Presses de Sciences Po : Protest (English)

Collection : Contester Protest

Series edited by Nonna Mayer

Protest has become a current mode of political action. Is France, the country with the highest number of demonstrations per year, discovering a new style of citizen politics ? Is this a worldwide tendency? Is a transnational public space in the making ?

Far from a nostalgic evocation of the past, the aim of the PROTEST collection is to answer these questions by analysing the former uses, the current trends, and the actual impact of these political modes of action.

Intended for activists, students, and academics, the PROTEST collection offers a series of short books that are clear, informed and accessible, including for each mode of action:
• A brief history and definition
• A theoretical frame
• A comparative perspective of its uses and political dimensions
• A short bibliography

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Dominique Cardon, Fabien Granjon

Médiactivistes
Mediactivism
- number 9
An history of alternative media since the 60's. It sets out to demonstrate its variety, from revolutionary press experiences to mediactivism within the global social justice movement network.

Cécile Péchu

Les squats
Squats
Squats
- number 8
From resistance to contest, a first essay to analyse the squat as a way of contestation from a historical and sociological point of view. It brings some order in all the usages of the squat while reviewing its origins.

Johanna Siméant

La grève de la faim
Hunger Strikes
- number 6
A historical analyse of this mode of protest from its birth at the beginning of the twentieth century with British suffragettes and Irish nationalists to its later use on every continent.

Liora Israël

L'arme du droit
The law as a Weapon
- number 7
What use does politics of law serve? How has legal action progressively integrated itself into the repertory of resistance throughout the social movements and crises of the 20th century?

Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier

La consommation engagée
Political Consumerism
- number 5
Consumers are more and more often asked to exercise their responsibility and when they buy products, to behave as responsible citizens. A new "consumerism" is on the rise, bringing politics into the marketplace.

Isabelle Sommier

La violence révolutionnaire
Revolutionary Violence
- number 4
Forty years after May 1968, this work investigates the resurgence and the itinerary of the revolutionary violence of the extreme left in France, United States, Italy, Germany and Japan.

Christophe Traïni

La musique en colère
The Sound of Anger
- number 3
When music becomes a weapon, a way to resist or to mobilize for a cause stirring emotions and affects.

Olivier Fillieule, Danielle Tartakowsky

La Manifestation
Demonstrations
- number 2
Taking to the streets has become a normal, institutionalised way of expressing support for a cause in established democracies. But the type of demonstrations, and demonstrators, are very different from one country to another.

P. Groux, Jean-Marie Pernot

La grève
Strikes
- number 1
The number of strikes is declining, they are no more central in the protest repertoire of the working classes, but they are giving way to a more diffuse form of conflictuality.