This is a brilliant non-academic academic book. An afternoon of deeply pleasurable reading is guaranteed for anyone who picks it up. In an act of public service the authors allow the reader to become immersed in a highly innovative style of visual and discursive representation revealing the power of semiotic landscapes in political dissent and democratic activism.

Angela Creese, University of Stirling, UK

In a truly multimodal treatment of a multimodal subject matter, Seargeant grapples with the complex questions of political activism in the public space and presents them here in both a sophisticated and accessible way. This book not only critiques recent torrid political events but also slakes the public’s thirst for understanding visual communication in protest and activist movements.

Robert Blackwood, University of Liverpool, UK

<p>With its balance between word-based and pictorial storytelling, the book realises an innovative way of scientific publication possibilities transcending between the format of traditional texts and a graphic novel [...] The true strength of this book is the authors’ innovative approach to multimodal data in the shape of visual narratives which do not just embed illustrations but utilize the pictorial representation as an equivalent tool.</p>

- Laura Imhoff, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Linguistic Landscape, 2024,