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Hale, Henry, Democracy, autocracy and revolution in Post-Soviet Eurasia, 68 1 (October) 2005 , pp. 133-155

Includes references to Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine.

Sabar, Galia, Church, State and Society in Kenya: From Mediation to Opposition 1963-1993, London, Frank Cass, 2002 , pp. 334

Explores role of Christianity in colonial and post-colonial society and shows the crucial role of the churches in promoting an alternative politics.

, Free Greek Voice, ed. Vlachos, Helen, London, Doric Publications, 1971 , pp. 168

Vlachos, who refused to publish her right wing paper Kathimerini after the coup, was arrested for publishing an article abroad critical of the regime. She also wrote an account of her experience in Helen Vlachos, House Arrest, London, Andre Deutsch, 1970 , pp. 158 .

Bourourmand, Ladan, The Untold Story of the Fight for Human Rights, 18 4 (October) 2007 , pp. 64-79

Mason, Paul, Why Its Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions, London, Verso, 2012 , pp. 237

Wide-ranging exploration, by BBC economics journalist, of campaigns round the world since 2008, including the Arab uprisings of 2011, but mainly focused on resistance to economic policies and including accounts of protest in UK, USA and Greece. Discusses economic and social causes of unrest and role of new communications.

Carmin, JoAnn; Balser, Deborah, Selecting Repertoires of Action in Environmental Movements: An Interpretative Approach, 15 4 2002 , pp. 365-386

Compares North American Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace.

Roberts, Adam, The Buddhists, the War and the Vietcong, 22 5 (May) 1966 , pp. 214-222

Ramirez-Valles, Jesus, Companeros, Latino Activists in the Face of AIDS, Chicago IL, University of Illinois Press, 2011 , pp. 192

A professor of community health tells the stories of 80 gay, bisexual and transgender activists and volunteers in Chicago and San Francisco.

France, David, How To Survive A Plague: The Story Of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS, London, Random House , 2016 , pp. 640

Well reviewed inside account of the succesfull battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, this is the incredible story of grassroots activists whose work turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a mangeable disease. France gives account of bureaucratic incompetence and political cowardice in a country where in 1982, 42.6 percent of gay men in San Francisco and 26.8 gay men in New York were infected by AIDS. Almost universally ignored, these men and women learned to become their own researchres, lobbysts, and drug smugglers; established their own newspapaers and research journals, and went on to force reform in the nation's disease fighting agencies. 

Sutton, Barbara, Surviving State Terror. Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina, New York, New York University Press, 2018 , pp. 328

Barbara Sutton collects stories of women in Argentina who have been tortured in clandestine detention. Her work centres on three main questions: how did gender hierarchies, ideologies and identities play out in the infliction of bodily oppression; in the disavowal of the tortured body; and in embodied strategies of survival and resistance. She also asks how can we account for the gendered tortured body and how do we tell stories about it.

Mishtal, Joanna, The Politics of Morality: The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland, Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Press, 2015 , pp. 272

After the initial hopes for democracy and freedom after the fall of the state socialist regime in 1989, political forces that had been dormant during the state socialist era began to emerge, and to establish a new religious-nationalist orthodoxy. Solidarity, which played a key role in ending the communist regime, had worked quietly with the Catholic Church. Most Poles were at least nominally Catholics. As the Church emerged as a political force in the Polish Sejm and Senate, it promoted a rapid erosion of women’s reproductive rights, especially the right to abortion established under the former regime. This book is an anthropological study of this expansion of power by the religious right and its effects on individual rights and social attitudes. It explores the contradictions of postsocialist democratization in Poland and provides the background to the advance on abortion rights activism in Poland.

, Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Veterans For Peace 2017

Campaign by Veterans For Peace (founded in the US in 1985) to support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons for divestment from corporations manufacturing nuclear weapons, and their endorsement of the Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act of 2017. Their campaigns include: ‘The Golden Rule’ educational project, ‘Disarm Trident’, and ‘Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.

Polletta, Francesca, ”It Was Like a Fever...” Narrative and Identity in Social Protest, 45 2 (May) 1998 , pp. 137-159

(reprinted in Doug McAdam, David A. Snow, Readings on Social Movements: Origins, Dynamics and Outcomes (A. 7. Important Reference Works and Websites) ).

Discusses the contagious impact of the sit-ins and the spirit they generated among participants.

Becker, Jasper, The Lost Country: Mongolia Revealed, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1992 , pp. 325

Journalist usually based in China gives his perspective on the movement and the broader context.

Feit, Edward, African Opposition in South Africa: The Failure of Passive Resistance, Stanford CA, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, 1967 , pp. 223

A critical study of the 1954-55 campaigns.

Koirala, Niranjan, Nepal in 1990: End of an Era, 31 (February) 1991 , pp. 134-139

See also Michael Hutt, Drafting the Nepal Constitution, 1990, 1991 , pp. 1020-1039 .

Romanos, Eduardo, Evictions, Petitions and Escraches: Contentious Housing in Austerity Spain, 13 2 2013 , pp. 296-302

Examines different types of action used by movement against evictions and how a range of people drawn into movement.

, Peace Movements in Europe and the United States, ed. Kaltefleiter, Werner; Pfaltzgraff, Robert, London, Croom Helm, 1985 , pp. 211

Essays arising out of May 1984 conference at the Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, on peace movements in Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, West Germany, France, Italy, Britain and the US. Focus is on the anti-nuclear movements of the 1980s, though some contributors sketch the earlier history of movements in their countries.

Aune, Kristin; Redfern, Catherine, Reclaiming the F Word: Feminism Today, 2010 London, Zed Books, 2013 , pp. 244

Based on a survey of over 1000 feminists discusses revitalized movement, the areas in which change is necessary, and how to struggle for change. International perspective but especial focus on UK.

Porter, Norman, Rethinking Unionism: An Alternative Vision for Northern Ireland, 1996 Belfast, The Blackstaff Press, 1998 , pp. 252

Advocates a ‘civic unionism’ which acknowledges both the Britishness and Irishness of Northern Ireland. To quote from the Preface it ‘accommodates questions of cultural identity, liberal emphases on the entitlements of individuals and a substantive understanding of politics in which the practice of dialogue is central’.

Steinweg, Reiner; Laubenthal, Ulrike, Gewaltfreie Aktion: Erfahrungen und Analysen, Frankfurt am Main, Brandes & Aspel, 2011

Noting that nonviolent actions, like the resistance to 'Stuttgart 21', seem to become the focus of public attention, the authors (who have participated in many such protests in recent years) analyze the theory, practice, history, and current situation of nonviolent resistance in its international context. 

, Nigeria: Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, 67th Session, 3-21 July 2017 New York, Amnesty International , 2017

Amnesty International report on legislative measures taken by Nigeria to ensure the protection of the rights of women and girls. It also highlights gender-based violence resulting from displacements and armed conflict; and forced evictions which led to the disproportionate loss of livelihoods for women, and to gender based violence. Finally, Amnesty reports the use of rape and other forms of sexual violence by the police.

Chakrabarti, Shami, On Women in the Twenty-First Century, London, Penguin, 2018 , pp. 240

Chakrabarti gives an account of gender injustice as a major breach of human rights, comparable to the systematic oppression of apartheid.

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