ContraTexts: Spontaneous Uprisings

Popular Uprisings

books

Essays

0000: Alessio Lunghi & Seth Wheeler (eds): Occupy Everything: Reflections on Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere, Minor Compositions [0]

graphic novels

2015: Alecos Papadatos, Abraham Kawa, Annie Di Donna: Democracy, Bloomsbury

Guides

1977: Virginia Cooper, Ellen Deacon, Charles Esser, Christopher Moore: Resource Manual for a Living Revolution, New Society Publishers [0]

history

2002: Yves Fremon: The Orgasms of History: 3000 Years of Spontaneous Insurrection, AK Press
2013: Martin Breaugh: The Plebeian Experience: A Discontinuous History of Political Freedom, Columbia University Press

journalism

1992: Danny Burns: Poll-Tax Rebellion, AK Press
2012: Paul Mason: Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions, Verso

sociology

2013: Manuel Castells: Networks of Hope and Outrage: Social Movements in the Internet Age, Wiley & Sons
2017: Ajamu Nangwaya & Michael Truscello: Why Don’t the Poor Rise Up?: Organizing the Twenty-First Century Resistance, AK Press
2017: Paul Routledge: Space Invaders: Radical Geographies of Protest, Pluto Press [0]

Films

documentary

2014: Sam Mayfield: Wisconsin Rising, Lower Third Productions

dramatic

2013: Joog-Ho Bong: Snowpiercer, Moho Film
2017: Kathryn Bigelow: Detroit, Annapurna Pictures [1]

Periodicals

journal articles

2011: Patrick Mccurdy: Theorizing “Lay Theories of Media”: A Case Study of the Dissent! Network at the 2005 Gleneagles G8 Summit. International Journal of Communication: 5 (1)
2015: Aditi Bhatia: Construction of discursive illusions in the ‘Umbrella Movement’, Discourse & Society, 26(4)
2015: Berenika Szymanski-Dull: Strategies of Protest from Wroclaw: The Orange Alternative or the Riot of the Gnomes, Journal of Urban History, 41(4)
2015: Paolo Gerbaudo: Protest Avatars as Memetic Signifiers: Political Profile Pictures and the Construction of Collective Identity on Social Media in the 2011 Protest Wave, Information, Communication & Society: 18(8) [1]
2016: Carlos d’Andrea & Joana Ziller: Violent Scenes in Brazil’s 2013 Protests: The Diversity of Ordinary People’s Narratives, Television & New Media, 17(4)
2016: Joseph Bosco: The Sacred in Urban Political Protests in Hong Kong, International Sociology, 31(4)
2017: Anastasia Veneti: Aesthetics of Protest: An Examination of the Photojournalistic Approach to Protest Imagery, Visual Communication: 16(3) DOI 10.1177/1470357217701591
2017: Paolo Gerbaudo: From Cyber-Autonomism to Cyber-Populism: An Ideological History of Digital Activism, tripleC: 15(2) (1)
2017: Vincent Miller: Phatic Culture and the Status Quo: Reconsidering the Purpose of Social Media Activism, Convergence, 23(3): 10.1177/1354856515592512 [1]
2017: William Dezheng Feng: Ideological Dissonances among Chinese-Language Newspapers in Hong-Kong: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Reports on the Occupy Central Movement, Discourse & Communication [1]

Pamphlets

2017:Bradley Stroot: The Devil’s Night: On the Ungovernable Spirit of Halloween

Television

episodes

1990.00.00: Despite TV: The Battle of Trafalgar, Channel 4

-Canadian Uprisings

Books

biographies

1964: William Kilbourne: The Firebrand: William Lyon MacKenzie and the Rebellion in Upper Canada, Irwin Clarke

histories

1927: Aileen Dunham: Political Unrest in Upper Canada 1815-1836, McClelland and Stewart
2003: Douglas Baldwin: Rebellion and Union in the Canadas, Weigl
2005: Don Quinlan: Rebellions, Fitzhenry & Whiteside

Anti-Austerity Movements

periodicals

journal articles

2015: Jennifer B Spiegel: Masked Protest in the Age of Austerity: State Violence, Anonymous Bodies, and Resistance "In The Red", Critical Inquiry, 41(4)

radio

episodes

2011 Sept 12: Assignment: The Indignant of Greece, BBC World Service

Arab Spring

Books

commentary

2015: John L Esposito, Tamara Sonn, John O Voll: Islam and Democracy After the Arab Spring, Oxford University Press

political science

2013: Adeed Dawisha: The Second Arab Awakening: Revolution, Democracy, and the Islamist Challenge from Tunis to Damascus, WW Norton and Co

Periodicals

journal articles

2011: Brett Van Niekerk, Kiru Pillay, Manoj Maharaj: Analyzing the Role of ICTs in the Tunisian and Egyptian Unrest from an Information Warfare Perspective, International Journal of Communication: 5 [1]
2011: Michaela Ferron & Paolo Massa: WikiRevolutions: Wikipedia as an Lens for Studying the Real-Time Formation of Collective Memories of Revolutions, International Journal of Communication: 5 [1]
2012: Miriyam Aouragh: Social Media, Mediation and the Arab Revolutions, tripleC: 10(2) [1]
2015: Asef Bayat: Plebeians of the Arab Spring, Current Anthropology, 56(s11)
2015: Mazhar al-Zo’by: Discourse and oppositionality in the Arab Spring: The case of the Muslim Brotherhood in the UAE, International Sociology, 30(4)
2015: Nada AlMaghlouth, Rigas Arvanitis, Jean-Philippe Cointet, Sari Hanafi: Who frames the debate on the Arab uprisings? Analysis of Arabic, English, and French academic scholarship, International Sociology, 30(4)
2015: Nezar AlSayyad and Muna Guvenc: Virtual Uprisings: On the Interaction of New Social Media, Traditional Media Coverage and Urban Space during the ‘Arab Spring’. Urban Studies 52(11)
2016: DJ Wolover: An issue of attribution: The Tunisian revolution, media interaction, and agency, New Media, New Media & Society, 18(2)

--Egyptian Revolution

Books

sociology

2014: Linda Herrera: Revolution in the Age of Social Media: People Versus Power in Egypt, Verso

Periodicals

journal articles

2011: Eike M Rinke & Maria Roder: Media Ecologies, Communication Culture, and Temporal-Spatial Unfolding: Three Components in a Communication Model of the Egyptian Regime Change, International Journal of Communication: 5 [1]
2011: Melissa Wall & Sahar El Zahed: “I’ll be Waiting For You Guys”: A YouTube Call to Action in the Egyptian Revolution, International Journal of Communication: 5 [1]
2015: Atef Said: We ought to be here: Historicizing space and mobilization in Tahrir Square, International Sociology, 30(4)
2015: Hatem M Hassan: Extraordinary politics of ordinary people: Explaining the microdynamics of popular committees in revolutionary Cairo, International Sociology, 30(4)
2015: Radwa Othman Sharaf: Graffiti as a Means of Protest and Documentation in the Egyptian Revolution, African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review, 5(1)
2015: Zaynab El Bernoussi: The postcolonial politics of dignity: From the 1956 Suez nationalization to the 2011 Revolution in Egypt, International Sociology, 30(4)

--Libyan Revolution

television

web episodes

2012 July 27: Vice News: The Rebels of Libya, Vice

Organized Labour

Books

comics

1988: Daniels, J. The Adventures of TinTin: Breaking Free, Attack
2016: Rob Kristofferson & Simon Orpana: Showdown!: Making Modern Unions, Between the Lines

histories

1931: Louis Adamic: Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence in America. Peter Smith
1967: Milton Meltzer: Bread and Roses: The Struggle of American Labor 1865-1915, Alfred A Knopf
1980: Ken Luckhardt & Brenda Wall: Organize or Starve!: The History of the South African Congress of Trade Unions, Lawrence and Wishart
2001: Pricilla Murolo and A.B. Chitty: From The Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short Illustrated History of Labor in the United States, The New Press
2013: Gary Kaunonen & Aaron Goings: Community in Conflict: A Working-Class History of the 1913-14 Michigan Copper Strike and the Italian Hall Tragedy, Michigan State University Press
2015: Joan M Roberts: Cracked: How Telephone Operators Took on Canada’s Largest Corporation... And Won!, Dundurn

journalism

1967: John Gregory Dunne: Delano: The Story of the California Grape Strike, Farrar Straus & Giroux
2012: John Nichols: Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, from Madison to Wall Street. Nation Books

Memoir

2017: Terry Tapp: A Serf’s Journal: The Story of the United States’ Longest Wildcat Strike, Zero Books [0]

chapters

2010: Michael Staudenmaier: "Unorthodox Leninism: Workplace Organizing and Anti-Imperialist Solidarity in the Sojourner Truth Organization": Dan Berger (ed): The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism, Rutgers University Press

Periodicals

journal articles

1969: Barton C Hacker: The United States Army as a National Police Force: The Federal Policing of Labor Disputes, 1877-1898, Military Affairs. (33)1
1977: Jerry M Cooper: The Army as Strike-Breaker: The Railroad Strikes of 1877 and 1894, Labor History. 18(2)
1985: Paul A Brinker: Violence by US Labor Unions, Journal of Labor Research, 6(4)
1986: Larry J Griffin, Michael E Wallace, Beth A Rubin: Capitalist Resistance to the Organization of Labor Before the New Deal: Why? How? Success?, American Sociological Review. 51(2)
1991: Don Sherman Grant II & Michael Wallace: Why Do Strikes Turn Violent?: American Journal of Sociology. 96(5)
1999: Jeffrey Haydu: Counter Action Frames: Employer Repertoires and the Union Menace in the Late Nineteenth Century, Social Problems. 46(3)
2001: Vincent J Roscigno & William F Danaher: Media and Mobilzation: The Case of Radio and Southern Textile Worker Insurgency, 1929 to 1934, American Sociological Review: 66(1) [1]
2006: Linda Briskin: Victimisation and agency: the social construction of union women’s leadership, Industrial Relations Journal. 37(4)
2008: Linda Briskin: Cross-constituency Organizing in Canadian Unions, British Journal of Industrial Relations 46(2)
2011: Linda Briskin: Union renewal, postheroic leadership and women’s organizing: Crossing discourses, reframing debates, Labor Studies Journal 36(4)
2011, Sean Patrick Adams: How Choice Fueled Panic: Philadelphians, Consumption, and the Panic of 1837. Enterprise & Society, 12(4).
2012, Brian D Palmer and Gaetan Heroux: "Cracking the Stone": The Long History of Capitalist Crisis and Toronto's Dispossessed, 1830-1930. Labour/Le Travail, 69.
2012, Philip M Glende: Labor Makes the News: Newspapers, Journalism, and Organized Labor, 1935-1955. Enterprise & Society, 13(1).
2014: Paul F Lipold: “Striking Deaths” at their Roots: Assaying the Social Determinants of Extreme Labor-Management Violence in US Labor History—1877–1947, Social Science History. 38(3&4)
2015: Daniel Schneider: Organized Labor and the Unionization of Hispanic, Chinese, and Filipino Americans, Labor Studies Journal. 40(2)
2015: Gill Kirton: The Coalition of Labor Union Women: Still a Space of Social Creativity and a Force for Social Change?, Labor Studies Journal. 40(2)
2015: Ivan Greenberg: Proletarian Literature From the Bottom Up: Workers and Poetry from the Rise of the CIO. American Quarterly, 67(2)
2015: Jane McAlevey: The Crisis of New Labor and Alinsky’s Legacy: Revisiting the Role of the Organic Grassroots Leaders in Building Powerful Organizations and Movements, Politics & Society. (43)3
2015: Marcel Paret: Precarious Labor Politics: Unions and the Struggles of the Insecure Working Class in the United States and South Africa, Critical Sociology: 45(4-5)
2017: David Nettleingham: Canonical Generations and the British Left: The Narrative Construction of the Miners’ Strike 1984-85, Sociology: 51(4) [1]

Pamphlets

0000: William Z Foster: Organizing the Unorganized, The Trade Union Educational League [1]
1926: John Pepper: The General Strike and the General Betrayal, The Daily Worker Publishing Co
1934: John J Ballam: 70,000 Silk Workers Strike for Bread and Unity, Labor Unity Publishers [1]
1937: Berl Katznelson: Revolutionary Constructivism: Essays on the Jewish Labor Movement in Palestine, Young Poel Zion Alliance
1970: Walter Linder: How Industrial-Unionism was Won: The Great Sit-Down Strike Against General Motors 1936-1937, Progress Labor Party [1]

Print magazines

1979- : Labor Notes

Film

dramatic

1955: Strike in Town, National Film Board of Canada
1970: Martin Ritt: The Molly Maguires, Paramount Pictures
1978: Norman Jewison: F.I.S.T., Chateau Productions
2014: Matthew Warchus: Pride, BBC Films

Radio

episodes

2012, May 4: Witness: Britain's General Strike, (BBC World Service)

podcasts

2012 Nov 29: Viktor, Sputnik, & Tor: Tank Riot: Eugene V. Debs

programs

Labor Radio

Television

2011, Dec. 19: Fault Lines: The Decline of Labor Unions in the US. (Al Jazeera)

Websites

announcement

99 Pickets "99 Pickets, a working group from Occupy Wall Street, seeks to build a mass worker’s movement in New York City and beyond."

news

Against Wage-Labour: "Against Wage-Labour is a voice of protest of workers' struggle against the wage-slavery system."
LaborNet: "Global online communication since 1991 for a democratic, independent labor movement"
LabourStart: "Where trade unionists start their day on the net"
Libcom.org
Signalfire: notes on global radical labour activities

organizations

Seattle Solidarity Network: "Our goal is to support our fellow workers' strikes and struggles, build solidarity, and organize to deal with specific job, housing, and other problems caused by the greed of the rich and powerful."
United Electrical Workers

miscellaneous

Solidarity.com: Wisconsin's link to labour

-Industrial Workers of the World

Books

anthologies

1964: Joyce L. Kornbluh (ed): Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology, University of Michigan Press

Collections

2014: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Walker C Smith, William E Trautmann: Direct Action & Sabotage: Three Classic IWW Pamphlets from 1910s, PM Press

Films

documentaries

1979: Stewart Bird & Deborah Shaffer: The Wobblies, National Endowment for the Arts [1]

Periodicals

Newsletters

2015- : The Incarcerated Worker, IWW IWOC

Newspapers

1903- : Industrial Worker, IWW

Websites

official

Industrial Workers of the World

national

Britain and Ireland Region of Industrial Workers of the World
IWW Australian Regional Coordinating Committee
IWW Canadian Regional Coordinating Committee

social media

United Farm Workers

-Caesar Chavez

Films

documentaries

2014: Richard Ray Perez & Lorena Parlee: Caesar's Last Fast, Monkey Mind Media

Peasant Uprisings

Books

history

1990: Yves-Marie Berce: History of Peasant Revolts: The Social Origins of Rebellion in Early Modern France, trans. Amanda Whitmore, Polity Press

Periodicals

journal articles

2015: Sarah Bruchhausen: Understanding Marikana Through The Mpondo Revolts, Journal of Asian and African Studies. 50(4)

-Emiliano Zapata

Books

history

1969: Robert P. Millon: Zapata: The Ideology of a Peasant Revolutionary, International Publishers

Prisoner Uprisings

books

journalism

1975: Tom Wicker: A Time to Die, New York Times Books

chapters

2010: Liz Samuels: "Improvising on Reality: The Roots of Prison Abolition": Dan Berger (ed): The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism, Rutgers University Press

Periodicals

Journals

2017- : Paper Chained: A Journal of Writings and Artistic Expressions From Behind the Bars, Running Wild [1]

Journal articles

2017: Toussaint Losier: Against 'Law and Order' Lockup: The 1970 NYC Jail Rebellions, Race & Class: 59(1)

Newsletters

2016- : Voices From Behind Wisconsin Prison Gates, IWW

Pamphlets

2017: Rustbelt Abolition Research Collective: Containing the Crisis: A History of Mass Incarceration and Rebellion in the Rustbelt, MAPS

Slave Uprisings

Books

histories

2011: Daniel Rasmussen: American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt, Harper Collins
2012: Manuel Barcia: The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825: Cuba and the Fight for Freedom in Matanzas, Louisiana State University Press

Films

Dramatic

1982: Ridley Scott: Blade Runner, Fox [1]

Periodicals

journal articles

2016: Anita Rupprecht: ‘Inherent vice’: marine insurance, slave ship rebellion and the law, Race & Class, 57(3)
2016: Cathy Bergin: ‘Unrest Among the Negros’: the African Blood Brotherhood and the Politics of Resistance, Race & Class 57(3)
2016: Steven Pfaff, Michael Hechter, Katie E Corcoran: The Problem of Solidarity in Insurgent Collective Action: The Nore Mutiny of 1797, Social Science History, 40(2)