Political activism / Political engagement Books
Temple University Press,U.S. Civic Talk
Book SynopsisExploring how the simple act of talking about politics and current events with friends, colleagues, and relatives causes us to become more civically activeTrade Review"[A]n excellent work that transcends political science, political communication, and political sociology... Klofstad is to be commended for his efforts to overcome analytical biases associated with the study of civic talk, as well as for his focus on young people, whose civic life and engagement are all too often ignored by the political process due to their lack of previous participation. Summing Up: Highly recommended." - Choice "In his carefully constructed study of political conversations, Casey Klofstad provides compelling evidence for the impact of civic talk on the participatory habits of today's young adults. Civic Talk is a well-documented portrait of how our social network can pull us into voluntary civic life and even get us to the polls on election day. The book fills a gap in the literature on political communication and reinvigorates the importance of peers as key socializers in political life... Overall, this book contributes to two distinct but overlapping literatures. The detailed analysis of political conversations addresses a causal question that has stumped a field burgeoning with rich, thoughtful studies. And the emphasis on the role of peers as a socializing influence within the college environment adds a much needed element to our understanding of civic engagement in higher education. Both traditions are enhanced by Klofstad's contribution." - Political CommunicationTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Civic Talk and Civic Participation 3. Does Civic Talk Cause Civic Participation? 4. Why Does Civic Talk Cause Civic Participation? 5. Do You Matter? 6. Do Your Peers Matter? 7. The Significant and Lasting Effect of Civic Talk 8. Peers, Politics, and the Future of Democracy APPENDIX A: The Collegiate Social Network Interaction Project (C-SNIP) APPENDIX B: C-SNIP Panel Survey Questions and Variables APPENDIX C: Matching Data Pre-processing References Index
£49.50
Temple University Press,U.S. Civic Talk
Book SynopsisExploring how the simple act of talking about politics and current events with friends, colleagues, and relatives causes us to become more civically activeTrade Review"[A]n excellent work that transcends political science, political communication, and political sociology... Klofstad is to be commended for his efforts to overcome analytical biases associated with the study of civic talk, as well as for his focus on young people, whose civic life and engagement are all too often ignored by the political process due to their lack of previous participation. Summing Up: Highly recommended." - Choice "In his carefully constructed study of political conversations, Casey Klofstad provides compelling evidence for the impact of civic talk on the participatory habits of today's young adults. Civic Talk is a well-documented portrait of how our social network can pull us into voluntary civic life and even get us to the polls on election day. The book fills a gap in the literature on political communication and reinvigorates the importance of peers as key socializers in political life... Overall, this book contributes to two distinct but overlapping literatures. The detailed analysis of political conversations addresses a causal question that has stumped a field burgeoning with rich, thoughtful studies. And the emphasis on the role of peers as a socializing influence within the college environment adds a much needed element to our understanding of civic engagement in higher education. Both traditions are enhanced by Klofstad's contribution." - Political CommunicationTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Civic Talk and Civic Participation 3. Does Civic Talk Cause Civic Participation? 4. Why Does Civic Talk Cause Civic Participation? 5. Do You Matter? 6. Do Your Peers Matter? 7. The Significant and Lasting Effect of Civic Talk 8. Peers, Politics, and the Future of Democracy APPENDIX A: The Collegiate Social Network Interaction Project (C-SNIP) APPENDIX B: C-SNIP Panel Survey Questions and Variables APPENDIX C: Matching Data Pre-processing References Index
£21.59
Temple University Press,U.S. Rude Democracy
Book SynopsisHow American politics can become more civil and amenable to public policy solutions, while still allowing for effective argumentTrade Review"In this thought-provoking text, Susan Herbst tackles the role of civility in public discourse.... Throughout Rude Democracy, Herbst identifies potential empirical research topics and unmet scholarly needs into which a new generation of scholars can profitably delve." —Perspectives on Politics"Herbst’s contention that incivility and civility should be viewed as strategic assets is potentially game changing and a contribution that all future scholarly work on incivility cannot ignore." —Journal of Politics"[A] valuable, fair-minded book. It is a contribution to the literature of history, ethics, and public affairs, and it could easily be used to stimulate lively classroom conversations—the kind that spill into the halls when the hour has ended." —Journalism and Mass Communication QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements New Preface for 2020 1. The Powerful-if Elusive-Nature of Civility 2. Sarah Palin and Her Publics 3. Barack Obama, Difference, and Civility 4. Our Future Leaders: College Students and Political Argument 5. Conclusion: Civility, Communication, and a Culture of Argument Appendix I: Transcript of President Barack Obama's Commencement Address, University of Notre Dame, May 17, 2009 Appendix II: University System of Georgia Survey on Student Speech and Discussion Notes Bibliography Index
£19.94
Temple University Press,U.S. Rude Democracy
Book SynopsisWinner of the Doris Graber Award, American Political Science Association, 2013Democracy is, by its very nature, often rude. But there are limits to how uncivil we should be. In the 2010 edition ofRude Democracy, Susan Herbst explored the ways we discuss public policy, how we treat each other as we do, and how we can create a more civil national culture. She used the examples of Sarah Palin and Barack Obama to illustrate her case. She also examined how young people come to form their own attitudes about civility and political argument. In a new preface for this 2020 paperback edition, the author connects her book to our current highly contentious politics and what it means for the future of democratic argument.Trade Review"In this thought-provoking text, Susan Herbst tackles the role of civility in public discourse.... Throughout Rude Democracy, Herbst identifies potential empirical research topics and unmet scholarly needs into which a new generation of scholars can profitably delve." —Perspectives on Politics"Herbst’s contention that incivility and civility should be viewed as strategic assets is potentially game changing and a contribution that all future scholarly work on incivility cannot ignore." —Journal of Politics"[A] valuable, fair-minded book. It is a contribution to the literature of history, ethics, and public affairs, and it could easily be used to stimulate lively classroom conversations—the kind that spill into the halls when the hour has ended." —Journalism and Mass Communication QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements New Preface for 2020 1. The Powerful-if Elusive-Nature of Civility 2. Sarah Palin and Her Publics 3. Barack Obama, Difference, and Civility 4. Our Future Leaders: College Students and Political Argument 5. Conclusion: Civility, Communication, and a Culture of Argument Appendix I: Transcript of President Barack Obama's Commencement Address, University of Notre Dame, May 17, 2009 Appendix II: University System of Georgia Survey on Student Speech and Discussion Notes Bibliography Index
£11.39
ML - Temple University Press Push Back Move Forward The National Council of Womens Organizations and Coalition Advocacy
£69.70
Temple University Press,U.S. Push Back Move Forward
Book SynopsisAn in-depth explanation of the origin, workings, strengths and weaknesses of the National Council of Women's Organizations
£23.39
Temple University Press,U.S. The Memoirs of Wendell W. Young III
Book SynopsisPhiladelphia native Wendell W. Young III was one of the most important American labor leaders in the last half of the twentieth century. An Acme Markets clerk in the 1950s and '60s, he was elected top officer of the Retail Clerks Union when he was twenty-four. His social justice unionism sought to advance wages while moving beyond collective bargaining to improve the conditions of the working-class majority, whether in a union or not. Young quickly gained a reputation for his independence, daring at times to publicly criticize the policies of the city's powerful AFL-CIO leadership and tangle with the city's political machine. Editor Francis Ryan, whose introduction provides historical context, interviewed Young about his experiences working in the region's retail and food industry, measuring the changes over time and the tangible impact that union membership had on workers. Young also describes the impact of Philadelphia's deindustrialization in the 1970s and '80s and recounts his ac
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Temple University Press,U.S. Are We the 99
Book SynopsisThe protestors that comprised the Occupy Wall Street movement came from diverse backgrounds. But how were these activistswho sought radical social change through many ideologiesable to break down oppressions and obstacles within the movement? And in what ways did the movement perpetuate status-quo structures of inequality? Are We the 99%? is the first comprehensive feminist and intersectional analysis of the Occupy movement. Heather McKee Hurwitz considers how women, people of color, and genderqueer activists struggled to be heard and understood. Despite cries of We are the 99%, signaling solidarity, certain groups were unwelcome or unable to participate. Moreover, problems with racism, sexism, and discrimination due to sexuality and class persisted within the movement. Using immersive first-hand accounts of activists' experiences, online communications, and media coverage of the movement, Hurwitz reveals lessons gleaned from the conflicts within the Occupy movement. She compares her f
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Temple University Press,U.S. Are We the 99
Book SynopsisThe protestors that comprised the Occupy Wall Street movement came from diverse backgrounds. But how were these activistswho sought radical social change through many ideologiesable to break down oppressions and obstacles within the movement? And in what ways did the movement perpetuate status-quo structures of inequality? Are We the 99%? is the first comprehensive feminist and intersectional analysis of the Occupy movement. Heather McKee Hurwitz considers how women, people of color, and genderqueer activists struggled to be heard and understood. Despite cries of We are the 99%, signaling solidarity, certain groups were unwelcome or unable to participate. Moreover, problems with racism, sexism, and discrimination due to sexuality and class persisted within the movement. Using immersive first-hand accounts of activists' experiences, online communications, and media coverage of the movement, Hurwitz reveals lessons gleaned from the conflicts within the Occupy movement. She compares her f
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University of Toronto Press Transnationalism Activism Art
Book SynopsisTransnationalism, Activism, Art goes beyond Banksy by investigating how the three complementary political, social, and cultural phenomena listed in the title interact in the twenty-first century.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Transnationalism, Activism, Art 1 Manhattanism and Future Cities: Some Provocations on Art and New Urban Forms 2 Mumbai, Slumbai: Transnationalism and Postcolonialism in Urban Slums 3 Ends of Culture 4 Transnational Culture: An Interview with Graham Huggan 5 The Translegality of Digital Nonspace: Digital Counter-Power and Its Representation 6 Queers without Borders? On the Impossibility of 'Queer Citizenship' and the Promise of Transnational Aesthetic Mutiny 7 Outernational Transmission: The Politics of Activism in Electronic Dance Music 8 Transnational Indigenous Feminism: An Interview with Lee Maracle 9 This Is What Democracy Looks Like? or, The Art of Opposition 10 Transnationalizing the Rhythm / Remastering the National Dance: The Politics of Black Performance in Contemporary Cinema of the Americas 11 Author as Metabrand in the Postcolonial UK: Booking Daljit Nagra Afterword: Sentiment or Action The Contributors Notes Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Faction Displayed
Book SynopsisFaction Displayed: Reconsidering the Impeachment of Dr. Henry Sacheverell features a collection of essays that examine the turbulent partisan culture during Queen Anne's reign that ensued as a result of the 1710 parliamentary trial of English clergyman Henry Sacheverell. Features several essays originating from a 2010 conference held at the Palace of Westminster to mark the tercentenary of Sacheverell's impeachment Links events in Parliament to the public that was both fascinated and enraged by them Explores the nature of the public sphere and critiques Habermas's notion of it Offers a form of cultural parliamentary history and addresses the many forms of partisanship evident in the rage of party' Trade Review“Faction Displayedtrace[s] the ways in which the controversy was spun … richly documented.” (London Review of Books, 21 August 2014)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Bibliographical Note List of Contributors Introduction: The View from 1710 (MARK KNIGHTS) 1. The Current State of Sacheverell Scholarship (W.A. SPECK) 2. The Spin Doctor: Sacheverell's Trial Speech and Political Performance in the Divided Society (BRIAN COWAN) 3. The ‘End of Censorship’ and the Politics of Toleration, from Locke to Sacheverell (GEOFF KEMP) 4. Sacheverell's Harlots: Non-Resistance on Paper and in Practice (EIRWEN E.C. NICHOLSON) 5. Irish Tories and Victims of Whig Persecution: Sacheverell Fever by Proxy (D.W. HAYTON) 6. Addison's Empire: Whig Conceptions of Empire in the Early 18th Century (STEVE PINCUS) Note and Documents 7. A Non-Resisting, Passively Obedient Revolution: Lord North and Grey and the Tory Response to the Sacheverell Impeachment (DANIEL SZECHI) Index
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Policy Press Minority women and austerity
Book SynopsisBassel and Emejulu explore minority women's experiences of austerity measures in France and Britain. They demonstrate how they use their race, class, gender and legal status for collective action in the face of the neoliberal colonisation.Trade Review"This book's focus on minority women's agency and resistance makes a valuable contribution to research on crisis and austerity." Majella Kilkey, University of Sheffield "For detailed, original analyses of minority women's activism and claims-making in this Europe of austerity politics, read this excellent book." Khursheed Wadia, University of Warwick, UK "Brings a theoretically sophisticated intersectional approach to interviews with minority ethnic women activists and policy officers and illuminates the multi-faceted ways in which the women experience and resist often patronising initiatives. The insights are compelling and repay close reading. It is hoped that future initiatives will start from the insights it provides." Ann Phoenix, University College LondonTable of ContentsForeword by Patricia Hill Collins Taking minority women's activism seriously Theorising and resisting 'political racelessness' in Europe Whose crisis counts? Enterprising activism The politics of survival Learning across cases, learning beyond 'cases' Conclusion: warning signs
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Bristol University Press Tomorrows Communities
Book SynopsisThis book sets out how people’s lives can be positively transformed through diverse forms of community involvement. It shows how communities can become more collaborative and resilient in dealing with the problems they face and provides a guide to what a holistic policy agenda for community-based transformation should encompass.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The challenges for tomorrow’s communities ~ Henry Tam PART A: Transforming socioeconomic relations in communities 2 The case for community economic development ~ Ed Mayo and Pat Conaty 3 Reciprocity and alternative mediums of exchange ~ Martin Simon 4 Regeneration in partnership with communities ~ Gabriel Chanan 5 Worker cooperatives and economic democracy ~ Pat Conaty and Philip Ross PART B: Transforming collaborative behaviour with communities 6 Four factors for better community collaboration ~ Steve Wyler 7 The importance of community-based learning ~ Marjorie Mayo 8 The 45 ° Change model for remaking power relations ~ Colin Miller and Neal Lawson 9 Connecting at the edges for collective change ~ Alison Gilchrist PART C: Transforming policy outcomes by communities 10 Co-production and the role of preventive infrastructure ~ David Boyle 11 Humanising health and social care ~ John Restakis 12 Reshaping the food aid landscape ~ Alice Willatt, Rosalind Beadle and Mary Brydon- Miller 13 Sustainable communities for the future ~ Diane Warburton Conclusion 14 The policy agenda for community-based transformation ~ Henry Tam
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Bristol University Press Tomorrows Communities
Book SynopsisThis book sets out how people's lives can be positively transformed through diverse forms of community involvement. It shows how communities can become more collaborative and resilient in dealing with the problems they face and provides a guide to what a holistic policy agenda for community-based transformation should encompass.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The challenges for tomorrow’s communities ~ Henry Tam PART A: Transforming socioeconomic relations in communities 2 The case for community economic development ~ Ed Mayo and Pat Conaty 3 Reciprocity and alternative mediums of exchange ~ Martin Simon 4 Regeneration in partnership with communities ~ Gabriel Chanan 5 Worker cooperatives and economic democracy ~ Pat Conaty and Philip Ross PART B: Transforming collaborative behaviour with communities 6 Four factors for better community collaboration ~ Steve Wyler 7 The importance of community-based learning ~ Marjorie Mayo 8 The 45 ° Change model for remaking power relations ~ Colin Miller and Neal Lawson 9 Connecting at the edges for collective change ~ Alison Gilchrist PART C: Transforming policy outcomes by communities 10 Co-production and the role of preventive infrastructure ~ David Boyle 11 Humanising health and social care ~ John Restakis 12 Reshaping the food aid landscape ~ Alice Willatt, Rosalind Beadle and Mary Brydon- Miller 13 Sustainable communities for the future ~ Diane Warburton Conclusion 14 The policy agenda for community-based transformation ~ Henry Tam
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Bristol University Press Young People Radical Democracy and Community Deve
Book SynopsisFocusing on youth activism for greater equality, liberty and mutual care - radical democracy - this timely collection explores the movement’s impacts on community organisations and workers. Essays from the Global North and Global South cover the Black Lives Matter movement, environmental activism and the struggles of refugees.Table of ContentsPART I Young people: radical democracy and community development Introduction: Young people, radical democracy and community development - Janet Batsleer, Harriet Rowley and Demet Lüküslü Thinking/acting with migrants under neoliberalism: "It's horrible to perceive solidarity as merely absorbing the sorrow of one side". - Cihan Erdal PART II Young people acting together for eco-justice Imagining the future under capitalism: young people involved in environmental activism in an economic crisis - Dena Arya Community building for and through sustainable food - Dominic Zimmermann Daring, dissolving and dancing: making communities with water - Róisín O’Gorman PART III Acts of citizenship? Community development, empowerment and youth participation in social-housing neighbourhoods in France - Gülçin Erdi LGBTQ+ young peoples’ sexuality and gender citizenship in digital spaces - Sally Carr and Ali Hanbury Enabling spaces for and with marginalised young people: the case of the Disha peer support and speak out group - Sadhana Natu Meaningful youth engagement in community programming in Kenya - Yvonne Akinyi Ochieng, Su Lyn Corcoran and Kate Pahl PART IV Black lives still matter Conceptualising community development through a pedagogy of convivência: youth, race and territory in Brazil - Fernando Lannes Fernandes and Andrea Rodriguez "I did not want the project to end. For me, it should last forever": exploring a community development framework based on learned lessons from marginalised youth voices in Brazil - Andrea Rodriguez and Fernando Lannes Fernandes Burning work: field map - Christxpher Oliver PART V Practising hope They are not your warriors: intergenerational tensions and practices of hope in young people’s environmental activism - Dena Arya Afterword: Community as prefigurative practice – practices of hope - Janet Batsleer, Harriet Rowley and Demet Lüküsl ü
£76.50
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Power to the Poor BlackBrown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice 19601974
£30.56
University of North Carolina Press High School Students Unite
£90.00
Duke University Press Naked Agency
Book SynopsisAcross Africa, mature women have for decades mobilized the power of their nakedness in political protest to shame and punish male adversaries. This insurrectionary nakedness, often called genital cursing, owes its cultural potency to the religious belief that spirits residing in women's bodies can be unleashed to cause misfortune in their targets, including impotence, disease, and death. In Naked Agency, Naminata Diabate analyzes these collective female naked protests in Africa and beyond to broaden understandings of agency and vulnerability. Drawing on myriad cultural texts from social media and film to journalism and fiction, Diabate uncovers how women create spaces of resistance during socio-political duress, including such events as the 2011 protests by Ivoirian women in Côte d'Ivoire and Paris as well as women's disrobing in Soweto to prevent the destruction of their homes. Through the concept of naked agency, Diabate explores fluctuating narratives of power and victimhood to challenge simplistic accounts of African women's helplessness and to show how they exercise political power in the biopolitical era.Trade Review“This is an expansive but nuanced and thought-provoking study of female nakedness as political intervention around Africa. Naked Agency offers a rich analysis of the many potential meanings of defiant disrobing as a signifying shorthand in relation to questions of agency within, but also potentially outside of an African context.” -- Moradewun Adejunmobi, coeditor of * Routledge Handbook of African Literature *“Bringing new insights to discussions of biopolitics and subjectivity, Naminata Diabate explores African women's naked protests to illuminate the contradictory nature of women's agency and the paradox of aggressive disrobing as a counter to globalization that depends on the globalized meaning of state power. She also makes a strong case for avoiding the problems found in most writings on African women of seeing women as either victims or heroic agents while doing an especially great job of exposing the double-edged nature of secularization in the postcolonial world.” -- E. Frances White, author of * Dark Continent of Our Bodies: Black Feminism and the Politics of Respectability *“Bold and erudite, Naked Agency analyses strategic skirt-lifting to shame, take revenge on or punish offensive men by exposing the vulva.... Naked Agency has made a profound impression on me.” -- Tobe Levin Von Gleichen * Canadian Journal of African Studies *“With a mixed method of textual analysis validated by ethnography, Naked Agency stands out among most scholarships that employ either one or the other, to arrive at a contextually nuanced epistemology. . . . I hope this book helps reconstruct and decolonize the mind of the West about the cultural practices of the other.” -- Oladoyin Abiona * Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry *“Naked Agency is a book that challenges censorship and manipulations of African modes of being, knowing, thinking, and theorizing about itself. . . . Naked Agency is what happens when scholars theorize and write from an Africa centered perspective.” -- Marame Gueye, Kenneth Harrow, Adélékè Adé?`k?´ * Journal of the African Literature Association *“The strengths of Diabate’s work rest not merely rest in her extensive review of theories of power but also in her ability to interweave multiple narratives. . . . Thought-provoking for students at any level.” -- Cathy Skidmore-Hess * Journal of Global South Studies *“[Naked Agency] is flawless, in its arguments, its language, and its clarity. . . . Although [Diabate’s] book may seem to be targeted at academics, her conceptualization of agency is relevant to anyone trying to understand the dynamic aspect of agency and resistance in complex bio-political arenas in the world.” -- Supriya Joshi * Rural Sociology *“Naked Agency [is] extraordinarily capacious in its geographical, cultural, and generic scope. . . . By reading openly, the author is able to read across actors, sites, languages, cultures, genres, etc.” -- Chijioke K. Onah * Research in African Literature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Exceptional Nakedness 1 Section I. Restriction Scene 1. Exceptional Conditions and Darker Shades of Biopolitics 29 Scene 2. Dobsonville and the Question of Autonomy 43 Section II. Co-operation Scene 3. Africanizing Nakedness as (Self-)Instrumentalization 65 Scene 4. In the Name of National Interest 89 Scene 5. Film as Instrumental and Interpretive Lens 107 Section III. Repression Scene 6. Secularizing Genital Cursing and Rhetorical Backlash 131 Scene 7. Epistemic Ignorance and Menstrual Rags in Paris 149 Scene 8. Mis(Reading) Murderous Reactions 175 Epilogue: Defiant Disrobing Going Viral 191 Notes 197 References 219 Index 251
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Duke University Press Students of the World
Book SynopsisOn June 30, 1960—the day of the Congo’s independence—Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a fiery speech in which he conjured a definitive shift away from a past of colonial oppression toward a future of sovereignty, dignity, and justice. His assassination a few months later showed how much neocolonial forces and the Cold War jeopardized African movements for liberation. In Students of the World, Pedro Monaville traces a generation of Congolese student activists who refused to accept the foreclosure of the future Lumumba envisioned. These students sought to decolonize university campuses, but the projects of emancipation they articulated went well beyond transforming higher education. Monaville explores the modes of being and thinking that shaped their politics. He outlines a trajectory of radicalization in which gender constructions, cosmopolitan dispositions, and the influence of a dissident popular culture mattered as much as access to various networks of actTrade Review"Students of the World is richly referenced in the endnotes and stands as an example of the creative possibilities of scholarly monographs. Students of the World will prove an enduring reference point for global histories of Cold War-era activism." -- Ismay Milford * H-Soz-Kult *"With his well-researched and meticulously wrought study, Monaville has conjured up a bygone world of possibilities that clashed with the realities of Africa’s postcolonial hubris, a world that ended up crushed in the vortex of global politics. Students of the World possesses all the trappings of the kind of seminal works that pave the way for a historiographical renewal." -- Didier Gondola * The Global Sixties *"This study is a significant, well-written contribution to the history of youth movements in the late 20th century. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- J. M. Rich * Choice *"The beauty of this book lies in both its content and form. . . . . Monaville’s book exemplifies an approach that integrates ‘theory and form’, thereby offering a valuable contribution to the historiography of student activism, decolonization, the Cold War, and the Global Sixties." -- Emery Kalema * Journal of African History *Table of ContentsPreface. Memory Work in the Age of Cinq Chantiers ix Note on Toponyms xvii Acknowledgments xix Introduction. The School of the World 1 Interlude I. Postal Musings 20 1. Distance Learning and the Production of Politics 23 2. Friendly Correspondence with the Whole World 42 Interlude II. To Live Forever Among Books 63 3. Paths to School 65 4. Dancing the Rumba at Lovanium 84 Interlude III. To the Left 103 5. Cold War Transcripts 109 6. Revolution in the (Counter)revolution 129 7. A Student Front 144 Interlude IV. The Dictator and the Students 161 8. (Un)natural Alliances 166 9. A Postcolonial Massacre and Caporalisation in Mobutu's Congo 179 Epilogue. The Gaze of the Dead 201 Notes 213 Bibliography 287 Index 323
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Duke University Press Students of the World
Book SynopsisOn June 30, 1960—the day of the Congo’s independence—Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a fiery speech in which he conjured a definitive shift away from a past of colonial oppression toward a future of sovereignty, dignity, and justice. His assassination a few months later showed how much neocolonial forces and the Cold War jeopardized African movements for liberation. In Students of the World, Pedro Monaville traces a generation of Congolese student activists who refused to accept the foreclosure of the future Lumumba envisioned. These students sought to decolonize university campuses, but the projects of emancipation they articulated went well beyond transforming higher education. Monaville explores the modes of being and thinking that shaped their politics. He outlines a trajectory of radicalization in which gender constructions, cosmopolitan dispositions, and the influence of a dissident popular culture mattered as much as access to various networks of actTrade Review"Students of the World is richly referenced in the endnotes and stands as an example of the creative possibilities of scholarly monographs. Students of the World will prove an enduring reference point for global histories of Cold War-era activism." -- Ismay Milford * H-Soz-Kult *"With his well-researched and meticulously wrought study, Monaville has conjured up a bygone world of possibilities that clashed with the realities of Africa’s postcolonial hubris, a world that ended up crushed in the vortex of global politics. Students of the World possesses all the trappings of the kind of seminal works that pave the way for a historiographical renewal." -- Didier Gondola * The Global Sixties *"This study is a significant, well-written contribution to the history of youth movements in the late 20th century. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- J. M. Rich * Choice *"The beauty of this book lies in both its content and form. . . . . Monaville’s book exemplifies an approach that integrates ‘theory and form’, thereby offering a valuable contribution to the historiography of student activism, decolonization, the Cold War, and the Global Sixties." -- Emery Kalema * Journal of African History *Table of ContentsPreface. Memory Work in the Age of Cinq Chantiers ix Note on Toponyms xvii Acknowledgments xix Introduction. The School of the World 1 Interlude I. Postal Musings 20 1. Distance Learning and the Production of Politics 23 2. Friendly Correspondence with the Whole World 42 Interlude II. To Live Forever Among Books 63 3. Paths to School 65 4. Dancing the Rumba at Lovanium 84 Interlude III. To the Left 103 5. Cold War Transcripts 109 6. Revolution in the (Counter)revolution 129 7. A Student Front 144 Interlude IV. The Dictator and the Students 161 8. (Un)natural Alliances 166 9. A Postcolonial Massacre and Caporalisation in Mobutu's Congo 179 Epilogue. The Gaze of the Dead 201 Notes 213 Bibliography 287 Index 323
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New York University Press Changing Land
Book SynopsisHow diaspora activism in the Irish land movement intersected with wider radical and reform causes The Irish Land War represented a turning point in modern Irish history, a social revolution that was part of a broader ideological moment when established ideas of property and land ownership were fundamentally challenged. The Land War was striking in its internationalism, and was spurred by links between different emigrant locations and an awareness of how the Land League's demands to lower rents, end evictions, and abolish landlordism in Ireland connected with wider radical and reform causes. Changing Land offers a new and original study of Irish emigrants' activism in the United States, Argentina, Scotland, and England and their multifaceted relationships with Ireland. Niall Whelehan brings unfamiliar figures to the surface and recovers the voices of women and men who have been on the margins of, or entirely missing from, existing accounts. Retracing their tTrade ReviewChanging Land is a fascinating study of class, gender, social and political reform, and the diaspora during the Land War in nineteenth-century Ireland. It argues convincingly that the land war was part of a wider ideological moment in world history and that social activism should be accorded attention equal to the political perspective, in the nationalist narrative. It is a fine exemplar of how to take an integrated approach to the history of Ireland and that of its geographically widespread diaspora. Based on hitherto unseen primary sources, this book offers an innovative and significant contribution to the received historical narrative of the land war in Ireland and within the diaspora, as well as inserting Ireland into the history of international radicalism. -- Bernadette Whelan, Professor Emeritus, University of Limerick, Ollscoil Luimnigh, IrelandAn outstanding work, meticulously researched, lucidly written, and conceptually sophisticated. Changing Land promises to be one of the most exciting books published on Irish history this year. Whelehan is an outstanding scholar and this volume will consolidate his reputation as among the leading historians of Ireland. -- Thomas Bartlett, Professor Emeritus, University of AberdeenNiall Whelehan’s groundbreaking study…will surely provide an essential cornerstone for future studies of emigrant activism. * Irish Historical Studies *
£22.79
New York University Press Protest and Dissent
Book SynopsisEssays on the justification, strategy, and limits of mass protests and political dissent In Protest and Dissent, the latest installment of the NOMOS series, distinguished scholars from the fields of political science, law, and philosophy provide a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on the potentialand limitsof mass protest and disobedience in today's age. Featuring ten timely essays, the contributors address a number of contemporary movements, from Black Lives Matter and the Women's March, to Occupy Wall Street and Standing Rock. Ultimately, this volume challenges us to re-imagine the boundaries between civil and uncivil disagreement, political reform and radical transformation, and democratic ends and means. Protest and Dissent offers thought-provoking insights into a new era of political resistance.Trade ReviewNothing could be timelier than this collection. * CHOICE *
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New York University Press The Kids Are in Charge
Book SynopsisDetails the possibilities and challenges of intergenerational activism and social movements Since 1976, the Peruvian movement of working children has fought to redefine age-based roles in society, including defending children's right to work. In The Kids Are in Charge, Jessica K. Taft gives us an inside look at this groundbreaking, intergenerational social movement, showing that kids canand should berespected as equal partners in economic, social, and political life. Through participant observation, Taft explores how the movement has redefined relationships between kids and adults; how they put these ideas into practice within their organizations; and how they advocate for them in larger society. Ultimately, she encourages us to question the widely accepted beliefs that children should not work or participate in politics. The Kids Are in Charge is a provocative invitation to re-imagine childhood, power, and politics.Trade ReviewThe Kids Are in Charge is a powerful, provocative, and necessary book. Centering the voices and strategies of the Peruvian movement of working children, Jessica Taft urges us to question assumptions about children—who they are, and who they can be—to imagine childhood otherwise. In engaging and accessible prose, Taft's analysis of children as critical thinkers and political agents should be required reading not only for scholars of Latin America, but teachers, parents, policy makers and everyone concerned with the complexity of childhood. -- María Elena García, author of Making Indigenous Citizens: Identities, Development, and Multicultural Activism in PeruWhile children are gaining global renown anew as activists for the environment and for peace, for gun control, and for human rights, Taft reveals the potent challenge children pose for movements against social inequality, arguing that until we address the hierarchy of age, all other inequalities will fail to crumble. Incisive, empathic, surprising, The Kids Are in Charge is a powerful account of children refusing to settle for a hierarchical, paternalistic status quo, a story of children modeling a new way of being together even as they push for political and institutional change. -- Allison J. Pugh, author of The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of InsecurityThe Kids Are in Charge is an insightful scholarly but accessible work on one of the most amazing social and human rights movements of modern history. Jessica K. Taft must be commended for providing new and powerful perspectives to understand this unique phenomenon. She convincingly busts myths about children and builds the case of treating children as equal citizens of this world...Written in beautiful and easy-to-understand language, The Kids Are in Charge is a very well-researched book. It is a must-read if you are interested in Latin America or child rights. -- Washington Book ReviewFor those social movement scholars who have yet to grapple with age as a form of power relations, Jessica Taft’s book The Kids Are in Charge provides a terrific introduction. * Mobilization *
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New York University Press The Kids Are in Charge
Book SynopsisDetails the possibilities and challenges of intergenerational activism and social movements Since 1976, the Peruvian movement of working children has fought to redefine age-based roles in society, including defending children's right to work. In The Kids Are in Charge, Jessica K. Taft gives us an inside look at this groundbreaking, intergenerational social movement, showing that kids canand should berespected as equal partners in economic, social, and political life. Through participant observation, Taft explores how the movement has redefined relationships between kids and adults; how they put these ideas into practice within their organizations; and how they advocate for them in larger society. Ultimately, she encourages us to question the widely accepted beliefs that children should not work or participate in politics. The Kids Are in Charge is a provocative invitation to re-imagine childhood, power, and politics.Trade ReviewThe Kids Are in Charge is a powerful, provocative, and necessary book. Centering the voices and strategies of the Peruvian movement of working children, Jessica Taft urges us to question assumptions about children—who they are, and who they can be—to imagine childhood otherwise. In engaging and accessible prose, Taft's analysis of children as critical thinkers and political agents should be required reading not only for scholars of Latin America, but teachers, parents, policy makers and everyone concerned with the complexity of childhood. -- María Elena García, author of Making Indigenous Citizens: Identities, Development, and Multicultural Activism in PeruWhile children are gaining global renown anew as activists for the environment and for peace, for gun control, and for human rights, Taft reveals the potent challenge children pose for movements against social inequality, arguing that until we address the hierarchy of age, all other inequalities will fail to crumble. Incisive, empathic, surprising, The Kids Are in Charge is a powerful account of children refusing to settle for a hierarchical, paternalistic status quo, a story of children modeling a new way of being together even as they push for political and institutional change. -- Allison J. Pugh, author of The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of InsecurityThe Kids Are in Charge is an insightful scholarly but accessible work on one of the most amazing social and human rights movements of modern history. Jessica K. Taft must be commended for providing new and powerful perspectives to understand this unique phenomenon. She convincingly busts myths about children and builds the case of treating children as equal citizens of this world...Written in beautiful and easy-to-understand language, The Kids Are in Charge is a very well-researched book. It is a must-read if you are interested in Latin America or child rights. -- Washington Book ReviewFor those social movement scholars who have yet to grapple with age as a form of power relations, Jessica Taft’s book The Kids Are in Charge provides a terrific introduction. * Mobilization *
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New York University Press Queer Nuns
Book SynopsisAn engaging look into the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, queer activists devoted to social justice The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence make up an unlikely order of nuns. Self-described as twenty-first century queer nuns, the Sisters began in 1979 when three bored gay men donned retired Roman Catholic nuns' habits and went for a stroll through San Francisco's gay Castro district. The stunned and delighted responses they received prompted these already-seasoned activists to consider whether the habits might have some use in social justice work, and within a year they had constituted the new order. Today, with more than 83 houses on four different continents, the Sisters offer health outreach, support, and, at times, protest on behalf of queer communities. In Queer Nuns, Melissa M. Wilcox offers new insights into the role the Sisters play across queer culture and the religious landscape. The Sisters both spoof nuns and argue quite seriously that they are nunsTrade ReviewWilcox (religious studies, Univ. of California, Riverside) has a sterling record of scholarship on queer theory in religion. Here she offers a history and critical assessment of the work of LGBTQ activists who consider themselves nuns … Readers benefit from not only the author’s extensive field work but also her commitment to critical theory and ability to see power dynamics. -- CHOICEWilcox, chair of Religious Studies at UC-Riverside, has written an ambitious analysis of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a worldwide “order” of drag queens that originated in San Francisco in the late 1970s as the gay rights movement was gaining momentum -- The Gay & Lesbian QuarterlyIn this interdisciplinary tour de force, Melissa M. Wilcox draws from history, sociology, queer studies, and religious studies to understand the origins, cultural politics, and religious landscape of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a network of men who describe themselves as “queer nuns” dedicated to “‘the promulgation of universal joy and the expiation of stigmatic guilt’” (their mission, as quoted on p. 15). Since their formation in 1979, the Sisters have been at the forefront of queer activism. Wilcox’s detailed and analytically rich account of the Sisters’ history, activism, and growth draws from an array of archival records and an impressive number of interviews. In addition, Wilcox’s development of the theoretical concept of “serious parody” charts how religious studies and queer studies can intersect in unexpected ways. -- Resources for Gender and Women's StudiesWilcox beautifully demonstrates how serious political and social engagement can emerge from queer religious camp. In short, this book piles fascinating and novel theoretical engagement upon great historical and sociological narrative--it's a must read! -- Anthony M. Petro,author of After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, and American ReligionA serious study of serious parody. Melissa Wilcox shows how the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have combined a certain lightness of being with a definite seriousness of purpose to create performative politics and religious practices that open onto a very different world than the one in which we find ourselves. Wilcox brings a scholarly richness and wonderful intelligence to the Sisters stories, offering a lesson about how to live in times when parody is the best, if not the only, way to communicate with any seriousness. -- Janet Jakobsen,Claire Tow Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College, Columbia UniversityAn important contribution to queering religious studies [...] this book will prove equally useful (in whole or in part) within introductory courses on religious studies (“in America” or “and politics,” for instance) and queer studies as well as upper-level investigations of theory and method for the study of religion. Students will find this text both outrageously entertaining and thought-provoking, and Wilcox is especially adept at coherently synthesizing and making use of concepts from across the academy—like “disidentification” and “homonormativity”—as well as terms and practices from queer life and activism. * Religious Studies Review *Wilcox’s study demonstrates how much scholars of religion have to learn about religion by attending to its parodic representations. This book is therefore essential reading in American religions and in queer studies. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Wilcox’s study is rigorously researched, beautifully crafted and highly readable. It invites us to rethink what it is to queer spirituality, to be religious and do religion in the 21st century.. * Journal of Religion, Media, and Digital Culture *
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New York University Press By Any Media Necessary
Book SynopsisThe participatory politics and civic engagement of youth in the digital ageThere is a widespread perception that the foundations of American democracy are dysfunctional, public trust in core institutions is eroding, and little is likely to emerge from traditional politics that will shift those conditions. Youth are often seen as emblematic of this crisisfrequently represented as uninterested in political life, ill-informed about current-affairs, and unwilling to register and vote. By Any Media Necessary offers a profoundly different picture of contemporary American youth. Young men and women are tapping into the potential of new forms of communication such as social media platforms, spreadable videos and memes, remixing the language of popular culture, and seeking to bring about political changeby any media necessary. In a series of case studies covering a diverse range of organizations, networks, and movements involving young people in the political procesTrade ReviewReaders are given a nuanced picture of the successes and complications of youth activism and participatory politics in the current era. * Choice *By Any Media Necessaryis fascinating continuation of Jenkinss previous work and should be of great use for media studies scholars, as well as anyone interested in better understanding youth perceptions and actions related to the political realm. * Journal of American Culture *In line with civic media scholarship that focuses on the opportunities for emerging technologies and digital cultures to buttress collective action, By Any Media Necessary suggests the important role of new media and technologies in facilitating political engagement and participatory practice. The notions of transmedia activism and mobilization are effectively analyzed to discuss how youth tap into the potentials of media platforms and networked communications—from social media, spreadable videos, and Internet memes—and use their digital skills in a collaborative and participatory manner in seeking to bring about political change. -- International Journal of CommunicationFantasy is not an escape from our world; its an invitation to go deeper into it. The most relevant book of our era, it will undoubtedly inspire you and those you love to join the millions of people who are transforming our world: by any media necessary. -- Andrew Slack,creator/co-founder of the Harry Potter AllianceA far-reaching book that explores the many different digital strategies and platforms young people use to have their voices heard and their political agendas advanced. The case studies at the heart of this book are powerful, telling the story of how young people across demographic categories are using digital media to engage in a new form of politicsParticipatory Politicsthat is destined to significantly shape civic life for years to come. -- Cathy J. Cohen,author of Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American PoliticsA much-needed narration of political agency that tackles its many contradictions head on, without losing sight of nuance. The books case studies, rich in detail, are wonderful invitations to think more and better about the role of empathy, care, ethics, empowerment, and participation in our contemporary political realities. -- Nico Carpentier,Uppsala University, SwedenAn indispensable guide to the changing shape of civic and political agency in a digital age. With richly detailed case studies, Jenkins and his team have captured an origin story: the moment when participatory culture got hooked up with politics and the fundamentals of modern democracies shifted beneath our feet. -- Danielle Allen,co-editor of From Voice to Influence: Understanding Citizenship in the Digital AgeUnderstanding the connections between practices of media consumption andenduringcivic engagement is one of the most exciting challenges that cultural studies currently faces. For over a decade, Henry Jenkins has been exploring this issue, and now he and an excellent team of co-authors offer the most searching examination of this question for a U.S. context that we have. An inspiring and enlivening book, this is a definite must read! -- Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science
£22.79
New York University Press Coming Out of Communism
Book SynopsisHow homophobic backlash unexpectedly strengthened mobilization for LGBT political rights in post-communist Europe While LGBT activism has increased worldwide, there has been strong backlash against LGBT people in Eastern Europe. Although Russia is the most prominent anti-gay regime in the region, LGBT individuals in other post-communist countries also suffer from discriminatory laws and prejudiced social institutions. Combining an historical overview with interviews and case studies in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, Conor O'Dwyer analyzes the development and impact of LGBT movements in post-communist Eastern and Central Europe. O'Dwyer argues that backlash against LGBT individuals has had the paradoxical effect of encouraging stronger and more organized activism, significantly impacting the social movement landscape in the region. As these peripheral Eastern and Central European countries vie for inclusion or at least recognition in the increasingly LGBT-frTrade ReviewReaders will learn a great deal about activist groups in those countries, and will understand the role “Europeanization” had on the LGBT movement after the fall of communism … This book will best serve graduate students, faculty, and practitioners in politics. * Choice *This book is an ambitious, mixed-method examination of LGBT activism in postcommunist East-Central Europe that makes the counterintuitive argument that backlash to international pressures can be constructive to a social movement’s development... Coming Out of Communism is a tour de force in comparative analysis, interrogating civil society—which is notoriously difficult to study—and covering issues often ignored by the field. * Perspectives on Politics *In this masterful and timely study, ODwyer shows us how backlash can paradoxically benefit the domestic organizing capacity of LGBT rights advocates. This is a novel and compelling argument, substantiated by meticulously documented contention around those rights in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe. In crafting this argument, ODwyer demonstrates the great potential that the often-ignored study of LGBT politics offers for understanding a host of theoretical debates pertinent to political scientists. As unfettered populism and nationalism shake the core of liberal democracies, this book is needed more than ever, because it provides a sliver of hope in times of great peril for the most vulnerable among us. -- Phillip M. Ayoub,Author of When States Come Out: Europe's Sexual Minorities and the Politics of VisibilityWhy has LGBT rights activism flourished in some post-communist states and floundered in others following accession to the European Union? How come joining the EU was, in some places, accompanied by increasingly intolerant public attitudes toward sexual minorities, rather than acceptance? In Coming Out of Communism, Conor ODwyer solves these puzzles, highlighting the role of homophobic backlash in provoking stronger organizing for LGBT rights in the region.Anyone interested in LGBT issues, social movements, or the impact of transnational institutions on domestic politics, will undoubtedly enjoy learning from ODwyers keen analysis and intriguing field research in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania. -- Valerie Sperling,Author of Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in RussiaCompelling and illuminating, especially where O’Dwyer’s local informants, observation, and research blends with synthesis from area-specific scholarship. * Slavic Review *
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University of Toronto Press Radical Housewives
Book SynopsisRadical Housewives is a history of the Canada's Housewives Consumers Association. Julie Guard reinterprets the view of postwar Canada as economically prosperous and reveals the left's role in the origins of the food security movement.Trade Review"In her book, Guard tells a fascinating story of this little-known but very influential movement in mid-twentieth-century Canada." -- Joel Trono-Doerksen * Canada’s History *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 2: Housewife-Patriots and Wartime Price Controls Chapter 3: Fighting for the Working Class: The Struggle for Postwar Price Controls Chapter 4: Mothers, Breadwinners, and Citizens Chapter 5: Citizen Consumers or Kitchen Communists? Chapter 6: "Reds," Housewives, and the Cold War Conclusion
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University of Toronto Press Radical Housewives
Book SynopsisRadical Housewives is a history of Canada’s Housewives Consumers Association. This association was a community-based women’s organization with ties to the communist and social democratic left that, from 1937 until the early 1950s, led a broadly based popular movement for state control of prices and made other far-reaching demands on the state. As radical consumer activists, the Housewives engaged in gender-transgressive political activism that challenged the government to protect consumers’ interests rather than just those of business while popularizing socialist solutions to the economic crises of the Great Depression and the immediate postwar years. Julie Guard''s exhaustive research, including archival research and interviews with twelve former Housewives, recovers a history of women’s social justice activism in an era often considered dormant and adds a Canadian dimension to the history of politicized consumerism and of politicized mateTrade Review"In her book, Guard tells a fascinating story of this little-known but very influential movement in mid-twentieth-century Canada." -- Joel Trono-Doerksen * Canada’s History *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 2: Housewife-Patriots and Wartime Price Controls Chapter 3: Fighting for the Working Class: The Struggle for Postwar Price Controls Chapter 4: Mothers, Breadwinners, and Citizens Chapter 5: Citizen Consumers or Kitchen Communists? Chapter 6: "Reds," Housewives, and the Cold War Conclusion
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University of Toronto Press Female Doctors in Canada
Book SynopsisFemale Doctors in Canada is an accessible collection of articles by experienced physicians and researchers exploring how systems, practices, and individuals must change as medicine becomes an increasingly female-dominated profession.Table of ContentsPreface: Why a Book about Female Doctors? Acknowledgments Section One. Introductory Perspectives: Female Doctors in Canada 1. The Feminization of Medicine: Issues and Implications SHELLEY ROSS 2. "Unsex Me Here!" Gender as a Barrier to Female Practice: A Historical Introduction to Women Doctors in Canada Professionalization in Canada – An Annotated Timeline HEATHER STANLEY 3. Cultural Barriers within Medicine SETORME TSIKATA 4. Current State of Women in Medicine: The Statistics DEENA M. HAMZA AND SHELLEY ROSS Section Two. Navigating the Reality of Becoming and Being a Female Physician in a Traditionally Male Profession: Social and Cultural Issues 5. Gendered Experience, Role Models and Mentorship, Leadership, and the Hidden Curriculum CHERI BETHUNE 6. Female International Medical Graduates in Canada INGE SCHABORT Section Three. Career Experience: Examining Cultural Patterns within the Medical Community and Health Care System 7. Career Trajectory of Women in Medicine: Taming the Winds That Blow Us KATHLEEN GARTKE AND JANET DOLLIN 8. Quality of Life/Life-Work Balance SHELLEY ROSS Section Four. Contemporary Perspectives on Women in Medicine 9. Women Physicians as Ethical Decision Makers ERIN FREDERICKS 10. Women Physicians and New Forms of Medicine MONICA OLSEN, MAMTA GAUTAM, AND GILLIAN KERNAGHAN |11. Patients, Women Family Doctors, and Patient-Centred Care PERLE FELDMAN Section Five. Female Doctors in Canada: Futures 12. Female Doctors in Canada: The Way Forward EARLE WAUGH, SHELLEY ROSS, AND SHIRLEY SCHIPPER Contributors
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University of Nebraska Press Standing Up to Colonial Power
Book SynopsisFocuses on the lives, activism, and intellectual contributions of Henry Cloud (1884-1950), a Ho-Chunk, and Elizabeth Bender Cloud (1887-1965), an Ojibwe, both of whom grew up amid settler colonialism that attempted to break their connection to Native land, treaty rights, and tribal identities.Trade Review"Ramirez tells a valuable story of indigenous resistance and a family legacy of activism."—Publishers Weekly"The themes that Ramirez presents in this book are of great relevance today to the ways in which we examine Indigenous resistance in the settler colonial state, making this book extremely useful and accessible to scholars in a variety of fields, from Indigenous studies, to anthropology, geography, and history."—Deondre Smiles, Great Plains Quarterly"These elegant family sources reveal Henry Cloud as a genuinely indigenous person. Ramirez emphasizes, for example, how her grandfather loved to tell Winnebago Trickster (“Wakdjunkaga”) stories. And these stories are as marvelous and complex as this storyteller."—Dennis (Denny) J. Smith, Nebraska History"An important and informative examination of the careers of two brilliant and proficient activists."—Jay Freeman, Booklist"Ramirez pulls from archives and personal letters to give us a full picture of her grandparents' activist work, including the contradictions, at a time when Indian activism was virtually unheard of."—Mark Anthony Rolo, Progressive"Ramirez's work offers both an intimate story of a scholar's family and insights into how Native Americans navigated and shaped twentieth-century settler colonialism as it operated through institutions that allowed some space for Native participation."—Mark Boxell, Kansas History"Ramirez offers priceless insights into the Clouds’ lives as Native intellectuals coming of age in the oppressive early decades of the twentieth century."—K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Native American and Indigenous Studies“Moving. . . . This is the first project authored by a descendant of these leaders and offers a uniquely nuanced understanding of their activism. The book is a beautiful contribution to the literature on the early twentieth-century Native American experience and honors the life and legacy of two extraordinary leaders.”—Amy Lonetree (Ho-Chunk), associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums “Renya Ramirez explores how Ho-Chunk and Ojibwe cultures influenced [her grandparents’] shared visions. . . . [and] discusses the vital work of these two leaders in a deeply personal voice.”—Lisbeth Haas, professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Saints and Citizens: Indigenous Histories of Colonial and Mexican California “Ramirez’s insightful biography of Henry and Elizabeth Cloud is an excellent example of ‘writing from home,’ and shows us the full richness of the Clouds’ lives as well as their important legacies, both personal and political.”—Cathleen Cahill, associate professor of history at Pennsylvania State University and author of Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869–1933Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Henry Cloud’s Childhood and Young Adulthood 2. Society of American Indians and the American Indian Institute 3. Henry Cloud’s Role in the Meriam Report, the Indian Reorganization Act, and the Haskell Institute 4. The Work of Henry and Elizabeth Cloud at Umatilla 5. Elizabeth Bender Cloud’s Intellectual Work and Activism Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Informal Workers and Collective Action
Book SynopsisInformal Workers and Collective Action features nine cases of collective action to improve the status and working conditions of informal workers. Adrienne E. Eaton, Susan J. Schurman, and Martha A. Chen set the stage by defining informal work and describing the types of organizations that represent the interests of informal workers and the lessons that may be learned from the examples presented in the book. Cases from a diverse set of countriesBrazil, Cambodia, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Georgia, Liberia, South Africa, Tunisia, and Uruguayfocus on two broad types of informal workers: waged workers, including port workers, beer promoters, hospitality and retail workers, domestic workers, low-skilled public sector workers, and construction workers; and self-employed workers, including street vendors, waste recyclers, and minibus drivers.These cases demonstrate that workers and labor organizations around the world are rediscovering the lessons of early labor organizers onTrade ReviewInformal Workers and Collective Action: A Global Perspective is innovative in its scope and claims.... This volume shows that workers around the world are finding new and old ways to organize, and I join the editors in hoping that their stories will inspire others to do the same. * Work and Occupation *This book is extremely important and timely, as it demonstrates that it is possible to achieve measurable benefits for vulnerable workers through collective action even in dire circumstances. Authors convincingly argue that workers' organizations need to take advantage of structural resources as well as their associational power by collaborating with other domestic and international unions and/or social movements. * ILR Review *This book added greatly to my understanding of the various forms of informal work and the difficulties that informal workers face in securing recognition and rights.... By the end of the book, it is evident that collective bargaining can involve many categories of both formal and informal workers, government entities, and employer representatives. The way forward may be slow, but these case studies show that progress is possible. * Monthly Labor Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction, Adrienne E. Eaton, Martha A. Chen, and Susan J. SchurmanPart I. Formalizing or Reformalizing Distanced Employment Relationships1. Port Workers in Colombia: Reinstatement as Formal Workers, Daniel Hawkins2. Retail and Hospitality Workers in South Africa: Organized by Trade Union of Formal Workers to Demand Equal Pay and Benefits, Sahra Ryklief3. Haitian Migrant Workers in the Dominican Republic: Organizing at the Intersection of Informality and Illegality, Janice Fine and Allison J. Petrozziello4. Domestic Workers in Uruguay: Collective Bargaining Agreement and Legal Protection, Mary R. Goldsmith5. Beer Promoters in Cambodia: Formal Status and Coverage under the Labor Code, Mary Evans6. Informalized Government Workers in Tunisia: Reinstatement as Formal Workers with Collective Bargaining Rights, Stephen Juan KingPart II. Securing Recognition and Rights for the Self-Employed7. Minibus Drivers in Georgia: Secure Jobs and Worker Rights, Elza Jgerenaia and Gocha Aleksandria8. Waste Pickers in Brazil: Recognition and Annual Bonus, Sonia Maria Dias and Vera Alice Cardoso Silva9. Street Vendors in Liberia: A Written Agreement With Authorities and a Secure Workplace, Milton A. Weeks and Pewee ReedConclusion: Expanding the Boundaries of Labor Organizing and Collective Bargaining,Susan J. Schurman, Adrienne E. Eaton, and Martha A. Chen
£97.20
Cornell University Press Protest Politics in the Marketplace
Book SynopsisProtest Politics in the Marketplace examines how social media has revolutionized the use and effectiveness of consumer activism. In her groundbreaking book, Caroline Heldman emphasizes that consumer activism is a democratizing force that improves political participation, self-governance, and the accountability of corporations and the government. She also investigates the use of these tactics by conservatives.Heldman analyzes the democratic implications of boycotting, socially responsible investing, social media campaigns, and direct consumer actions, highlighting the ways in which such consumer activism serves as a countervailing force against corporate power in politics. In Protest Politics in the Marketplace, she blends democratic theory with data, historical analysis, and coverage of consumer campaigns for civil rights, environmental conservation, animal rights, gender justice, LGBT rights, and other causes. Using an inter-disciplinary approach applicable to politicTrade ReviewHeldman builds on studies by historians and sociologists to look at market activism as a political phenomenon.... A fruitful area for political science research, and her book should be widely read. * Choice *Caroline Heldman's Protest Politics in the Marketplace successfully accomplishes her goal to argue how and why consumer activism in the United States should be considered by academics as empirical indicators of a healthy democracy, rather than the predominant perspective that Americans are becoming less civically and politically engaged. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. A Consumer Revolution? 2. "We Are the 99%" 3. "We Are Not a Mascot" 4. "600,000 Bosses Telling Me What To Do" 5. "Stop Servibng Gay Chickens" 6. "Yes to Jesus Christ, No to JC" 7. Who Rules? Conclusion Notes
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Cornell University Press Shopping for Change
Book SynopsisConsuming with a conscience is one of the fastest growing forms of political participation worldwide. Every day we make decisions about how to spend our money and, for the socially conscious, these decisions matter. Political consumers buy green for the environment or they buy pink to combat breast cancer. They boycott Taco Bell to support migrant workers or Burger King to save the rainforest. But can we overcome the limitations of consumer identity, the conservative pull of consumer choice, co-optation by corporate marketers, and other pitfalls of consumer activism in order to marshal the possibilities of consumer power? Can we, quite literally, shop for change? Shopping for Change brings together the historical and contemporary perspectives of academics and activists to show readers what has been possible for consumer activists in the past and what might be possible for today's consumer activists.Trade Review"Shopping for Change is replete with the documented beliefs that individual and collective political purchasing reduce and redirect the basic reservoir of giant corporate power—the dollars we give them that they use against the people and the planet. Read this book and shop wisely, sometimes shop less, and, increasingly, shop together for your democratic voice.""Hyman and Tohill have produced a valuable collection that belongs on the short shelf of essential histories of North American consumer culture. This book will become a go-to resource for scholars and activists alike." -- Lawrence Glickman, author of Buying Power"This book could not be more timely. Smarter, more active, and more restrained buying is what is called fo. Shopping for Change provides an outstandingly detailed guide for how to proceed." -- Amitai Etzioni, author of The New Normal"Shopping for Change is a compelling call to harness the full potential of the consumer marketplace to create a more equitable, democratic society." -- Lizabeth Cohen, author of A Consumers' Republic
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Cornell University Press I the Citizen
Book SynopsisI, the Citizen is an attempt to understand citizen development and engagement. R. Balasubramaniam takes the reader through interpretations of development initiatives at the grassroots and what good governance means to ordinary people. He unravels the power of citizen engagement through his experiences of leading civil society campaigns against corruption and towards strengthening democratic participation of people. I, the Citizen also deals with the philosophical underpinnings of public policies, drawing from his on-the-ground experience as well as engagement with those in the higher echelons of policymaking and implementation. The last section of the book provides glimpses into milestones of a development movement, which Balu founded and led, milestones that are responsible for a continued faith in citizen engagement despite the hindering forces.Trade Reviewi, the citizen is a rare book linking multiple topics and domains such as leadership, development, corruption, governance, democracy, and citizen engagement.... The way the issues are highlighted through the experiences of the author makes the book reading interesting and hard to put down. The narrative style of the book ensures that the tone of the book is positive and evokes the reader to ponder over possible solutions. * Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword Preface 1. Understanding development 2. Voices from the grassroots level 3. Governance, democracy and citizenship 4. Information indeed is power – people and their right to information 5. Citizen engagement and the ght against corruption 6. Citizen engagement towards making democracy work 7. Perspectives on policy 8. An unending movement Epilogue: Citizen Engagement – Exemplars and Realities Glossary
£17.99
Cornell University Press Nuclear Summer
Book SynopsisWhen thousands of women gathered in 1983 to protest the stockpiling of nuclear weapons at a rural upstate New York military depot, the area was shaken by their actions. What so disturbed residents that they organized counterdemonstrations, wrote hundreds of letters to local newspapers, verbally and physically harassed the protestors, and nearly rioted to stop one of the protest marches? Louise Krasniewicz reconstructs the drama surrounding the Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice in Seneca County, New York, analyzing it as a clash both between and within communities. She shows how debates about gender and authorityincluding questions of morality, patriotism, women's roles, and sexualitycame to overshadow arguments about the risks of living in a nuclear world. Vivid ethnography and vibrant social history, this work will engage readers interested in American culture, women's studies, peace studies, and cultural anthropology.Trade ReviewNuclear Summer cuts through conceptual chain-link fences and applies the rich intersection of feminist and poststructural analyses to unravel complicated tensions that exploded during the summer of 1983 at the Seneca Women's Peace Encampment. Krasniewicz leads the reader through historical contexts of the county, the formation of the encampment, initial perceptions of the peace camp by the local community, and the development of the relationship between camp women and members of the local community. Analysis of conversations, videotapes, brochures, clothing, songs and ritual, protest events, posters, and editorial letters make it clear that the emergent clashes did not necessarily arise from differing opinions over whether the United States should produce, store, and deploy nuclear weapons but instead were linked intimately to Foucauldian-type wars concerning notions of 'real women' and 'good Americans.' -- Lynn Wilson * Man *
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Cornell University Press Activists in Transition
Book SynopsisActivists in Transition examines the relationship between social movements and democratization in Indonesia. Collectively, progressive social movements have played a critical role over in ensuring that different groups of citizens can engage directly inand benefit fromthe political process in a way that was not possible under authoritarianism. However, their individual roles have been different, with some playing a decisive role in the destabilization of the regime and others serving as bell-weathers of the advancement, or otherwise, of Indonesia''s democracy in the decades since. Equally important, democratization has affected social movements differently depending on the form taken by each movement during the New Order period. The book assesses the contribution that nine progressive social movements have made to the democratization of Indonesia since the late 1980s, and how, in turn, each of those movements has been influenced by democratization.Trade ReviewActivists in Transition is an excellent and empirically rich volume that fills in the existing gap in the scholarship of social movement and democratic transition, which is of interest to Indonesian studies, Asian studies, and comparative politics scholars alike. * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations and Terms Introduction: Social Movements and Democratization in Indonesia, by Thushara Dibley and Michele Ford 1. Student Movements and Indonesia's Democratic Transition, by Yatun Sastramidjaja 2. Democratization and Indonesia's Anticorruption Movement, by Elisabeth Kramer 3. Indonesia's Labor Movement and Democratization, by Teri L. Caraway and Michele Ford 4. Movements for Land Rights in Democratic Indonesia, by Iqra Anugrah 5. Urban Poor Activism and Political Agency in Post–New Order Jakarta, by Ian Wilson 6. Reformasi and the Decline of Liberal Islam, by Greg Fealy 7. The Women's Movement and Indonesia's Transition to Democracy, by Rachel Rinaldo 8. The Unfulfilled Promise of Democracy: Lesbian and Gay Activism in Indonesia, by Hendri Wijaya and Sharyn Graham Davies 9. Democratization and Disability Activism in Indonesia, by Thushara Dibley Conclusion: Social Movements, Patronage Democracy, and Populist Backlash in Indonesia, by Edward Aspinall List of Contributors Index
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Cornell University Press Activists in Transition
Book SynopsisActivists in Transition examines the relationship between social movements and democratization in Indonesia. Collectively, progressive social movements have played a critical role over in ensuring that different groups of citizens can engage directly inand benefit fromthe political process in a way that was not possible under authoritarianism. However, their individual roles have been different, with some playing a decisive role in the destabilization of the regime and others serving as bell-weathers of the advancement, or otherwise, of Indonesia''s democracy in the decades since. Equally important, democratization has affected social movements differently depending on the form taken by each movement during the New Order period. The book assesses the contribution that nine progressive social movements have made to the democratization of Indonesia since the late 1980s, and how, in turn, each of those movements has been influenced by democratization.Trade ReviewActivists in Transition is an excellent and empirically rich volume that fills in the existing gap in the scholarship of social movement and democratic transition, which is of interest to Indonesian studies, Asian studies, and comparative politics scholars alike. * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations and Terms Introduction: Social Movements and Democratization in Indonesia, by Thushara Dibley and Michele Ford 1. Student Movements and Indonesia's Democratic Transition, by Yatun Sastramidjaja 2. Democratization and Indonesia's Anticorruption Movement, by Elisabeth Kramer 3. Indonesia's Labor Movement and Democratization, by Teri L. Caraway and Michele Ford 4. Movements for Land Rights in Democratic Indonesia, by Iqra Anugrah 5. Urban Poor Activism and Political Agency in Post–New Order Jakarta, by Ian Wilson 6. Reformasi and the Decline of Liberal Islam, by Greg Fealy 7. The Women's Movement and Indonesia's Transition to Democracy, by Rachel Rinaldo 8. The Unfulfilled Promise of Democracy: Lesbian and Gay Activism in Indonesia, by Hendri Wijaya and Sharyn Graham Davies 9. Democratization and Disability Activism in Indonesia, by Thushara Dibley Conclusion: Social Movements, Patronage Democracy, and Populist Backlash in Indonesia, by Edward Aspinall List of Contributors Index
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Cornell University Press Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer
Book SynopsisIn the personal and frank Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer, Rodney A. Smolla offers an insider''s view on the violent confrontations in Charlottesville during the summer of hate. Blending memoir, courtroom drama, and a consideration of the unhealed wound of racism in our society, he shines a light on the conflict between the value of free speech and the protection of civil rights.Smolla has spent his career in the thick of these tempestuous and fraught issues, from acting as lead counsel in a famous Supreme Court decision challenging Virginia''s law against burning crosses, to serving as co-counsel in a libel suit brought by a fraternity against Rolling Stone magazine for publishing an article alleging that one of the fraternity''s initiation rituals included gang rape. Smolla has also been active as a university leader, serving as dean of three law schools and president of one and railing against hate speech and sexual assault on US campuses.Well befoTrade ReviewIt's hard to imagine a mayor or police chief who—in planning for the arrival of controversial figures—wouldn't profit from Smolla's account of the cascade of missteps in Charlottesville. * Kirkus Reviews *Smolla's book is a remarkable examination of the intersection of history, law, speech, violence, and hate. It may be the definitive work on what can be wrought by hate speech and, in the face of that, why free speech remains important. * Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly *Table of Contents1. A Call from the Task Force 2. The Charleston Massacre 3. Becoming Richard Spencer 4. Reverend Edwards 5. The Charlottesville Monuments 6. Blut und Boden 7. Mr. Jefferson's University 8. Kessler v. Bellamy 9. The Monuments Debate 10. Competing Conceptions of Free Speech 11. May Days 12. Cue the Klan—Stage Right 13. The Rise of the Marketplace 14. Cue the Counterprotesters—Stage Left 15. A Rolling Stone Gathers No Facts 16. The Marketplace Doubles Down 17. The Day of the Clan 18. When Speech Advances Civil Rights 19. Duke and the Desciples 20. The Russian Connection 21. A Call to Conscience 22. Preparations 23. The Day to the Cross 24. The Idea of the University 25. Heckler's Veto 26. Channels of Communication 27. Rednecks and Saint Paul 28. The Lawn and the Rotunda 29. Bloodshed 30. Aftermath
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Cornell University Press The Roots of Resilience
Book SynopsisIn The Roots of Resilience Meredith L. Weiss examines governance from the ground up in the world's two most enduring electoral authoritarian or "hybrid" regimesSingapore and Malaysiawhere politically liberal and authoritarian features blend, evading substantive democracy. Weiss explains that while key attributes of these regimes differ, affecting the scope, character, and balance among national parties and policies, local machines, and personalized linkages, the similarity in the overall patterns in these countries confirms the salience of those dimensions. The Roots of Resilience shows that high levels of authoritarian acculturation, amplifying the political payoffs of what parties and politicians actually provide their constituents, explain why electoral turnover alone is insufficient for real regime change in either state.Trade ReviewRoots of Resilience makes an important contribution to the literature on Malaysia and Singapore by providing historical depth and empirical richness to the argument that dominant parties reshape the political sphere to maximize their advantages. It will serve as a useful reference point in navigating the increasing uncertainty that the dominant parties of both countries face in the years ahead. * Pacific Affairs *A timely analysis of regime durability in Singapore and Malaysia. Weiss has made a significant contribution to the literature on comparative politics, specifically in the subfield of transitology, or the study of why democratic transitions occur. Through her focus on the minutiae of grassroots politics, she has shown just how sophisticated electoral authoritarians have to be to remain in power, and how entrenched their dominance is. * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of Contents1. Parties, Machines, and Personalities 2. Regimes and Resilience Reconceptualized 3. The Convoluted Political Path to Malaysia 4. Edging toward Sovereign Singapore 5. Competitive Authoritarianism in Malaysia: Consolidated but Challenged 6. Hegemonic Electoral Authoritarianism in Singapore: Firmly Entrenched 7. Drivers of Stasis and Change: Will the Pattern Hold?
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Cornell University Press Freeze
Book SynopsisIn Freeze!, Henry Richard Maar III chronicles the rise of the transformative and transnational Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. Amid an escalating Cold War that pitted the nuclear arsenal of the United States against that of the Soviet Union, the grassroots peace movement emerged sweeping the nation and uniting people around the world.The solution for the arms race that the Campaign proposed: a bilateral freeze on the building, testing, and deployment of nuclear weapons on the part of two superpowers of the US and the USSR. That simple but powerful proposition stirred popular sentiment and provoked protest in the streets and on screen from New York City to London to Berlin. Movie stars and scholars, bishops and reverends, governors and congress members, and, ultimately, US President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev took a stand for or against the Freeze proposal. With the Reagan administration so openly discussing the prospect of winnaTrade ReviewMaar's Freeze! skillfully shows the interplay between activists, public opinion, and political leaders, and should put to rest the outdated notion that social movements cannot and do not influence foreign policy. The book is also well-written and eminently useful for college courses on nuclear weapons, foreign policy, and the 1980s. * Peace & Change *Maar's important examination of the freeze campaign highlights the challenges of that effort but also the ingredients that brought success to the movement: a clear mobilizing narrative, the development of creative grassroots strategies, and an appeal to moral values in partnership with the religious community. * Arms Control Association *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Grassroots Diplomacy 1. The Lost Years: The Peace Movement, from Vietnam to Nuclear Freeze 2. Igniting a Movement: The Reagan Administration's War on Peace 3. From the Streets to the Pulpit: The Catholic Challenge to the Arms Race 4. With Friends Like These: Congress and the Nuclear Freeze Debate 5. Envisioning the Day After: Fear of the Bomb in 1980s Political and Popular Culture 6. The Perils of Failed Diplomacy: 1983 and the Year of Living Dangerously 7. Seizing the Peace: The Nuclear Freeze Movement and the 1984 Election Epilogue: Bedtime for the Bomb
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Stanford University Press Popular Democracy: The Paradox of Participation
Book SynopsisLocal participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United States, three-fourths of all cities have developed opportunities for citizen involvement in strategic planning. The World Bank has invested $85 billion over the last decade to support community participation worldwide. But even as these opportunities have become more popular, many contend that they have also become less connected to actual centers of power and the jurisdictions where issues relevant to communities are decided. With this book, Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Ernesto Ganuza consider the opportunities and challenges of democratic participation. Examining how one mechanism of participation has traveled the world—with its inception in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and spread to Europe and North America—they show how participatory instruments have become more focused on the formation of public opinion and are far less attentive to, or able to influence, actual reform. Though the current impact and benefit of participatory forms of government is far more ambiguous than its advocates would suggest, Popular Democracy concludes with suggestions of how participation could better achieve its political ideals.Trade Review"Projects for citizen participation are reshaping discussions about democracy and actual government practices around the world. Yet the role of experts and bureaucracies has grown at the same time. Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Ernesto Ganuza make sense of this seeming paradox and identify the possibilities of a rapidly changing political era."—Craig Calhoun, Centennial Professor, London School of Economics"Popular Democracy is a masterpiece! If you're tearing your hair out over the crisis of democracy, this book is for you. Let Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Ernesto Ganuza—with the precision of scientists and artistry of storytellers—lead you deeply into the emergent, fascinating world of face-to-face democracy, particularly 'participatory budgeting.' The nuances and paradoxes of Popular Democracy intrigue rather than baffle, so this extraordinary book can encourage us to stop the wringing of hands and instead dig them deeply into the good dirt of democracy."—Frances Moore Lappé, author of Diet for a Small Planet and Democracy's Edge"Popular Democracy makes an eminent and critical contribution to the scholarship about one of the most interesting political experiments of our time, extending ethnographic work to acquire historical depth and global scope. Theoretically deft and methodologically innovative, it lifts the discussion to a new level and is a good read to boot."—Andreas Glaeser, University of Chicago"This book is an excellent example of careful research that engagingly narrates the blow-by-blow of everyday politics while analyzing larger theoretical issues....Baiocchi and Ganuza have the ability to express complex ideas about participation in an elegant and intelligible manner. For that reason, I would even recommend this book to advanced undergraduate students who are interested in recent political changes. These strengths and the importance of the analysis make the book a significant contribution to political sociology."—Andrew Buck, American Journal of SociologyTable of Contents1. The Participation Age 2. The New Spirit of Government 3. The Global Spread of Participation 4. The Rhetoric of Emancipation: Córdoba, Spain 5. A Government Closer to the People: Chicago, Illinois 6. The Utopian Undercurrent of Participation
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Stanford University Press Defending the Public's Enemy: The Life and Legacy
Book SynopsisWhat led a former United States Attorney General to become one of the world's most notorious defenders of the despised? Defending the Public's Enemy examines Clark's enigmatic life and career in a quest to answer this perplexing question. The culmination of ten years of research and interviews, Lonnie T. Brown, Jr. explores how Clark evolved from our government's chief lawyer to a strident advocate for some of America's most vilified enemies. Clark's early career was enmeshed with seminally important people and events of the 1960s: Martin Luther King, Jr., Watts Riots, Selma-to-Montgomery March, Black Panthers, Vietnam. As a government insider, he worked to secure the civil rights of black Americans, resisting persistent, racist calls for more law and order. However, upon entering the private sector, Clark seemingly changed, morphing into the government's adversary by aligning with a mystifying array of demonized clients—among them, alleged terrorists, reputed Nazi war criminals, and brutal dictators, including Saddam Hussein. Is Clark a man of character and integrity, committed to ensuring his government's adherence to the ideals of justice and fairness, or is he a professional antagonist, anti-American and reflexively contrarian to the core? The provocative life chronicled in Defending the Public's Enemy is emblematic of the contradictions at the heart of American political history, and society's ambivalent relationship with dissenters and outliers, as well as those who defend them.Trade Review"Lonnie T. Brown Jr.'s biography of the remarkable Ramsey Clark is careful, thorough, and insightful. It is an important contribution to the history of American lawyering." -- Randall Kennedy * Harvard Law School *"In this captivating biography, Lonnie T. Brown offers an intimate window into Ramsey Clark's controversial career as it intersected and shaped twentieth-century political and legal history, and challenges how we understand the role of lawyers in a democratic society." -- Anthony Romero, Executive Director * ACLU *"Ramsey Clark is at once an important participant in the major events of the past 60-plus years of American and world history, particularly relating to civil and human rights, and a lawyer whose professional career is among the most interesting and impactful. Brown's book is both a fascinating account of the man and lawyer and a captivating lens through which to see a connection among important events in contemporary history." -- Bruce Green * Fordham University School of Law *"In this biography of Clark, author Lonnie T. Brown skillfully leads us through his subject's life and career, giving us clues as to why Clark turned into such an unyielding critic of his country." -- Rebecca Roiphe * JOTWELL *"Ramsey Clark is an unsung hero of the civil rights movement. Through extensive interviews with Clark, Lonnie T. Brown, Jr. deepens the portrait of one of the most complex figures in twentieth-century American history. Spanning Clark's career as a lawyer and public servant from the 1960's civil rights and anti-war protests through the trial of Saddam Hussein, this fascinating book reveals a 'sophisticated yet shadowy Forrest Gump' indeed." -- W. Bradley Wendel * Cornell Law School *"Evolving from one of the most accomplished public lawyers of his time to perhaps the most vilified, Ramsey Clark has been an important and controversial participant in nearly every important American public debate, from civil rights to the post-9/11 world. In this sympathetic, personal account, Lonnie T. Brown, Jr. strikes a balance between Clark's defenders and his critics. Clark will continue to inspire passionate disagreement, but this is the best account we have of the career of this important public figure." -- Kenneth W. Mack * author of Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsPrologue chapter abstractThe Prologue recounts the origins of my interest in Ramsey Clark, including two inauspicious early encounters during which I had virtually no idea who he was. As the years passed, I became ever-more intrigued with Clark, spawned largely by a case that I covered in my civil -procedure class in which he served as lead counsel—Saltany v. Reagan, as in President Ronald Reagan, one of the defendants that Clark sued on behalf of Libyan residents. When he volunteered to represent former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, I had to figure out why a former U.S. attorney general would do such a thing, among many other things. I wrote a law review article examining the Hussein representation, and with a nudge from a former colleague and friend of Clark's, I shared it with my subject and soon thereafter embarked on my quest to tell his life story. Introduction: A Puzzling Journey chapter abstractThis Introduction sets the stage for the book, posing the conundrum that is Ramsey Clark, an enormously important figure in American history who is largely unknown by most. It provides an overview in terms of his immeasurable contributions to society through his service within the Department of Justice during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, highlighting some of the most significant events in which he played pivotal roles, especially in the area of civil rights. The Introduction also notes the seemingly dramatic change that he underwent in his post-DOJ life, taking on causes and clients that almost inevitably appeared to be adverse to the country that he had so loyally served for eight years. Many have sought to understand and explain what happened to Ramsey Clark, if anything, and here I introduce some of the theories proffered by friends, colleagues, and other observers. 1Baby Bubba chapter abstractWith the disclaimer that the book will not go into excruciating, chronological detail concerning Ramsey Clark's family tree and personal history, this chapter proceeds to cover the beginning of Clark's journey, broadly depicting his childhood and early adult years, including service in World War II, college, marriage, law school, children, and law practice in Dallas, Texas. The chapter also examines some defining episodes during those years that foreshadow the direction that his life would take, such as the death of his 6-year-old brother, his father Tom's oversight of the World War II-related internment of Japanese Americans, and Ramsey's perplexing acquisition of a large bust of Adolf Hitler while serving as a Marine courier. 2The Preacher chapter abstractThis chapter chronicles Ramsey Clark's transition from private to public life. With the election of President John F. Kennedy, Clark was moved to seek an appointment within the Justice Department. Some strong family-related connections, including with Vice President Lyndon Johnson, helped him secure an appointment as assistant attorney general for the Lands Division. While his noteworthy Lands Division work is touched upon in the chapter, the concentration is on Clark's dedicated involvement in emerging civil rights issues. He acted as a DOJ surrogate throughout the South, ensuring the enforcement of the Supreme Court's desegregation mandate. Clark became known within the DOJ for his willingness to speak his mind, garnering him the nickname "the Preacher." The chapter concludes with the devastating impact upon Clark of the tragic assassination of President Kennedy and his subsequent increased role within the new Johnson administration. 3"Language of the Unheard" chapter abstractThis chapter examines the significant role that Ramsey Clark played in pivotal aspects of the civil rights movement, beginning with his crafting of a memo to Bobby Kennedy that provided much of the initial inspiration and framework for what would become the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He wrote this on the heels of his involvement with the historic admission of James Meredith as the first African American at the University of Mississippi. In addition, the chapter canvasses Clark's important work on behalf of black citizens as the deputy attorney general, including his oversight of the third Selma to Montgomery civil rights march and his extensive involvement in the passage of the Voting Rights Act. 4Taking Poor Black People Seriously chapter abstractThis chapter delves deeply into Clark's transformative role as chair of the President's task force that investigated the Watts riots, which were triggered by a combative police arrest in the black community. As the chapter's title conveys, Clark took the rioters seriously, and he compassionately sought to understand what had led to the dramatic civil unrest. By listening, Clark came to profoundly comprehend the frustrations and hopelessness felt by African Americans, and he communicated this in a hard-hitting report to the president—so unashamedly truthful, in fact, that it was not released to the public. The chapter reveals that this was a defining experience for Clark, one that likely colored virtually everything Clark did thereafter. In addition, the chapter recounts his elevation to attorney general, a role in which he would controversially continue to deal with urban rioting in the same empathetic way. 5"I Am a Man" chapter abstractThis chapter examines the profound influence that Martin Luther King, Jr. had on Ramsey Clark. The focus is on the labor strike by black sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, inspired by the slavelike treatment they received as employees of the city. Dr. King had already announced his Poor People's Campaign, which was designed to shed a revealing light on the intense poverty problem in America. The Memphis strike—with its simple, but unforgettable slogan "I Am a Man"—embodied the poverty issue. It captured Dr. King's attention. Unfortunately, his involvement provided the setting for King's assassination on April 4, 1968. Attorney General Clark was the first federal official on the scene and led the international manhunt to capture King's assassin. The chapter demonstrates how Dr. King's example helped shape Clark's views on society. In many respects, he would subsequently carry the mantle that Dr. King hoisted throughout his life. 6"Hell No, We Won't Go!" chapter abstractThis chapter focuses on the widespread protests that emerged in opposition to America's involvement in the Vietnam War, particularly in the form of draft-eligible men refusing induction into the military, either on their own accord or at the urging of others. President Johnson was obsessed with the war, believing that defeat would forever tarnish his noteworthy civil rights legacy. As such, he took great offense to those who actively opposed the war effort, and he placed intense pressure on Clark to put an end to the draft-dodging and related demonstrations through criminal prosecution. The chapter examines and seeks to explain two instances of Clark's actions in response that were perplexingly inconsistent: his refusal to indict Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael and, in contrast, his decision to prosecute antiwar proponent and noted pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock and the other members of the so-called Boston Five. 7Battling on the Inside chapter abstractThis chapter reveals the palpable tension between President Johnson and his independent attorney general. Clark was so committed to his values that he was willing to defy the president if he thought that was the right thing to do. The chapter examines significant examples of this dynamic, including Clark's stalling of a controversial judicial appointment that upset the close relationship between Johnson and Georgia Senator Richard Russell. The chapter also recounts Clark's defiance of President Johnson and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley in connection with the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Clark was intent on protecting the anti–Vietnam War protesters, much to Johnson and Daley's dismay. The chapter recounts the intense police–protester clash that ensued and the resulting criminal prosecution of the so-called Chicago Seven. It also notes Clark's principle-based filing of various lawsuits, notwithstanding Johnson's directive that no new, long-term projects be undertaken after Nixon's election. 8Taking the Battle to the Outside chapter abstractThis chapter picks up with Clark's departure from the Justice Department and chronicles his developing penchant for undertaking seemingly anti-American causes. Most notably, the chapter details Clark's opposition to the Vietnam War, which, besides promoting complete amnesty for draft evaders, also included a controversial visit to North Vietnam to test firsthand the accuracy of his government's positive portrayal of its war effort. Clark determined the "truth" to be otherwise, and he publicly revealed what he witnessed and demanded an end to the "unjust" war. Related to this, the chapter likewise examines Clark's representation of various antiwar advocates and his growing stature as a leader in the international antiwar movement. Furthermore, the chapter recounts Clark's unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaigns, plus his representations of Frank Serpico and one of the Attica Brothers. 9Black Is Beautiful chapter abstractThis chapter observes that Ramsey Clark was involved in a number of highly notable matters following his departure from the DOJ and tells the story of one of his most intriguing cases, the defense of Ruchell Magee. The prosecution of Magee, who is African American, emanated from an armed courtroom seizure of hostages and resulting shooting deaths of various individuals, including a trial judge. The controversial racial component of the case, combined with the unjust nature of the justice system that shackled Magee throughout virtually his entire life, are used to highlight Clark's concern for and appreciation of black people. In a similar vein, the chapter recounts Clark's oversight of the investigation into the police-sanctioned murders of Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, and it elaborates on Clark's unique predisposition to view the black race as beautiful. 10Anti-Semite? chapter abstractThis chapter explores the theory of some Clark critics that he is anti-Semitic. It delves into his controversial representations of reputed Nazi war criminals Karl Linnas and Jack Reimer, as well as his longstanding association with and representation of the PLO, including his defense of the organization in the infamous lawsuit stemming from the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, a disabled American Jew, by Palestinian terrorists. Apart from Clark's participation in these matters, he has also taken some controversial supportive positions that seem to go beyond what one would expect in a pure attorney–client relationship. The chapter analyzes and questions the claims of anti-Semitism after discussing details of some of Clark's contentious associations. In this regard, it casts doubt on the pejorative label by examining parallels between similar affiliations, such as his representation of the Branch Davidians and his involvement with other demonized individuals and groups. 11Saddam Hussein chapter abstractThis chapter centers around what has to be Clark's most controversial representation—that of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. The chapter examines why Clark would choose to defend Hussein and tests the widely held view that this particular client choice confirms that Clark is simply unpatriotic and anti-American. As the chapter reveals, Clark has represented a number of international clients and causes that could be characterized as siding with America's enemy, including inserting himself into the 1980 Iran hostage crisis and suing President Ronald Reagan, among others, on behalf of a number of Libyan residents in the aftermath of the U.S.-led bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi. Most notably, Clark installed himself as counsel for notorious Rwandan Pastor Elizaphan Ntakirutimana and Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic. The chapter suggests that Clark's motivations for representing these individuals are far more complex than most believe. 12Cold Pizza chapter abstractThis chapter delves more deeply into Ramsey Clark's personal qualities, especially his unassuming nature and utter lack of concern with the accumulation of wealth. It begins by exploring the extraordinarily close relationship between Clark and his wife Georgia, and it emphasizes the enormous contribution that she made in her own right, as well as to her husband's ambitions. She was a remarkable woman, and without her, much of what Clark accomplished would not have been possible. The chapter also recounts a very revealing episode regarding Clark's law school classmate and dear friend George Anastaplo. Most importantly, the chapter examines Clark's relationship with his daughter Ronda and the pivotal effect that she undeniably has had upon her father. His empathy for and love of people who are less fortunate most assuredly was inspired, at least in part, by lessons that Clark learned from his daughter. 13Like Father, Like Son chapter abstractThis chapter compares and contrasts Ramsey Clark with his equally famous father Tom Clark. Tom and Ramsey are the only father and son to have held the post of U.S. attorney general, which turns out to be but one of a number of telling similarities between the two men. Tom, who would culminate his career in public service as a U.S. Supreme Court justice, was viewed as politically conservative. As such, most would presume that he could not have been more different than his ultra-liberal son. The chapter reveals the fallacy of this assumption by chronicling examples where their social views coincided—most significantly, in the area of civil rights. To be sure, Tom and Ramsey were different in many respects, and the chapter addresses these distinctions. It also explores the nature of their somewhat complex father–son relationship, as well as the internal dynamics of their respective families. Conclusion: "Carry On . . . and Kick Up Some Dust" chapter abstractThe Conclusion reflects on the entirety of Ramsey Clark's life journey, focusing on his 90th birthday celebration and the screening of a documentary about him by filmmaker Joseph Stillman titled "Citizen Clark . . . A Life of Principle." The chapter emphasizes the enormous complexity and contradictory nature of Clark's life, which have led some to view him as heroic and unfailingly goodhearted and others to conclude that he is unpatriotic and evil. Most, however, are completely unfamiliar with him, oblivious to the critical role he played in countless historical episodes. He is a true enigma—a nonviolent, fearless, self-deprecating defender of those whom society has been conditioned to recognize as enemies. There is simply no way to reconcile all of the incongruities in his life journey, and this is what makes Clark so fascinating and why it is essential for the world to know his story.
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Stanford University Press Maximum Feasible Participation: American
Book SynopsisThis book traces American writers' contributions and responses to the War on Poverty. Its title comes from the 1964 Opportunity Act, which established a network of federally funded Community Action Agencies that encouraged "maximum feasible participation" by the poor. With this phrase, the Johnson administration provided its imprimatur for an emerging model of professionalism that sought to eradicate boundaries between professionals and their clients—a model that appealed to writers, especially African Americans and Chicanos/as associated with the cultural nationalisms gaining traction in the inner cities. These writers privileged artistic process over product, rejecting conventions that separated writers from their audiences. "Participatory professionalism," however, drew on a social scientific conception of poverty that proved to be the paradigm's undoing: the culture of poverty thesis popularized by Oscar Lewis, Michael Harrington, and Daniel Moynihan. For writers and policy experts associated with the War on Poverty, this thesis described the cultural gap that they hoped to close. Instead, it eventually led to the dismantling of the welfare state. Ranging from the 1950s to the present, the book explores how writers like Jack Kerouac, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Alice Walker, Philip Roth, and others exposed the War on Poverty's contradictions during its heyday and kept its legacy alive in the decades that followed.Trade Review"The works analyzed here—many of which I have taught often and know well—come alive in new ways as Stephen Schryer puts them in conversation with each other and with their historical era. Here's one reliable sign of success: I am sure that I will read these texts differently from now on." -- Carlo Rotella * Boston College *"Stephen Schryer introduces new research into the literature of poverty, demonstrating how a generation of writers engaged with the ideals and problems of welfare-state liberalism. Well-written and wide-ranging, his book shows that confronting poverty alters literary discourse, just as it fractures assumptions based on cultural identity and political sensibility." -- Gavin Jones * Stanford University *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Maximum Feasible Participation chapter abstractFocusing on the African American poet and playwright Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), the Introduction explores links between 1950s and 1960s process literature and the Community Action Program. Baraka's Black Arts Repertory Theatre and School (BARTS) was funded through the War on Poverty, and his version of process art fulfilled the participatory requirements of the Community Action Program. Both Baraka and many welfare activists allied with the Community Action Program also drew on a binary conception of class culture popularized by the post–World War II counterculture and liberal social science. This binary conception produced two figures that alternately incited and frustrated literary and social work efforts to bridge the gap between the middle class and the poor: the juvenile delinquent and the welfare mother. 1Jack Kerouac's Delinquent Art chapter abstractThis chapter puts the Beat writer Jack Kerouac in conversation with 1950s sociologists and psychologists interested in juvenile delinquency. These social scientists used the delinquent to develop ideas that would culminate in the class culture paradigm of the 1960s. Kerouac's fiction prefigures this paradigm, drawing on the work of Oswald Spengler to distinguish between lower-class minority and middle-class white cultures in the United States. In autobiographical novels like Maggie Cassidy, On the Road, and Dr. Sax, Kerouac imagines the delinquent as a self-divided figure, alienated from the traditional lower class and unable to adapt to the new demands of the rising professional class. His version of process art replicates this division, offering its readers a failed synthesis of middlebrow and avant-garde literature. 2Black Arts and the Great Society chapter abstractThis chapter discusses two Black Arts writers who benefited from War on Poverty patronage: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Gwendolyn Brooks. In The System of Dante's Hell and In the Mecca, the two writers developed distinct versions of participatory art. Like much of Baraka's Beat-period work, The System of Dante's Hell thematizes his dissatisfaction with the white counterculture and desire to create art that could connect him with black urban audiences. However, the novel draws on the counterculture's essentialist conception of lower-class culture in ways that would continue to shape Baraka's cultural nationalist output of the late 1960s. In contrast, Brooks's In the Mecca rejects the immersive drama that defines Baraka's Black Arts. Inspired by her Community Action Program–sponsored work with Chicago's Blackstone Rangers, the collection insists that minority poets use the resources of poetic form to achieve a calibrated distance from their lower-class subjects. 3Legal Services and the Cockroach Revolution chapter abstractThis chapter focuses on the Chicano writer and lawyer Oscar Zeta Acosta, whose novels, Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo and Revolt of the Cockroach People, chart his transformation into a radical lawyer for Los Angeles's Brown Power Movement. Acosta began his career with Legal Services, a network of War on Poverty–funded Legal Aid offices. When he turned to movement activism, he radicalized Legal Services' demand that lawyers use their expertise to challenge laws that work against the interest of their lower-class clients. This demand became central to Acosta's version of process art. At the same time, Acosta's work replicates gender biases that ran throughout the War on Poverty. His political turn entailed his rejection of welfare mothers as clients in favor of militant young men—a turn that paralleled the War on Poverty's focus on male delinquents. 4Writing Urban Crisis after Moynihan chapter abstractThis chapter explores literary responses to the late 1960s crisis in participatory professionalism, provoked by the period's race riots and by conservatives' successful appropriation of liberal poverty discourse. The chapter focuses on two texts that address the Community Action Program: Joyce Carol Oates's them and Tom Wolfe's Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers. While these texts voice opposing political positions, both distrust white liberal efforts to speak for the ghetto, drawing on traditions of urban writing (naturalism and literary journalism) that resist the process imperative to break down barriers between author, audience, and lower-class subject matter. At the same time, both writers complicate their literary objectivity by incorporating aspects of the very participatory professionalism they seek to delimit. 5Civil Rights and the Southern Folk Aesthetic chapter abstractThis chapter explores the persistence of community action as an ideal in post-1960s black feminist fiction, focusing on Alice Walker's Meridian and Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters. Both writers began their careers as social workers associated with War on Poverty programs; both were also influenced by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's version of community action, implemented during the 1964 Freedom Summer. In their novels, Walker and Bambara explore the legacy of the civil rights movement, focusing on intraracial class divisions that community action was supposed to suture. In both novels, these divisions turn out to be ineradicable, and their persistence marks the Southern folk aesthetic—the influential version of process art that Walker, Bambara, and other black feminist writers created in the 1970s. 6Who Belongs in the University? chapter abstractThis chapter focuses on Philip Roth's late 1990s novel, The Human Stain, arguing that the novel draws an analogy between the university and the Democratic Party. In early War on Poverty–era novels like Portnoy's Complaint, Roth developed an antiprocess conception of art and welfare politics, one that conceived of works of art and public institutions as products that require audiences to appreciate them on their own terms. In The Human Stain, Roth extends this conception to the postmodern academy, using it to criticize multicultural education and affirmative action. Linking the university and New Deal liberal coalition, Roth insists that both are under assault by cultural and ideological outsiders. This analogy leads Roth to embrace a strategic conservatism, one that echoes the politics of Bill Clinton, whose impeachment trial recurs throughout The Human Stain. Conclusion: Working-Class Community Action chapter abstractThe Conclusion sums up ongoing anxieties about lower-class cultural difference in the wake of Donald Trump's electoral victory, exploring the notion that the rural white working class inhabits an alternative culture hostile toward expert knowledge. The Conclusion develops this notion through a reading of Carolyn Chute's The School on Heart's Content Road and Treat Us like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves. In these fictions, Chute imagines an educational co-op that creates working-class experts, bypassing the division between professionals and lower-class clients that marked the Community Action Program. Chute embodies this notion of working-class expertise in the novels' form; she presents them as alternative histories, accessible to nonexpert reading practices. However, the novels replicate the War on Poverty–era notion of class culture, which cannot be eradicated without exterminating the tribal consciousness of working-class Maine.
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Stanford University Press Globalizing Morocco: Transnational Activism and
Book SynopsisThe end of World War II heralded a new global order. Decolonization swept the world and the United Nations, founded in 1945, came to embody the hopes of the world's colonized people as an instrument of freedom. North Africa became a particularly contested region and events there reverberated around the world. In Morocco, the emerging nationalist movement developed social networks that spanned three continents and engaged supporters from CIA agents, British journalists, and Asian diplomats to a Coca-Cola manager and a former First Lady. Globalizing Morocco traces how these networks helped the nationalists achieve independence—and then enabled the establishment of an authoritarian monarchy that persists today. David Stenner tells the story of the Moroccan activists who managed to sway world opinion against the French and Spanish colonial authorities to gain independence, and in so doing illustrates how they contributed to the formation of international relations during the early Cold War. Looking at post-1945 world politics from the Moroccan vantage point, we can see fissures in the global order that allowed the peoples of Africa and Asia to influence a hierarchical system whose main purpose had been to keep them at the bottom. In the process, these anticolonial networks created an influential new model for transnational activism that remains relevant still to contemporary struggles. Trade Review"David Stenner's sophisticated study of the Moroccan nationalists' social-political international network innovates the conversation on modern Middle Eastern and decolonization history. This rich story reflects the all-out pragmatism of the Moroccans, and culminates in an ironic twist when the nationalists' network is turned into a domestic liability. A great, well-argued read." -- Cyrus Schayegh, The Graduate Institute * Geneva *"David Stenner's book is the best transnational history of Moroccan independence I've ever read, including work in French and Arabic. Globalizing Morocco is as deep as it is easy to read. A masterful success." -- Maâti Monjib, University of Mohammed V * Rabat *"David Stenner locates Moroccan nationalists at the vanguard of what would become a worldwide movement of anti-colonial revolutionaries—a full decade before the conference at Bandung, Moroccan activists navigated the global circuits of the Cold War world in pursuit of sovereignty.Globalizing Morocco is an important contribution to the new Cold War history and the history of decolonization." -- Paul Thomas Chamberlin * Columbia University *"Stenner's book is a great contribution to the research fields of anticolonialism and the history of decolonization. It confirms the multi-layered and multiplayer nature of anticolonial politics and the respective transition processes leading to the postcolonial period. It also provides interesting examples of how to use network approaches and Digital Humanities tools to deal with that complexity." -- Ana Moledo * H-Soz-Kult *"Stenner masterfully situates the [Moroccan] independence movement within the context of the rise of NATO, the UN, and the Arab League....this study offers an integrated, balanced account of the Moroccan nationalist movement situated within international events of the global 1940s and 1950s. Highly recommended." -- J. Tallon * CHOICE *"David Stenner's masterful new history of the Moroccan independence movement....delivers on virtually all fronts.The writing is lucid, argumentative, and focused on a few key arguments. It includes several never before seen photographs of the era. The source base reflects research in a truly impressive number of archives." -- Ann Marie Wainscott * H-Diplo *"Stenner's enticing book is about the globalizing strategy of the anticolonial struggle and it succeeds in masterfully showing the international networks of supporters that closely cooperated with Istiqlal and the nationalist movement.[An] important contribution to the history of nationalism in Morocco, especially to US-Moroccan history." -- Blanca Camps-Febrer * E-International Relations *"The originality of the study, the rigorous methodology developed by social network analysis, and the extensive use of sources in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic, most of them traced to an impressive number of archives in Morocco, France, Spain, England, and United States, make Stenner's book a remarkable work....[Globalizing Morocco] makes an important contribution to the existing literature on Moroccan nationalism and the history of decolonization, introducing new and stimulating perspectives and results." -- Barbara De Poli * Bustan *"By introducing a novel way of thinking about the Moroccan anticolonial struggle that draws upon transnational network analysis, Stenner recovers an overlooked history....Stenner has written an excellent book that deserves serious consideration from all historians interested in anticolonial movements." -- Etty Terem * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Networked Anticolonial Activism chapter abstractThis chapter introduces the reader to the history of colonial Morocco and the nationalist movement before engaging with the scholarship on decolonization and the early Cold War. It specifically explores the following issues: How did the Moroccan nationalists successfully internationalize their call for an independent constitutional monarchy? How did they communicate their message abroad? What role did their transnational activism have on the process of state-formation following the end of the French and Spanish protectorates in 1956? In order to answer these questions, the chapter engages with social network analysis to demonstrate how Sultan Mohamed ben Youssef managed to weaken the political opposition after independence by co-opting the central players behind their international anticolonial campaign. The monarch thereby obtained the pivotal social and human capital necessary to secure the hegemony of the Alaoui royal family. 1Tangier: Gateway to the World chapter abstractThis chapter describes how the Moroccans made Tangier the central hub of their transnational advocacy campaign. In April 1951, the country's four anticolonial parties signed the National Pact to coordinate their activities on the exterior. Benefiting from the international city's unique legal status, they facilitated the flow of information and resources between the two protectorates and their propaganda offices abroad. Several US businessmen and the American Federation of Labor supported their activities against the explicit will of the US State Department. Moreover, the Moroccans recruited a couple of English journalists visiting the northern port city and thereby managed to bring their message to the Anglophone world. 2Cairo: The Search for Arab Solidarity chapter abstractThis chapter deals with the first Moroccan delegates to the Arab League in 1946, who eventually cofounded the Office of the Arab Maghrib together with activists from Algeria and Tunisia. Despite several setbacks, the North African nationalists achieved a series of impressive publicity successes that attracted the attention of the Islamic world at a time when most Arabs remained predominantly concerned with the issue of Palestine. But their campaign came to an abrupt halt when the Free Officers overthrew the Egyptian monarchy in July 1952 and established a revolutionary republic. Despite its public embrace of Pan-Arabism, the new regime undermined the Moroccan nationalists' activities in the Middle East by destabilizing their local network of supporters. The Arab League thus failed to provide substantive diplomatic support to the Moroccan campaign for independence. 3Paris: Conquering the Metropole chapter abstractThis chapter describes the nationalist propaganda activities in Paris following World War II. Organized around the Bureau du Parti de l'Istiqlal and supported by the large local community of Moroccan workers and students, the nationalists convinced many French elites of their demands. A heterogeneous alliance of both leftist politicians and Catholic intellectuals helped them bring the case of Morocco to public attention in the wake of a massacre committed by French troops in Casablanca in December 1952. The nationalists also lobbied the UN General Assembly, which met in Paris in 1948 and 1951, but without great success. Nonetheless, by the fall of 1955, a majority of delegates in the National Assembly opposed a continuation of the protectorate regime. 4New York: Capital of Diplomacy chapter abstractThis chapter examines how the nationalist movement sent its first delegate on a temporary assignment to the United Nations in 1947, where he created a large network of contacts in the corridors of the UN building in Lake Placid and drew considerable attention to the Moroccan case. By 1952, the anticolonial activists finally opened their permanent bureau, the Moroccan Office of Information and Documentation, in New York. Supported by their British mentor Rom Landau, they lobbied the American public and politicians as well as the diplomatic delegations to the UN through personal contacts and an elaborate media campaign. Deeply worried by these achievements, France conducted counterpropaganda to undermine their efforts. Although neither the Truman nor the Eisenhower administration openly embraced their demands, the Moroccans' activism in the United States put great international pressure on the government in Paris. 5Rabat: The Homecoming chapter abstractThis chapter deals with the process of state-formation after independence in 1956, which culminated in a power struggle between the royal palace and the Istiqlal Party. The now-king Mohamed V managed to co-opt the central nodes of the nationalist movement's transnational network of supporters by recruiting many of its members to work for the royal palace or sending them abroad as ambassadors. He thereby increased the social capital at his disposal while simultaneously weakening the Istiqlal. Even the nationalists' foreign associates now publicly embraced the monarch and thus legitimized his status. His successful state visit to the United States in November 1957 symbolized the triumph of the king, who had replaced the nationalist movement as the sole representative of the Moroccan nation. Conclusion: Decolonization Reconsidered chapter abstractThe conclusion discusses the larger insights gained from studying the history of the Moroccan liberation struggle. It reevaluates the process of decolonization by looking at the continuities between the colonial era and the postcolonial state. Moreover, it emphasizes the important roles played by nonstate actors in the making of the post-1945 international order despite the constraints imposed on them by the binary logic of the Cold War. Finally, it demonstrates that the pro-Western foreign policy pursued by the Moroccans after 1956 resulted from the nationalist movement's global campaign for independence. The legacy of the propaganda offices in New York, Cairo, and Paris thus continues to shape the North African kingdom today.
£86.40
Stanford University Press Paradoxes of the Popular: Crowd Politics in
Book SynopsisFew places are as politically precarious as Bangladesh, even fewer as crowded. Its 57,000 or so square miles are some of the world's most inhabited. Often described as a definitive case of the bankruptcy of postcolonial governance, it is also one of the poorest among the most densely populated nations. In spite of an overriding anxiety of exhaustion, there are a few important caveats to the familiar feelings of despair—a growing economy, and an uneven, yet robust, nationalist sentiment—which, together, generate revealing paradoxes. In this book, Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury offers insight into what she calls "the paradoxes of the popular," or the constitutive contradictions of popular politics. The focus here is on mass protests, long considered the primary medium of meaningful change in this part of the world. Chowdhury writes provocatively about political life in Bangladesh in a rich ethnography that studies some of the most consequential protests of the last decade, spanning both rural and urban Bangladesh. By making the crowd its starting point and analytical locus, this book tacks between multiple sites of public political gatherings and pays attention to the ephemeral and often accidental configurations of the crowd. Ultimately, Chowdhury makes an original case for the crowd as a defining feature and a foundational force of democratic practices in South Asia and beyond.Trade Review"Richly ethnographic, this study of an environmental movement in Bangladesh takes a fresh and contemporary look at the role of the crowd in democratic politics, distinguishing it from the citizen and the people. Focusing on such everyday phenomena as money, ID cards, accidents, and social media, Nusrat Chowdhury provides unusual glimpses into emotions such as hope, despair, opportunism, and fear that animate crowds assembled for political action." -- Partha Chatterjee * Columbia University *"Theorists of democracy and public life have long been unsettled by the unstable energy of popular assemblies—their capacity both to destroy and create, to betray authority and imagine it anew. Chowdhury's bold, compelling analysis, in contrast, puts the paradoxical power of the street at the center of Bangladeshi history: the spontaneous crowd, she shows, is the very embodiment of popular sovereignty, conjuring the volatile fervor and the 'imperceptible politics' that fuel mass democracy, not only in South Asia, but way beyond." -- Jean Comaroff * Harvard University *"Chowdhury's fascinating ethnography of popular protest in Bangladesh will resonate far beyond her home discipline of anthropology. Paradoxes of the Popular makes an essential contribution to the study of crowd politics in the international contexts of modern mass democracy." -- Jason Frank, Robert J. Katz Chair of Government * Cornell University *"[Paradoxes of the Popular] introduces readers to a novel theoretical terrain, and notions such as the 'imperceptible politics' of mass protests and the act of 'seeing like a crowd' force a reappraisal of anthropological approaches to 'public' life and space. In an era of rising populism, Chowdhury's ethnography has much to offer scholars interested in mass democracy and its inherent paradoxes in South Asia and beyond. Highly recommended." -- E. R. Swenson * CHOICE *"[A] especially rich ethnography of the political....Paradoxes of the Popular shows how mass feelings (from fear and despair to joy and possibility) become political, and how the political (from notions of democracy to demagoguery) is conceptualized in the everyday. The book will be of special interest to scholars and graduate students interested in contemporary Bangladesh, South Asian democracies, and political anthropology more generally." -- Rashmi Sadana * Political and Legal Aanthropology Review *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThis chapter introduces the idea of "paradox" to make sense of the contingencies that make up Bangladesh's political modernity as well as the constitutive paradoxes of popular sovereignty. I introduce the Bangla term janata as a vernacular iteration of the concept of the crowd of social and political theory. Drawing on literary representations and scholarly work, the chapter shows why the crowd is the ethnographic object and analytical locus of the book. It sets the theoretical and conceptual stage for locating in the crowd the energy, agency, and indeterminacy of mass politics. 1Picture-Thinking chapter abstractIn chapter 1, I analyze a set of public texts in circulation during a state of emergency—letters published in newspapers, a national identification card, a controversial photograph. Doing so has two ends: First, the chapter expands on the impasse that South Asian democracies often experience when confronting the relationship between sovereignty and citizenship. In this logic, a repressive and undemocratic governmental apparatus is blamed for the underdeveloped political rationality of its citizens. For the same reason, sovereignty as domination is justified as a way to protect the masses from their own nature. Second, the chapter expounds on the presumed distinctions between a reading public versus unruly crowds. The letters written by Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Prize–winning "guru of micro credit," remind us how the distinction between the stranger/citizen and an embodied crowd was mobilized at this time so as to usher in a novel era in politics. 2Seeing Like a Crowd chapter abstractAgainst the backdrop of the transparency fetish of the emergency, Phulbari's protest culture presents an alternative politics of seeing—what I describe as "seeing like a crowd." By identifying the significance of money in aesthetic productions and political acts, I show how the preoccupation with money differed from the nationwide drive against corruption. The chapter focuses first on a painting by a Phulbari artist. I argue that its message contrasts with the viciously apolitical desire for efficiency and good governance in a globally recognized language of neoliberal transparency. I then present the recollections of a socially marginalized woman who became the face of grassroots mobilization. I situate the looting and burning of money by the crowds within the larger context of the national political crisis. These popular strategies were a form of a transparency-making enterprise, if only with different political effect than the anticorruption agenda of the state. 3Accidental Politics chapter abstractChapter 3 is an ethnographic account of the accidental, the contingent, and the imperceptible nature of crowd politics. To understand the political possibilities of accidents and to assess their ethnographic significance, in this chapter I approach accidents both literally and conceptually. Can accidents be political? What kinds of politics take shape in the wake of an accident? And what are the ethico-political possibilities that are made available, or are foreclosed, within various discourses of the accidental? Anthropological perspectives on accidents, I argue in this chapter, rescue the concept from its usual modernist and technicist moorings while opening up spaces of radical contingencies that are enframed in local logics of culture and politics. 4Crowds and Collaborators chapter abstractCollaboration, in the sense of working for the enemy and benefiting from it, has given rise to a particular kind of crowd politics. From the vantage point of most protesters, a collaborator (dalal) was a figure that straddled the boundaries of the community and whatever stood beyond it. A dalal was by definition a local, though his ties to the foreign were exposed through suspicion, gossip, jokes, and assaults. Chapter 4 examines this culture of accusation of collaboration in order to illuminate the entangled effects of aggressive resource extraction, collective sovereignty, and popular and state-initiated attempts at settling the score with the nation's past. Following Walter Benjamin's writing on the "intriguer" and scholarly interest in the "neighbor," I submit that the dalal is a third type that disturbs the duality of friend and enemy. This ambivalence produces a culture of doubt and suspicion that demands certainty, often through violence. 5The Body of the Crowd chapter abstractChapter 5 is located in post-emergency Bangladesh. Its primary sites are spaces of politics and activism that are both emergent and historically poignant. I explore a particular fascination with the body and its relationship to crowd politics in the context of protests against the International Crimes Tribunal. The chapter comments on the proliferation of technologies that has impacted social and political communication. Increased surveillance in public spaces indicates more rigorous efforts to control spaces and bodies, illustrated by two events I analyze: an exposé of public sexual harassment and a viral video of a public lynching. On the one hand, I argue, secular and religious crowds, in their desires to be seen and heard, often end up mirroring each other. On the other hand, individual social media users often act collectively, performing the excess and volatility associated with crowds. Conclusion chapter abstractIn August 2017, the Supreme Court's Appellate Division released the text of a verdict that scrapped the sixteenth constitutional amendment. Passed in 2014, the amendment gave Parliament the power to remove Supreme Court judges for misconduct or incapacity. After it went public, Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha faced the wrath of politicians and party loyalists. "No nation, no country is made of or by one person," Sinha wrote in a judgment partly aimed at salvaging the collectivity that played a formative role in achieving national independence. This single line was excerpted and disparate meanings were tagged onto it in order to cast Sinha as disloyal. The fact that his relatively straightforward commitment to a normative assumption of liberal democracy was enough to cost him his job reveals a heightened role of paranoia in Bangladeshi politics. Indeed, it has raised anew the paradoxes of popular sovereignty and political representation in Bangladesh.
£86.40
Stanford University Press Globalizing Morocco: Transnational Activism and
Book SynopsisThe end of World War II heralded a new global order. Decolonization swept the world and the United Nations, founded in 1945, came to embody the hopes of the world's colonized people as an instrument of freedom. North Africa became a particularly contested region and events there reverberated around the world. In Morocco, the emerging nationalist movement developed social networks that spanned three continents and engaged supporters from CIA agents, British journalists, and Asian diplomats to a Coca-Cola manager and a former First Lady. Globalizing Morocco traces how these networks helped the nationalists achieve independence—and then enabled the establishment of an authoritarian monarchy that persists today. David Stenner tells the story of the Moroccan activists who managed to sway world opinion against the French and Spanish colonial authorities to gain independence, and in so doing illustrates how they contributed to the formation of international relations during the early Cold War. Looking at post-1945 world politics from the Moroccan vantage point, we can see fissures in the global order that allowed the peoples of Africa and Asia to influence a hierarchical system whose main purpose had been to keep them at the bottom. In the process, these anticolonial networks created an influential new model for transnational activism that remains relevant still to contemporary struggles. Trade Review"David Stenner's sophisticated study of the Moroccan nationalists' social-political international network innovates the conversation on modern Middle Eastern and decolonization history. This rich story reflects the all-out pragmatism of the Moroccans, and culminates in an ironic twist when the nationalists' network is turned into a domestic liability. A great, well-argued read." -- Cyrus Schayegh, The Graduate Institute * Geneva *"David Stenner's book is the best transnational history of Moroccan independence I've ever read, including work in French and Arabic. Globalizing Morocco is as deep as it is easy to read. A masterful success." -- Maâti Monjib, University of Mohammed V * Rabat *"David Stenner locates Moroccan nationalists at the vanguard of what would become a worldwide movement of anti-colonial revolutionaries—a full decade before the conference at Bandung, Moroccan activists navigated the global circuits of the Cold War world in pursuit of sovereignty.Globalizing Morocco is an important contribution to the new Cold War history and the history of decolonization." -- Paul Thomas Chamberlin * Columbia University *"Stenner's book is a great contribution to the research fields of anticolonialism and the history of decolonization. It confirms the multi-layered and multiplayer nature of anticolonial politics and the respective transition processes leading to the postcolonial period. It also provides interesting examples of how to use network approaches and Digital Humanities tools to deal with that complexity." -- Ana Moledo * H-Soz-Kult *"Stenner masterfully situates the [Moroccan] independence movement within the context of the rise of NATO, the UN, and the Arab League....this study offers an integrated, balanced account of the Moroccan nationalist movement situated within international events of the global 1940s and 1950s. Highly recommended." -- J. Tallon * CHOICE *"David Stenner's masterful new history of the Moroccan independence movement....delivers on virtually all fronts.The writing is lucid, argumentative, and focused on a few key arguments. It includes several never before seen photographs of the era. The source base reflects research in a truly impressive number of archives." -- Ann Marie Wainscott * H-Diplo *"Stenner's enticing book is about the globalizing strategy of the anticolonial struggle and it succeeds in masterfully showing the international networks of supporters that closely cooperated with Istiqlal and the nationalist movement.[An] important contribution to the history of nationalism in Morocco, especially to US-Moroccan history." -- Blanca Camps-Febrer * E-International Relations *"The originality of the study, the rigorous methodology developed by social network analysis, and the extensive use of sources in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic, most of them traced to an impressive number of archives in Morocco, France, Spain, England, and United States, make Stenner's book a remarkable work....[Globalizing Morocco] makes an important contribution to the existing literature on Moroccan nationalism and the history of decolonization, introducing new and stimulating perspectives and results." -- Barbara De Poli * Bustan *"By introducing a novel way of thinking about the Moroccan anticolonial struggle that draws upon transnational network analysis, Stenner recovers an overlooked history....Stenner has written an excellent book that deserves serious consideration from all historians interested in anticolonial movements." -- Etty Terem * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Networked Anticolonial Activism chapter abstractThis chapter introduces the reader to the history of colonial Morocco and the nationalist movement before engaging with the scholarship on decolonization and the early Cold War. It specifically explores the following issues: How did the Moroccan nationalists successfully internationalize their call for an independent constitutional monarchy? How did they communicate their message abroad? What role did their transnational activism have on the process of state-formation following the end of the French and Spanish protectorates in 1956? In order to answer these questions, the chapter engages with social network analysis to demonstrate how Sultan Mohamed ben Youssef managed to weaken the political opposition after independence by co-opting the central players behind their international anticolonial campaign. The monarch thereby obtained the pivotal social and human capital necessary to secure the hegemony of the Alaoui royal family. 1Tangier: Gateway to the World chapter abstractThis chapter describes how the Moroccans made Tangier the central hub of their transnational advocacy campaign. In April 1951, the country's four anticolonial parties signed the National Pact to coordinate their activities on the exterior. Benefiting from the international city's unique legal status, they facilitated the flow of information and resources between the two protectorates and their propaganda offices abroad. Several US businessmen and the American Federation of Labor supported their activities against the explicit will of the US State Department. Moreover, the Moroccans recruited a couple of English journalists visiting the northern port city and thereby managed to bring their message to the Anglophone world. 2Cairo: The Search for Arab Solidarity chapter abstractThis chapter deals with the first Moroccan delegates to the Arab League in 1946, who eventually cofounded the Office of the Arab Maghrib together with activists from Algeria and Tunisia. Despite several setbacks, the North African nationalists achieved a series of impressive publicity successes that attracted the attention of the Islamic world at a time when most Arabs remained predominantly concerned with the issue of Palestine. But their campaign came to an abrupt halt when the Free Officers overthrew the Egyptian monarchy in July 1952 and established a revolutionary republic. Despite its public embrace of Pan-Arabism, the new regime undermined the Moroccan nationalists' activities in the Middle East by destabilizing their local network of supporters. The Arab League thus failed to provide substantive diplomatic support to the Moroccan campaign for independence. 3Paris: Conquering the Metropole chapter abstractThis chapter describes the nationalist propaganda activities in Paris following World War II. Organized around the Bureau du Parti de l'Istiqlal and supported by the large local community of Moroccan workers and students, the nationalists convinced many French elites of their demands. A heterogeneous alliance of both leftist politicians and Catholic intellectuals helped them bring the case of Morocco to public attention in the wake of a massacre committed by French troops in Casablanca in December 1952. The nationalists also lobbied the UN General Assembly, which met in Paris in 1948 and 1951, but without great success. Nonetheless, by the fall of 1955, a majority of delegates in the National Assembly opposed a continuation of the protectorate regime. 4New York: Capital of Diplomacy chapter abstractThis chapter examines how the nationalist movement sent its first delegate on a temporary assignment to the United Nations in 1947, where he created a large network of contacts in the corridors of the UN building in Lake Placid and drew considerable attention to the Moroccan case. By 1952, the anticolonial activists finally opened their permanent bureau, the Moroccan Office of Information and Documentation, in New York. Supported by their British mentor Rom Landau, they lobbied the American public and politicians as well as the diplomatic delegations to the UN through personal contacts and an elaborate media campaign. Deeply worried by these achievements, France conducted counterpropaganda to undermine their efforts. Although neither the Truman nor the Eisenhower administration openly embraced their demands, the Moroccans' activism in the United States put great international pressure on the government in Paris. 5Rabat: The Homecoming chapter abstractThis chapter deals with the process of state-formation after independence in 1956, which culminated in a power struggle between the royal palace and the Istiqlal Party. The now-king Mohamed V managed to co-opt the central nodes of the nationalist movement's transnational network of supporters by recruiting many of its members to work for the royal palace or sending them abroad as ambassadors. He thereby increased the social capital at his disposal while simultaneously weakening the Istiqlal. Even the nationalists' foreign associates now publicly embraced the monarch and thus legitimized his status. His successful state visit to the United States in November 1957 symbolized the triumph of the king, who had replaced the nationalist movement as the sole representative of the Moroccan nation. Conclusion: Decolonization Reconsidered chapter abstractThe conclusion discusses the larger insights gained from studying the history of the Moroccan liberation struggle. It reevaluates the process of decolonization by looking at the continuities between the colonial era and the postcolonial state. Moreover, it emphasizes the important roles played by nonstate actors in the making of the post-1945 international order despite the constraints imposed on them by the binary logic of the Cold War. Finally, it demonstrates that the pro-Western foreign policy pursued by the Moroccans after 1956 resulted from the nationalist movement's global campaign for independence. The legacy of the propaganda offices in New York, Cairo, and Paris thus continues to shape the North African kingdom today.
£23.39
Stanford University Press Paradoxes of the Popular: Crowd Politics in
Book SynopsisFew places are as politically precarious as Bangladesh, even fewer as crowded. Its 57,000 or so square miles are some of the world's most inhabited. Often described as a definitive case of the bankruptcy of postcolonial governance, it is also one of the poorest among the most densely populated nations. In spite of an overriding anxiety of exhaustion, there are a few important caveats to the familiar feelings of despair—a growing economy, and an uneven, yet robust, nationalist sentiment—which, together, generate revealing paradoxes. In this book, Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury offers insight into what she calls "the paradoxes of the popular," or the constitutive contradictions of popular politics. The focus here is on mass protests, long considered the primary medium of meaningful change in this part of the world. Chowdhury writes provocatively about political life in Bangladesh in a rich ethnography that studies some of the most consequential protests of the last decade, spanning both rural and urban Bangladesh. By making the crowd its starting point and analytical locus, this book tacks between multiple sites of public political gatherings and pays attention to the ephemeral and often accidental configurations of the crowd. Ultimately, Chowdhury makes an original case for the crowd as a defining feature and a foundational force of democratic practices in South Asia and beyond.Trade Review"Richly ethnographic, this study of an environmental movement in Bangladesh takes a fresh and contemporary look at the role of the crowd in democratic politics, distinguishing it from the citizen and the people. Focusing on such everyday phenomena as money, ID cards, accidents, and social media, Nusrat Chowdhury provides unusual glimpses into emotions such as hope, despair, opportunism, and fear that animate crowds assembled for political action." -- Partha Chatterjee * Columbia University *"Theorists of democracy and public life have long been unsettled by the unstable energy of popular assemblies—their capacity both to destroy and create, to betray authority and imagine it anew. Chowdhury's bold, compelling analysis, in contrast, puts the paradoxical power of the street at the center of Bangladeshi history: the spontaneous crowd, she shows, is the very embodiment of popular sovereignty, conjuring the volatile fervor and the 'imperceptible politics' that fuel mass democracy, not only in South Asia, but way beyond." -- Jean Comaroff * Harvard University *"Chowdhury's fascinating ethnography of popular protest in Bangladesh will resonate far beyond her home discipline of anthropology. Paradoxes of the Popular makes an essential contribution to the study of crowd politics in the international contexts of modern mass democracy." -- Jason Frank, Robert J. Katz Chair of Government * Cornell University *"[Paradoxes of the Popular] introduces readers to a novel theoretical terrain, and notions such as the 'imperceptible politics' of mass protests and the act of 'seeing like a crowd' force a reappraisal of anthropological approaches to 'public' life and space. In an era of rising populism, Chowdhury's ethnography has much to offer scholars interested in mass democracy and its inherent paradoxes in South Asia and beyond. Highly recommended." -- E. R. Swenson * CHOICE *"[A] especially rich ethnography of the political....Paradoxes of the Popular shows how mass feelings (from fear and despair to joy and possibility) become political, and how the political (from notions of democracy to demagoguery) is conceptualized in the everyday. The book will be of special interest to scholars and graduate students interested in contemporary Bangladesh, South Asian democracies, and political anthropology more generally." -- Rashmi Sadana * Political and Legal Aanthropology Review *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThis chapter introduces the idea of "paradox" to make sense of the contingencies that make up Bangladesh's political modernity as well as the constitutive paradoxes of popular sovereignty. I introduce the Bangla term janata as a vernacular iteration of the concept of the crowd of social and political theory. Drawing on literary representations and scholarly work, the chapter shows why the crowd is the ethnographic object and analytical locus of the book. It sets the theoretical and conceptual stage for locating in the crowd the energy, agency, and indeterminacy of mass politics. 1Picture-Thinking chapter abstractIn chapter 1, I analyze a set of public texts in circulation during a state of emergency—letters published in newspapers, a national identification card, a controversial photograph. Doing so has two ends: First, the chapter expands on the impasse that South Asian democracies often experience when confronting the relationship between sovereignty and citizenship. In this logic, a repressive and undemocratic governmental apparatus is blamed for the underdeveloped political rationality of its citizens. For the same reason, sovereignty as domination is justified as a way to protect the masses from their own nature. Second, the chapter expounds on the presumed distinctions between a reading public versus unruly crowds. The letters written by Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Prize–winning "guru of micro credit," remind us how the distinction between the stranger/citizen and an embodied crowd was mobilized at this time so as to usher in a novel era in politics. 2Seeing Like a Crowd chapter abstractAgainst the backdrop of the transparency fetish of the emergency, Phulbari's protest culture presents an alternative politics of seeing—what I describe as "seeing like a crowd." By identifying the significance of money in aesthetic productions and political acts, I show how the preoccupation with money differed from the nationwide drive against corruption. The chapter focuses first on a painting by a Phulbari artist. I argue that its message contrasts with the viciously apolitical desire for efficiency and good governance in a globally recognized language of neoliberal transparency. I then present the recollections of a socially marginalized woman who became the face of grassroots mobilization. I situate the looting and burning of money by the crowds within the larger context of the national political crisis. These popular strategies were a form of a transparency-making enterprise, if only with different political effect than the anticorruption agenda of the state. 3Accidental Politics chapter abstractChapter 3 is an ethnographic account of the accidental, the contingent, and the imperceptible nature of crowd politics. To understand the political possibilities of accidents and to assess their ethnographic significance, in this chapter I approach accidents both literally and conceptually. Can accidents be political? What kinds of politics take shape in the wake of an accident? And what are the ethico-political possibilities that are made available, or are foreclosed, within various discourses of the accidental? Anthropological perspectives on accidents, I argue in this chapter, rescue the concept from its usual modernist and technicist moorings while opening up spaces of radical contingencies that are enframed in local logics of culture and politics. 4Crowds and Collaborators chapter abstractCollaboration, in the sense of working for the enemy and benefiting from it, has given rise to a particular kind of crowd politics. From the vantage point of most protesters, a collaborator (dalal) was a figure that straddled the boundaries of the community and whatever stood beyond it. A dalal was by definition a local, though his ties to the foreign were exposed through suspicion, gossip, jokes, and assaults. Chapter 4 examines this culture of accusation of collaboration in order to illuminate the entangled effects of aggressive resource extraction, collective sovereignty, and popular and state-initiated attempts at settling the score with the nation's past. Following Walter Benjamin's writing on the "intriguer" and scholarly interest in the "neighbor," I submit that the dalal is a third type that disturbs the duality of friend and enemy. This ambivalence produces a culture of doubt and suspicion that demands certainty, often through violence. 5The Body of the Crowd chapter abstractChapter 5 is located in post-emergency Bangladesh. Its primary sites are spaces of politics and activism that are both emergent and historically poignant. I explore a particular fascination with the body and its relationship to crowd politics in the context of protests against the International Crimes Tribunal. The chapter comments on the proliferation of technologies that has impacted social and political communication. Increased surveillance in public spaces indicates more rigorous efforts to control spaces and bodies, illustrated by two events I analyze: an exposé of public sexual harassment and a viral video of a public lynching. On the one hand, I argue, secular and religious crowds, in their desires to be seen and heard, often end up mirroring each other. On the other hand, individual social media users often act collectively, performing the excess and volatility associated with crowds. Conclusion chapter abstractIn August 2017, the Supreme Court's Appellate Division released the text of a verdict that scrapped the sixteenth constitutional amendment. Passed in 2014, the amendment gave Parliament the power to remove Supreme Court judges for misconduct or incapacity. After it went public, Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha faced the wrath of politicians and party loyalists. "No nation, no country is made of or by one person," Sinha wrote in a judgment partly aimed at salvaging the collectivity that played a formative role in achieving national independence. This single line was excerpted and disparate meanings were tagged onto it in order to cast Sinha as disloyal. The fact that his relatively straightforward commitment to a normative assumption of liberal democracy was enough to cost him his job reveals a heightened role of paranoia in Bangladeshi politics. Indeed, it has raised anew the paradoxes of popular sovereignty and political representation in Bangladesh.
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