Sociology

The Future of Social Movement Research Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Conny Roggeband and Bert Klandermans, Editors 2013 Fall

An up-to-date and comprehensive overview of current and future social movement scholarship

The Marrying Kind? Debating Same-Sex Marriage within the Lesbian and Gay Movement Mary Bernstein and Verta Taylor, Editors 2013 Spring

A look inside the lesbian and gay movement’s disagreements over same-sex marriage

Driven from New Orleans How Nonprofits Betray Public Housing and Promote Privatization John Arena 2012 Fall

How public housing advocates in New Orleans became active supporters of privatization

Strategies for Social Change Gregory M. Maney, Rachel V. Kutz-Flamenbaum, Deana A. Rohlinger and Jeff Goodwin, Editors 2012 Spring

Examines how strategies within social movements develop and work

Out in Africa LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa Ashley Currier 2012 Fall

The first insider’s view of contemporary LGBT rights activism in Namibia and South Africa

Gay Rights at the Ballot Box Amy Stone 2012 Spring

From Boulder in 1974 to Maine Question 1 in 2009, the first comprehensive history of the LGBT movement’s fight against anti-gay ballot measures

Body and Soul The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination Alondra Nelson 2013 Fall

The legacy of the Black Panther Party’s commitment to community health care, a central aspect of its fight for social justice

Between Feminism and Islam Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco Zakia Salime 2011 Fall

How feminists and Islamists have constituted each other’s agendas in Morocco

Cape Town after Apartheid Crime and Governance in the Divided City Tony Roshan Samara 2011 Spring

Reveals how liberal democracy and free-market economics reproduce the inequalities of apartheid in Cape Town, South Africa

Free Burma Transnational Legal Action and Corporate Accountability John G. Dale 2011 Spring

How Burma’s pro-democracy movement transcends its borders

The City as Campus Urbanism and Higher Education in Chicago Sharon Haar 2010 Fall

A social and design history of the urban campus

The Dallas Myth The Making and Unmaking of an American City Harvey J. Graff 2010 Fall

An unconventional—and critical—examination of ‘the city with no past’

Strategic Alliances Coalition Building and Social Movements Nella Van Dyke and Holly J. McCammon, Editors 2010 Fall

The best current thinking on the conditions leading to successful activist coalitions

Toward a Sociology of the Trace Herman Gray and Macarena Gómez-Barris, Editors 2010 Fall

Questions national identity by investigating the creation of memory and meaning

Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders Homeless in San Francisco Teresa Gowan 2010 Spring

A powerful ethnographic account of life on the streets in San Francisco

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