By locating social movements in history, prize-winning social scientist Charles Tilly provides rich and often surprising insights into the origins of contemporary social movement practices, relations of social movements to democratization, and likely futures for social movements.
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Visual Activism in the 21st Century: Art, protest and resistance in an uncertain world
"Our investigation is concerned with two domains – relating to the visual and to activism – and is premised on the question of whether there is good reason to believe that there is an increasingly strong association between these two domains"
The art of protest. Culture and Activism from the civil rights movement to the present
"My title, The Art of Protest, is meant to suggest two related things: (1) that the arts have played a significant role in social protest movements,
and (2) that movements need a certain degree of strategic artfulness to be successful in the current age". (T.V. Reed)