.... The chapter explains the shift of American cultural citizenship as antinuclear protests and civil defense programs subsided. It clarifies that nuclear citizenship did not just disappear as citizens demanded states take responsibility when Cold War tensions returned in the 1980s. Moreover, the changing...

...This chapter argues that contemporary crowd formations, especially those that gather to express political protests, often fracture the unity of conventional ontological assumptions about what a “crowd” is or may be. Beginning with early sociological accounts of crowds by Gustave le Bon and Georg...

...This chapter analyzes the hidden dynamics of labor activism on military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan. It focuses on three strategies: protests, strikes, and “jumping” from one company to another. This chapter describes the motivations of workers who engage in these actions, as well as the risks...

... partial censorship exists. The impact of digital media in largescale protest movements is similarly multifaceted and contradictory. Digital media empower social protests by promoting oppositional discourses, facilitating mobilization, and contributing to the emergence of connective action. However...

... for the nation to enjoy its myriad benefits. Yet at least immediately this was not to be the case. Multiple manifestations of class-based dissent, in the form of strikes, protests, and horrific acts of violence, put the nation on edge. Much of the fervor focused on immigrants, as it had since the onset...

... in nonregular employment, Japan has also witnessed a growing number of workers' protests, which have both sought to highlight the plight of Japan's precarious workers and attempted to oppose and resist the new conditions that they were experiencing. Indeed, over the past twenty years, Japan has witnessed...

... and detailed stories of the area's protest tradition. The book paints a compelling picture of the foundations for the movement. Now, especially, this story of struggle for justice and resistance to inequality resonates. The book leads us to consider the social, political, and economic environment more than...

... to perceived violations of the social compact. The chapter explains the changing public perception of destructive protests and their legitimacy. It highlights that populist vigilantism played a significant role in American life from the colonial period to the early twentieth century before detailing...

...This chapter examines the role barricades played in resisting against the regime of Ferdinand Marcos. The chapter details the barricades students set up for their protests and campus occupations. Nine days after they erected them, the few students remaining on campus voluntarily tore down them down...

..., especially electric utilities, to the new safety governance environment. It traces the simultaneous decline of the nuclear village and the expansion of antinuclear protests. Finally, the chapter reveals how independent and transparent safety governance redistributed power in Japan's nuclear politics...

...This chapter details the events of November 30, 1999 (N30) and the participation of peasants and farmers in the protests against the World Trade Organization (WTO). Many N30 participants, and peasants and farmers in particular, came to Seattle not only to march in the streets but to network...

... Ortega regime and the subsequent unraveling of its support. The chapter also elaborates on the most frequently noted vulnerabilities of the pink tide governments before the wave of protests and election losses that overtook them in the 2010s: governments' overreliance on resource extraction...

... to change election outcomes has not been needed. Moreover, when political protests did break out over charges of electoral fraud in 2011–2012, Putin succeeded in heightening social divisions between “real Russians” in the industrial and rural hinterlands and the cosmopolitan professionals in the major...

...This chapter explores the potential for socioeconomic protests to combine with more radical political demands. It studies the protest by Russia's truck drivers, whose actions demonstrate how simple economic concerns can unite otherwise isolated individuals and quickly lead to demands for political...

... and maintenance workers in 1980, 1981, and 1987; the arrest of more than 1,000 people in 1985 amid protests over Cornell's divestment policy in South Africa; protests by African American students and faculty against proposals to institute random housing assignments for first-year students; and Latinos' occupation...

... and Chandler Peleg Whitman Mexican War First Great Depression economic crisis US economy law and order protests uprising inequality police power The First Great Depression began as a crisis among financial institutions and then effloresced into something larger and more complicated. Economic troubles...

... of Michigan through these protests. Arriving at the university in January of 1968, Robben Fleming introduced a new managerial strategy to co-opt activism. His efforts worked briefly to stem the tide of black student protests in the late 1960s, but they ultimately failed when Fleming did not provide the types...

... chapter. He also recounts the arrest of the so-called May Day Ten after the SDS launched protests during a practice by the army ROTC cadets for their annual Presidential Review. Finally, he comments on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision denying certiorari in the appeal of his prison sentence. Afro American...

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... that it was unclear who was in charge. Continued protests, arrests, and militarized police responses, which included repeated use of tear gas and the firing of rubber bullets into the crowd, escalated over the following days. Many people who witnessed Brown in the street recalled specific ways in which the image...