too many. Very often they add little to the existing literature and are not particularly well written. Scalmer is providing something genuinely new through his analysis of Gandhi and the Mahatma's impact on the rise of radical protest in the West through the framework of globalization. And his writing, while incredibly well informed (and documented), is accessible - in fact it can be read as a ripping good yarn.' Thomas Weber, La Trobe University'In this fascinating book, Sean Scalmer powerfully reminds us that personal charisma does not effortlessly spread to an adoring public. Far from it. Mapping the complexity of the processes through which the Mahatma's personality and ideas ended up influencing so many different strands of activism all over the world, Gandhi in the West provides a masterly synthesis of historical and socio-political structural analysis.' Mario Diani, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona'Scalmer employs untapped sources from an unexpectedly deep reservoir of American and British media materials to offer an unprecedented contribution to Gandhi scholarship. It fills a crucial gap in our understanding of the Mahatma's reception in the West, bringing us closer to appreciating why his novel method of nonviolence (satyagraha) became universally compelling, constituting an enduring legacy for peace studies and protest movements.' Dennis Dalton, Barnard College, Columbia University'… [an] important and beautifully written book … a fine example of how to integrate the intellectual history of ideas with the forces of social and political history into a slim and elegant volume.' The Australian'… the author has given a new dimension to Gandhism … The book demonstrates the significance of non-violence and sheds new light on its usefulness.' The Statesman (Calcutta)'Scalmer's topic is the way that Western societies responded to Gandhi's words, actions and image, and how those responses influenced political action in Western democracies … Almost every page is weighted with extensive footnotes that will delight a scholar … Scalmer writes clearly and concisely, and offers insights that are well worth the read.' Canberra Times'An excellent book; one of the very few histories to contemplate the evolution of Gandhism over time, the volume is based on numerous contemporary sources.' David Hardiman, American Historical Review'[This] book is a result of careful research and brings together a huge amount of rich and useful material; it shows effectively the transformation of nonviolence over time. A helpful contribution to an unexplored history, the volume offers something new: a major, comparative and long-term study of transnational Gandhism has not been done so far. And this is precisely what Scalmer successfully has done in this book.' Usha Thakkar, Economic and Political Weekly'The author deserves accolades for producing a meticulously researched work which inscribes in detail the manner in which Gandhi was conceived, refracted and (mis)appropriated in the USA and Britain.' translated from Comparativ'… a lucid, clear and highly persuasive analysis of the ways in which US civil rights protesters and British pacifists adopted Gandhian forms of non-violent protest within their own campaigns … The result is one of the first comparative and transnational histories of the ideas and practices of non-violence in British and US peace and civil rights protests in the 1950s and 1960s.' Holger Nehring, English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Meeting the Mahatma; 2. Gandhism in action; 3. At war over words; 4. Waiting for the peace train; 5. The experimenters; 6. An idea whose time has come?; 7. Transformations unforeseen; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisAnti-U.S. base protests, played out in parliaments and the streets of host nations, continue to arise in different parts of the world. In a novel approach, this book examines the impact of anti-base movements and the important role bilateral alliance relationships play in shaping movement outcomes. The author explains not only when and how anti-base movements matter, but also how host governments balance between domestic and international pressure on base-related issues. Drawing on interviews with activists, politicians, policy makers and U.S. base officials in the Philippines, Japan (Okinawa), Ecuador, Italy and South Korea, the author finds that the security and foreign policy ideas held by host government elites act as a political opportunity or barrier for anti-base movements, influencing their ability to challenge overseas U.S. basing policies.Trade Review“Andrew Yeo has written a fascinating book, sweeping in scope and bold in conception. The issue of maintaining America's forward presence in a rapidly changing international environment has attracted much attention in recent years, but to date there has been no study as thorough as this one. It is sure to be of great interest to scholars, policy makers and students of international affairs.” – Thomas Berger, Boston University“Andrew Yeo’s careful study explains the success and failure of a variety of social movements opposed to U.S. overseas military bases. The breadth and depth of the domestic elite security consensus determines the political opportunities activists have to influence national governments over basing policies. His spare but supple argument provides powerful leverage over diverse cases, from several Asian country contexts to Italy and Ecuador.” – Josh Busby, University of Texas, Austin“Fostering a productive dialogue between social movement theory and the traditional literature on security alliances, Yeo provides a helpful framework for understanding the mobilization of anti-base movements and the types of political pressure that they exert on elites and security decision-makers in countries that host US military facilities.” – Alexander Cooley, Barnard College, Columbia University“Andrew Yeo shows that the politics of military force is more about politics than force. The local and transnational politics of US foreign military bases will be critical in both international and domestic politics. The United States still maintains hundreds of overseas bases at great cost. It’s not surprising that they often provoke intense opposition; anti-base activists, Yeo shows, do best when they are able to exploit rifts in the elite security consensus. Both supporters and opponents will want to read this book to understand how to be more effective. And everyone else will benefit from seeing how American security interests develop at the intersection of movement politics and international relations.” – David S. Meyer, University of California, IrvineTable of Contents1. Activists, alliances and the politics of overseas U.S. bases; 2. Anti-base movements and the security consensus framework; 3. Under a weak security consensus: Philippine anti-base movements, 1990–1991; 4. The U.S.-Japan alliance and anti-base movements in Okinawa, 1995–1996; 5. Anti-base movements in Ecuador and Italy; 6. South Korean anti-base movements and the resilience of the security consensus; 7. Alliance relations and the security consensus across time; 8. Activists, alliances and the future of U.S. basing strategy.

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Book SynopsisThe waves of protest ignited by the self-immolation of Muhammad Bouazizi in Tunisia in late 2010 highlighted for an international audience the importance of contentious politics in the Middle East and North Africa. John Chalcraft's ground-breaking account of popular protest emphasizes the revolutionary modern history of the entire region. Challenging top-down views of Middle Eastern politics, he looks at how commoners, subjects and citizens have long mobilised in defiance of authorities. Chalcraft takes examples from a wide variety of protest movements from Morocco to Iran. He forges a new narrative of change over time, creating a truly comparative framework rooted in the dynamics of hegemonic contestation. Beginning with movements under the Ottomans, which challenged corruption and oppression under the banners of religion, justice, rights and custom, this book goes on to discuss the impact of constitutional movements, armed struggles, nationalism and independence, revolution and IslamTrade Review'John Chalcraft is the Howard Zinn of Middle East studies … [This book] is essential for understanding how the region came to be so fraught in our own era.' Juan Cole, University of Michigan'Unparalleled in both its ambitions and its achievements, this book provides … a brilliant synthetic reinterpretation of the role of popular politics …' John Sidel, London School of Economics and Political Science'This book makes an outstanding contribution to the study of the recent history and politics of the Middle East.' Charles Tripp, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London'In its comparative and theoretical approach, this work is unmatched.' Julia Clancy-Smith, University of Arizona'[This] insightful book shows how mass mobilization helped to shape state-formation and nation-building in the region over the past two centuries, creating the backdrop … for today's tumultuous conflicts.' Charles Kurzman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill'John Chalcraft has written a masterpiece of bottom-up analysis and interpretation over two centuries of Middle Eastern longing, struggle, and change.' Michael Provence, University of California, San Diego'… an immensely important book, and it is likely to inspire vigorous and lively debate about how to understand politics in the Middle East for years to come.' Aaron G. Jakes, Middle East Journal'Although other scholars have studied the role of mass mobilization and street politics in the Middle East, the sheer breadth of this ambitious study sets it apart as an outstanding contribution to the understanding of political upheaval that has engulfed the region for more than a century. Analytically rich and theoretically informed, this book is a major contribution to the literature on Middle Eastern studies … Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' M. Dorraj, ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Millenarianism, Renewal, Justice, Rights and Reform, 1798–1914; Part II. Patriotism, Liberalism, Armed Struggle, and Ideology, 1914–52; Part III. National Independence, Guerrilla War, and Social Revolution, 1952–76; Part IV. Islamism, Revolution, Uprisings, and Liberalism, 1977–2011; Conclusion; Citations.

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Book SynopsisThe Gordon riots of June 1780 were the most devastating outbreak of urban violence in British history. This book brings together leading scholars from historical and literary studies to provide new perspectives on these momentous events. The essays offer new interpretations of contemporary literary and artistic sources.Trade Review'These essays offer historians of the eighteenth-century a valuable re-examination of these events which have long been seen through too narrow a lens. Contemporary ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Ian Haywood and John Seed; Part I. The Political Moment of 1780: 1. The Gordon riots and the politics of war Nicholas Rogers; 2. The 1780 Protestant petitions and the culture of petitioning Mark Knights; 3. 'The fall of Romish Babylon anticipated': plebeian Dissenters and anti-popery in the Gordon riots John Seed; 4. Imperial disruptions: city, nation, and empire in the Gordon riots Dana Rabin; Part II. Representing the Unrepresentable: 5. 'A metropolis in flames and a nation in ruins': the Gordon riots as sublime spectacle Ian Haywood; 6. 'The worse than Negro barbarity of the populace': Ignatius Sancho witnesses the Gordon riots Brycchan Carey; 7. Thomas Holcroft and the Gordon riots: Romantic revisionings Miriam L. Wallace; Part III. The Aftermath: Politics, Social Order and Cultural Memory: 8. Re-negotiating the bloody code: the Gordon riots and the transformation of popular attitudes to the criminal justice system Tim Hitchcock; 9. 'For the safety of the city': the geography and social politics of public execution after the Gordon riots Matthew White; 10. 'Mad misrule': the Gordon riots and conservative memory Susan Matthews; Afterword; 11. George Gordon: a biographical reassessment Dominic Green; Select bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisLawrence Rothenberg examines some of the most elusive aspects of interest group operations through an in-depth study of one of the largest interest groups in Washington, Common Cause.Trade Review"Among the book's considerable strengths are its methodological sophistication, its use of the concept of experiential search, and its treatment of the connectedness of decisions at individual. organizational, and policy levels." Contemporary Sociology"To my knowledge this is the first time someone has made the useful distinction between members, activists, and leaders in an interest group and actually produced data about the activists. I believe it is one of the best interest-group studies ever done." Andrew McFarland, University of Illinois at Chicago"To my knowledge this is the first time someone has made the useful distinction between members, activists, and leaders in an interest group and actually produced data about the activists. I believe it is one of the best interest-group studies ever done." Andrew McFarland, University of Illinois at Chicago"...an important book that should be read by interest group scholars and those interested in general represenation matters in American politics....What Rothenberg has provided is a way to think about and conduct research on individual groups as integrated entities. It is a large step in the right direction." Allan J. Cigler, American Political Science ReviewTable of ContentsList of figures; List of tables; Preface; 1. Organized groups and the political system; 2. A unified framework for understanding citizens' decision making: a theory of experimental search; 3. Who contributes?; 4. Why do citizens join groups?; 5. The internal politics of organizations I: learning and retention; 6. The internal politics of organizations II: activism; 7. The internal politics of organizations III: leadership; 8. Does group activity make a difference: the case of the MX missile; 9. Does group activity make a difference? The politics of campaign finance; 10. Conclusions: citizens' preferences, internal politics, and public policy; Notes; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisLawrence Rothenberg examines some of the most elusive aspects of interest group operations through an in-depth study of one of the largest interest groups in Washington, Common Cause.Trade Review"Among the book's considerable strengths are its methodological sophistication, its use of the concept of experiential search, and its treatment of the connectedness of decisions at individual. organizational, and policy levels." Contemporary Sociology"To my knowledge this is the first time someone has made the useful distinction between members, activists, and leaders in an interest group and actually produced data about the activists. I believe it is one of the best interest-group studies ever done." Andrew McFarland, University of Illinois at Chicago"To my knowledge this is the first time someone has made the useful distinction between members, activists, and leaders in an interest group and actually produced data about the activists. I believe it is one of the best interest-group studies ever done." Andrew McFarland, University of Illinois at Chicago"...an important book that should be read by interest group scholars and those interested in general represenation matters in American politics....What Rothenberg has provided is a way to think about and conduct research on individual groups as integrated entities. It is a large step in the right direction." Allan J. Cigler, American Political Science ReviewTable of ContentsList of figures; List of tables; Preface; 1. Organized groups and the political system; 2. A unified framework for understanding citizens' decision making: a theory of experimental search; 3. Who contributes?; 4. Why do citizens join groups?; 5. The internal politics of organizations I: learning and retention; 6. The internal politics of organizations II: activism; 7. The internal politics of organizations III: leadership; 8. Does group activity make a difference: the case of the MX missile; 9. Does group activity make a difference? The politics of campaign finance; 10. Conclusions: citizens' preferences, internal politics, and public policy; Notes; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis study attempts to correct the imbalance and, in the process, provides a fascinating interpretation of the rise of the ideology of nationalism within the Arab world. The book focuses on the social and political life of the great notable families of Ottoman Damascus, who, before World War I, played a crucial part in translating the idea into political action.Table of ContentsList of maps; Note on transcription; Preface; Introduction; 1. The political configuration of Damascus in 1860; 2. The consolidation of leadership in Damascus after 1860; 3. Damascus notables and the rise of Arab nationalism before World War I; 4. Notables, nationalists and faysal's Arab government in Damascus, 1918–1920; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Glossary of Arabic, Persian and Turkish terms; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an accessible overview of the role of lobbying in American politics. It draws upon extant research and original data gathered from interviews with numerous lobbyists across the United States. It describes how lobbyists do their work within all branches of government, at the national, state, and local levels.Trade Review'Total Lobbying gives a thorough and extremely useful overview of what lobbyists do, how they do it, and to what effect … It fills an important niche in the literature.' Frank Baumgartner, Pennsylvania State University'This book is extremely well written and fills several substantial gaps in the literature. By addressing lobbying in an accessible manner, the book helps create better citizens and gives students insights that they can use in the future.' Kenneth Godwin, University of North Carolina, Charlotte'… elite-level interviews with federal, state and local lobbyists provides depth and context to his [Anthony Nownes'] conclusions … Nownes is successful in creating a book that appeals to undergraduate students, congressional staff members and scholars … a well-written and thoughtful book that simplifies an often complex subject. Nownes should be commended for examining the lobbying profession and understand[ing] the basic, fundamental concepts that motivate lobbyists at all levels of government.' Political Studies ReviewTable of Contents1. Studying lobbyists and lobbying; 2. Lobbying and lobbyists in the United States: a primer; 3. Public policy lobbying, part 1; 4. Public policy lobbying, part 2; 5. Land-use lobbying; 6. Procurement lobbying; 7. Summary and conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThis book shows how peace movements affected US decisions to enter nuclear arms control talks during the Cold War. Most scholarship assumes that state policies on pursuing international cooperation are set by national leaders, in response either to international conditions, or to their own interests and ideas. Jeffrey Knopf shows how state preferences in this can also be shaped from below.Trade Review"...Knopf makes a truly significant contribution." David Skidmore, Political Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The domestic politics of cooperation: three views; 2. Protest and arms control: a first look; 3. A framework for assessing activism's influence; 4. Eisenhower's first initiatives: a matter of priorities; 5. Eisenhower and the test ban movement; 6. The decision to begin SALT; 7. Reagan and the freeze movement.

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