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.
Irish Republican Counterpublic: Armed Struggle and the Construction of a Radical Nationalist Community in Northern Ireland, 1969-1998
1st Edition
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By Dieter Reinisch, Anne Kane
December 30, 2022
This volume examines the critical factors and processes by which the Provisional Irish Republican movement campaign from 1969 to 1998 transformed a once acquiescent nationalist population in Northern Ireland into a counterpublic of resistance demanding national self-determination and social justice...
Exiled Activism: Political Mobilization in Egypt and England
1st Edition
By David McKeever
April 29, 2022
This book examines the relationship between exile and activism. Drawing on interviews with activists exiled to England following the military coup d’état in Egypt as an illustrative case, it considers whether exile presents any barrier to meaningful political participation. Through a comparison of ...
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 ...
Protesting Gender: The LGBTIQ Movement and its Opponents in Italy
1st Edition
By Anna Lavizzari
August 02, 2021
Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Italy among political activists of the LGBTIQ movement and the traditionalist movement during the “anti-gender” campaign, this book provides a dynamic picture of their sustained interactions. Through an analysis of the contentious strategies, discourses, and ...
Social Stratification and Social Movements: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on an Ambivalent Relationship
1st Edition
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By Sabrina Zajak, Sebastian Haunss
June 30, 2021
This volume addresses the contested relationship between social stratification and social movements in three different ways: First, the authors address the relationship between social stratification and the emergence of protest mobilization. Second, the texts look at social stratification and ...
When Citizens Talk About Politics
1st Edition
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By Clare Saunders, Bert Klandermans
March 31, 2021
This book offers novel insights into the way in which people talk about politics across various countries. Drawing on focus groups research in nine countries, including ‘mature’ democracies, post-communist ‘new’ democracies and post-authoritarian ‘new’ democracies, it offers comparative reflection ...
Cycling: A Sociology of Vélomobility
1st Edition
By Peter Cox
December 18, 2020
Cycling: A Sociology of Vélomobility explores cycling as a sociological phenomenon. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, it considers the interaction of materials, competencies and meanings that comprise a variety of cycling practices. What might appear at first to be self-evident ...
Social Movements, Nonviolent Resistance, and the State
1st Edition
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By Hank Johnston
September 30, 2020
This volume probes the intersections between the fields of social movements and nonviolent resistance. Bringing together a range of studies focusing on protest movements around the world, it explores the overlaps and divergences between the two research concentrations, considering the dimensions of...
Activating China: Local Actors, Foreign Influence, and State Response
1st Edition
By Setsuko Matsuzawa
June 30, 2020
This book examines the effects of the transnational social and environmental advocacy of foreign NGOs in China. Based on three case studies, including China’s first participatory development project, its first successful case of transnational anti-dam activism, and its first national park project, ...
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 ...