Marxism and Social Movements - Colin Barker, Laurence Cox, John Krinsky, Alf Gunvald (2013).pdf

Written by Colin Barker (Editor), Laurence Cox (Editor), John Krinsky (Editor), Alf Gunvald (Editor)
Edition: 2013
Format(s): PDF
Language: English

Publication Date: June 1, 2013 | ISBN-10: 9004211756 | ISBN-13: 978-9004211759

"Marxism and social movements" connects these two leading perspectives on popular collective action in a collection of chapters by leading authors in the field discussing theoretical and practical aspects of struggles on six continents over the last 150 years.



About the Author
Colin Barker is honorary lecturer in sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He co-organizes the annual international conferences on Alternative Futures and Popular Protest. He has published many books and articles on social movements and revolutions and is an active socialist. Laurence Cox, Ph.D. (1999, Trinity College Dublin), co-directs the MA in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism at Maynooth. He co-edits the social movement journal Interface and has also published Understanding European Movements (Routledge, 2013, with Cristina Flesher Fominaya). John Krinsky, Ph.D. (2002, Columbia University), is associate professor of political science at The City College of New York. He co-edits the journal Social Movement Studies, and published Free Labor: Workfare and the Contested Language of Neoliberalism (Chicago 2007). Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Ph.D. (2006, Bergen) is associate professor of sociology at the University of Bergen. He co-edits the journal Interface and has published widely on social movements. He is the author of Dispossession and Resistance in India (Routledge, 2010).
Product Details

Series: Historical Materialism in Book Series (Book 46)
Hardcover: 482 pages
Publisher: BRILL (June 1, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9004211756
ISBN-13: 978-9004211759