Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] New title: repression and mobilization
> Hi, >
> Forwarding details of this.
>
> If anyone's interested in reviewing the book for this discussion list,
> please contact me and I'll put you in touch with the publishers.
>
> Laurence Cox
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> REPRESSION AND MOBILIZATION
> Christian Davenport, Hank Johnston, and Carol Mueller, editors
> University of Minnesota Press | 328 pages | 2005
> ISBN 0-8166-4425-X | hardcover | $74.95
> ISBN 0-8166-4426-8 | paperback | $24.95
> Social Movements, Protest, and Contention Series, volume 21
>
> With case studies that range from Germany to the Philippines, the
> United States to Japan, Guatemala to China, the authors take up topics
> as varied as the dynamic interactions between protesters and policing
> agents, distinctions between =FEhard=FF and =FEsoft=FF repression, the = impact=20 > of
> media on our understanding of political contention, the timing and
> shape of protest and resistance cycles, and how measurements of
> social and geographic control influence states=FA responses to
> insurgencies. Together these essays synthesize what we know about
> repression and mobilization and provide thoughtful insight for the
> future.
>
> Contributors: Patrick Ball, Vince Boudreau, Myra Marx Ferree, Ronald
> A. Francisco, Ruud Koopmans, Mark Lichbach, John D. McCarthy,
> Clark McPhail, Patricia Steinhoff, Charles Tilly, Gilda Zwerman.
>
> For more information, visit the book's webpage:
> http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/D/davenport_repression.html >
> For more information on the Social Movements, Protest, and
> Contention Series:
> http://www.upress.umn.edu/byseries/social.html >
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