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  • The Emotions of Protest

    In Donald Trump's America, protesting has roared back into fashion. The Women's March, held the day after Trump's inauguration, may have been the largest in American history, and resonated around the world. Between Trump's tweets and the march's popularity, it is clear that displays of anger dominate American politics once again.There is an extensive body of research on protest, but the focus has ... Read more

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  • Digital Horror Fiction Anthology

    25 Horror Fiction Short Stories, #1

    Series Book 1 - 25 Horror Fiction Short Stories
    DIGITAL HORROR FICTION ANTHOLOGY25 Horror Fiction Short Stories2:51, Behind the Caterpillar — Gregory L. NorrisA Dream for Sugar — Bruce MemblattA Pocket of Madness — Samuel MarzioliAces and Kings — David M. HoenigThe Animals — Aaron GudmunsonThe Borrowed Man — James DorrHis Own Personal Golgotha — Geoff BrownBuilding Condemned (Seeking Asylum) — Adrian LudensCompartmental — Jay CaselbergDemocrac. ... Read more

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  • Gains and Losses

    How Protestors Win and Lose

    Series series Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics
    Presents cutting edge theory about the consequences of social movements and protest while asking what kind of trade-offs protest movements face in trying to change the world around them. Many scholars have tried to figure out why some social movements have an impact and others do not. By looking inside movements at their component parts and recurrent strategic interactions, the authors of Gains ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Public Characters

    The Politics of Reputation and Blame

    Series series Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics
    Heroes, villains, victims, and minions are more important than ever before in our politics and culture. In the era of television, Twitter, and Facebook, groups and individuals constantly battle over their reputations. One of the best ways to gain power is to persuade others that you are competent, courageous, and benevolent, while your opponents are none of these. Thus, character work consists of ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Waves of Protest

    Social Movements Since the Sixties

    Series series People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P
    This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed-from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and collective identity. Top social scientists combine insiders' insights with critical analyses to ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Protest

    A Cultural Introduction to Social Movements

    Series series Cultural Sociology
    Every day around the world there are dozens of protests both large and small. Most groups engage the local police, some get media attention, and a few are successful. Who are these people? What do they want? What do they do to get it? What effects do they ultimately have on our world?In this lively and compelling book, James Jasper, an international expert on the cultural and emotional dimensions ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Rethinking Social Movements

    Structure, Meaning, and Emotion

    Series series People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P
    This landmark volume brings together some of the titans of social movement theory in a grand reassessment of its status. For some time, the field has been divided between a dominant structural approach and a cultural or constructivist tradition. The gaps and misunderstandings between the two sides-as well as the efforts to bridge them-closely parallel those in the discipline of sociology at large. ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • The Social Movements Reader

    Cases and Concepts

    Edited by Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Readers in Sociology
    Providing a unique blend of cases, concepts, and essential readings The Social Movements Reader, Third Edition, delivers key classic and contemporary articles and book selections from around the world.Includes the latest research on contemporary movements in the US and abroad, including the Arab spring, Occupy, and the global justice movementProvides original texts, many of them classics in the ... Read more

    $52.00 USD

  • Contention in Context

    Political Opportunities and the Emergence of Protest

    Edited by James M. Jasper, Jeff Goodwin ...
    Despite extensive theoretical debates over the utility of "political opportunities" as an explanation for the rise and success of social movements, there have been surprisingly few serious empirical tests. Contention in Context provides the most extensive effort to date to test the model, analyzing a range of important cases of revolutions and protest movements to identify the role of political ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Contention in Context

    Political Opportunities and the Emergence of Protest

    Edited by James M. Jasper, Jeff Goodwin ...
    Despite extensive theoretical debates over the utility of "political opportunities" as an explanation for the rise and success of social movements, there have been surprisingly few serious empirical tests. Contention in Context provides the most extensive effort to date to test the model, analyzing a range of important cases of revolutions and protest movements to identify the role of political ... Read more

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    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This handbook provides a broad and comprehensive overview of the study of social movements and collective action, discussing the different disciplinary approaches that have developed. In addition to updated discussions of topics that were included in the 1st edition, this handbook includes substantial advances in the research and scholarship in the field. The study of collective behavior and ... Read more

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  • The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories

    Terrifying Tales Set on the Scariest Night of the Year!

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    Twenty-six terrifying tales set on the scariest night of the year by Ramsey Campbell, Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale, Helen Marshall, Richard Christian Matheson, Robert Shearman, Robert Silverberg, Angela Slatter, Steve Rasnic Tem, and many more. Along with a very special contribution by award-winning poet Jane Yolen.Treat yourself to some very tricky stories! Halloween . . . All Hallows’ Eve . . . ... Read more

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