Coalitions are among the most important tactical tools available for social movements and
civil resistance campaigns, as they enable the sharing of networks, resources, expertise …

From Gandhi's movement to win Indian independence to the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011,
an expanding number of citizens have used nonviolent action to win political goals. While …

Diverse coalitions hold great potential for social movements, but they also face tremendous
challenges. In this article, I review the literature on diverse alliances with a focus on how …

Scholarly interest in the topic of nonviolent resistance has recently increased as a result of
the worldwide spread of nonviolent campaigns such as the Arab Spring. Yet causal factors …

One of the unresolved puzzles in the civil resistance and contentious politics literatures is
why some movements that begin seeking limited redress in a certain policy space escalate …

Around the world, movements for justice or social change struggle with the question of
whether to use nonviolent or violent protest strategies. While research suggests that …

Public protests, including women-led struggles, are increasingly gaining a foothold in many
parts of the world in response to multiple crises and growing exclusion, in a context of …

This review traces how sociologists study movement emergence and participation.
Proceeding in a roughly chronological fashion, we begin by reviewing the “structural” …

This book explores Palestinian women's views of popular resistance in the West Bank and
examines factors shaping the nature and extent of their involvement. Despite the signing of …

In the growing field of nonviolent social movement studies, questions of power are often
layered in inquiries into drivers of mobilization and dynamics of success, from the individual …