Books in the The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture series

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.

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.

Fighting Global Neo-Extractivism: Fossil-Free Social Movements in South Africa analyses social struggles over damaging new fossil fuel projects in the Global South with a focus on South Africa, Africa's biggest fossil fuel emitter.

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, it offers comparative reflection on how talk about political activity is shaped.

Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Moscow and St Petersburg among the political opposition's youth group Oborona (Defence), this title brings forward a multifaceted and colourful image of the life of political opposition activists in a restricted political environment.

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 for victims, fund-raisers and activists.

Explores how May Day demonstrations have evolved and taken different trajectories in different political contexts. By concluding with reflections on the future of the May Day ritual in Western Europe, this title provides a detailed analysis of its evolution as a protest event.

Although there is a long history of conservative movements in America, the library of social movement studies leans heavily to the left. The Tea Party Movement, its sudden emergence and its uncertain fate, provides a challenge to mainstream American politics.

Analyzes violent protest and rioting, furthering our understanding of this increasingly prevalent form of claim making. This title brings together internationally recognized experts in the field of protest studies and contentious politics to analyze the causes and trajectories of violence as a protest tactic.

This book gives a nuanced and updated view of social movements in post-communist Europe, by looking at the cases of relatively successful mobilization, by examining groups that have often been neglected in the discourse on social movements and civil society (including animal rights groups, racist movements and non-feminist family organizations).

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.

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, it offers comparative reflection on how talk about political activity is shaped.

This volume analyzes the features that turned the Spanish 15M into a beacon for international mobilization, and those that garnered it unprecedented domestic support, surpassing historic socio-economic and politico-ideological fractures in Spain.

This book provides a detailed analysis of the different national and regional experiences of what `left¿ and ¿radical left¿ means, and shows how radical left movements in different countries cope with these varying circumstances.

This book provides a Southern perspective on contemporary global protest through a deep engagement with the case of South Africa.

This volume probes the intersections between the fields of social movements, and nonviolent strategies and peaceful tactics of resistance to the state.

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 financial crisis brought crises to the forefront of collective action research in democratic societies, as well as provide important opportunities for studying how crises can trigger large-scale collective action. This volume focusses on IcelandΓÇÖs ΓÇÖPots and Pans RevolutionΓÇÖ, a series of large scale antigovernment protests and riots that took place in Iceland in autumn 2008 and January 2009. The Icelandic case offers a rare opportunity to study processes that can trigger political protest in an affluent, democratic society. The protests took place in the aftermath of a national financial collapse triggered by the global financial crisis in early October 2008. While having almost no tradition of mass protest, Iceland was among the first countries to respond to the global crisis with large-scale protest. The level of public mobilization was exceptionally high (about 25 percent participation rate) and the protests did not stop until they had brought down the ruling government of Iceland. Using qualitative and quantitative data, this volume situates the protest in historical-cultural context and applies social movement theory to explore how the economic crisis ended up triggering the protests, thus providing a step toward understanding why the global financial crisis has triggered public unrest in other countries.

How are radical left movements influenced by the political and social contexts in which they are situated? In most European countries, the fall of state socialism contributed to a general shift in the composition of the radical left, often marginalizing traditional communist groups, while the libertarian radical left has tended to grow in importance. Different national and regional experiences of what `left¿ and ¿radical left¿ means continue to shape such movements¿ possibilities to mobilize, seek political allies and accomplish change. This book provides detailed analysis of these differences, and shows how radical left movements in different countries cope with these varying circumstances.

This books 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. With attention to the question of where the new sense of contention in Japan has emerged from and how the newly developing movements have been shaped by the neo-conservative policies of the Japanese government, authors ask how the Japanese experience adds to our understanding of how social movements work, and whether it might challenge prevailing theoretical frameworks.