Protest and Social Movements
About the Book Series
Recent years have seen an explosion of protest movements around the world, and academic theories are racing to catch up with them. This series aims to further our understanding of the origins, dealings, decisions, and outcomes of social movements by fostering dialogue among many traditions of thought, across European nations and across continents. All theoretical perspectives are welcome. Books in the series typically combine theory with empirical research, dealing with various types of mobilisation, from neighborhood groups to revolutions. We especially welcome work that synthesizes or compares different approaches to social movements, such as cultural and structural traditions, micro- and macro-social, economic and ideal, or qualitative and quantitative.
Sport, Activism, and Social Movements: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Turner, Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen
March 06, 2026
This book examines how sport and leisure have the capacity to impact our understanding and experience of culture, protest, and social change. The temporal dimensions of sport and leisure across different but interdependently connected sociopolitical lifeworlds demonstrate the ways in which popular...
Contesting Austerity: Social Movements and the Left in Portugal and Spain (2008-2015)
1st Edition
By Tiago Carvalho
January 10, 2026
Contesting Austerity compares the contentious responses to austerity in Portugal and Spain between 2008 and 2015. While in Spain a sustained wave of mobilisation lasted for three years and led to a transformation of the party system, in Portugal social movements mobilised only in specific instances...
Contesting Cosmopolitan Europe: Euroscepticism, Crisis and Borders
1st Edition
Edited
By James Foley, Umut Korkut
January 10, 2026
The project of European integration has undergone a succession of shocks, beginning with the Eurozone crisis, followed by reactions to the sudden growth of irregular migration, and, most recently, the coronavirus pandemic. These shocks have politicised questions related to the governance of borders...
Migrant Protest: Interactive Dynamics in Precarious Mobilizations
1st Edition
By Elias Steinhilper
January 10, 2026
Migrant protest has proliferated worldwide in the last two decades, explicitly posing questions of identity, rights, and equality in a globalized world. Nonetheless, such mobilizations are often considered anomalies in social movement studies, and political sociology more broadly, due to weak ...
Players and Arenas: The Interactive Dynamics of Protest
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Willem Duyvendak, James Jasper
January 10, 2026
Players and Arenas brings together a diverse group of experts to examine the interactions between political protestors and the many strategic players they encounter, such as cultural institutions, religious organizations, and the mass mediaas well as potential allies, competitors, recruits, and ...
Rethinking Civil Society in Transition: International Donors, Associations and Politics in Tunisia
1st Edition
By Ester Sigillò
January 10, 2026
This book illustrates the results of ethnographical research designed to shed light on the notion of civil society in a context characterized by the transformation of power relations. Such transformation is given by shifting resources, renewed local and international opportunities, and a general ...
Ripples of Hope: How Ordinary People Resist Repression Without Violence
1st Edition
By Robert Press
January 10, 2026
In Ripples of Hope, Robert M. Press tells the stories of mothers, students, teachers, journalists, attorneys, and many others who courageously stood up for freedom and human rights against repressive rulers and who helped bring about change through primarily nonviolent means. Global in application...
Rival Kurdish Movements in Turkey: Transforming Ethnic Conflict
1st Edition
By Mustafa Gürbüz
January 10, 2026
This book explores the conditions that encourage non-violent civic engagement in emerging civil societies. Gürbüz examines the radical transformations over the past decade in the politics of Turkey's Kurdish minority. On the eve of the new millennium, the Turkish state was still openly denying the ...
Social Movements and the Politics of Debt: Transnational Resistance against Debt on Three Continents
1st Edition
By Christoph Sorg
January 10, 2026
It would have been hard to miss the pivotal role debt has played for contentious politics in the last decades. The North Atlantic Financial Crisis, Global Recession and European Debt Crisis - as well as the recent waves of protest that followed them - have catapulted debt politics into the ...
The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Aidan McGarry, Itir Erhart, Hande Eslen-Ziya, Olu Jenzen, Umut Korkut
January 10, 2026
Protestors across the world use aesthetics in order to communicate their ideas and ensure their voices are heard. This book looks at protest aesthetics, which we consider to be the visual and performative elements of protest, such as images, symbols, graffiti, art, as well as the choreography of ...
The Animal Rights Struggle: An Essay in Historical Sociology
1st Edition
By Christophe Traïni
January 10, 2026
Since the early nineteenth century, numerous campaigns have denounced the mistreatment of animals. This book compares the British and French histories of the animal-protection movement to retrace its origins and impact up to the present day. As Christophe Traïni shows, the struggle for animal ...
The Troubles in Northern Ireland and Theories of Social Movements
1st Edition
Edited
By Lorenzo Bosi, Gianluca De Fazio
January 10, 2026
This volume focuses on a number of research questions, drawn from social movement scholarship: How does nonviolent mobilisation emerge and persist in deeply divided societies? What are the trajectories of participation in violent groups in these societies? What is the relationship between overt ...