It is okay to be fat. This is the basic premise of fat activism, a social movement that has
existed in Canada since the early 1970s. This book focuses on the earliest strands of the …

Investigating the recent direct action campaigns against genetically modified crops in France
and the United Kingdom, the authors set out to understand how contrasting judicial systems …

" The problem with medicine is that it only listens to medicine-if you express an alternative
viewpoint, you're viewed as an activist... but there's nothing to change practice like a …

While research on legal mobilization shows how social movements contribute to the
definition and implementation of rights, it remains excessively centered on litigation to the …

We investigate cause lawyers' roles in movements for the domestic adoption of international
human rights norms. Social movements scholarship often assumes that lawyers will divert …

Existing theory suggests that under neo-corporatist governance, civil society groups are less
likely to take the state to court. However, a comparative analysis of the use of legal strategies …

Introducing the concept of intra-social movement backlash this chapter explores the “legacy
phase” of legal action focusing on conflicts and debates within a social movement that has …

The unrelenting ill-treatment suffered by mak nyahs, or Malaysian pre-operative and post-
operative male-to-female transsexuals, indicates a steady process of dehumanisation that …

This book analyses the mobilisation of race, rights and the law in Malaysia. It examines the
Indian community in Malaysia, a quiet minority which consists of the former Indian Tamil …

Publicity pervades our political and public culture, but little has been written that critically
examines the basis of the modern Canadian publicity state. This collection is the first to focus …