Political Protests and Movements of Resistance

Last Updated: 11/08/2024

The Political Protests and Movements of Resistance reading list features titles that tackle topics of political protest, resistance, and activism. Subjects include transnational social movements, spatial reclamation, student occupation, protest literature, and more.

The introduction to each book is free, and books may be purchased at dukeupress.edu.

Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South

Laura McTighe with Women with a Vision
2024

All of Us or None: Migrant Organizing in an Era of Deportation and Dispossession

Monisha Das Gupta
2024

Screening Social Justice: Brave New Films and Documentary Activism

Sherry B. Ortner
2023

Revolutionary Feminists: The Women's Liberation Movement in Seattle

Barbara Winslow
2023

Rio as Method: Collective Resistance for a New Generation

Paul Amar, editor
2024

Vulnerability in Resistance

Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti, and Leticia Sabsay, editors
2016

Screening Social Justice: Brave New Films and Documentary Activism

Sherry B. Ortner
2023

Black Lives Matter and the Limits of Formal Black Politics

Minkah Makalani
South Atlantic Quarterly 116:3, 2017

New Technologies of Resistance: Racial Power and Protest in the United States

Anthony Ryan Hatch
Radical History Review 127, 2017

Youth, Gender, and Dignity in the Egyptian Uprising

Diane Singerman
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 9:3, 2013

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
2017

Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i

Hokulani K. Aikau and Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, editors
2019

The Ocean in the School: Pacific Islander Students Transforming Their University

Rick Bonus
2020

Bodies on the Gears

Tom Sellar, editor
Theater 49:3, 2019

I Never Left Home: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary

Margaret Randall
2020

Decolonizing Ethnography: Undocumented Immigrants and New Directions in Social Science

Carolina Alonso Bejarano, Lucia López Juárez, Mirian A. Mijangos García, and Daniel M. Goldstein
2019

Are There Women Out There?: Democracy Vigils and the Politics of Representation after the Failed Coup Attempt in Turkey

Feyza Akinerdem
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 13:1, 2017

The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume I: A Novel

Peter Weiss
2005

The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume II: A Novel

Peter Weiss
2020

The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume III: A Novel

Peter Weiss
2025

The Creative Underclass: Youth, Race, and the Gentrifying City

Tyler Denmead
2019