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Book SynopsisStylish, striking, and elegantly packaged...as indispensible to confronting, say, your domineering mother-in-law or your local city council as it is to helping foment an ongoing and ever-escalating insurrection against, say, a sexist, racist, nepotistic power-mad oligarchy threatening to destory democracy as we know it...My advice: Buy one--VOGUEFrom artist, activist, and Pussy Riot founder Nadya Tolokonnikova, a guerilla guide to radical protest and joyful political resistanceThe face of modern protest is wearing a brightly colored ski mask. Nadya Tolokonnikova, founding member of the Russian activist group Pussy Riot, is a creative activist, professional protestor, brazen feminist, shocking visual artist, and force to be reckoned with. Her spontaneous, explosive approach to political action has involved jumping over barbed wire, kissing police officers, giving guerilla performances in crowded subway cars, and going on

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Book SynopsisLetters from Burma - an unforgettable collection from the Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi In these astonishing letters, Aung San Suu Kyi reaches out beyond Burma's borders to paint for her readers a vivid and poignant picture of her native land. Here she celebrates the courageous army officers, academics, actors and everyday people who have supported the National League for Democracy, often at great risk to their own lives. She reveals the impact of political decisions on the people of Burma, from the terrible cost to the children of imprisoned dissidents - allowed to see their parents for only fifteen minutes every fortnight - to the effect of inflation on the national diet and of state repression on traditions of hospitality. She also evokes the beauty of the country's seasons and scenery, customs and festivities that remain so close to her heart. Through these remarkable letters, the reader catches a glimpse of exactly what is at stake as Suu Kyi fights on for freedo

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Book SynopsisFrom the cofounder of MomsRising.org and a key organizer of the Women's March on Washington, KEEP MARCHING is an action-oriented, hands-on guide for all women to give them the tools, the incentive, and the information they need to create political change in their communities - and in the country as a whole.

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Book SynopsisA stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, realized the error of his ways and abandoned his destructive life to become an anti-hate activist. As he stumbled through high school, struggling to find a community among other fans of punk rock music, Christian Picciolini was recruited by a now notorious white power skinhead leader and encouraged to fight with the movement to protect the white race from extinction. Soon, he had become an expert in racist philosophies, a terror who roamed the neighborhood, quick to throw fists. When his mentor was arrested and sentenced to eleven years in prison, sixteen-year-old Picciolini took over the man''s role as the leader of an infamous neo-Nazi skinhead group. Seduced by the power he accrued through intimidation, and swept up in the rhetoric he had adopted, Picciolini worked to grow an army of extremists. He used music as a recruitment tool

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Book SynopsisOn January 21, 2017, massive demonstrations in Washington DC and sister marches held in over 600 American cities drew crowds of over four million people. Popularly called ''The Women''s March,'' it became the largest single-day protest in American history. The feminism that shaped the consciousness of millions in 2017 had distinct roots in the 1990s. In They Didn''t See Us Coming, historian Lisa Levenstein argues we have missed much of the past quarter century of the women''s movement because the conventional wisdom is that the ''90s was the moment when the movement splintered into competing factions. But by showcasing voices and stories long overlooked by popular culture and scholars, They Didn''t See Us Coming shows that this decade was actually a time of intense and international coalition building. This activism centered around the growing influence of women of color, women with disabilities, women from the global South, and people of ranging gender expressions and ident

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Book SynopsisWhile movement activists spend much of their time and energy trying to change the world, our theoretical and empirical knowledge in this field is still relatively poor. In Social Protest and Policy Change, Marco Giugni offers a systematic and empirically grounded analysis of the impact of three major contemporary movements on public policy. Using a comparative and historical perspective, Giugni argues that a social movement''s policy impact is facilitated by the presence of favorable political opportunity structures, coupled with the presence of institutional allies among the elites, and a favorable public opinion. Furthermore, the very content of a movement''s demands plays a role, insofar as the power holders are often more willing to make concessions on certain issues than on others. Within a unique body of original data the author incorporates a historical overview of the mobilization of the ecology, antinuclear, and peace movements in the United States, Italy, and Switzerland. He presents the results of time-series analyses and reveals the combined effects of protest, political alliances, and shifts in public opinion on movements which do not address issues posing too serious a threat to the power holders.Trade ReviewSocial Protest and Policy Change is an impressive study that addresses an important subject, thinks hard about it, takes an innovative methodological approach, and provides systematic research. All scholars concerned with the policy impacts of social movements, and new social movements generally, will want to read this book. * Mobilization *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Part 2 I Historical Overview Chapter 3 Was It Worth the Effort? The Outcomes and Consequences of Social Movements Chapter 4 A Brief History of Ecology, Antinuclear, and Peace Movements in Three Countries Chapter 5 Environmental, Nuclear Energy, and National Security Policy in Three Countries Part 6 II Time-Series Analysis Chapter 7 Toward a Joint-Effect Model of Social Movement Outcomes Chapter 8 Social Movement Organization Chapter 9 Political Alliances Chapter 10 Public Opinion Chapter 11 Conclusion Chapter 12 Appendix A: Data, Measurements, and Methods Chapter 13 Appendix B: Results of Time-Series Analysis with Differenced Independent Variables

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Book SynopsisCan the contemporary Islamic finance movement be shown to meet the requirements of modern commerce? In the wake of the terrorist attacks on America the UN Security Council passed a resolution targeting transnational sources of terrorist funds. The United States and the International Monetary Fund are encouraging the governments of the Middle East to adopt policies of economic liberalism and a new type of capitalism, based on Islamic values and beliefs, is emerging.The aims of the book are:* to explore the political implications of the slow but steady accumulation of Islamic capital* to analyse the connections between Islamic finance and Islamic political movements in Middle Eastern and North African countries* to show that the commonly-perceived connection between Islamic finance and money laundering and terrorism is by no means the complete picture.Readers will learn to appreciate the various political contexts in which Islamic finance operates in the Middle East and North Africa and will acquireTrade ReviewDivided between a number of balanced thematic essays and a series of sound case studies, examining the experiences of Islamic banking in countries such as Sudan, Turkey, Kuwait and Egypt. Valuable reading for anyone who wants to understand Islamic banking and its formal and informal societal and political relationships. This timely book demonstrates how in-depth academic scholarship can make a signal contribution to a major topical issue of public policy. -- Robert Springborg London Middle East Institute -- They are the leading experts on the political economy of Islamic banking, and the book will attract the interest of all who wish to understand this phenomenon. Divided between a number of balanced thematic essays and a series of sound case studies, examining the experiences of Islamic banking in countries such as Sudan, Turkey, Kuwait and Egypt. Valuable reading for anyone who wants to understand Islamic banking and its formal and informal societal and political relationships. This timely book demonstrates how in-depth academic scholarship can make a signal contribution to a major topical issue of public policy. London Middle East InstituteTable of ContentsTable of Contents; Introduction; Clement Henry and Rodney Wilson; Part I - Thematic Essays; 1. Islamic Banks: The Rise of A New Power Alliance of Wealth and Shari'ah Scholarship; Monzer Kahf (formerly Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia); 2. Global Politics, Islamic Finance and Islamist Politics Before and After September 11, 2001; Ibrahim Warde (Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Harvard); 3. The Murabaha Syndrome in Islamic Finance: Laws, Institutions and Politics; Tarik Yousef (Centre for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University); 4. Marketing Commodities Does Not Happen on Commodity Markets: The Egyptian Bursat al-'Uqud and Oil Futures Markets; Ellis Goldberg (Department of Political Science, University of Washington); 5. Financial Performances of Islamic versus Conventional Banks; Clement Henry (Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin); 6. Capital Flight through Islamic Managed Funds; Rodney Wilson (Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham); Part II - Case Studies; 7. Interest Politics: Islamic Finance in the Sudan 1977-2001; Endre Stiansen (Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo); 8. The Kuwait Finance House and the Islamization of Public Life in Kuwait; Kristin Smith (Department of Government, Harvard); 9. Jordan: A Case Study of the Relationship between Islamic Finance and Islamist Politics; Mohammed Malley (Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin); 10. The Political Economy of Islamic Finance in Turkey: The Role of Fethullah Gulen and Asya Finans; Filiz Baskan (Faculty of Communications, Baskent University, Turkey); 11. Aiyyu Bank Islami? The Marginalization of Tunisia's BEST Bank; Robert Parks (Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin); 12. The Rise and Decline of the Islamic Banking Model in Egypt; Samir Soliman (Department of Social and Political Science, University of Lausanne, Switzerland); Conclusion; Clement Henry and Rodney Wilson.

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Book SynopsisThe Carbon Footprint Wars challenges current policies about how to deal with global warming, outlining their potentially disastrous side-effects on society and the environment and offers some radical solutions for dealing with climate change.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Preface; Part I: The Problems; 1. Introduction: The Carbon Footprint Wars: What is at Stake?; 2. Global Warming: The Evidence For; 3. Global Warming: The Arguments Against; 4. The Globalization Paradigm: Defenders and Detractors; Part II: The Solutions; 5. Reducing Our Carbon Footprint: Altering Lifestyles; 6. Living With Our Carbon Footprint: The Technological Response; Part III: The Consequences; 7. Worst-Case Scenarios: Economic; 8. Worst-Case Scenarios: Socio-Political; 9. Worst-Case Scenarios: Technological and Environmental; Part IV: Reassessing Global Priorities; 10. Reconstructing Geopolitical Relationships: The Ethical Dimension; 11. Reconstructing Geopolitical Narratives: A Radical Democratic Globe?; 12. Conclusion: Survival, Disaster, Trade-Off; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography.

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Book Synopsis Unleash your inner activist with this guided journal, full of 52 prompts and activities to help you get more involved with politics, the environment, social justice, and more! With so much in need of changing, and so many in need of help, getting involved in a cause can sometimes feel daunting. But it doesn''t need to! Everyday Activist guides readers through 52 prompts and activities -- one for each week of the year -- to help kick-start their activism. Ideas on a wide range of topics, from environmental conservation and political engagement to social justice, will help both political newbies and veteran organizers find inspiring ways to get more active in their communities all year long. With an introduction on the history and heritage of community and political organizing, as well as ample space to brainstorm ideas and reflect on your progress, this guided journal is an ideal tool for taking your civic

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Book Synopsis The 100th-anniversary special edition of Jailed for Freedom, the essential history and first-person account of the courageous and militant suffragists who fought for their right to vote. First published in 1920, Jailed for Freedom is the courageous, true story of the militant suffragists who organized some of the first-ever, large scale demonstrations and protests on Washington. At a time when President Woodrow Wilson''s administration refused to acknowledge women''s voting rights as a tangible issue, the National Woman''s Party coalesced, organized, and fought a fierce battle for the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment with heroism, bravery, and radical vigilance. What makes Jailed for Freedom especially compelling and such an important contribution to women''s history is that it is a personal testimony from a suffragist who persevered through it. With depth and clarity, Doris Stevens

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Book SynopsisThis is a pictorial record of the Chartist Movement. Photography was in its infancy in those years and the only photographic record of a Chartist gathering is of the last of the great meetings in April 1848. Pictures of the Chartists themselves as they appeared in those years are all from wood or metal engravings mostly published by Chartist newspapers. An introduction provides a background to the pictures and their captions.

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Book SynopsisThe peopleAs charter was the most famous and important radical manifesto of 19th century Britain.

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Book SynopsisGeorge Julian Harney was one of the half-dozen most important leaders of Chartism. This selection from the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle is the first book to reprint any of his journalism. Harney is a key figure in the history of English radicalism.Trade Review'... the collection brings to life one of Britain's most interesting lost radicals'. The GuardianTable of ContentsIntroduction, The Roll-Call: Thomas Cooper, Samuel Kydd, Abel Heywood, John Bedford Leno, Frederick Engels. Other Radical Personalities: Karl Marx, Arthur O'Neill, The deaths of Ernest Jones and Henry George, Charles Bradlaugh, Edward Aveling - and the Northampton by-election, Madam Blavatsky - and Annie Besant. The 1830s & 1840s: The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, "TO STOP THE DUKE, GO FOR GOLD",The Sacred Month, Feargus O'Connor and a self-portrait, Scotland and Scottish Chartism, Chartist Headgear, The Free Trade Fetish, The Working of Free Trade. Russia: The Latest Russian Atrocity, Two Books about Russia, Stepniak Speaks, The Dead Tsar. Turkey: The New Crusade. The USA: Some American Items, Looking Backward. Contemporary British Politics & Society: 'Am I Not a Man, and a Brother?', Theocracy, The Labour Congress, The Conflict, Illusions, Two periodicals, The New Crusade: A Prelude to ---?. The Press: The Liberty of the Press, Milton. Literature: Byron, Primrose Day: Byron and Disraeli, Burns - and Harney in Dumfries, Leigh Hunt - and Chartist imprisonment, Heinrich Heine - and James Thomson (BV), Review of James Thomson (BV), Biographical and Critical Studies, Truth in Fiction. Some Autobiographical Fragments: On Walter Scott and bookshops, On reading Robert Southey, On James Watson, On Thomas Wakley, On the War of the Unstamped, On leaving the Northern Star, On David Urquhart and the Foreign Affairs Committees, On editing the Jersey Independent, On the temporary loss of use of his right hand, On not writing an autobiography. A bibliographical note, index.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsGlossary. Section 1, Introduction and theoretical framework: Mary Davis, Introduction; Mary Davis, The Making of the English Working Class re- visited: Labour History and Marxist Theory. Section 2, Women & Work: Sian Moore, Gender & Class Consciousness in Industrialisation- the Bradford Woollen Industry; Katrina Honeyman, Sweat and sweating- Women Workers and Trade Unions in the Leeds Clothing Trade 1880-1980; Sheila Blackburn, 'The Inspector Can Check a Workroom is Insanitary by Means of His Own Eyes and Nose'- Re-Thinking the Sweatshop in Victorian and Edwardian Britain; Linda Clarke & Christine Wall, Skilled versus Qualified Labour; Skilled Versus Qualified Labour- the Exclusion of Women from the Construction Industry; Caroline Bressey, Black women and Work in England 1880 - 1920; Louise Raw, Striking a Light- Bryant & May Revisited; Catherine Hunt, The Fragility of the Union- the work of the National Federation of Women Workers in the Regions of Britain 1906-1914; Section 3, Women and Politics: Sheila Rowbotham, Alice Wheeldon Revisited; Annemarie Hughes, Socialist Women in the Inter-War Years.

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Book SynopsisGeorge Julian Harney was one of the half-dozen most important leaders of Chartism. This selection from the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle is the first book to reprint any of his journalism. Harney is a key figure in the history of English radicalism.Table of ContentsIntroduction, The Roll-Call: Thomas Cooper, Samuel Kydd, Abel Heywood, John Bedford Leno, Frederick Engels. Other Radical Personalities: Karl Marx, Arthur O'Neill, The deaths of Ernest Jones and Henry George, Charles Bradlaugh, Edward Aveling - and the Northampton by-election, Madam Blavatsky - and Annie Besant. The 1830s & 1840s: The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, "TO STOP THE DUKE, GO FOR GOLD",The Sacred Month, Feargus O'Connor and a self-portrait, Scotland and Scottish Chartism, Chartist Headgear, The Free Trade Fetish, The Working of Free Trade. Russia: The Latest Russian Atrocity, Two Books about Russia, Stepniak Speaks, The Dead Tsar. Turkey: The New Crusade. The USA: Some American Items, Looking Backward. Contemporary British Politics & Society: 'Am I Not a Man, and a Brother?', Theocracy, The Labour Congress, The Conflict, Illusions, Two periodicals, The New Crusade: A Prelude to ---?. The Press: The Liberty of the Press, Milton. Literature: Byron, Primrose Day: Byron and Disraeli, Burns - and Harney in Dumfries, Leigh Hunt - and Chartist imprisonment, Heinrich Heine - and James Thomson (BV), Review of James Thomson (BV), Biographical and Critical Studies, Truth in Fiction. Some Autobiographical Fragments: On Walter Scott and bookshops, On reading Robert Southey, On James Watson, On Thomas Wakley, On the War of the Unstamped, On leaving the Northern Star, On David Urquhart and the Foreign Affairs Committees, On editing the Jersey Independent, On the temporary loss of use of his right hand, On not writing an autobiography. A bibliographical note, index.

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Book SynopsisArab Youth explores some of the antecedents of the upheavals and anticipates alternative venues of resistance that marginalized youth, from Lebanon, Syria and Palestine to Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Iran, can mobilize to realize their emancipatory expectations.Trade ReviewEndorsements: "Arab youth have toppled dictatorships across the region in 2011. This book provides the best insights into the culture, politics and consciousness of the generation that led the Arab Awakening. Bringing together innovative scholarship by leading authorities from around the world, Arab Youth is essential reading for anyone who want to understand the revolutions of 2011." Eugene Rogan (Director, The Middle East Centre, University of Oxford) "Samir and Roseanne Khalaf's critical collection dynamically captures one of the most electrifying moments in modern Arab history. The book is prescient in anticipation of the Arab Spring and the leading role played by youth. The data is rich; the analyses are sharp; and the implications are powerfully drawn. The volume could not be more timely." Suad Joseph, Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies, University of California, Davis 'This collection provides the most accurate and comprehensive insights into the mindsets and conditions of youth in the Arab world that I have seen in recent years. Anyone interested in penetrating the world and the worldviews of young Arab men and women should start here.' Rami Khouri, American University of BeirutTable of ContentsIntroduction: Roseanne & Samir Khalaf "On the Marginalization and Mobilization of Arab Youth" Chapter 1: Youth as a Social Category Wyn, Johanna (University of Melbourne) "Youth as a Social Category" Bayat, Asef (Leiden University) "Reclaiming Youthfulness" Singerman, Diane (American University, Washington, D.C.) "Bringing Back Materiality to the Question of Youth, Marriage & Sexuality" Courbage, Youssef (National Institute of Demography, Paris) "The Demographic Youthful Bulge and Social Rupture" Chapter 2: Negotiating Identity in Times of Risk Curtis N. Rhodes, Jr., Haytham A. Mihyar & Ghada Abu El-Rous (Questscope,Amman) "Social Learning & Community Participation with Children at Risk In Two Marginalized Urban Neighborhoods in Amman, Jordan" Yamani, Mai (Independent Academic) "Saudi Youth: Initiative and Inertia" Larkin, Craig (University of Exeter) "Between Silence and Scream: The Lebanese Postmemory Experience" Chapter 3: Representation and Self-Perception Mahdavi, Pardis (Pomona College) "Re-creating Recreation: The Politics of Fun in the Islamic Republic of Iran" Khalaf, Roseanne (American University of Beirut) "Idealistic and Indignant Young Lebanese" Kegels, Nicolien (Independent Researcher and Writer) "In Good Times or Bad? The Discourse of National Identity of the Lebanese Upper Class Youth" Chapter 4: Militancy and Street Violence Peteet, Julie (University of Louisville) "Male Gender and Rituals of Resistance in the Palestinian Intifada: A Cultural Politics of Violence" Abi Samra, Mohammad (An-Nahar) "Comparison Between the Lifestyles of Two Youth Groups in Tripoli" Sbeity, Fidel (Free Lance Journalist) "Street Violence among Youth Gangs in Chiah in 1975" Chapter 5: Voluntarism and Civil Society Dueck, Jennifer (Oxford University) "Uniforms and Salutes: Fascism and Religion in the Youth Politics of Syria and Lebanon under French Rule" Gahre, Christian (International Peace Research Institute, Oslo) "Youth Networks, Space and Political Mobilization: Lebanon's Independence Intifada" Chapter 6: Popular Culture and Music Deeb, Lara (Scripps College) & Harb, Mona (American University of Beirut) "Sanctioned Pleasures: Youth Negotiation of Leisure Sites of Morality in Al-Dahiya" Gazzah, Miriam (University of Amsterdam) "Muslim Youth Culture in the Netherlands: A Mix of Islam, Ethnicity & Politics" Landau, Carolyn (City University, London) "Music Consumption & Identity: Exploring Cultural and Religious Transnational Connections amongst Moroccan Youth in Britain & Beyond" Nassar, Angelina (American University of Beirut) "Scratch the Past-This is Our Soundtrack: Hip Hop in Lebanon"

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Book SynopsisWritten by a leading expert on Islamist movements, this work gives a perceptive account of the foundations of radical Islamic organisations, and offers insights into the structure, theory and tactics employed by the various groups as early as the 1970s in Egypt.Trade Review'Broadly conceived and incisive.' New York Review of Books 'Kepel offers the interested observer a fascinating insight into the Islamist movement.' Financial Times 'An extremely thoughtful and balanced guide to a movement whose influence can no longer be ignored.' The Cambridge Review 'The best book so far published on Egypt's Islamic movements ... essential reading for anyone interested in the wider 'Islamic revival' The Middle East 'An excellent work: stimulating, rich in first-hand information, and replete with lessons.' Maxime Rodinson

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Book SynopsisOn China's biggest social media platform, Weibo, feminists are staying one step ahead of the censors. Weibo Feminism is the first book to explore in-depth the connections and forms of resistance that feminist activists in China are making in online spaces despite increasing crackdowns on free speech and public expression.Aviva Wei Xue and Kate Rose explore the many forms of contemporary feminism in China, from activist campaigns against sexual harassment and domestic violence, through to Weibo Reading groups of feminist texts and subversive online novels published on the platform. The book includes an in-depth case study of feminist support networks for overwhelmingly female frontline medical staff that have sprung up on social media in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Weibo Feminism goes on to asks what lessons are being learned in contemporary China for the cause of social justice for women around the world.Trade ReviewWeibo Feminism shares Chinese feminists’ creative and effective strategies for exercising power with dignity. It exemplifies global feminism’s transcendence of geopolitics, nationalism, and neoliberalism. It is essential reading for all who care about the rights and humanity of women everywhere. * Robin Visser, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill *The liberation struggle currently underway among the globe's largest population of women remains unknown in the English-speaking feminist world. The 'Weibo' feminism that has spread in China since the time of #MeToo is an unprecedented development in the history of East Asia and the world. This book brings its history, politics, real-world activities, online art and rhetoric, and culture, as well as details of its repression, to English-speaking readers. It conveys the radical spirit of Weibo Feminism in the movement's rejection of marriage, surrogacy, and the male literary world, as well as its heroic actions during the Corona pandemic, funny internet memes, and resistance to both Chinese Confucian patriarchy and Western liberalism. The Megalia feminism of South Korea described in a number of books complements this important account of uprising in contemporary China, and both literatures alert the world to East Asia's central place in feminism today. Authors Aviva Xue and Kate Rose document Weibo Feminism from the inside, and describe its theoretical principles, political tactics, and aims for the liberation of Chinese women with vivid clarity and in astounding detail. * Caroline Norma, RMIT University, author of The Japanese Comfort Women (Bloomsbury, 2015) *At a time of China’s rise to global superpower, what do we know about Chinese women’s aspirations, hopes and dreams? Weibo Feminism begins to fill this gap. In thousands of Blogs on Weibo, feminists promote an autonomous Chinese vision of the world by drawing on the past (history, language and forgotten women) as much as the present (literature, violence against women, prostitution, pornography and surrogacy). This brilliant book by Kate Rose and Aviva Wei Xue should be mandatory reading for people in the West as it opens our eyes to the strong, authentic and resilient voices of Chinese feminists who have much to teach us. * Dr Renate Klein, feminist health activist *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Scattered Revolutions Spark the Masses 1. Feminist Outbreaks in the Digital World 2. Spreading Feminism Online 3. Hijacking Reproductive Rights 4. Intersectionality Under the Radar 5. The Politics of Feminist Word-Play 8. Conclusion: "You Forbid Us to Gather Anywhere, So We Will Be Everywhere" - Weibo Feminism as a Global Solution Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis study focuses on dance as an activist practice in and of itself, across geographical locations and over the course of a century, from 1920 to 2020. Through doing so, it considers how dance has been an empowering agent for political action throughout civilisation. Dance and Activism offers a glimpse of different strategies of mobilizing the human body for good and justice for all, and captures the increasing political activism epitomized by bodies moving on the streets in some of the most turbulent political situations. This has, most recently, undoubtedly been partly owing to the rise of the far-right internationally, which has marked an increase in direct action on the streets.Offering a survey of key events across the century, such as the fall of President Zuma in South Africa; pro-reproductive rights action in Poland and Argentina; and the recent women''s marches against Donald Trump''s presidency, you will see how dance has become an urgent field of sTrade ReviewMills artfully weaves together a massive array of case studies, drawing connections across the globe and throughout the century. * Dance International *Mills brings an investigative style and ethnographic approach to dig deep—within contextual layers and personal stories—to discover an interpretation that positions the dialog between the social cultural moment, the dancer, and the dance … A tightly and provocatively argued book that provides a new perspective on dance as activism. * Journal of Dance Education *Dance and Activism: A Century of Radical Dance Across the World, makes an important contribution to ongoing conversations within the field of dance studies about the political nature of dance. The book explores the mobilization of dance as a language and method for activism and radical hope, extending and refining the intimate relationship between dance and politics outlined in Mills’s previous work. * Dance Chronicle *Dance and Activism’s main strength is that it is something of a pioneer ... Dance and Activism is a welcome and necessary addition to the dance history and dance studies canon. Graduate program directors would be wise to point students toward this book not only as a resource, but as a reminder that powerful and transformative dance exists outside the concert stage. * Theatre Topics *A most intriguing, erudite book. * Sydney Arts Guide *Mills’s book provides unique case studies that draw from different forms of dance across the globe. These case studies analyse the actions of the dancers and choreographers, not choreographed works. The majority of books about dance and politics rely on analysis of dance pieces or theorize from generalized notions of dance. Mills also focuses on the actions of the dancers and choreographers whose actions are explicitly political/create direct action in the world. The site of their action is the world at large, not the theatre for a select audience. The majority of books about dance and politics discuss the political effects of events that occur in the closed environment of the theatre or dance studio. * Leah Cox, Dean of the American Dance Festival *Mills shows how dance and dancers from the stage to the streets have responded to forces of alienation and oppression, and how they have moved their bodies—and others—to imagine different worlds. It is a stirring and powerful read, and a prelude to action. * Glory Liu, Harvard University, USA *The past is constantly present as Dana Mills chronicles the extraordinary potential our expressive dancing body/mind. In an age of increasingly sedentary work, her deep analysis of “dance as activism” lays bare a far-reaching radicalism and breadth of diversity in dance forms. Dance and Activism is both timely and necessary. * Blakeley White-McGuire, Dancer, Choreographer, Educator and Activist, USA *In this groundbreaking multi-disciplinary book, Dana Mills leads dance from the wings of political activism to the centre stage of human resistance and the creative struggle for freedom and our most precious, primordial material possession – the bodies in which we live and struggle for self-possession. Mills deftly choreographs a century of global theatre of street protest and popular movements through the individual stories and collective moments and movements that create surprising uprisings and new solidarities. A brilliant political theorist, activist and dancer at the forefront of the pursuit of a new dialectics for our troubled modern age, Mills shares her cogent analysis and innovative thinking in a readable, engaging form that leaps beyond intellectual boundaries and galvanises a new genre of thought in action. Vividly describing how our restless bodies can and will reach out, rise up and protect everything that is human and beautiful in our world, Dana Mills shows, with passion and commitment, why people will never stop dancing in search of freedom. * Rachel Holmes is critically acclaimed author of, most recently, Eleanor Marx: a Life and Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel *This book is essential for anyone who wants dance to be part of their revolution. * New Books Network *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments If we can't dance, we don't want to be part of your revolution Alienation solidarity Method Prelude to action Martha Graham: Embodied Chronicle 2. ‘Go ahead and be a bastard’ Anna Sokolow Through dance I have experienced the wordless joy of freedom: Pearl Primus Dance as intervention, dance as action Ballet beyond borders ‘No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin’ ‘Going around the house like a butterfly’ Ballet, home, Syria The canon must be fired! Ballet and the long arc of history There is only now: radical ballet going forward Erbil/ New York City: Break/ Dance The body in battle Those who leave and those who stay Not just for you, but for the rest of the earth Ballade of belonging At the still point of the turning world Break/ dance: echoing further: Erbil Steps in the street: Revolution DJ Dance on the march The People (dancing) united can never be defeated Dancing onwards! Dance as a home Transitions Home, exile, words, movement Arriving Storytelling Unraveling Homelessness- Devastation- Exile Spectre, haunting Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn 2008 an Iraqi artist was waterboarded as performance art. In 2010 artists upturned police cars in Russia. But what exactly do we mean by militant art and aesthetics? Bringing together the philosophy of art and politics, Martin Lang provides a comprehensive examination of militant art activism: its history, its advocates and the aesthetic theory behind it. Protest art is not a new concept and yet this book argues that after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 distinctly 21st-century forms of art activism emerged. On the one hand these became militant as artists retained belief in the possibility of radical political change through art. On the other hand, this belief developed in a hostile environment, when anti-terror legislations reclassified activists and artists as terrorists. Through first-hand interviews and experiences, Militant Aesthetics sheds light on numerous international case studies of modern art activism and the differenTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. Art Activism after 9/11 2. Refuse/Resist: Militancy, Ethics and Aesthetics 3. Militancy and the Avant-garde 4. Tactical Confrontations: Art Activism after the Global Banking Crisis 5. The Absurd and the Dysfunctional 6. Demonstration Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the current wave of migration from Turkey with a specific focus on the experiences of 21 public figures and intellectuals from varying backgrounds.

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Book SynopsisThis fast-paced, thriller-style memoir outlines the tumultuous years that saw Mbeki's overthrow and replacement by Zuma, Nkandlagate, the growing militarization of the police and the Marikana Massacre, the outrageous appointment of flunkies to high office, the state capture report and his relationship with the Guptas.

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