Presses de Sciences Po : Protest (English)

Collection: Contester Protest

Series edited by Nonna Mayer

Demonstration has become the current mode of political action. Will France, the country with the highest number of protests, see any other way of undertaking politics ? Are we talking about a worldwide phenomenon or an emerging transnational public space ?

Far from nostalgia, the job of the PROTEST collection is to respond to these questions by analyzing obsolete uses, current trends, and impact of these political modes of action.

Intended for militants, students, and instructors, the PROTEST collection offers a series of short works that are clear, well-designed and accessible, including for each mode of action covered:

· A brief history and definition

· A theoretical context

· Comparative views on uses and political dimensions

· A reference bibliography

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Cécile Péchu

Les squats
due out in August 2010

Dominique Cardon, Fabien Granjon

Médiactivistes
due out in August 2010

Johanna Siméant

La grève de la faim
Strike Hunger
- number 6
An 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
Legal 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
Engaged Consumption
- number 5
Consumers are often importuned to exercise responsibility in the market sphere and to consume with an eye to their obligations as citizens. They contribute to the social fabric, and to create a new consumerism.

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.