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2005

Youth, Education, and Sexualities: An International Encyclopedia, Volume I, A-J, Sears, James Thomas , Westport CT, p.520, (2005)

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2004

Aesopian Strategies of Textual Resistance in the Struggle to Overcome the Censorship of Popular Music in Apartheid South Africa, Drewett, Michael , Amsterdam and New York, p.19, (2004)

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Africa Since Independence: A Comparative History, Nugent, Paul , Basingstoke, p.620, (2004)

especially ch. 9 ‘Democracy Rediscovered: Popular Protest, Elite mobilization and the Return of Multipartyism’, pp. 368-433.

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African Women and Feminism: Reflecting on the Politics of Sisterhood, Oyewumi, Oyeronke , Trenton NJ , p.282, (2004)

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Alternatives to War: Colombia’s Peace Processes, García-Durán, Mauricio , London, (2004)

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Anger in Repressive Regimes: A Footnote to Domination and the Arts of Resistance by James Scott, Flam, Helena , Volume 7, Issue 2, p.18, (2004)

Argues against Scott’s thesis that long suppressed anger will one day explode, and suggests instead (drawing on Central European examples after 1980) that protest took indirect, satirical and carnivalesque forms.

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Another World Is Possible If …, George, Susan , London, p.268, (2004)

Committed political and economic analysis of the injustices and dangers of neoliberal globalization by a leading thinker and activist in the Global Justice Movement. Includes brief discussion of campaigns (Jubilee 2000, opposition to the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, summit protests) and ends with chapter on why the movement should be nonviolent.

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The Anti-Privatisation Forum: A Profile of a Post-Apartheid Social Movement, Buhlungu, Sakhela , Johannesburg, p.22, (2004)

A case study for the University of KwaZulu-Natal project Globalisation, Marginalisation and new Social Movements in post-Apartheid South Africa.

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The Battle of Venezuela, McCaughan, Michael , London, p.116, (2004)

Examines thwarting attempted coup by the right against Hugo Chavez in 2002. (See also the works under Venezuela in E IV.12)

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The Boycott Book: Two Steps Forward and One Step Back: Lessons from the Nestle Boycott (1977-1984), Fazal, Anwar, and Holla Radha , (2004)

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Brazil: A Troubled Journey to the Promised Land, Hurley, Judith , Philadelphia PA, p.23, (2004)

The author, who founded a US support group for the landless, provides excerpts from her journal of visiting sites of land struggle in 1987. She notes intensified confrontations in 1980s between the landed elite and the landless, who resorted to lawsuits, demonstrations, fasts, vigils, marches, mock funerals and, above all, land occupations.

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Censorship & Cultural Regulation in the Modern Age, Müller, Beate , Amsterdam and New York, p.250, (2004)

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¡Cochabamba! Water War in Bolivia, Olivera, Oscar, and Lewis Tom , Cambridge MA, p.224, (2004)

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Conceptualizing Resistance, Hollander, Jocelyn A., and Einwohner Rachel L. , Volume 19, Issue 4, p.22, (2004)

Discusses possible confusion in meaning of ‘resistance’ in recent sociological studies and suggests a typology of intended and unintended ‘resistance’. Many references to gender-based resistance, and forms of indirect resistance by slaves, peasants, workers and the unemployed, as well as the direct resistance of the US Civil Rights Movement.

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Coup or popular rebellion? The myth of a united Venezuela, Cannon, Barry , Volume 23, Issue 3 (July), p.17, (2004)

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Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil and Neoliberalism in Ecuador, Sawyer, Suzana , Durham NC, p.294, (2004)

Shows how neoliberal policies led to a crisis of accountability and representation that spurred one of 20th century Latin America’s strongest indigenous movements.

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Cultural action for liberation in Chile, Yanes Berrios, Blanca, and Lopez Omar Williams , Philadelphia PA, p.19, (2004)

Discusses role of SERPAJ in struggle for survival by poor, including community organization and ingenious protests against hunger and unemployment, e.g. blocking supermarket checkouts with trolleys.

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Dams and Development: Transnational Struggles for Water and Power, Khagram, Sanjeev , Ithaca NY, p.288, (2004)

Focused particularly on the controversy over the major Narmada River dam projects, but also provides comparative perspective by considering dam projects in Brazil, China, Indonesia, South Africa and Lesotho, where the World Bank and other lenders were persuaded to withdraw funding.

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Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement, Hill, Lance , Chapel Hill NC, p.363, (2004)

Documents emergence of armed self-defence groups in Louisiana and Mississippi in the mid-1960s to counter the Klan and enforce civil rights legislation.

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Democratic Revolutions: Asia and Eastern Europe, Thompson, Mark R. , London, p.180, (2004)

Essays discussing people power in the Philippines, East Germany and Serbia, comparing the strengths and weaknesses of opposition, and the regime in China with Eastern Europe in 1989, to explain different outcomes, and reflecting on issues such as ‘female leadership of democratic revolutions in Asia’.