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.
Israeli-Palestinian Activism: Shifting Paradigms
1st Edition
By Alexander Koensler
June 30, 2020
When do words and actions empower? When do they betray? Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this volume tracks the repercussions of advocacy activism against house demolitions in 'unrecognised' Arab-Bedouin villages in Israel's southern 'internal frontier'. It highlights the repercussions of activism ...
Performing Political Opposition in Russia: The Case of the Youth Group Oborona
1st Edition
By Laura Lyytikainen
June 30, 2020
Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Moscow and St. Petersburg among the political opposition’s youth group Oborona (Defence), this ground-breaking work brings forward a multifaceted and colourful image of the life of political opposition activists in a restricted political environment. Existing ...
The Contentious Politics of Higher Education: Struggles and Power Relations within English and Italian Universities
1st Edition
By Lorenzo Cini
June 30, 2020
Drawing on neo-institutionalist and social movement approaches, this book analyses the impact that recent student mobilizations have brought about within Italian and English universities in terms of student services, curriculum organization, and governance structures. Arguing that the university ...
The Fight for Ethical Fashion: The Origins and Interactions of the Clean Clothes Campaign
1st Edition
By Philip Balsiger
June 30, 2020
From consumer boycotts and buycotts to social movement campaigns, examples of individual and collective actors forging political struggles on markets are manifold. The clothing market has been a privileged site for such contention, with global clothing brands and retailers being targets of consumer...
The Ritual of May Day in Western Europe: Past, Present and Future
1st Edition
By Abby Peterson, Herbert Reiter
June 30, 2020
Eric Hobsbawm claimed that the international May Day, which dates back to a proclamation in 1889 by the Second International, 'is perhaps the most ambitious of labour rituals'. The first international May Day demonstrations in 1890 were widely celebrated across Europe and became the one day each ...
Urban Mobilizations and New Media in Contemporary China
1st Edition
By Lisheng Dong, Hanspeter Kriesi
June 30, 2020
Popular protests are on the rise in China. However, since protesters rely on existing channels of participation and on patronage by elite backers, the state has been able to stymie attempts to generalize resistance and no large scale political movements have significantly challenged party rule. Yet...
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 ...
Social Movements and Political Activism in Contemporary Japan: Re-emerging from Invisibility
1st Edition
Edited
By David Chiavacci, Julia Obinger
December 12, 2019
This book explores social movements and political activism in contemporary Japan, arguing that the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident marks a decisive moment, which has led to an unprecedented resurgence in social and protest movements and inaugurated a new era of civic engagement. Offering fresh ...
Crisis and Social Mobilization in Contemporary Spain: The 15M Movement
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...