Lesley J Wood: 4 books
Crisis and Control
The Militarization of Protest Policing
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Crisis and Control explains how neoliberal transformations of political and economic systems are militarising the policing of protest, based on a compelling empirical study of police agencies and practices from 1995 until the present. *BR**BR*Lesley J. Wood shows that the increasing role of the security...
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La militarisation de la gestion policière des manifestations
Language: French
Release Date: September 17, 2015
La restructuration néolibérale des institutions économiques et politiques entraîne une militarisation progressive des forces policières et de leurs tactiques de maintien de l’ordre. Surveillance, infiltration, brigades spéciales, armes sublétales, arrestations préventives... en Amérique...
Direct Action, Deliberation, and Diffusion
Collective Action after the WTO Protests in Seattle
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
What are the micro-level interactions and conversations that underlie successful and failed diffusion? By comparing the spread of direct action tactics from the 1999 Global Justice Movement protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle to grassroots activists in Toronto and New York, Lesley...
by Charles Tilly, Lesley J Wood
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The updated and expanded third edition of Tilly's widely acclaimed book brings this analytical history of social movements fully up to date. Tilly and Wood cover such recent topics as the economic crisis and related protest actions around the globe while maintaining their attention to perennially...