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Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China
Thaxton argues that the memory of the great famine under Mao shaped villagers' resistance to the socialist state.
Proletarian Lives
An ethnographic study of how people in one of Latin America's most notorious social movements became long-term activists.
Ruling by Other Means
Offers a new perspective on the relationship between states and social movements in authoritarian and semi-authoritarian contexts.
Violent Resistance
Using original fieldwork, Violent Resistance explains when, where, and how communities form militias to defend themselves in civil wars.
The Advantage of Disadvantage
The Advantage of Disadvantage provides insights for scholars and activists into how marginalized groups gain representation through protest. Drawing on formal theory, surveys, and quantitative data, the book presents an interdisciplinary analysis of representation, inequality, and digital activism.
Mobilizing Without the Masses
How do weak activists organize under repression? This book theorizes a dynamic of contention called mobilizing without the masses.
Salt of the Earth
On October 1, 1949, a rural-based insurgency demolished the Nationalist government of Chiang-kai Shek and brought the Chinese Communists to national power. How did the Chinese Communists gain their mandate to rule the countryside? In this pathbreaking study, Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., provides a fresh and strikingly original interpretation of the political and economic origins of the October revolution. Salt of the Earth is based on direct interviews with the village people whose individual and collective protest activities helped shape the nature and course of the Chinese revolution in the deep countryside. Focusing on the Party's relationship with locally esteemed non-Communist leaders, the au...
Resisting Redevelopment
In ten global cities, residents facing displacement from redevelopment and gentrification mobilized creatively to impact policies.
Street Citizens
Explains the character of contemporary protest politics through a micro-mobilization analysis of participation in street demonstrations.
