The Psychology of Radical Social Change: From Rage to Revolution (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108421621)

Since 2011 the world has experienced an explosion of popular uprisings that began in the Middle East and quickly spread to other regions. What are the different social-psychological conditions for these events to emerge, what different trajectories do they take, and how are they are represented to the public? To answer these questions, this book applies the latest social psychological theories to contextualized cases of revolutions and uprisings from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century in countries around the world. In so doing, it explores continuities and discontinuities between past and present uprisings, and foregrounds such issues as the crowds, collective action, identity changes, globalization, radicalization, the plasticity of political behaviour, and public communication.

Author: Brady Wagoner
ISBN-10: 1108421628
ISBN-13: 9781108421621
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/03/2018
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.15h x 6.36w x 0.81d