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2007
Rethinking Nonviolent Action and Contentious Politics: Political Cultures of Nonviolent Opposition in the Indian Independence Movement and Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement, Chabot, Sean, and Vinthagen Stellan , Volume 27, p.31, (2007)
”Right There With You”: Coca-Cola Labor Restructuring and Political Violence in Colombia, Gill, Lesley , Volume 27, Issue (Sept), p.26, (2007)
Rocks and Hard Places: The Globalisation of Mining, Moody, Roger , London, p.213, (2007)
Detailed analysis by committed campaigner. Chapter 8 ‘No Means No’ discusses strategy against mining, calling for more emphasis on nonviolent direct action and greater scepticism about certification.
The Role of Digital Networked Technologies in the Ukrainian Orange Revolution, Goldstein, Joshua , Cambridge MA, p.20, (2007)
Rose, Orange and Tulip: The failed post-Soviet revolutions, Tudoriou, Theodor , Volume 40, Issue 2 (Sept), p.28, (2007)
Argues that civil society (despite its role in the opposition ) was too weak in these cases to achieve basic change, and that the democratic revolutions ‘proved to be little more than a limited rotation of ruling elites within undemocratic political systems’.
Rossport 5 – Our Story, , Introduction by Mark Garavan, p.208, (2007)
Accounts by five farmers (and wives) jailed for resisting Shell high-pressure gas pipeline in County Mayo, Ireland. This campaign against Shell’s gas refinery gained national and transnational attention and support, and involved reciprocal solidarity actions with the Ogoni people.
Social Conflict in Rural China, Jianrong, Yu , Volume 3, Issue 2 (spring), p.16, (2007)
Special issue ‘Kuchmagate Crisis to Orange Revolution: Civil Society, Elections and Democratisation in Ukraine’, Kuzio, Taras , Volume 23, Issue 1 (March), (2007)
Eight contributions analysing various aspects of Ukrainian society from schools to rock ’n’ roll, from politics to gender.
The Spirit of ‘68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-1976, Horn, Gerd-Rainer , Oxford, p.264, (2007)
Spirited Encounters: American Indians Protest Museum Policies and Practices, Cooper, Karen Cody , Walnut Creek CA, p.224, (2007)
Covers cultural protests relating to presentation in museums, returning sacred objects and naming of national days in both USA and Canada. Includes discussion of call by Lubicon Lake Band of Cree in Northern Alberta for a boycott of the 1998 Winter Olympics in Canada over land claim and related boycott of exhibition on Canada’s First People.
The State of India's Democracy, Ganguly, Sumit, Diamond Larry, and Plattner Marc F. , Baltimore MD, p.264, (2007)
The State of Resistance: Popular Struggles in the Global South, Polet, Francois , London, p.176, (2007)
Over 40 contributions from writers and activists on resistance to neoliberal globalization, including material on anti-privatization campaigns in South Africa and Indian peasants opposing the WTO.
The Street as Stage: Protest Marches and Public Rallies since the Nineteenth Century, Reiss, Matthias , Oxford, p.352, (2007)
Structure and Example in Modular Political Phenomena: The Diffusion of Bulldozer/Rose/Orange/Tulip Revolutions, Beissinger, Mark , Volume 5, Issue 2 (June), p.18, (2007)
A Tale of Two Social Capitals: Revolutionary Collective Action in Kyrgyzstan, Fuhrmann, Matthew , Volume 53, Issue 6, p.14, (2007)
Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love: The Arpillera Movement in Chile 1974-1994, Agosin, Marjorie , Lanham MD, p.240, (2007)
Taught to protest, learning to lose, Estrada, Luis, and Poire Alejandro , Volume 18, Issue 1, p.15, (2007)
Argues popular protests led by Obrador against election results undermined democratic process.
The Testimony Project: Papua – a collection of personal histories in West Papua, Farhadian, Charles E. , Jayapura, p.179, (2007)
Narratives based on interviews with 12 Papuans.
Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration, Gillis, Stacy, Howie Gillian, and Munford Rebecca , New York, p.344, (2007)
Wide range of theoretical perspectives organized in 3 parts: Generations and Genealogies; Locales and Locations; Politics and Popular Culture. Part II includes essays on ‘Imagining Feminist Futures: The Third Wave, Postfeminism and Eco/feminism’ by N. Moore, and ‘Global Feminism, Transnational Political Economies, Third World Cultural Production’ by W. Woodhull.
The Time of the Rebels: Youth Resistance Movements and 21st Century Revolutions, Collin, Matthew , London, p.224, (2007)
Interviews activists from Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Belarus, as well as Serbia.
TransForming Gender: Transgender Practices of Identity, Intimacy and Care, Hines, Sally , Chicago IL, p.232, (2007)
Drawing on interviews with transgender people charts impact of changing legislation in UK. Primarily about individual experience and social context, but there is a chapter on: ‘Transgender Care Networks, Social Movements and Citizenship’.
The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement, Breines, Winifred , New York, p.280, (2007)
Unraveling the Garment Industry: Transnational Organizing and Women’s Work, Brooks, Ethel C. , Minneapolis MN, p.304, (2007)
Contrasts the necessity of local resistance – e.g. the right to unionize – with the transnational emphasis on consumer boycotts that, she argues, can unintentionally reinforce the global forces they denounce.
The Untold Story of the Fight for Human Rights, Bourourmand, Ladan , Volume 18, Issue 4 (October), p.16, (2007)
Women in South African History, Gasa, Nomboniso , Cape Town, p.456, (2007)
Part Three – ‘War: armed and mass struggles as gendered experiences’ – includes Jacklyn Cock, ‘”Another mother for peace”: Women and peace building in South Africa, 1983-2003, pp. 257-280, and Janet Cherry ‘”We were not afraid”: The role of women in the 1980s’ township uprising in the Eastern Cape’, pp. 281-313, and Pat Gibbs, ‘Women, labour and resistance: Case studies from the Port Elizabeth/Uitenhage area, 1972-94’, pp. 315-343.

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