Protest campaigns have proven an effective form of contention to challenge authoritarian
rule yet can at times escalate into armed conflict. This article aims to explain how a protest …

The concept of 'young radicals' is gaining ground in a context of generalized discontent–
often, this is due to the fact that young people engage increasingly in unconventional forms …

This article systematizes a research perspective that assesses how different types of social
movement outcomes mutually influence one another over time. This should offer a different …

Secret informers are often the biggest threat faced by underground rebel groups, which must
respond to this challenge in order to survive. Using the IRA as a case-study, Penality in the …

This is a wide-ranging analysis of the internal dynamics of Irish republicanism between the
outbreak of'the Troubles' in 1969 and the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Engaging a vast …

This article investigates how social movement scholars construct the category of
'religion'within the discipline. Using some of the conceptual tools from the critical study of …

The present article assesses the extent to which a community context can play the role in
legitimising engagement in paramilitary Irish republicanism. The research analyses this …

This volume examines the critical factors and processes by which the Provisional Irish
Republican movement campaign from 1969 to 1998 transformed a once acquiescent …

We are safe in saying that personal life-records, as complete as possible, constitute the
perfect type of sociological material, and that if social science has to use other materials at …

Social movements are a powerful form of collective struggle for democratic change that often
involves a strategy of nonviolence. When met with harsh repression protest movements can …