Social Movements: The Key Concepts
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-43115-6
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 30th September 2009 (Available for Pre-order)
- Pages: 272
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About the Book
From the American Civil Rights movement to the anti-globalisation movement, Social Movements provide a powerful and effective way for ordinary individuals to initiate or resist social change. In this accessible guide, important theories, movements and organisations are clearly explained and contextualised in an easy to use and helpful A-Z format. From its origins in industrialisation through to the present day, Social Movements: The Key Concepts contains everything you need to know about this controversial and contested social phenomena, and is essential reading for students of sociology, cultural studies and political science.
Table of Contents
Anti-Globalisation Movement. The Civil Rights Movement. Direct Action. Hacktivism. Indymedia. Feminism
About the Author(s)
Graeme Chesters is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Peace Studies at Bradford University. His publications include We Are Everywhere: the irresistible rise of global anticapitalism (Verso, 2003).
Ian Welsh is Reader in Sociology at Cardiff University. He has worked on social movements since the late 1970s. His publications include Complexity and Social Movements (Routledge 2006) and Mobilising Modernity: the Nuclear Moment (Routledge 2000), both with Graeme Chesters.