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Revolution and Revolt: Political Theory and Political Action

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

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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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Subjects

General and interdisciplinary

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He Said, She Said: The Rhetoric of Gender Politics

Background/reference sources:

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument.

Culture wars: an encyclopedia of issues, viewpoints, and voices.
2 vols., IC, also online.
Encyclopedia of activism and social justice.
3 vols., in SSRC
International encyclopedia of revolution and protest, 1500 to the present
8 vols., IC
Revolts, protests, demonstrations, and rebellions in American history.
3 vols., IC

Suggested journals:

FIND FULL TEXT in Searchworks record for online access

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.

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  1. 19 & 20 : notes for a social protagonism

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

    Green » Stacks » JL2081 .A1513 2012

  2. Active citizen participation in e-government [electronic resource] : a global perspective

    [edited by] Aroon Manoharan, Marc Holzer. 2012

  3. Activist scholar : selected works of Marilyn Gittell

    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.

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  1. British student activism in the long sixties

    Caroline M. Hoefferle. 2013

    Cubberley » Stacks » LA631.82 .H64 2013

  2. Barricade

    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