As people spend increasing proportions of their daily lives using social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, they are being invited to support myriad political causes by sharing, liking, endorsing, or downloading. Chain reactions caused by these tiny acts of participation form …
Provides an authoritative, insightful, and engaging account of the political and intellectual world of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU). Chapters analyze the tumultuous and often tangled dynamics within NU from the 1980s to the post-Soeharto period and unearth deeper historical and cultural…
Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning are key figures in the struggles playing out in our democracies over internet use, state secrets, and mass surveillance in the age of terror. When not decried as traitors, they are seen as whistle-blowers whose crucial revelati…
Social movements such as environmentalism, feminism, nationalism, and the anti-immigration movement are a prominent feature of the modern world and have attracted increasing attention from scholars in many countries. Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements, first published …
This book brings together a set of essays that focus upon mobilization structures and strategies, political opportunities, and cultural framing and ideologies. The essays are comparative and include studies of eastern Europe, the U.S., Italy, etc.
Why do some issues and threats -- diseases, weapons, human rights abuses, vulnerable populations -- get more global policy attention than others? How do global activist networks decide the particular causes for which they advocate among the many problems in need of solutions? Ac…
Built around key events, from the eviction of a self-managed social centre in Copenhagen in 2007 to the Climate Summit protests in 2009, this book contributes to anthropological literature on contemporary Euro-American politics foreshadowing recent waves of public dissent. Stine…
Seeking to understand the role of interest groups in the policy process from agenda-setting to implementation in the EU, this book contains details of processes of institutional and actor learning, professionalisation of lobbying, and the possible emergence of a distinct EU publ…
