Social Movements

This book contributes to a better understanding of LGBT protest dynamics through a comparative study of eleven Pride parades in eight countries. This book will be of interest to scholars with an interest in LGBT studies, social movements, comparative politics and political behavior...

How best should we understand the recent proliferation of often diverse and contradictory protest movements, including those associated with Occupy and the Arab Spring? This book explores the nature of these movements and the responses of authorities to protest and emotion and public performance in,..

Between 1965 and 1973, thousands of ordinary Americans participated in one of the most remarkable and significant people's movements in American history. Through marches, rallies, draft resistance, teach-ins, and non-violent demonstrations at both the national and local levels, Americans vehemently ..

This book explores the building of alliances and joint activities between two groups of social movement actors. Offering both theoretical and empirical accounts of the political, social and economic catalysts behind joint collective action, the authors focus on the actors themselves, who transcend c..

This edited volume examines social movements in South America and the Caribbean and points to the political transformations that have occurred there in the last twenty years, particularly in relation to poverty._x000D_ The book was published as a special issue of Globalizations...

A state of the art exploration of the role of networks within social movements and the potential of social network analysis for analysing this role._x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of Social Movement Studies...

The question of how and to what extent the internet can be used for mobilizing popular resistance in China is hotly debated. The government, virtual social organizations, and individual netizens both cooperate and compete with each other on the web. New media both increases the scope of the mobilize..