The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements

About this reference work

Now Updated! Comprehensive, authoritative, and interdisciplinary, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements contains over 600 entries exploring an extensive range of historical and modern social and political movements throughout the world, protests, and topics that reflect a diversity of social contexts and theoretical perspectives, concepts, processes, and methods.

New Content Key Features:

• COMPREHENSIVE: Featuring a mixture of new, revised, and updated entries, adding to over 600 entries across 25 topics, this invaluable reference resource explores major social and political movements and related collective phenomena throughout different historical periods across the globe.
• AUTHORITATIVE: Organized, authored and edited by leading scholars, all of whom come to the project with exemplary track records and international standing.
• INTERDISCIPLINARY: Brings together a prestigious editorial team drawn from disciplines such as sociology, political science, anthropology, human geography, and social psychology.
• WIDE-RANGING: Covers a broad range of topics about the most significant social and political developments and changes throughout much of human history, from the French revolution to the global women’s movement, Martin Luther King Jr. and the American civil rights movement, through  the Arab Spring to the spread of global Salafism and Pentecostalism and the rise of white supremacy as a worldwide movement.
• UP-TO-DATE: With nearly 200 new entries, this encyclopedia explores significant movements and protest events that have occurred over the past decade, including contemporary environmentalism, the rise of populist nationalism, the Alt-right and Neo-Nazi movements, the Black Lives Matter and “me too” movements, the January 6 assault on the United States Capitol, the anti-vaccine movement, independence movements in Hong Kong and Catalonia, and more.

Praise for the Encyclopedia:

“Overall this is a fine start for a work that encompasses such a vast number of insights and so much analysis. Watching the expansion of the knowledge base in future editions will be interesting. Index at end of the third volume. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty.” (Choice, 1 July 2013)

“Political scientists, sociologists, as well as students in other academic disciplines should find this book of enormous value.” (Library Journal, 1 April 2013)