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Challenging Operations: Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgery
By Fabio Rojas Challenging Operations: Medical Reform and Resistance in Surgeryby Kate C. Kellogg, The University of Chicago Press, 2011. “Good evening, everyone. My name is Captain Fred Jones. I’ll be...
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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
By Karen Gargamelli The Revolution Will Not Be Funded,Edited by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence. South End Press, 2001 This book serves as an important warning to young and well-intentioned...
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What WE Have Done: An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement
By David Pettinicchio What WE Have Done: An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement, by Fred Pelka. Amherst and Boston: UMass Press, 2002. Fred Pelka’s recent book, What WE Have Done: An Oral...
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Women on the Verge
Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983by Barbara Kingsolver. ILR Press, 1989. By Jennifer Earl When I was approached about writing a blog on good summer reading, I knew...
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LEADING TEAMS (or, How Social Movement Leaders Are Like Flight Attendants,...
By Matthew Baggetta What does this image have to do with social movements? More than you might expect. It is increasingly common for social movement scholars to bemoan the lack of theory and research...
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June Essay Dialogue: Great Books for Summer Reading
Summer is here, and when you head to the beach (or, more likely, your library carrel), Mobilizing Ideas wants you to be reading the latest and greatest notable books on social movements and social...
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Reading Classes: On Culture and Classism in America
By Betsy Leondar-Wright Reading Classes: On Culture and Classism in America, by Barbara Jensen. Cornell Press, 2012. And unlike most things I’ve read about kids disengaged from school, which focus on...
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The Journey to Tahrir: Revolution, Protest, and Social Change in Egypt
By Arang Keshavarzian The Journey to Tahrir: Revolution, Protest, and Social Change in Egypt, by Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing (eds). Verso, 2012. Since the overthrow of Tunisia and Egypt’s...
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A Theory of Fields: A Review
By David Hess A Theory of Fields, by Neil Fligstein and Doug McAdam. Oxford University Press, 2012. A Theory of Fields is the product of the longstanding collaboration that began during the 1980s, when...
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Critical Considerations on Collective Empowerment: Class, Civil Society and...
By Efe Can Gürcan and Gerardo Otero – Simon Fraser University John Holloway, Change the world without taking power: the meaning of revolution today (London & New York: Pluto Press, 2010) Eleven...
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Review of Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism
Worthen, Molly. 2014. Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism. Oxford University Press. The role of ideas for collective action has long been regarded as central to the...
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Looking Behind the Label and Reforming Global Industry
The recent essay series organized by Jennifer Hadden on climate change mobilization raises larger questions mobilization scholars should be asking: How can we collectively address complex global social...
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