[ecrea] New Book and New Series on Protest: Contemporary Protest and the Legacy of Dissent and Protest, Media and Culture

We would like to draw your attention to two recent developments in 
Protest and Social Movement Studies.

The first is the publication on 16th December of the volume Contemporary 
Protest and the Legacy of Dissent edited by Stuart Price (De Montfort 
University) and Ruth Sanz Sabido (Canterbury Christ Church University).

Contemporary Protest and the Legacy of Dissent (288 pages), offers an 
insight into modern European protest movements, focusing on the 
strategies, ideologies, activities, and developments associated with the 
current wave of public dissent.

Further details of this book, published by Rowman and Littlefield 
International, can be found here:

http://www.rowmaninternational.com/books/contemporary-protest-and-the-legacy-of-dissent

ISBN numbers:
Hardback £75 ISBN 9781783481750
Softback £24.95 ISBN 9781783481767
eBook £24.95 ISBN 9781783481774

The second event is the creation of a new Series on the topic of 
Protest, Media and Culture, again from R&L International.

Series Editors: Ruth Sanz Sabido (Canterbury Christ Church University, 
Media Discourse Group) and Stuart Price (De Montfort University, Media 
Discourse Group).

Protest, Media and Culture will publish edited collections and 
monographs dedicated to the study and analysis of an irrepressible 
phenomenon: the worldwide resurgence of social, cultural, political and 
economic discontent. The evidence for this development is found in the 
constant appearance of contentious activities, which emerge from a 
fundamental conflict between formal authority and those forces that, for 
a variety of reasons, attempt to censure, oppose, alter or even destroy 
the perceived iniquities of the ‘dominant’ social order. The series will 
make particular reference to the mediated character of protest and 
dissent, but will also encompass theoretical, organisational and 
practical issues, and will include both historical and contemporary 
examples.

The term Protest identifies the visible act of collective resistance; 
Media acts (variously) to suppress, amplify, or reconfigure this act; 
and Culture designates the active interactional ‘space’ that allows the 
various meanings animated by protest to circulate. The Series Editors 
share an approach to Protest and Mediated Culture that emerged from 
their work in the interdisciplinary field of Media Discourse. Now, 
following the organisation of a number of conferences, public lectures 
and symposia, supported by the cross-institutional Media Discourse 
Group, our call is for proposals that may touch upon, but which are not 
necessarily limited to, the following five main thematic headings:

Protest, Media and Communication
Cultural Studies and Protest
Protest and Post-colonial Studies
Social Psychology and Public Dissent
Gender and Protest

In the first instance, please make initial enquiries to both Dr Ruth 
Sanz Sabido at (ruth.sanz-sabido /at/ canterbury.ac.uk) and Professor Stuart 
Price at (sprice /at/ dmu.ac.uk)

A further call for material, including details of how to frame a 
proposal, will be made in the New Year

Best wishes
Ruth Sanz Sabido, Canterbury Christ Church University
Stuart Price, De Montfort University

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