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.
Urban Movements and Climate Change: Loss, Damage and Radical Adaptation
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By Marco Armiero, Salvatore Paolo de Rosa, Ethemcan Turhan
January 10, 2026
From the social uprisings in Santiago de Chile to the radical municipalism experiments in Naples, this volume takes the reader on an intellectual journey at the frontlines across global South and global North where climate breakdown meets social innovations. While the effects of the climate crisis ...
Animal Rights Activism: A Moral-Sociological Perspective on Social Movements
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By Kerstin Jacobsson, Jonas Lindblom
January 09, 2026
We're in an era of ever increasing attention to animal rights, and activism around the issue is growing more widespread and prominent. In this volume, Jonas Lindblom and Kerstin Jacobsson use the animal rights movement in Sweden to offer the first analysis of social movements through the lens of ...
Breaking Down the State: Protestors Engaged
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By Jan Willem Duyvendak, James Jasper
January 09, 2026
In this important book, Jan Willem Duyvendak and James M. Jasper bring together an internationally acclaimed group of contributors to demonstrate the complexities of the social and political spheres in various areas of public policy. By breaking down the state into the players who really make ...
Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia: Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth
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By David Chiavacci, Simona Grano, Julia Obinger
January 09, 2026
Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia: Between Entanglement and Contention in Post High Growth focuses on the new and diversifying interactions between civil society and the state in contemporary East Asia by including cases of entanglement and contention in the three fully ...
Contested Legitimacies: Repression and Revolt in Post-Revolutionary Egypt
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By Jannis Julien Grimm
January 09, 2026
Since the overthrow of President Mursi in mid-2013, Egypt has witnessed an authoritarian rollback and shrinking spaces for civil society. Nationalist discourses have villified popular protest and channelled pressure for reform into a state-centric model of governance. Despite this hostile ...
Everywhere Taksim: Sowing the Seeds for a New Turkey at Gezi
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By Isabel David, Kumru Toktamis
January 09, 2026
In May 2013, a small group of protesters made camp in Istanbul's Taksim Square, protesting the privatisation of what had long been a vibrant public space. When the police responded to the demonstration with brutality, the protests exploded in size and force, quickly becoming a massive statement of ...
Global Diffusion of Protest: Riding the Protest Wave in the Neoliberal Crisis
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By Donatella della Porta
January 09, 2026
Recent years have seen a new development in the growth and spread of popular protest: protests that began as local, homogeneous events-such as Occupy Wall Street or the protests of the Arab Spring-quickly left their original locations and local specificity behind and became global. This book looks ...
May '68: Shaping Political Generations
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By Julie Pagis
January 09, 2026
Much as in other locations around the world, civil uprising, particularly rooted in the activism of young people and students, plagued France during May of 1968. Massive strikes and occupations succeeded in paralysing France’s economy and bringing the country to the verge of a leftist revolution. ...
Microfoundations of the Arab Uprisings: Mapping Interactions between Regimes and Protesters
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By Frédéric Volpi, James Jasper
January 09, 2026
This book brings together a roster of prominent contributors to present a strategic interactionist perspective on the study of contentious politics in the Middle East in response to the Arab uprisings. The common thread among the contributions is an interest in the micro-level interactions between ...
Observing Protest from a Place: The World Social Forum in Dakar (2011)
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By Johanna Siméant, Marie-Emanuelle Pommerolle, Isabelle Sommier
January 09, 2026
Social movements throughout the world have been central to history, politics, society, and culture. Observing Protest from a Place examines the impact of one such campaign, the global justice movement, as seen from the southern hemisphere. Drawing upon a collective survey from the 2011 World Social...
Organizing for Independence: Secessionist Protest, Organizational Change, and the Referendum Crisis in Catalonia
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By Hans Jonas Gunzelmann
January 09, 2026
Independence protests are on the rise across Europe, as Spain, the UK, and other states have faced severe secessionist challenges. The largest wave of these protests swept Catalonia and reached its peak in 2017 when the push for a binding referendum led to an unprecedented secessionist crisis. ...
Queer Festivals: Challenging Collective Identities in a Transnational Europe
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By Konstantinos Eleftheriadis
January 09, 2026
To what extent is queer anti-identitarian? And how is it experienced by activists at the European level? At queer festivals, activists, artists and participants come together to build new forms of sociability and practice their ideals through anti-binary and inclusive idioms of gender and sexuality...