This volume analyses and historicises the memory of 1968 (understood as a marker of an emerging will for social change around the turn of that decade, rather th

This book is about protest politics and social movements led by a group of women, the “Mothers,” who were inadvertently drawn into South Korea’s democrati

Despite increased international rhetoric in support of women's equality, women currently comprise a disproportionate share of the world's illiterate, poor, disp

The western economic and financial crisis began with the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 and led the European Union countries into recession. After this, go

Explains the character of contemporary protest politics through a micro-mobilization analysis of participation in street demonstrations.