The Protest! exhibition "taking place during the 160th anniversary of the founding of the University, draws upon the rich collections of the University of Melbourne Archives to explore protest events and personalities at the University and in a wider landscape of protest"
Here, protest manifests itself as a cultural achievement that is as vibrant and necessary as ever before. It is precisely for that reason that the question of the relevance and impact of protest needs to posed anew.
In this exceptional new book, Dawson Barrett calls our attention to the post-1960s period, in which US economic, cultural, and political elites turned the tide against the protest movement gains of the previous forty years and reshaped the ...
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But the work that protests do often can’t be seen in the moment. It feels empowering to march, and record numbers of Americans have joined anti-Trump demonstrations, but when and why does marching matter?
Does protest influence political representation? If so, which groups are most likely to benefit from collective action? The Advantage of Disadvantage makes a provocative claim: protests are most effective for disadvantaged groups.
A comprehensive introduction to the culture of progressive movements in the United States.
Direct Action showcases the voices of key players in an array of movements—environmentalist, anti-nuclear, anti-apartheid, feminist, LGBTQ, anti-globalization, racial-justice, anti-war, and more—across an era when American politics ...
For example, Gemma Edwards, “Habermas and Social Movements: What's New?,” in After Habermas, ed. ... See Donnatella Della Porta and Mario Diani, Social Movements (Oxford, 1999); and Nick Crossley, Making Sense of Social Movements ...
In a brilliantly conceived book, Jeremi Suri puts the tumultuous 1960s into a truly international perspective in the first study to examine the connections between great power diplomacy and global social protest.
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