The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture
About the Book Series
Published in conjunction with Mobilization: An International Quarterly, the premier research journal in the field contentious politics, this series publishes research in social movements, protest and strategies of resistance. This is an expansive area of study that includes research in sociology and political science, as well as from communications, geography, social psychology, and anthropology. The series welcomes proposals on a range of topics and theoretical perspectives, including movement strategies and organization, new communication technologies, protest in the global South, resistance in different state systems, cultural movements, identity politics, and more.
Protest and Politics in Turkey in the 1970s: Echoes of Dissent
1st Edition
By Selin Bengi Gümrükçü
February 26, 2026
Protest and Politics in Turkey offers the first comprehensive academic study of Turkey’s 1970s protest cycle, analyzing the political dynamics of the decade and its long-term consequences. Drawing on an original dataset of protests, the book examines the interplay between state repression and ...
The Transformation of Discontent: Labor Protest in Healthcare and Education Across Europe
1st Edition
By Imre Szabó
January 30, 2026
The Transformation of Discontent demonstrates that far from disappearing from the workplaces of the Global North, labor protest has merely changed character and now focuses on healthcare and education, with white-collar and white coat employees clashing with employers over wages, working conditions...
Right-Wing Movements in North America and Europe: Media, Identity, and Parties
1st Edition
Edited
By Hank Johnston, Rory McVeigh, Ziad Munson
October 13, 2025
From Boogaloo Bois and Rassemblement National, to Nordic Resistance Movement and Forza Nuova, majoritarian ethnonational movements and extreme-right politics are growing in different national contexts and continue to challenge democratic norms around the globe. This collection brings together ...
Deconstructing the Role of Generations in Social Movements: Time, Events, and Legacies
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Turner, Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen, Maria Grasso
August 18, 2025
Although questions of how a social group’s shared experiences growing up in particular historical and social contexts shapes their identities, including their political identities, have engaged sociologists of family, youth, citizenship, culture, and political change, few books have so far examined...
European Narratives and Euroscepticism in the Western Balkans and the EU
1st Edition
By Manuela Caiani, Benedetta Carlotti, Marko Lovec, Maria Wincławska, Faris Kočan, Adam Balcer
July 31, 2025
Moving from a social movement perspective, this timely volume examines narratives on Euroscepticism and frames on Europe from below, at the party and social movement levels. Revealing perspectives from both the Right and the Left, it unpacks the emergence, re-emergence and increase in critical ‘...
Safer Spaces, Feminist Movements and Emotions: Affect into Action
1st Edition
By Giada Bonu Rosenkranz
May 06, 2025
Drawing on participatory action research conducted in Italy and Spain among feminist spaces, this book examines the production of safer spaces and the underlying infrastructure of affect and emotions that shape, enable, and support collective action. Amid the prevailing backlash observed in various...
Protest and the Ambiguous Politics of Indignation: An Empirical and Conceptual Study of Mobilizing Emotions
1st Edition
By Louise Knops
February 14, 2025
What makes indignation ‘political’? And why should we care about it? Drawing on field-work among four movements in Belgium (2017–2021) – The Youth for Climate movement, the Citizen platform for refugee support, the Yellow Vests movement and the radical-right movement Schild & Vrienden – this ...
Fighting Global Neo-Extractivism: Fossil-Free Social Movements in South Africa
1st Edition
By Jasper Finkeldey
May 27, 2024
Fighting Global Neo-Extractivism: Fossil-Free Social Movements in South Africa analyzes social struggles over damaging new fossil fuel projects in the Global South with a focus on South Africa, Africa’s biggest fossil fuel emitter. Fossil fuel extraction in South Africa has reached a new ...
Fukushima and Civil Society: The Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement from a Socio-Political Perspective
1st Edition
By Beata Bochorodycz
May 27, 2024
This book analyzes the impact of the Fukushima disaster on civil society in Japan with particular attention to the anti-nuclear movement, focusing on its development, repertoire of action, mobilization strategies, modes of operation, and impact on the state’s energy policy. Combining social ...
Resisting the Backlash: Street Protest in Italy
1st Edition
By Donatella della Porta, Niccolò Bertuzzi, Daniela Chironi, Chiara Milan, Martín Portos, Lorenzo Zamponi
May 27, 2024
Drawing interview material, together with extensive data from the authors’ original social movement database, this book examines the development of social movements in resistance to perceived political "regression" and a growing right-wing backlash. With a focus on Italy and the reaction to ...
Mobilization against Asylum Seekers in Contemporary Urban Spaces: Not in Our Backyard
1st Edition
By Iris Beau Segers
September 25, 2023
This book investigates the issue of local mobilization against asylum seekers in urban areas, which are often disproportionally affected by complex issues related to immigration and integration, as well as socio-economic development and growing inequalities. Based on ethnographic research in the ...
Cycling Activism: Bike Politics and Social Movements
1st Edition
By Peter Cox
July 28, 2023
The first full-length study of cycling activism through the lens of social movement theory, this book demonstrates that, despite tremendous differences, bike activism can be understood as a continuous and connected activity spanning a century and a half and across continents. With examples from ...