Recent developments in social movement research have evidenced a greater underlying
consensus in the field than one might have assumed. Efforts have been made to bridge …

Accumulated research findings show that women tend to express higher levels of concern
toward technology and the environment than do men, but that the tendency is not universal …

Disability luminary Mike Oliver is joined by Colin Barnes in this agenda-setting response to a
capitalist society faced with globalisation, financial instability and lower public expenditure …

The project behind this book started shortly after Gender and Nation (1997, Sage) was
published, although it took quite a few years before it was crystallized into this format. In a …

In this absorbing text by a leading writer and respected activist, theory, policy, historical
background and personal experience are combined to give readers a rich and illuminating …

Proactive corporate social responsibility (CSR) involves business strategies and practices
adopted voluntarily by firms that go beyond regulatory requirements in order to manage their …

In Challenging Codes Melucci brings an original perspective to research on collective action
which both emphasizes the role of culture and makes telling connections with the …

In The Art of Moral Protest, James Jasper integrates diverse examples of protest—from
nineteenth-century boycotts to recent movements—into a distinctive new understanding of …

An effective response to contemporary environmental problems demands an approach that
integrates political, economic and ecological issues. Third World Political Ecology provides …

Disabled people experience profound discrimination and social disadvantage, but this has
not generated substantial interest among mainstream sociologists. Barnes, Mercer and …