From Protest to Challenge, Vol. 2
From Protest to Challenge, Vol. 2

Author: Gwendolen M. Carter

Publisher: Hoover Press

Published: 2013-09-01

Total Pages: 1010

ISBN-13: 0817912231

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From Protest to Challenge rescues from obscurity the voices of protest in South Africa through the publication of rare documents housed in the collections of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. These excerpts from political ephemera, radical newspapers, and other materials provide a documentary history of opposition groups in South Africa. They bear witness not only to a remarkable period in South African history but also to the vital need for the preservation of historical documents as an essential tool of scholarship. These materials are as relevant today as when they were first published, graphically demonstrating the South African struggle for peace, freedom, and equality. Volume 2 covers the years 1935 to 1952, a period framed by the All-African Convention, arranged in response to proposed legislation limiting the rights of native Africans, and the launch of the Defiance Campaign protesting apartheid laws.

From Protest to Challenge: Protest and hope, 1882-1934
From Protest to Challenge: Protest and hope, 1882-1934

Author: Thomas Karis

Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, [1972]-77.

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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From protest to challenge; a documentary history of African politics in South Africa, 1882-1964. Edited by Thomas Karis and Gwendolen M. Carter.

Platforms, Protests, and the Challenge of Networked Democracy
Platforms, Protests, and the Challenge of Networked Democracy

Author: John Jones

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-07-08

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 3030365255

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This book examines the recent evolution of online spaces and their impact on networked democracy. Through an illuminating mix of theoretical and methodological analysis, contributors provide an understanding of how a range of individuals and groups, including activists and NGOs, governments and griefers, are using digital technologies to influence public debates. Contributions consider these phenomena in a global contemporary context, providing within the same volume rigorous examinations of the design of digital platforms for deliberation, users’ attempts to manipulate those platforms, and the ways activists and governments are responding to emerging threats to democratic discourse. Providing diverse, global case studies, this collection is a valuable tool for academics within and beyond the fields of new media, communication, and information policy and governance.

Black Power in South Africa
Black Power in South Africa

Author: Gail M. Gerhart

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780520039339

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"This book, better than any I have seen, provides an understanding of the politics and ideology of orthodox African nationalism, or Black Power, in South Africa since World War II. . . . from the Youth League of the African Student National Congress (ANC) of the late 1940s to the South African Student Organization (SASO) and the Black Consciousness Movement of the 1970s."—Perspective "Clarifies some of the main issues that have divided the black leadership and rescues the work of some pioneering nationalist theorists. . . . It's an absorbing piece of history."—New York Times "Informative and well-researched. . . . She ably explores the nuances of the two main movements until 1960 and explains why blacks were so receptive to black consciousness in the late Sixties."—New York Review

The Populist Challenge
The Populist Challenge

Author: Jens Rydgren

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781571816436

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During the last decade and a half a new political party family, the extreme Right-wing populist (ERP) parties, has established itself in a variety of West European democracies. These parties represent a monist politics based on ethnic nationalism and xenophobia as well as an opposition against the 'political establishment'. Being the prototypic ERP party, the French Front National (FN) has been a model for ERP parties emerging elsewhere in Western Europe. This study presents a theoretically based explanation that combines the macro and the micro-level, as well as the political supply and the demand-side. More specifically, this study shows that it is necessary to consider both opportunity structures, created by demand and supply-side factors, as well as the ability of the FN to take advantage of the available opportunities. Of particular interest is the author's analysis of the sociology and attitudes of the FN-voters.

Challenging the Mandate of Heaven
Challenging the Mandate of Heaven

Author: Elizabeth J. Perry

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-05-20

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1317475135

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Social science theories of contentious politics have been based almost exclusively on evidence drawn from the European and American experience, and classic texts in the field make no mention of either the Chinese Communist revolution or the Cultural Revolution -- surely two of the most momentous social movements of the twentieth century. Moreover, China's record of popular upheaval stretches back well beyond this century, indeed all the way back to the third century B.C. This book, by bringing together studies of protest that span the imperial, Republican, and Communist eras, introduces Chinese patterns and provides a forum to consider ways in which contentious politics in China might serve to reinforce, refine or reshape theories derived from Western cases.

From Protest to Parties
From Protest to Parties

Author: Adrienne LeBas

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2013-05-23

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0199673004

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From Protest to Parties provides a unique window into the politics of mobilization and protest in closed political regimes, and sheds light on how the choices of political elites affect organizational development. The book draws upon an in-depth analysis of 3 countries in Anglophone Africa: Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Kenya