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Albro, Robert, The Water is Ours, Carajo!”, Deep Citizenship in Bolivia’s water war, In June Nash, Social Movements. An Anthropoligical Reader, Oxford, Blackwell, 2005 , pp. 360 , pp. 249-271

, Revolution and Political Transformation in the Middle East, ed. Middle East Institute, , Outcomes and Prospects 3 Washington DC, Middle East Institute, 2011 , pp. 32

Sawyer, Suzana, Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil and Neoliberalism in Ecuador, Durham NC, Duke University Press, 2004 , pp. 294

Shows how neoliberal policies led to a crisis of accountability and representation that spurred one of 20th century Latin America’s strongest indigenous movements.
Apter, David; Sawa, Nagayo, Against the State: Politics and Social Protest in Japan, Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1984 , pp. 271

Analysis of major campaign by agricultural community against loss of land for Narita airport.
University of Leeds, , Striking Women: Resources, Voices of South Asian women workers from Grunwick and Gate Gourmet 2010

Bagguley, Paul, Protest, Poverty and Power: A Case Study of the Anti-Poll Tax Movement, 43 4 1995 , pp. 693-719

Examines social base, organization and tactics of the anti-poll tax movement and relates it to theoretical debates about new social movements and poor people’s movements. See also: Paul Bagguley, Anti-Poll Tax Protest, In Colin Barker, Paul Kennedy, To Make Another World: Studies in Protest and Collective Action, Aldershot, Avebury Press, 1996 , pp. 7-24

Solnit, Rebecca, The Mother Of All Questions: Further Feminisms, London, Granta Books, 2017 , pp. 194

A collection of essays by a leading feminist, that responds to the rapid social change resulting from the latest renewal of feminism both in North America and worldwide. It starts with a long new essay ‘Silence is broken’, which explores the many ways in which not only women but other vulnerable groups have been silenced. The author notes that this is a book that ‘deals with men who are ardent feminists as well as men who are rapists’ and that ‘this is a feminist book, yet it is not about women’s experience alone.’
Zunes, Stephen, Civil Resistance against Coups: A Comparative and Historical Perspective, ICNC Monograph Series Washington D.C., ICNC, 2017 , pp. 104 pb

Zunes provides detailed case studies of civil resistance to military coups in recent decades.  His aim is to advance an analysis of the role of civil society and nonviolent movements in resisting such takeovers, and the role of international pressure and solidarity by both governments and activists. Eight coup attempts defeated by popular resistance are analyzed, including Bolivia, 1978, the USSR 1991, Thailand 1992 and Burkina Faso 2015, as well as four in which resistance did not succeed. Available in PDF at: https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/ICNC-Mono...

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See also Vol.1. E.II.1.c. Burma: Resisting the 2021 Coup, which covers the mass popular mobilization against the February 2021 coup by the Burmese military junta.
Rotberg, Robert, The Rise of Nationalism in Central Africa: The Making of Malawi and Zambia: 1873-1964, Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1967 , pp. 360

Chapter 8 ‘Discovering their voice: the formation of national political movements’ (pp. 179-213) goes up to 1948; chapter 10 ‘The Federal dream and African reality’ (pp. 253-302) charts growing resistance from 1953; and chapter 11 traces ‘The triumph of nationalism’ (pp. 303-16). Gives some detail on protests and indexes ‘non-violent resistance’. Includes detailed bibliography.
Schwartz, Ronald, Circle of Protest: Political Ritual in the Tibetan Uprising, London, Hurst, 1994 , pp. 263

Nugent, Paul, Big Men, Small Boys and Politics in Ghana: Power, Ideology and the Burden of History, 1982-1994, London, Frances Pinter, 1996 , pp. 306

, Catalyst for Change: Uprising in May, ed. Paisal, Sridharadhanya, Bangkok, Post Publishing, 1992 , pp. 116

Elson-Watkins, Rebecca, Paving a Path to COP 26, , , pp. 7-7

Provides a round up of what UK based environmental bodies were doing to foreground climate and environmental issues in the run-up to the Glasgow Conference, both in terms of  protest and direct action and in terms of green initiatives such as creating 'green towns'.  It also references the website of the COP 26 Coalition.
, Tell the American People: Perspectives on the Iranian Revolution, ed. Albert, David, Philadelphia PA, Movement for a New Society, 1980 , pp. 212

Albert also comments briefly on the Iranian Revolution to illustrate the dynamics of power relationships (pp. 29-36) in his booklet: David H. Albert, People Power: Applying Nonviolence Theory, Philadelphia PA, New Society Publishers, 1985 , pp. 64 .
Jackson, Mandi, Harlem’s Rent Strike and Rat War: Representation, Housing Access and Tenant Resistance in New York 1938-1964, 47 1 2006 , pp. 53-71

, Social and Environmental Impacts of the James Bay Hydroelectric Project, ed. Hornig, James, Montreal, McGill-Queens University Press, 1999 , pp. 187

Hammell-Greene, Michael, The Resisters: A History of the Anti-Conscription Movement 1964-1972, In Peter King, Australia’s Vietnam: Australia in the Second Indo-China War, Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1983 pp. smaller than 0

Altman, Dennis, AIDS in the Mind of America, New York, Anchor Press, 1986 , pp. 240

Kurkov, Andrey, Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches From Kiev, London, Harvill Secker, 2014 , pp. 272

Account by an enthusiastic Russian Ukrainian novelist, best known for his surreal Deat of a Penguin, who was a symphatetic observer of protests, and stresses popular anger at the systematic corruption of Yanukovytch regime and the spontaneous self-organising nature of the Euromaidan movement.
Veg, Sebastian, Creating a Textual Public Space: Slogans and Texts from Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement, 73 3 2016 , pp. 673-702

This study, based on over 1000 slogans and other texts and visual material, assesses the 'community with fluid borders' created by the movement, and the different 'cultural repertoires' including traditional Chinese philosophy and pop music. The author argues that the occupation also tried to develop a form of 'discursive democracy', and was an attempt to create a new civic culture among the younger generation.
Cummins, Ronnie, Grassroots Rising: A Call to Action on Climate, Farming, Food and a Green New Deal, White River Junction, VT, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2020 , pp. 208 (pb)

Cummins is the founder of the US Organic Consumers Association and involved in international environmental activism. His book focuses primarily on changing agriculture and on a renewable fuel policy.
King, Martin, Stride Towards Freedom: The Montgomery Story, London, Victor Gollanez, 1958 , pp. 216

Account of year-long 1955 bus boycott which heralded a new stage of nonviolent direct action against segregation and launched King’s leadership.
Bleiker, Roland, Nonviolent Struggle and the Revolution in East Germany, Cambridge MA, Albert Einstein Institution, 1993 , pp. 53

, Bite Not One Another: Selected Accounts of Nonviolent Struggle in Africa, ed. George-Williams, Desmond, Addis Ababa, University of Peace Africa Programme, 2006 , pp. 123

, Peace Movements and Pacifism after September 11, ed. Chiba, Shin; Shoenbaum, Thomas, Camberley Surrey, UK, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008 , pp. 256

This book provides scholarly Japanese and  East Asian perspectives on how the September 11 2001 attack on the US changed the prospects for international peace. Other chapters explore pacifism from religious (Christian and Islamic) perspectives and also in relation to Kant's philosophy. Japan's postwar 'constitutional pacifism', and specific ways to promote peace in the 21st century are also discussed.

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