Opposition to economic liberalization has intensified since the late 1990s, with Latin
America often standing at the forefront of new social and political movements that challenge …

By foregrounding the ways that human existence is bound together with the lives of other
entities, contemporary cultural theorists have sought to move beyond an anthropocentric …

Financial crisis, economic globalization and the strengthening of neoliberal policies present
stark challenges to traditional conceptions of representative democracy. Yet, at the same …

The author contests older concepts of autonomy as either revolutionary or ineffective vis-à-
vis the state. Looking at four prominent Latin American movements, she defines autonomy …

Social movements have an elusive power but one that is altogether real. From the French
and American revolutions to the Arab Spring, and to ethnic and terrorist movements of today …

At the time, there was no single work that addressed this increasingly vexatious issue of
domestic and international security in an authoritative, yet accessible, way. My intention had …

Despite the frequency with which the word'solidarity'is invoked the concept itself has rarely
been subjected to close scrutiny. In this original and stereotype-busting work, David …

Revolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and
transnational movements: these forms of contentious politics combine in Charles Tilly's and …

How can we get inside popular collective struggles and explain how they work? Contentious
Performances presents a distinctive approach to analyzing such struggles, drawing …

Now in paperback for the first time, Social Movements and their Technologies explores the
interplay between social movements and their'liberated technologies'. It analyzes the rise of …