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390pp
EU publication 1.12.2003
ISBN 0 85036 538 4
GB Pounds 16.95 Pbk
DEMOCRACY AND PARTICIPATION: Popular Protest and New Social Movements
EDITORS: Malcolm J. Todd and Gary Taylor
Malcolm J. Todd is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Sheffield Hallam
University.
Gary Taylor is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Sheffield Hallam
University.
WITH A FOREWORD BY Frank Furedi
Professor in Social Policy and Sociology at the University of Kent at
Canterbury
A collection of essays specially-commissioned to introduce students to
issues, themes and debates in the study of protest, democracy and the
role of new social movements in the 2000s.
This textbook introduces case studies of particular social movements
concerned with women's rights, ethnicity and 'race', mental health,
peace and anti-privatization. It explores issues of youth and political
involvement, free speech, unemployment and the role of voluntary and
community groups in challenging traditional perspectives on democracy.
The contributors are from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds who are
at the cutting edge of recent empirical and theoretical work in these
areas.
Written in an accessible style, the book will be a valuable and
stimulating resource for university and college students of sociology,
social policy, politics and the social sciences in general; and by any
reader concerned with the debates surrounding the nature of democracy,
protest and the role of new social movements.
Contents: Foreword: Frank Furedi; Introduction: Gary Taylor and Malcolm
Todd; New Social Movements and Democracy: Greg Martin; Anti
Globalisation, Anti Capitalism and the Democratic State: Kevin
Farnsworth; Anarchism and Democracy: Dave Morland and John Carter; Free
Speech, Democracy and Protest: John Steel; Unemployment, Protest and
Democracy: Paul Bagguley; Trade Unions: Elizabeth Lawrence; UK
Anti-Privatisation Politics: Sally Ruane; Political Activity and Youth
in Britain: Mark Weinstein; Alienation and Youth in Britain: Matt Henn,
Mark Weinstein and Dominic Wring; Social Movements and the Struggle Over
'Race': Max Farrar; Feminism, Social Movements and the Political Order:
Nickie Charles; Women and Politics in Europe: Simon Henig; Peace
Movements: Carlo Ruzza; Voluntary and Community Organisations in the
Democratic Process: Tessa Parkes, Marilyn Taylor and Mick Wilkinson;
Participation and Protest: Mental Health Service Users/Survivors: Peter
Beresford and Peter Campbell; Index.
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Dr Malcolm Todd
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Sheffield Hallam University
School of Social Science and Law
Collegiate Crescent Campus
Sheffield
S1 1WB
0114 225 2415
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