Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in
the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu …

A timely and incisive examination of contemporary urban unrest that explains why riots will
continue until citizens are equally treated and politically included In the past few decades …

This chapter examines the multiple roles of threat in stimulating collective action. It seeks to
establish a greater balance between threats and opportunities in the current literature …

Previous research has shown that riots spread across multiple locations, but has not
explained underlying psychological processes. We examined rioting in three locations …

Extensive research explores how increasing ethnic out-group populations in society affects
inter-group attitudes. Drawing on the threat and contact hypotheses, this study develops and …

Who are the people who, in the face of extreme repression, unexpectedly take to the streets
en masse in an authoritarian state? This article aims to answer this question with reference …

This article explores the different forms of disruptive subjectivity that have developed in the
context of the post-2008 global and European crises. The article traces developments both …

We use data from a large scale and nationally representative survey to evaluate two
narratives about the social bases of Brexit. The first narrative sees Brexit as a revolt of the …

In May 2013, an urban uprising shook Sweden and took the whole world by surprise, as
reports from international news agencies and news channels such as CNN, BBC World, Al …

While social movement scholarship has emphasized the role of activists in socially
constructing grievances, we contend that material adversity is a reoccurring precondition of …