Social movements have been implicated in long-term societal transformations, helping bring
about political democratization, economic freedom, and social equality. In recent years …

Building Dignified Worlds examines how contemporary collectives are designing alternative
economies. Contemporary collectives differ markedly from previous groups associated with …

Global crises such as rising economic inequality, volatile financial markets, and devastating
climate change illustrate the defects of a global economic order controlled largely by …

Social movements and popular struggle are a central part of today's world, but often
neglected or misunderstood by media commentary as well as experts in other fields. In an …

Social movements have been struggling against repressive states advancing the interests of
dominant classes for many centuries. Over time, millions of people have organized and …

Freedom Is an Endless Meeting offers vivid portraits of American experiments in
participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research …

Since the late eighteenth century, politics, protest, and the state have evolved together, each
shaping the other in significant ways. This engaging and succinct treatment of protestÐstate …

The 1960s and early 1970s were marked by dramatic social conflict within most Western
societies. The social movement protagonists whose political, social, and cultural challenges …

More than any other topic in social science, the study of social movements provides an
opportunity to combine social theory with political action. Such study is a key to …

Social movements are groups of people organizing to bring about—or resist—social
change, using, at least in part, non-institutional strategy and tactics (also known as …