The pace of mineral extraction has greatly accelerated since the mid-1950s, with a major
mineral boom taking place in the past decade. Responding to growing demands for more …

A growing body of scholarship acknowledges the increasing influence of global forces on
social institutions and societies on multiple scales. We focus here on the role of globalization …

This book offers a major new theory of global governance, explaining both its rise and what
many see as its current crisis. The author suggests that world politics is now embedded in a …

In July 2016, during a closed session with Polish bishops, Pope Francis stated,“In Europe,
America, Latin America, Africa, and in some countries of Asia, there are genuine forms of …

In thirteen succinct chapters, Buechler traces movement theories from the classical era of
sociology to the most recent examples of transnational activism. He identifies the socio …

Now in paperback for the first time, Social Movements and their Technologies explores the
interplay between social movements and their'liberated technologies'. It analyzes the rise of …

This article approaches the paradigm shift of datafication from the perspective of civil society.
Looking at how individuals and groups engage with datafication, it complements the notion …

In this far-reaching work, Swen Hutter demonstrates the usefulness of studying both
electoral politics and protest politics to better understand the impacts of globalization. Hutter …

The past decade has witnessed rapid growth in popular protest, alongside an upsurge in
research on collective action. The proliferation of research has been both productive and …

Africa's Informal Workers is a vigorous examination of the informalization and casualization
of work, which is changing livelihoods in Africa and beyond. Gathering cases from nine …