Providing a unique blend of cases, concepts, and essential readings The Social Movements Reader, Third Edition, delivers key classic and contemporary articles and book selections from around the world. Includes the latest research on contemporary movements in the US and abroad, including the Arab spring, Occupy, and the global justice movementProvides original texts, many of them classics in the field, which have been edited for the non-technical readerCombines the strengths of a reader and a textbook with selected readings and extensive editorial materialSidebars offer concise definitions of key terms, as well as biographies of famous activists and chronologies of several key movementsRequires no prior knowledge about social movements or theories of social movements