Forthcoming Social Movements Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Africa's Contemporary Challenges

   The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral

   Edited by Carlos Lopes

   This book reviews Cabral’s intellectual contribution to current debates on race, identity, nation building, democracy, leadership and ethics. The key leader of the national liberation movements of former Portuguese African colonies is considered to be one of their foremost intellectuals...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Grassroots Elections in China

   Edited by Kevin O'Brien, Suisheng Zhao

   Twenty years after the launch of village elections, the time is ripe to assess the progress and impact of China’s most notable political reform. Where have elections been conducted well and where have they been conducted poorly? How have procedures changed over the years and have elections truly...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Oppositional Discourses and Democracies

   Edited by Michael Huspek

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   When citizens take to the streets or pack assembly halls or share their ideas through the minority press, they often give voice to truths and logic that have otherwise been given little or no airing through the available institutional channels offered by democratic states. Such discourses offer new...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Workers of the World versus Globalisation

   The International Relations of Capital and Labour

   By Verity Burgmann

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Political Economy

   Globalisation has adversely affected working-class organisation and mobilisation; but international labour movement demobilisation is not necessarily an irreversible trend. Globalisation has prompted workers and their organisations to find new ways to mobilise. This book examines international...

   To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge
5. Leisure, Culture and the Olympic Games

   Edited by John Horne

   This edited collection contains six refreshing critical assessments of the leisure-sport relationship from societies that have staged the Olympic and Paralympic Games and contains valuable information for those who live in societies that aspire to host the Games. The collection begins and ends with...

   To Be Published July 4th 2013 by Routledge
6. Thinking Politically about HIV

   Edited by Kent Buse, Dennis Altman

   AIDS has a unique political history. As fears grew of a global pandemic on the scale of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, AIDS was briefly treated as an issue of high politics in the international arena and generated significant resources for country programmes. That initial commitment is now declining,...

   To Be Published July 14th 2013 by Routledge
7. Development in an Era of Neoliberal Globalization

   Edited by Henry Veltmeyer

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   This book analyses the progress and failures of capitalist development against the backdrop of an increasingly globalised world economy organised on neoliberal principles. It brings together eminent writers on the political economy of international development such as Kari Polanyi-Levitt, Norman...

   To Be Published July 29th 2013 by Routledge
8. Nationalism, Referendums and Democracy

   Voting on Ethnic Issues and Independence

   Edited by Matt Qvortrup

   Democracy is above all about majority rule. But which majority should rule if a part of a country wants to secede and become independent? Should the majority of the whole country decide? Or only the majority in the part that seeks to become independent be allowed to vote? Referendums and democracy...

   To Be Published August 5th 2013 by Routledge
9. Violence, Elections, and Party Politics

   Edited by Mary Beth Altier, Susanne Martin, Leonard B. Weinberg

   As the United States and the countries of Western Europe have sought to promote democratic rule in those parts of the world that have not enjoyed the blessings of liberty, they have failed to consider an important factor. Competitive elections, the sine qua non of democratic government, often gives...

   To Be Published September 3rd 2013 by Routledge
10. Social Movements, the Poor and the New Politics of the Americas

    Edited by Håvard Haarstad, Mark Amen, Asuncion Lera St Clair

    Series: Rethinking Globalizations

    Håvard Haarstad is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Geography, University of Bergen. He has worked extensively on the political economy of natural resource extraction, and the role of social movements, civil society and labor unions in politicizing extraction. Mark Amen is...

    To Be Published September 5th 2013 by Routledge