Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics [3 ed.]

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For years, students of social movements and other forms of contentious action have been sharply divided over what motiva

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Social movements have played a vital role in Indian politics since well before the inception of India as a new nation in

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Although Argentina's use of genetically modified (GM) soybean seeds has spurred a major agricultural boom, it has a

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After exposing the limitations of these conflicting perspectives, Maurice Pinard elaborates on an entirely new synthesis

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In the turbulent years of the 1960s and 1970s, France, like other European countries and the United States, was rocked b

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"In an era of military conflict and economic hardship, religious and political leaders adamantly speak in the langu

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Through a careful analysis of the former Soviet Union and China, and South Asian societies of India and the Phillippines

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The Black Power movement has often been portrayed in history and popular culture as the quintessential "bad boy&quo

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This is a study of artist/activists and their participation in social movements in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, in Mexico Ci

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This dissertation argues that Amazonian indigenous peoples organized via transnational networks due to the domestic bloc

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