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George-Williams, Desmond, The Ogoni Struggle, In Desmond George-Williams, Bite Not One Another: Selected Accounts of Nonviolent Struggle in Africa (E. I. Africa - Sub-Saharan) Addis Ababa, University of Peace Africa Development Programme, 2006 , pp. 68-74

Szasz, Andrew, Ecopopulism: Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice, Minneapolis MN, University of Minnesota Press, 1994 , pp. 216

Traces how a movement developed in the US out of official debate and television coverage into the formation of thousands of neighbourhood groups, and over a decade the establishment of strong civic organizations tackling different toxic threats.

Miller, Jill, You Can’t Kill the Spirit: Women in a Welsh Mining Village, London, Women's Press, 1987 , pp. 177

Taracena, María, La Caravana de la Resistencia, 50 2 2018 , pp. 386-391

Taracena reports on the abuse that people belonging to the LGBTI+ community suffer at home and in Mexican detention centres because of their sexual orientation. She also juxtaposes the violations they encounter during the journey from Honduras to Mexico and portrays their immigration as an act of resistance against transphobia and homophobia.

In addition to Taracena 's report, attached is also an account of the death of a transgender woman, Roxsana Hernández, from Honduras who died in a detention centre in New Mexico who gave rise to LGBTI+ activism in the country. 

Quinlan, Elizabeth, Sexual Violence at Canadian Universities: Activism, Institutional Responses & Strategies for Change, Waterloo, Ontario, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2017 , pp. 360

This book addresses a major problem of rape and rape culture on campus, revealed by media coverage of ‘rape chants’ at Saint Mary’s University, misogynistic Facebook posts from Dalhousie University’s dental school, and high-profile incidents of sexual violence at other Canadian universities. University administrations were called to account for their cover-ups and misguided responses. Quinlan explores the causes and consequences of sexual violence on campus as well as strategies for its elimination, drawing together original case studies, empirical research, and theoretical writings by scholars and community and campus activists. Topics covered are the costs of campus sexual violence on students and university communities, the efficacy of existing university sexual assault policies and institutional responses, and historical and contemporary forms of activism associated with campus sexual violence.

Patel, Vibhuti; Khajuria, Radhika, Political feminism in India, New Delhi, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2016 , pp. 40

Analyzes the current feminist actors, organizations and debates around gender equality and feminist perspectives in order to provide an overview of feminist ideas and actors in India. It shows that feminism today is the constant questioning of the world we perceive and the boundaries we encounter. 

Brown, Alexander, Power struggles: strategies and tactics of the anti-nuclear movement in contemporary Tokyo, Doctor of Philosophy University of Wollongong, 2015 , pp. 283

Explores the strategy and tactics of the anti-nuclear energy movement in Tokyo developed in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in March 2011, points to the existing dissatisfaction with both the nuclear industry, and the decaying institutions of Japan’s capitalist developmental state, as the foundations upon which the anti-nuclear energy movement has become the longest social movement in Japan.

Collins, Tom, Hamdok's Deal with Military Puts Sudan's Future in the Balance, November 2021 , pp. smaller than 0

This is an informative article about the reasons for the Prime Minister's decision to accept the deal offered by the military a month after their October 2021 coup, and the terms of the agreement. Collins also notes the responses of political parties and the organized resistance on the streets. He notes that Russia was building a military base in ort Sudan and did not condemn the coup, and considers how far the Egyptian government might have prompted the coup.

Ruiz, Felipe; Vallejo, Juan, The Post-Political Link Between Gender and Climate Change: The Case of the Nationally Determined Contributions Support Programme, 41 2 2019 pp. smaller than 0

This is an article querying the emphasis on gender in the UN Development Programme. Examining how gender was incorporated into Colombia’s Low-Carbon Development Strategy, they suggest that there are various risks in promoting feminist ideas within ‘mainstream institutional frameworks’.

Heuer, Vera; Hierman, Brent, Substate Populism and the Challenge to the Centre in Post-Riot Asian Contexts, 13 3 2018 , pp. 40-54

The article compares Narendra Modi (when Chief Minister of Gujurat, India, after deadly anti-Muslim riots) with the Mayor of Osh in Kyrgystan after the 2010 Kyrgyz attacks on Uzbeks, to examine the use of populist rhetoric to cement local political support and undermine external attempts at reconciliation.

Tarrow, Sidney, The New Transnational Activism, Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2005 , pp. 258

A survey by one of the major theorists of social movements, that includes some reference to the role of civil resistance.

Lama, Dalai, Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1990 , pp. 308

Good, Kenneth, Towards Popular Participation in Botswana, 34 1 1996 , pp. 101-129

Roy, Denny, Taiwan: A Political History, Ithaca NT, Cornell University Press, 2003 , pp. 255

Chapter 6 examines the opposition’s struggle and breakthrough.

Gott, Richard, Hugo Chavez and his Bolivarian Revolution, London, Verso, 2005 , pp. 315

Analysis sympathetic to Chavez, includes a section on the popular uprising following the 2002 coup.

McGill, Jack, Crisis on the Clyde: The Story of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, London, Davis-Poynter, 1973 , pp. 143

Account of the 1971 ‘work in’ that took over shipyards threatened with redundancy and for a period maintained them under worker control and forced the government to delay closure.

Young, Nigel, An Infantile Disorder? The Crisis and Decline of the New Left, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977 , pp. 490

The New Left became closely associated with opposition to the Vietnam War, and there are frequent references to this opposition in the US and UK, including a critique in chapter 9 ‘Vietnam and Alignment’, of New Left support for North Vietnam, pp. 163-88.

, Pink, Purple, Green: Women’s Religious, Environmental, and Gay/Lesbian Movements in Central Europe Today, ed. Flam, Helena, New York, Columbia University Press, 2001 , pp. 175

Covers variety of movements, but three chapters on problems of gay/lesbian groups in Hungary, Poland and the eastern part of Germany.

Maibach, Edward; Roser-Renounf, Connie; Atkinson, Lucy; Leiserowitz, Anthony, The Consumer as Climate Activist, 10 2016 , pp. 4759-4783

In the context of rapid growth in consumption of green products in the US, the authors use national survey data to test their hypothesis that people's beliefs about global warming as well as their beliefs about consumer activism, predict their approach to green consumerism.  

See also: Del Valle, Gaby, 'Can Consumer choices Ward Off the Worst Effects of Climate Change? An Expert Explains', Vox, 12 Oct. 2018,

Notes that the 2018 UN report on climate change warns less than two decades to limit global warming to 1.5% centigrade, and that in response proposals made for individual actions in response on issues such as meat eating and transport.  But the article also notes that the Climate Accountability Institute in its 2017 'Carbon Majors' report traced 70% of greenhouse gas emissions to 100 companies, which suggests individual actions 'futile'. The article notes that individuals can also reduce emissions per household through energy efficiency and altering houses to conserve energy. 

Forman, James, The Making of Black Revolutionaries, New York and Washington DC, MacMillan and Open Hand, 1972 , pp. 568

Memoirs of SNCC Executive Secretary, 1961-65.

Tokes, Laszlo, With God for the People, as told to David Porter London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1990 , pp. 226

Account by Reformed Church minister who resisted oppression of the Hungarian minority, and whose defiance sparked the December 1989 nonviolent protests in Timisoara.

Robertson, Graeme, The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes: Managing Dissent in Post-Communist Russia, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2011 , pp. 303

Thorough study, with substantial chapter on strikes and workers’ mobilization.

Roy, Arundhati; Ali, Tariq; Bhatt, Hilal; Chatterji, Angana; Mishra, Pankaj, Kashmir: the Case for Freedom, London, Verso, 2011 , pp. 192

Includes Roy’s 2008 essay ‘Azadi: the only thing Kashmiris want’, previously published in the Guardian (London), Outlook (New Delhi), and her 2009 book Arundhati Roy, Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy, London, Hamish Hamilton, 2009 , pp. 304 .

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