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.
Power and Protest at an American University: No Confidence, No Fear
1st Edition
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By Ellen Carnaghan, Kathryn E. Kuhn
April 29, 2022
This book examines the successful no-confidence movement led by faculty at Saint Louis University in 2013 in an effort to unseat the university president, considering the reasons for success when similar movements often fail. Through a series of chapters written by faculty from many disciplines at ...
Racialized Protest and the State: Resistance and Repression in a Divided America
1st Edition
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By Hank Johnston, Pamela Oliver
April 29, 2022
Bringing together leading scholars of social movements and protest, this volume offers an up-to-date overview of several of the key ethnic and racial movements in the contemporary United States. The organizations, strategies, and challenges of the Black Lives movement, mainstream Black ...
Nationalist Movements Explained: Comparisons from Canada, Belgium, Spain, and Switzerland
1st Edition
By Maurice Pinard
December 13, 2021
This book examines nationalist movements in four ethnically plural countries, one of which has no previous experience of such movements at the national level. Presenting comparisons of the cases of Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, and Spain, including descriptions of the social, economic, and ...
Austerity and Protest: Popular Contention in Times of Economic Crisis
1st Edition
By Marco Giugni, Maria Grasso
June 30, 2020
What is the relationship between economic crises and protest behaviour? Does the experience of austerity, or economic hardship more broadly defined, create a greater potential for protest? With protest movements and events such as the Indignados and the Occupy Movement receiving a great deal of ...
Social Movements and Organized Labour: Passions and Interests
1st Edition
By Jürgen Grote, Claudius Wagemann
January 14, 2020
This book is about the building of alliances and about joint activities between two groups of social movement actors ascribed increasing relevance for the functioning and the eventual amendment of democratic capitalism. The chapters provide a well-balanced mix of theoretical and empirical accounts ...
Crisis and Social Mobilization in Contemporary Spain: The 15M Movement
1st Edition
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By Benjamín Tejerina, Ignacia Perugorría
January 31, 2019
The year 2011 marked the emergence of a series of mobilizations of the indignant that spread like wildfire around the world—from the Arab Spring to Europe, and soon afterwards to Occupy Wall Street, the Spanish 15M was pivotal to the transnational diffusion of protest. This volume analyzes the ...
Radical Left Movements in Europe
1st Edition
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By Magnus Wennerhag, Christian Fröhlich, Grzegorz Piotrowski
January 17, 2019
When the Iron Curtain lifted in 1989, it was seen by some as proof of the final demise of the ideas and aspirations of the radical left. Not many years passed, however, before the critique of social inequalities and capitalism was once again a main protest theme of social movements. This book ...
Southern Resistance in Critical Perspective: The Politics of Protest in South Africa's Contentious Democracy
1st Edition
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By Marcel Paret, Carin Runciman, Luke Sinwell
October 18, 2018
From the Arab Uprising, to anti-austerity protests in Europe and the US Occupy Movement, to uprisings in Brazil and Turkey, resistance from below is flourishing. Whereas analysts have tended to look North in their analysis of the recent global protest wave, this volume develops a Southern ...
Economic Crisis and Mass Protest: The Pots and Pans Revolution in Iceland
1st Edition
By Jon Gunnar Bernburg
April 27, 2018
Although the triggering effect of economic crises on revolt is a classic sociological topic, crises have until recently mostly triggered large-scale collective action in developing countries. The antigovernment protests that occurred in several European countries in the aftermath of the global ...
Beyond NGO-ization: The Development of Social Movements in Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
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By Kerstin Jacobsson, Steven Saxonberg
November 17, 2016
The celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall provoked a debate on the outcomes of the transition process in the post-communist countries, including a debate on the functioning of civil society. This provided a good opportunity for researchers to collect new data and ...
Violent Protest, Contentious Politics, and the Neoliberal State
1st Edition
By Seraphim Seferiades, Hank Johnston
September 06, 2016
This volume of cutting-edge research comparatively analyzes violent protest and rioting, furthering our understanding of this increasingly prevalent form of claim making. Hank Johnston and Seraphim Seferiades bring together internationally recognized experts in the field of protest studies and ...
Social Movement Dynamics: New Perspectives on Theory and Research from Latin America
1st Edition
By Federico M. Rossi, Marisa von Bülow
September 18, 2015
This book presents an overview of new approaches to the study of social movements emerging out of Latin America, based on original and innovative analyses of the recent changes in collective action across the region. Over the past decade, new repertoires of contention have emerged in parallel to ...