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1. Social Movements: The Key Concepts

   By Graeme Chesters, Ian Welsh

   Series: Routledge Key Guides

   Social Movements: The Key Concepts provides an insightful, contemporary introduction to some of the frequently encountered terms and groups that are central to the study of collective action and social and political activism. Following an A-Z format, the entries defined and discussed are drawn from...

   Published September 28th 2010 by Routledge
2. The Politics of Unsustainability

   Eco-Politics in the Post-Ecologist Era

   Edited by Ingolfur Bluhdorn, Ian Welsh

   Series: Environmental Politics

   Two decades after its launch by the UN Brundtland Commission, the paradigm of sustainability seems to have reached its limits. Whilst the concept figures more prominently in public debate and policy making than ever before, the ecological footprint of advanced liberal consumer societies continues...

   Published March 4th 2008 by Routledge
3. Complexity and Social Movements

   Multitudes at the Edge of Chaos

   By Graeme Chesters, Ian Welsh

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Fusing two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalization and its discontents, and the 'complexity turn' in social theory, authors Chesters and Welsh utilize complexity theory to analyze the shifting constellation of social movement networks that constitute opposition to neo-liberal...

   Published March 21st 2007 by Routledge
4. Mobilising Modernity

   The Nuclear Moment

   By Ian Welsh

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   During the nuclear heyday of the post-war years advocates of atomic power promised cheap electricity and a prosperous future. From the present, however, this promise seems tarnished by accidents, leaks and a lack of public confidence. Mobilising Modernity traces this journey from confidence in...

   Published August 23rd 2000 by Routledge