Didier Chabanet is senior lecturer at Sciences Po (Cevipof) and Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Lettres et Sciences Humaines (Triangle), France. Frederic Royall is senior lecturer at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Together they edited Mobilising Against Marginalisation in Europe (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010). In addition to this Didier Chabanet is co-editor of The Mobilization of the Unemployed in Europe: From Acquiescence to Protest? (Palgrave, 2011) and co-author of European Governance and Democracy: Power and Protest in the EU (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). Frederic Royall is author of Contemporary French Cultures And Societies (Peter Lang, 2004) and co-editor of Economic and Political Change in Asia and Europe: Social Movement Analyses (Springer, 2012).
"'By showing in detail how deprived and marginalized social groups across the globe can overcome their habitual silence and give voice to their grievances, this timely collection of case studies draws our attention to aspects of contentious politics that tend to go unnoticed in the dominant approaches to social movement studies.' Hanspeter Kriesi, European University Institute, Italy '... this edited volume shifts attention towards aspects that are overlooked in social movement studies. Its consideration of ""invisible"" forms of activism is particularly useful, for the scholarship in this field is guilty of adopting a narrow understanding of political mobilization by emphasising more visible and mediatised expressions of political resistance. As such, students and researchers in contentious politics would find it particularly refreshing.' LSE Review of Books"