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Social Movements, Political Violence, and the State
This book presents empirical research on the nature and structure of political violence. While most studies of social movements focus on single - nations, Donatella della Porta …
Social Movements in Times of Austerity: Bringing Capitalism Back Into Protest Analysis
Recent years have seen an enormous increase in protests across the world in which citizens have challenged what they see as a deterioration of democratic institutions and the very …
Global Democracy and the World Social Forums
The World Social Forum quickly became the largest political gathering in human history and continues to offer a direct challenge to the extreme inequities of corporate-led …
Legislature by Lot
Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political class. The gap between the public and its public …
Social Movements
A new, fully-revised and updated edition of the leading introduction to social movements and collective action – covers a broad range of approaches in the social sciences. Now in …
The Social Movement Society
Is there more social protest now than there was prior to the movement politics of the 1960s, and if so, does it result in a distinctly less civil society throughout the world? If …
Transnational Protest and Global Activism
In this book, two titans of social movement scholarship bring together the best current research on the nexus between the local and the global in translating the global justice …
Globalization From Below
When violence broke out at the demonstrations surrounding the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Italy, the authors of this book were there. The protests proved to be a critical moment in …
Solidarity Mobilizations in the ‘Refugee Crisis’
This edited collection introduces conceptual innovations that critically engage with understanding refugee movements as part of the broader category of ‘poor people’s movements’. …
How Social Movements Can Save Democracy
The birth of democracies owes much to the interventions and mobilizations of ordinary people. Yet many feel as though they have inherited democratic institutions which do not …
Student Movements in Late Neoliberalism
This book inquires into the global wave of student mobilizations that have arisen in the aftermath of the economic crisis of 2008, accounting for their historical and sociological …
The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements
The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements is an innovative volume that presents a comprehensive exploration of social movement studies, mapping the field and expanding it to examine …