CONTEMPORARY PROTEST AND THE LEGACY OF DISSENT. This item is unavailable.CONTEMPORARY PROTEST AND THE LEGACY OF DISSENT

Contemporary Protest and the Legacy of Dissent provides an invaluable insight into the strategies, values, and arguments of those groups and individuals responsible for shaping the modern face of radical social movements. Written by a group of academics and activists, the book describes and analyses a number of causes, campaigns, demonstrations, and rebellions. The various manifestations of dissent - on and offline, visible and obscure, progressive and reactionary - are placed in their social, political and historical context, while the standard explanatory frameworks supplied by established theorists are examined and reassessed. Besides the 'inside story' of protest, presented through a number of empirical studies, the book also offers a wide range of academic and theoretical approaches to citizenship, nationalism, class, ethnicity and gender. Amongst the pieces included in this volume are: analyses of 'citizen journalism'; a study of public dissent in Spain; a chapter on the convoluted relationship between past and present in the Ukraine; a critique of press coverage of the English riots of 2011; an account of the Calais Migrant solidarity campaign; work on the Stokes Croft 'riots'; critical approaches to the Occupy movement; and an historical overview of the challenges faced by the Asian Youth Movements based in the UK.

Stuart Price is Professor of Media and Political Discourse, and Chair of the Media Discourse Group, at De Montfort University, Leicester. He is the author of a number of monographs, including Worst-Case Scenario? Governance, mediation and the security regime (2011), and Brute Reality: power, discourse and the mediation of war (2010). Ruth Sanz Sabido has lectured in Canterbury, De Montfort and Leicester, and is Chair of the MeCCSA Social Movements Network. Ruth has a PhD in Media Discourse, has published a journal article and a book chapter, and is guest-editing a journal special issue. She has presented her work at numerous conferences, and is currently engaged in research on memory and the Spanish Civil War. Contributors: Dr Pollyanna Ruiz (London School of Economics) Dr Vincent Campbell(University of Leicester) Dr Ruth Sanz Sabido (Canterbury Christ Church University) Mark Bergfeld (University of Essex) Thomas Swann (University of Leicester) Dr Ingrid Hoofd (National University of Singapore) Cassian Sparkes-Vian (De Montfort University) Professor Stuart Price (De Montfort University) John Harris (The Guardian) Claire English (University of Leicester) Dr Anandi Ramamurthy (University of Central Lancashire) Professor Slavoj Zizek (Birkbeck, University of London)