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Protest Politics Today
Devashree Gupta
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Description for Protest Politics Today
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 171. .
Social movements play a vital and increasingly visible role in modern politics. Headline-grabbing demonstrations against authoritarian governments, police brutality, economic inequality, and other grievances suggest that, around the world, social movements are seen as powerful catalysts of change. In democracies as well as autocracies, rich countries as well as poor, citizens turn repeatedly to protest as a way of addressing a range of perceived social ills. This engaging and accessible book by leading social movements scholar Devashree Gupta offers a thorough introduction to the study of social movements in these diverse settings, examining their structures and operations to identify ... Read more
Social movements play a vital and increasingly visible role in modern politics. Headline-grabbing demonstrations against authoritarian governments, police brutality, economic inequality, and other grievances suggest that, around the world, social movements are seen as powerful catalysts of change. In democracies as well as autocracies, rich countries as well as poor, citizens turn repeatedly to protest as a way of addressing a range of perceived social ills. This engaging and accessible book by leading social movements scholar Devashree Gupta offers a thorough introduction to the study of social movements in these diverse settings, examining their structures and operations to identify ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745671154
SKU
V9780745671154
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Ref
99-22
About Devashree Gupta
Devashree Gupta is Associate Professor of Political Science at Carleton College.
Reviews for Protest Politics Today
How do deeply invested participants come together in public displays of commitment and passion in social movements? This is the subject of Devashree Gupta's riveting new book. The book ranges from how modern movements developed to the approaches scholars have used to study them, to how movements organize and strive to influence social and political change. Immensely readable and deeply ... Read more