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Revolution and Revolt: Political Theory and Political Action

PWR 1GDM - Winter 2013 - Instructor: Murray, D.
Last Updated: 19-Dec-2012

A guide to resources for PWR 1GDM: Revolution, Insurrection, and Revolt: Political Theory and Political Action. Course topics include:social movements, political theories; social transformations that transcend the limitations of institutional politics.

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Suggested databases:

  • Academic Search Premier  - CHOOSE DATABASES to add Alternative Press Index, Left Index
  • The Nation Digital Archive, 1865 to current; great weekly news magazine, also in IC Display and SSRC
  • Online Archive of California - includes materials from our Special Collections and University Archives, the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, and UC Berkeley
  • Oral History Online- check under Historical Events
  • Research Library - from ProQuest, add more databases by clicking on Social Sciences Databases in the upper left-hand corner,  to include Alt-Press Watch, PAIS (political science), Sociological Abstracts, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Subject term: Political Participation

This is a list of items in English of recent works using the subject term "Political participation" in Searchworks. You can limit your results by TOPIC , or by adding country or "history"or by LANGUAGE on the left.

  1. Colectivo Situaciones ; translated by Nate Holdren and Sebastian Touza. 2012

    Green » Stacks » JL2081 .A1513 2012

  2. [edited by] Aroon Manoharan, Marc Holzer. 2012

  3. editors Ross Gittell, Kathe Newman. 2012

    Green » Stacks » HM711 .G58 2012

Subject term: Student movements

This is a list of recent English language materials using the subject term "Student movements." You can limit your results by using TOPICS on the left, or by adding search words.

  1. Caroline M. Hoefferle. 2013

    Cubberley » Stacks » LA631.82 .H64 2013

  2. Kazuo Kitai = バリケード / 北井一夫. 2012

    Art » Locked Stacks, Small » TR655 .K58 2012 F

Special Stanford Resources:

  • Hoover Institution Library and Archives. Library has Underground newspaper collection. 476 reels plus supplements, covers 1963-1989. Includes Berkeley Barb, 1965-1980. Also papers of the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society).
  • Special Collections and University Archives: Good descriptions in database Online Archive of California, includes things like records of Stanford Against Conscription (SAC) – Students against the Draft, Occupy Movement ephemera collection, 2011-2012, Occupy Stanford collection, 2011

Other resources:

from previous PWR classes:

Student/scholar activism

Gender Politics