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Pluto Press Contesting Transformation Popular Resistance in
Book SynopsisA sober and critical reflection of the wave of social movement struggles which have taken place in post-Apartheid South Africa.Trade Review'This must-read collection unromantically, sympathetically, and critically analyses the contested terrain of popular resistance in post-apartheid South Africa' -- Aziz Choudry, Assistant Professor, Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, co-editor of Organize! Building From the Local for Global Justice and Learning from the Ground Up: Global Perspectives on Social Movements and Knowledge Production'In this well-edited volume an impressive range of authors carefully analyse, sector by sector, the reality of failed liberation that has marked post-apartheid South Africa' -- John Saul, Professor Emeritus of Politics, York University (Toronto)Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Transforming Scholarship: Soberly Reflecting on the Politics of Resistance - Marcelle C. Dawson and Luke Sinwell 2. The Crisis of the Left in Contemporary South Africa - Dale T. McKinley 3. Voice, Political Mobilisation and Repression under Jacob Zuma - Jane Duncan 4. Barricades, Ballots and Experimentation: Making Sense of the 2011 Local Government Elections with a Social Movement Lens - Peter Alexander 5. Insurgent Citizenship, Class Formation and the Dual Nature of a Community Protest: A Case Study of ‘Kungcatsha’ - Malose Langa and Karl von Holdt 6. Unfolding Contradictions in the ‘Zuma Movement’: The Alliance in the Public Sector Strikes of 2007 and 2010 - Claire Ceruti 7. Labour Strikes and Community Protests: Is There a Basis for Unity in Post-Apartheid South Africa? - Trevor Ngwane 8. Agents of Change? Reflecting on the Impact of Social Movements in Post-Apartheid South Africa - Fiona Anciano 9. Resisting Privatisation: Exploring Contradictory Consciousness and Activism in the Anti-Privatisation Forum - Carin Runciman 10. The Challenge of Ecological Transformation in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Re-emergence of an Environmental Justice Movement - Jacklyn Cock 11. ‘Tacticians in the Struggle for Change’? Exploring the Dynamics between Legal Organisations and Social Movements Engaged in Rights-Based Struggles in South Africa - Kate Tissington 12. How the Law Shapes and Structures Post-Apartheid Social Movements: Case Study of the Khulumani Support Group - Tshepo Madlingozi 13. Managing Crisis and Desire in South Africa - Shannon Walsh 14. Transforming Contestation: Some Closing Words - Luke Sinwell and Marcelle C. Dawson Bibliography About the Authors and Editors Index
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Pluto Press We Make Our Own History Marxism and Social
Book SynopsisA rethinking of popular political movements, this book looks at new, emerging, mass visions and analyses their impact and potential in new ways.Trade Review'Readers will be vastly rewarded by this outstanding book and its understanding of the class struggles of social movements' -- Adam David Morton, University of Sydney, Australia'The authors refresh historical materialism and social movement theory in this imaginative, lucid book' -- Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Golden Gulag'A stunning read, one that every activist - and anyone concerned with the world around us - should read. Beautifully written in many places - with elegant, lucid argument, and with some great turns of phrase that open whole new windows of understanding' -- Jai Sen'A hugely important book, a must-read for those interested in movement-relevant theorising with the goal of engaging in praxis leading towards a future beyond capitalism' -- Andreas Bieler, Professor of Political Economy, University of NottinghamTable of ContentsPreface: About This Book 1. ‘The This-Worldliness of Their Thought’: Social Movements and Theory 2. ‘History Does Nothing’: The Primacy of Praxis in Movement Theorising 3. ‘The Authors and the Actors of Their Own Drama’: A Marxist Theory of Social Movements 4. ‘The Bourgeoisie, Historically, Has Played a Most Revolutionary Part’: Social Movements from Above and Below in Historical Capitalism 5. ‘The Point Is to Change It’: Movements from Below against Neoliberalism Notes Bibliography Index
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Pluto Press Just Work
Book SynopsisThis global volume explores migration, precarious employment, transformation of paid work and the political actions of immigrant and migrant workers.Trade Review'A distinctive and original collection' -- Mark Thomas, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, York University'Timely and provocative ... a smart and original contribution ... [a] unique combination of theory and illustrative case studies' -- Samia Botmeh, Assistant Professor in Economics, Birzeit University, Palestine'The combination of academic scholarship and activist authorship in the book provides unique insights, and gives those who are often nameless and voiceless an identity and voice' -- Linda Cooper, Associate Professor, Adult Education, School of Education,University of Cape Town'This collaboration with some of the most creative like-minded thinkers from across the globe is extremely important. As labour migrancy and xenophobia are both amplified during the current stage of capitalist crisis, leaving so many more people vulnerable to super-exploitation, this book is badly needed.' -- Patrick Bond, professor of political economy, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg'A fascinating read and a welcome antidote to migration scholarship that continues to disproportionately obsess over the West' -- LSE Review of BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1. Just Work? Migrant Workers, Capitalist Globalisation and Resistance - Aziz Choudry and Mondli Hlatshwayo Part I: Africa and the Middle East 2. Xenophobia, Resilience and Resistance of Immigrant Workers in South Africa: Collective and Individual Responses - Mondli Hlatshwayo 3. States of Exclusion: Migrant Work in the Gulf Arab States - Adam Hanieh 4. Undocumented Migrant Workers in Nigeria: Labouring in the Shadows of Regional Integration - Baba Ayelabola Part II: Europe 5. Migrant Rights Activism and the Tree Workers Case in the Czech Republic - Marek an k 6. Towards a History of the Latin American Workers Association 2002–12 - Jake Lagnado 7. Lessons from Migrant Workers’ Organisation and Mobilisation in Switzerland - Vasco Pedrina Part III: Asia and the Pacific 8. Migrant Unionism in Hong Kong: A Case Study of Experiences of Foreign Domestic Workers in Union Organising - Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants 9. The Possibilities and Limitations of Organising Immigrant Workers in Japan: The Case of the Local Union of the All-Japan Metal and Information Machinery Workers’ Union - Hiroshi Ueki 10. Disaster Capitalism and Migrant Worker Organising in Aotearoa/New Zealand - Edward Miller and Dennis Maga Part IV: North America 11. Migrante, Abante: Building Filipino Migrant Worker Leadership through Participatory Action Research - Valerie Francisco 12. Temporary Employment Agency Workers in Montreal: Immigrant and Migrant Workers’ Struggles in Canada - Aziz Choudry and Mostafa Henaway Contributor Biographies Index
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Pluto Press Southern Insurgency The Coming of the Global
Book SynopsisA book on the nature of the new, precarious industrial worker in the Global South - highlighting experimentation, solidarity and struggle.Trade Review'The first book to theorise and examine the present and future shape of global class struggles. Analytically brilliant and empirically sound ... a superb portrait of the trajectory of the independent workers' struggle' -- Sushovan Dhar, New Trade Union Initiative, India.'Offers insights on global labour struggles in an era when familiar unions seem exhausted, or at least too weak to make a concerted effort - with concrete examples of workers forming independent unions in the Global South' -- Paul Buhle, historian and author'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the present form of militant unionism in the Global South' -- Gregory Wilpert, director of TeleSUR English'Seminal and distinctive' -- Arup Kumar Sen, Associate Professor, Serampore College, West Bengal, India.'Richly reports a qualitatively different practice evolving in India, China, and South Africa. It is horizontal rather than vertical. At this living moment all over our globe, workers are reaching out hands, first to their workmates, then to other workers everywhere' -- Staughton Lynd, historian, author, activist'Provides the most crucial case studies of alternative worker organising in the major centres of industrial production in China, India, and South Africa - where workers recognise their power and act to end exploitation' -- May Wong, Globalization Monitor, Hong Kong'Tells us how democratic forms of worker organisation can overcome the limitations of conventional labour unions and challenge global capitalist exploitation' -- Lee Chun Wing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University'Illuminates the most important questions of our time: can the democratic and transformative currents which inspired the movements of the past re-emerge today?' -- Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York Graduate Center'Provides dramatic case studies of worker resistance to corporate exploitation and state violence, through the formation of militant organisations in factories and within their communities' -- Bill Fletcher, Jr., Author of Solidarity Divided and syndicated columnist'This book will throw challenges to the conventional economics of collective bargaining' -- Debdas Banerjee, Author: Labour, Globalization and the State, Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Central University of BiharTable of ContentsList of Maps, Figures and Tables Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: The New International Working Class Part I: Capitalism and Imperialism 2. The Industrial Proletariat of the Global South 3. Migration and the Reserve Army of Labor Part II: Case Studies 4. India: Neoliberal Industrialization, Class Formation and Mobilization 5. China: State Capitalism, Foreign Investment and Worker Insurgency 6. South Africa: Post-Apartheid Labor Militancy in the Mining Sector Conclusion Notes Index
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Pluto Press Activists and the Surveillance State
Book SynopsisAnalysis of the surveillance state from the perspective of those who have been subjected to its repression.Trade Review'Activists and the Surveillance State is a wide-ranging exploration of collective organising in response to state and corporate surveillance. The book's rich discussion of what movements have learned, and failed to learn, about how surveillance works makes it a crucial reference for scholars and activists alike' -- Arun Kundnani, author of 'The Muslims are Coming''This important collection draws critical attention to the harms of state surveillance and police power, and how this power has been challenged and resisted by ordinary citizens. It is a must read for activists, community organisers and scholars alike' -- Waqas Tufail, Leeds Beckett University'Activists in social movements and others challenging the prevailing socio-economic and political structures will find in this book invaluable lessons and an effective antidote to the harassment, infiltration and 'dirty tricks' of agencies that uphold the interests of the corporate and political elite' -- Salim Vally, University of Johannesburg'By asking us to consider different histories of knowledge production and resistance, this book provides a nuanced and timely intervention in our ongoing reflections on confrontations with state security, and how they can be used for advancing radical political alternatives' -- Dr Lina Dencik, Cardiff University'An important intervention that moves us beyond assessments of the scale and scope of surveillance and securitisation to reflect on lessons learned from multiple global resistance movements. The contributions in this book prompt us to consider possibilities for more hopeful futures' -- Nisha Kapoor, author of 'Deport, Deprive, Extradite: 21st Century State Extremism'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Part I 1. Lessons Learnt, Lessons Lost: Pedagogies of Repression, Thoughtcrime, and the Sharp Edge of State Power - Aziz Choudry 2. The Surveillance State: A Composition in Four Movements - Radha D’Souza 3. Activist Learning and State Dataveillance: Lessons from the UK, Mauritius and South Africa - Jane Duncan Part II 4. Coming of Age Under Surveillance: South Asian, Arab and Afghan American Youth and Post-9/11 Activism - Sunaina Maira 5. ASIO and the Australia–Timor-Leste Solidarity Movement, 1974–79 - Bob Boughton 6. The Plantation-to-Plant-to-Prison Pipeline: David Austin Interviewed by Aziz Choudry 7. Forgetting National Security in ‘Canada’: Towards Pedagogies of Resistance - Gary Kinsman 8. Prevent as Far-Right Trojan Horse: The Creeping Radicalisation of the UK National Security Complex - Nafeez Ahmed 9. Political Policing in the UK: A Personal Perspective - Emily Apple 10. Spies Wide Shut: Responses and Resistance to the National Security State in Aotearoa New Zealand - Valerie Morse Part III 11. Undercover Research: Academics, Activists and Others Investigate Political Policing - Eveline Lubbers Notes on Contributors Index
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Pluto Press Voices of 1968 Documents from the Global North
Book SynopsisA vivid collection of texts from the movements and uprisings of the 'long 1968'.Trade Review'This extraordinary collection brings together the great manifestos, political programmes, and other original writings that inspired - and were inspired by - the movements and uprisings of 1968... indispensable for anyone interested in the global upheavals of that annus mirabilis' -- Jeff Goodwin, NYU, editor of The Social Movements Reader and author of No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991'Read Voices of 1968 to understand how, why and where deeply rooted activist currents coalesced into a global uprising that changed the world. Here are the transnational threads of hope and possibility desperately needed in an era of neoliberalism' -- Robyn C. Spencer, CUNY, author of The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party'The many revolts and uprisings of 1968 have frequently been told through narratives which have depoliticised them. This valuable collection of original documents and writings reasserts the diverse forms of radicalism and struggles for radical change in this pivotal year. It's a significant resource for hope and struggle' -- David Featherstone, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, and author of Solidarity: Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism'Here are voices from the marvellous year of 1968, as they spoke then. Some speak to projects we still struggle to realise half a century later. If a few are slightly mad, most are empowering, we know them as our own. We are their inheritor' -- Colin Barker, Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Manchester Metropolitan University, editor of Revolutionary Rehearsals and author of Festival of the Oppressed'This is a direly needed document collection of great value. To the best of my knowledge, this is the most comprehensive such publication on global 1968 in any Western language' -- Gerd-Rainer Horn, author of The Spirit of '68: Rebellion in Western Europe and North America, 1956-76'These revolutionary texts, many translated into English for the first time, contribute to challenge the whitewashing of this extraordinary year of anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, antiracist, feminist and LGBT struggles' -- Françoise Vergès, Chair Global South(s), Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris'An invaluable collection of original material from this most epic of years ranging right across Europe and the USA for its sources' -- Philosophy FootballTable of ContentsAcknowledgements What Was 1968? by Salar Mohandesi, Bjarke Skærlund Risager, and Laurence Cox 1. United States Paul Potter: The Incredible War (1965) General Gordon Baker, Jr.: Letter to Draft Board 100, Wayne County, Detroit, Michigan (1965) The Diggers: Trip Without a Ticket (1967) Tom Hayden: Two, Three, Many Columbias (1968) Redstockings Manifesto (1969) The Black Panther Party and Young Patriots Organization: Right On! (1969) Young Lords Party: 13-Point Program and Platform (1970) 2. Canada Front de Libération du Québec: Message of the FLQ to the Nation (1963) Charles Gagnon and Pierre Vallières: Letter to Stokely Carmichael (1968) Keith Byrne, Rosie Douglas, and Elder Thébaud: Black Writers Congress: The Organizers Talk … (1968) Native Alliance for Red Power: Eight-Point Program (1969) Workers’ Unity: Salt of the Earth … Two for the Price of One (1971) Corporation des Enseignants du Québec: Phase One (1971) Vancouver Women’s Caucus: Lesbians Belong in the Women’s Movement (1972) 3. Mexico National Strike Council: List of Demands (1968) National Strike Council: For a Worker/Peasant/Student Alliance (1968) Gilberto Guevara Niebla, Ana Ignacia Rodríguez, and María Alice Martínez Medrano: Eyewitness Accounts (1971) Jaime Sabines: Tlatelolco, 68 (1972) Party of the Poor: First Principles (1972) First Indigenous Congress: Resolutions (1974) La Revuelta: Editorial (1976) 4. Japan Akiyama Katsuyuki: To the Fighting Students and Workers of All Japan and the Whole World (1967) Iwadare Hiroshi: Without Warning, Riot Police Beat Citizens As Well: Dispatch from Our Reporter Inside the Maelstrom (1968)Council on Armed Revolution, Red Army Faction, Communist League: Declaration of War (1969) AMPO Interviews Makoto Oda (1969) Tanaka Mitsu: Liberation from the Toilet (1970) Ui Jun: Pollution and Residents Struggle (1974) 5. West Germany Students’ Trade Union Working Group, SDS Munich, Liberal Students Association Munich, Social Democratic Higher Education Association Munich: Murder (1967) Rudi Dutschke and Hans-Jürgen Krahl: Self-Denial Requires a Guerrilla Mindset (1967) Kommune I: Consumer, Why are you Burning? (1967) H. Heinemann: Observations on the Tactics and Deployment of West Berlin’s Fascistoid Press (1967) Women’s Liberation Action Council/Helke Sander: Speech to the twenty-third SDS Delegate Conference (1968) Wimmin’s Council of the Frankfurt Group: Statement of Accounts (1968) Red Army Faction: Build the Red Army (1970) Walter Mossmann: Watch on the Rhine (1974) 6. Denmark Ole Grünbaum: Emigrate (1968) Erland Kolding Nielsen: Democracy or Student Rule? (1968) Lisbeth Dehn Holgersen, Åse Lading, Ninon Schloss and Marie-Louise Svane: Something is Happening, But You Don’t Know What It Is, Do You, Mr. Jones? (1970) Jacob Ludvigsen: The Military’s “Forbidden City” on Christianshavn was Quietly Taken by Ordinary Civilians (1971) Aqqaluk Lynge: Will We be Squeezed to Death in Your Bosom, Mother Denmark: The Fourth World and the “Rabid” Greenlanders (1975) 7. France La Jeunesse Communiste Révolutionnaire: February 21: A Tribute to Vietnamese Heroism (1968) Action: Why We Are Fighting (1968) Fredy Perlman: Liberated Censier: A Revolutionary Base (1968) Slogans (1968) Alsthom Workers on Self-Management (1968) Le Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons: Manifesto (1971) Manifesto of the 343 Women (1971) Moktar: “Everytime We Advance the Liberation of the Arab People, We Also Advance the French Revolution” (1971) 8. Italy Occupiers of the Sapienza University: The Sapienza Theses (1967) Movement for a Negative University/Renato Curcio: Manifesto for a Negative University (1967) The Struggle Continues (1968) Potere Operaio: The Lessons of the Revolt in France (1968) Lucio Magri: One Year Later: Prague Stands Alone (1969) Workers’ Committee of Porto Marghera: As We Work, We Workers Produce Capital: How We Reproduce Capital’s Rule Over Ourselves (1970) Red Brigade: Communiqué no. 3 (1970) Padua Women’s Struggle Movement/Mariarosa Dalla Costa: First Document (1971) 9. Britain Why Vietnam Solidarity? Policy Statement by the International Council of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign (1966) Dave Slaney: The Occupation of LSE (1968) J.W.: Network: or How We Beat the Gallery System (1969) International Times: “People Round about Living in Fear” (1970) Black Women’s Action Committee: The Oppressed of the Oppressed (1971) Gay Liberation Front: Manifesto (1971) 10. Northern Ireland Campaign for Social Justice: Londonderry: One Man, No Vote (1965) Derry Housing Action Committee: ’68 DHAC ’69 (1969) Russell Kerr, John Ryan and Anne Kerr: Three Eyewitnesses Report on Londonderry (1968) Bowes Egan and Vincent McCormack: Burntollet (1969) “A Republican in the Civil Rights Movement” (pseudonym): Britain and the Barricade (1969) People’s Democracy/Eilish McDermott: Speech to the National Association for Irish Justice (1969) 11. Yugoslavia Ivica Percl: Honored Professor (1968) Resolution of the Student Demonstration (1968) Letter from Students to Workers (1968) Political Action Program (1968) Proclamation of the Revolutionary Students of the Socialist University “Seven Secretaries of the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia” (1968) D. Plamenic: Discussion held by the General Assembly of the Philosophy and Sociology Faculty (1968) 12. Czechoslovakia Action Program of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (1968) Milan Hauner: Rudi Dutschke in Recovery (1968) Ludvík Vaculík: Two Thousand Words that Belong to Workers, Farmers, Officials, Scientists, Artists, and Everybody (1968) Extraordinary Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia: Proclamation Adopted at the Opening of the Congress (1968) Information from the Local Councils of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, the Municipality, and the National Front to the Citizens of the Town (1968) Aktual/Milan Knížák: Russians, Go Home! (1968) Workers’ Councils: The Guarantee of Democratic Administration and Managerial Activity (1969) A Letter from Jan Palach addressed to the Union of Czechoslovak Writers (1969)
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Pluto Press Decolonising the University
Book SynopsisUnderstanding and transforming the universities' colonial foundations.Trade Review'A very well-researched and highly readable book that I feel compelled to highly recommend' -- Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching'A fine collection of knowledgeable yet readable essays which address a host of vital issues for our times: Eurocentrism, whiteness, power, free speech, inclusion and exclusion, and public higher education... A must-read for anyone interested in enhancing a historical understanding of our present through a consideration of what it means to decolonise' -- Priyamvada Gopal, Reader in Anglophone and Related Literatures, University of Cambridge'As Robbie Shilliam notes astutely in this timely volume, criticism of decolonising the university often overshadows the project itself. These collected reflections provide a much-needed analysis of the global movement to unsettle the Eurocentric white academy' -- Alana Lentin, Western Sydney UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction: Decolonising the University? - Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial and Kerem Nişancıoğlu PART I - CONTEXTS: HISTORICAL AND DISCIPLINARY 2. Rhodes Must Fall: Oxford and Movements for Change - Dalia Gebrial 3. Race and the Neoliberal University: Lessons from the Public University - John Holmwood 4. Black/Academia - Robbie Shilliam 5. Decolonising Philosophy - Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Rafael Vizcaíno, Jasmine Wallace and Jeong Eun Annabel We PART II - INSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVES 6. Asylum University: Re-situating Knowledge-exchange along Cross-border Positionalities - Kolar Aparna and Olivier Kramsch 7. Diversity or Decolonisation? Researching Diversity at the University of Amsterdam - Rosalba Icaza and Rolando Vázquez 8. The Challenge for Black Studies in the Neoliberal University - Kehinde Andrews 9. Open Initiatives for Decolonising the Curriculum - Pat Lockley PART III - DECOLONIAL REFLECTIONS 10. Meschachakanis, a Coyote Narrative: Decolonising Higher Education - Shauneen Pete 11. Decolonising Education: A Pedagogic Intervention - Carol Azumah Dennis 12. Internationalisation and Interdisciplinarity: Sharing acrossBoundaries? - Angela Last 13. Understanding Eurocentrism as a Structural Problem of Undone Science - William Jamal Richardson Notes on Contributors Index
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Pluto Press Rebel Footprints
Book SynopsisThe classic walking guide for the intrepid radical in London.Trade Review'David has brought the streets and buildings of London alive to the real history of the city and the struggles of ordinary people. Anyone reading this will walk the streets of our city with a different view of the world, and what people can do when they act together' -- Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party'Informative and well-judged ... There is so much that is inspirational in this book' -- Nicholas Lezard, Guardian Paperback of the Week'A book of detail and passion' -- Danny Dorling, Times Higher Education'You haven't walked the streets of London unless you've understood the secret history of revolt, rebellion and poverty hidden all around you in its bricks and alleyways. Rosenberg takes you there as no other writer has done' -- Paul Mason'By offering us a guide to our radical past, Rosenberg reminds us of the strong tradition of dissent that has shaped our history and made us who we are' -- Billy Bragg'Stirs my heart's old sympathies with the idealism of the radical Left. I still urge you to let Rosenberg take you on his London journey' -- Dave Hill, GuardianThis brilliant book brings London's long tradition of radicalism and rebellion to life. Using walks to show how dissent led to democracy, it is a fitting testimonial to the collective struggles of Londoners of every colour and creed. I for one will be dusting down my walking shoes and taking to the streets to find out more -- Frances O'Grady, General Secretary of the TUCTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword by Ash Sarkar Introduction: Rebellious City 1. Writers and Rioters in the Fleet Street Precinct 2. Trailblazers for Democracy in Clerkenwell Green 3. The Spark of Rebellion in Bow 4. Coming in from the Cold: Immigrant Agitators and Radicals in Spitalfields 5. No Gods, No Masters: Radical Bloomsbury 6. Life on the Boundary: Fighting for Housing in Bethnal Green and Shoreditch 7. Stirrings from the South: The Battersea Four 8. Speaking Truth to Power: Suffragettes and Westminster 9. Not Afraid of the Prison Walls: Rebel Women and Men of Poplar 10. People's Power in Bermondsey 11. No Pasaran! Cable Street and Long Lane Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Pluto Press Resist the Punitive State
Book SynopsisWhat do we do when housing, mental health, disability, prisons and immigration policy become synonymous with state violence?Trade Review'At a time when organising resistance and protest is crucially necessary, the collected authors marshal a virtuous trinity of activism, critically engaged scholarship and theory. Activists may not need academics, and nor should they be in the vanguard, but this text highlights welcome intellectual and practical solidarity' -- Mick McKeown, Professor of Democratic Mental Health at the University of Central Lancashire'In this excellent book, the editors bring together an impressive range of chapters covering resistance to punitivism in social welfare and criminal justice. The book's radical agendas are crystal clear and critical at a time of brutal state action. It deserves a wide readership' -- Chris Grover, co-editor of 'Disabled People, Work and Welfare: Is Employment Really the Answer?'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction - Rich Moth, Emily Luise Hart and Joe Greener PART I: CHALLENGING STATE–CORPORATE POWER: THEORIES AND STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE 1. Resisting the Punitive State–Corporate Nexus: Activist Strategy and the Integrative Transitional Approach - Joe Greener, Emily Luise Hart and Rich Moth 2. Prefigurative Politics as Resistance to State–Corporate Harm: Fighting Gentrification in Post-Occupy New York City - Laura Naegler 3. Struggles Inside and Outside the University - Steve Tombs and David Whyte PART II: RESISTING THE PUNITIVE WELFARE STATE: HOUSING, MENTAL HEALTH, DISABILITY AND IMMIGRATION 4. Class, Politics and Locality in the London Housing Movement - Lisa Mckenzie 5. Mad Studies: Campaigning Against the Psychiatric System and Welfare ‘Reform’ and for Something Better - Peter Beresford 6. Challenging Neoliberal Housing in the Shadow of Grenfell - Glyn Robbins 7. The Disabled People’s Movement in the Age of Austerity: Rights, Resistance and Reclamation - Bob Williams-Findlay 8. The ‘Hostile Environment’ for Immigrants: The Windrush Scandal and Resistance - Ken Olende PART III: SUBVERSIVE KNOWLEDGE AND RESISTANCE: RECONCEPTUALISING CRIMINALISATION, PENALITY AND VIOLENCE 9. Resisting the Surveillance State: Deviant Knowledge and Undercover Policing - Raphael Schlembach 10. Ordinary Rebels, Everyone: Abolitionist Activist Scholars and the Mega Prisons - David Scott 11. Re-Imagining an End to Gendered Violence: Prefiguring the Worlds We Want - Julia Downes 12. Challenging Prevent: Building Resistance to Institutional Islamophobia and the Attack on Civil Liberties - Robert Ferguson Notes on Contributors Index
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Pluto Press Resist the Punitive State Grassroots Struggles
Book SynopsisWhat do we do when housing, mental health, disability, prisons and immigration policy become synonymous with state violence?Trade Review'At a time when organising resistance and protest is crucially necessary, the collected authors marshal a virtuous trinity of activism, critically engaged scholarship and theory. Activists may not need academics, and nor should they be in the vanguard, but this text highlights welcome intellectual and practical solidarity' -- Mick McKeown, Professor of Democratic Mental Health at the University of Central Lancashire'In this excellent book, the editors bring together an impressive range of chapters covering resistance to punitivism in social welfare and criminal justice. The book's radical agendas are crystal clear and critical at a time of brutal state action. It deserves a wide readership' -- Chris Grover, co-editor of 'Disabled People, Work and Welfare: Is Employment Really the Answer?'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction - Rich Moth, Emily Luise Hart and Joe Greener PART I: CHALLENGING STATE–CORPORATE POWER: THEORIES AND STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE 1. Resisting the Punitive State–Corporate Nexus: Activist Strategy and the Integrative Transitional Approach - Joe Greener, Emily Luise Hart and Rich Moth 2. Prefigurative Politics as Resistance to State–Corporate Harm: Fighting Gentrification in Post-Occupy New York City - Laura Naegler 3. Struggles Inside and Outside the University - Steve Tombs and David Whyte PART II: RESISTING THE PUNITIVE WELFARE STATE: HOUSING, MENTAL HEALTH, DISABILITY AND IMMIGRATION 4. Class, Politics and Locality in the London Housing Movement - Lisa Mckenzie 5. Mad Studies: Campaigning Against the Psychiatric System and Welfare ‘Reform’ and for Something Better - Peter Beresford 6. Challenging Neoliberal Housing in the Shadow of Grenfell - Glyn Robbins 7. The Disabled People’s Movement in the Age of Austerity: Rights, Resistance and Reclamation - Bob Williams-Findlay 8. The ‘Hostile Environment’ for Immigrants: The Windrush Scandal and Resistance - Ken Olende PART III: SUBVERSIVE KNOWLEDGE AND RESISTANCE: RECONCEPTUALISING CRIMINALISATION, PENALITY AND VIOLENCE 9. Resisting the Surveillance State: Deviant Knowledge and Undercover Policing - Raphael Schlembach 10. Ordinary Rebels, Everyone: Abolitionist Activist Scholars and the Mega Prisons - David Scott 11. Re-Imagining an End to Gendered Violence: Prefiguring the Worlds We Want - Julia Downes 12. Challenging Prevent: Building Resistance to Institutional Islamophobia and the Attack on Civil Liberties - Robert Ferguson Notes on Contributors Index
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Pluto Press After Grenfell Violence Resistance and Response
Book SynopsisActivists, academics and artists deliver a myriad of views on the fire for which there has been no justiceTrade Review'No other account names those to blame so clearly, or so convincingly uncovers the slow violence, the racist attitudes, and the legacy of empire that led to this disaster' -- Danny Dorling, author of 'Inequality and the 1%'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface – Phil Scraton Introduction – Dan Bulley, Jenny Edkins and Nadine El-Enany Grenfell Tower, June, 2017 – Ben Okri 1. Everyday Life and Death in the Global City – Dan Bulley 2. Organising on Mute – Daniel Renwick Photo Essay – Sam Boal 3. Before Grenfell: British Immigration Law and the Production of Colonial Spaces – Nadine El-Enany 4. Struggles for Social Housing Justice – Radical Housing Network, Becka Hudson and Pilgrim Tucker Ghosts of Grenfell – Lowkey 5. A Border in Every Street: Grenfell and the Hostile Environment – Sarah Keenan Photo Essay – Parveen Ali 6. Grenfell on Screen – Anna Viola Sborgi 7. Law, Justice and the Public Inquiry into the Grenfell Tower Fire – Patricia Tuitt The Interloper – Jenny Edkins 8. From Grenfell to Windrush – Gracie Mae Bradley 9. Housing Policy in the Shadow of Grenfell – Nigel de Noronha Photo Essay – Yolanthe Fawehinmi 10. ComeUnity and Community in the Face of Impunity – Monique Charles Equity – Tony Walsh Afterword: The Fire and the Academy – Robbie Shilliam Notes on the Contributors Index
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Pluto Press The Global Police State
Book SynopsisA critical look at the terrifying ways the police are used to control 'surplus' populations worldwide.Trade Review'Every socialist should read this book' -- Neil Faulkner, historian and archaeologist'A field guide to repression in the 21st century, with its state control and new forms of surveillance and technological manipulation.' -- Christopher McMichael, New Frame'Robinson gives powerful theoretical coherence to everyone's fear that the fascism is being reborn, but adds the important twist that repression itself has grown into an essential engine of accumulation' -- Mike Davis, author of 'Planet of Slums' and co-author of 'Set the Night on Fire: Los Angeles in the Sixties''For the last twenty years, William Robinson has been one of the most important analysts of global capitalism and the dynamics of globalization. In this new work, Robinson turns his attention to the emergence of a 21st century "global police state" that has developed as a corollary to growing inequality, climate collapse, and intensifying migration movements of the dispossessed. As Robinson warns, with great deprivation comes great repression, policing and potentially war. Robinson writes pointedly and with urgency for a broad audience with an interest in mobilizing for a just world' -- Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and author of 'From #BlackLives Matter to Black Liberation''Karl Marx aspired to a world in which our animal needs would be satisfied and our human needs could be addressed. It is a realistic possibility now, as William Robinson outlines – or the alternative that is taking shape before our eyes: a 'global police state' controlled by narrowly concentrated capital with 'surplus humanity' left to survive somehow on its own. The choice is in our hands. There could hardly be a more compelling one' -- Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and author of 'Who Rules the World?'‘A crucial reflection on power, capitalism and war globally … The Global Police State provides an accessible and compact overview of repression and corporate expansion into policing and surveillance.’ -- ‘ROAR’Table of ContentsA Brief Acknowledgment of Collective Authorship List of Acronyms Introduction: “George Orwell Got It Wrong” 1. Global Capitalism and its Crisis 2. Savage Inequalities: The Imperative of Social Control 3. Militarized Accumulation and Accumulation by Repression 4. The Battle for the Future Notes Index
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Pluto Press A Peoples Green New Deal
Book SynopsisAn urgent demand for a People's Green New Deal, foregrounding global agricultural transformation and climate justice for the Global SouthTrade Review'Hands-down the best book yet on the Green New Deal. Courageous, bold, refreshing - Ajl pushes the horizons of progressive thought and envisions an ecosocialist transition that is rooted in principles of global justice' -- Jason Hickel, author of 'Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World''An amazing text, truly inspirational. There are few books in which nearly every sentence is urgent and quotable, but this is one. Lucid and profound, it assembles the elements that are necessary for an actual political program of survival and renewal' -- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of 'An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States' (Beacon Press, 2014)'You cannot purchase your way out of climate change the same way you cannot pick a 'Green New Deal' brand that suits your personal preferences. Anti-imperialism and anti-capitalism are not by-gone projects, they're very much alive in the Global South. Left climate movements in the North would be better served by following their example as well as reading this critical work' -- Nick Estes, author of 'Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance' (Verso, 2019)‘Ajl guides us with an authority steeped in scholarship but also with panache. If you really want to learn what'll be necessary for our species to survive climate apocalypse, read this book. You'll then know the ways by which humanity's very fate can be won’ -- Rob Wallace, author of 'Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of COVID-19' (Monthly Review Press, 2020)'Anyone wanting to understand the limitations of the Green New Deal, and how it is being employed as a tool to rationalize Green Capitalism, and sanitize its advance within the capitalist system must read this critical work' -- Kali Akuno, Executive Director of Cooperation Jackson"In this urgent book, Max Ajl poses the question “What would visions for sustainability in Global North look like if they were anti-imperial, reparative, socialist and agroecological?” The answer, he argues, looks radically different from – and more liberating than - the Green New Deals on the table today" -- Raj Patel, co-author of 'A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet' (Verso, 2020)'An exceedingly important and powerful book, a uniquely comprehensive report about climate change, its politics and injustices' -- Judith Deutsch, ‘Counterpunch’‘A bracing and thought-provoking call for those of us in the Global North to reconsider how we fight for social and climate justice’ -- ‘ROAR’‘A refreshing and rich scholarly alternative to how an ideal green new deal should be imagined … an exquisite sketch of ideal avenues towards eco-socialism’ -- ‘Developing Economics’‘Provides a comprehensive survey of the nuanced issues a red-green alliance must confront and resolve’ -- ‘System Change not Climate Change’'An exceedingly important and powerful book, a uniquely comprehensive report about climate change, its politics and injustices'. -- ‘Socialist Project’‘A magnificent work that should be at the top of reading lists for anyone remotely concerned about the climate crisis' -- ‘Canadian Dimension’Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Capitalist Green Transitions 1. Green Transition - or Fortress Eco-Nationalism? 2. Change Without Change: Eco-Modernism 3. Energy Use, Degrowth, and the Green New Deal 4. Green Social Democracy or Eco-Socialism? Part II: A People's Green New Deal 5. The World We Wish to See 6. A Planet of Fields 7. Green Anti-Imperialism and the National Question Conclusion Notes Index
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Pluto Press Right Across the World The Global Networking of
Book SynopsisThe far-right is creating a Nationalist International, and the left must rise to the challengeTrade Review'John Feffer is our 21st-century Jack London' -- Mike Davis, author of 'Planet of Slums' (Verso, 2007)'John Feffer brings [...] a rich store of experiences and a wise perspective' -- Adam Hochschild, author of 'King Leopold’s Ghost' (Picador, 2019)'An important book [...] the Trump world is part of a transnational story that won't go away. Feffer knows this international ground well and covers it skillfully' -- Lawrence Rosenthal, Chair and Lead Researcher of the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies'Clearly lays out the challenges societies are facing from an increasingly mobilized transnational far right movement. Unique, because he also provides solutions' -- Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism'An urgent warning to progressives that while they may consider themselves to be the true internationalists, the nationalist right has stolen a march on them and now threatens to overrun their values of global justice and solidarity' -- Walden Bello, International Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton‘Exposes the origins of the new right, and in discussing the left response, emphasizes the importance of transnational progressive organizing’ -- ‘Truthout’Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Origins of the new right 2. Transnational organizing of the new right 3. The new right’s pandemic pivot 4. Responding to the new right 5. Transnational progressive organizing 6. Conclusion Notes Index
£72.25
Pluto Press Right Across the World
Book SynopsisThe far-right is creating a Nationalist International, and the left must rise to the challengeTrade Review'John Feffer is our 21st-century Jack London' -- Mike Davis, author of 'Planet of Slums' (Verso, 2007)'John Feffer brings [...] a rich store of experiences and a wise perspective' -- Adam Hochschild, author of 'King Leopold’s Ghost' (Picador, 2019)'An important book [...] the Trump world is part of a transnational story that won't go away. Feffer knows this international ground well and covers it skillfully' -- Lawrence Rosenthal, Chair and Lead Researcher of the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies'Clearly lays out the challenges societies are facing from an increasingly mobilized transnational far right movement. Unique, because he also provides solutions' -- Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism'An urgent warning to progressives that while they may consider themselves to be the true internationalists, the nationalist right has stolen a march on them and now threatens to overrun their values of global justice and solidarity' -- Walden Bello, International Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton‘Exposes the origins of the new right, and in discussing the left response, emphasizes the importance of transnational progressive organizing’ -- ‘Truthout’Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Origins of the new right 2. Transnational organizing of the new right 3. The new right’s pandemic pivot 4. Responding to the new right 5. Transnational progressive organizing 6. Conclusion Notes Index
£20.89
Pluto Press The Five Health Frontiers
Book SynopsisA transformative approach to public health and social care in the wake of Covid-19Trade Review‘A brilliant exposé of how the political left in Britain is unaware of, and can start to begin to address, the effects of ever-increasing opting-out from public health and care services by those who can’ -- Danny Dorling, Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford'The boldest blueprint for public health since Bevan' -- Sonia Adesara, NHS Doctor and Campaigner'The ideas in this book are as significant and radical as the birth of the NHS, it shows a new, fairer vision for improving the health of the nation and a comprehensive plan for how to do it' -- Shirley Cramer, former CEO of the Royal Society for Public Health'A vital book that shows just how broken the health status quo truly is. Thomas' work will arm campaigners to demand a better, more just public health system - and to defend human life against corporate exploitation' -- Dr Aseem Malhotra, author of 'A Statin-Free Life' and Founder of Public Health Collaboration'A well-argued plan to bring together health, social and economic justice' -- Andy McDonald MP'A fantastically well written book that shows just how much public health has been neglected in the UK and the actions we need now' -- Dr Jyotsna Vohra, Director of Policy and Public Affairs at the Royal Society for Public HealthTable of ContentsAbbreviations List of Tables Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. The NHS Frontier 2. The Social Justice Frontier 3. The Economic Frontier 4. The Social Care Frontier 5. The Sustainability Frontier 6. The Public Health New Deal Epilogue: Labour’s Medicine Notes Index
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Pluto Press Anarchism and the Black Revolution The
Book SynopsisA revolutionary classic written by a living legend of Black LiberationTrade Review'A powerful – even startling – monograph that challenges many of the shibboleths of 'white' anarchism, the received wisdom of Black Marxist thought, and the pieties of liberalism, white, Black or otherwise. It is also stunningly prescient. Its analysis and critiques of police violence and the threat of fascism are as important now as they were at the end of the 1970s. Perhaps more so' -- Peter James Hudson, Black Agenda ReportTable of ContentsForeword by William C. Anderson Catalyst by Joy James Introduction 1. Anarchism Defined: A Tutorial on Anarchist Theory and Practice 2. Capitalism and Racism: An Analysis of White Supremacy and the Oppression of Peoples of Color 3. Anarchism and the Black Revolution 4. Pan-Africanism or Intercommunalism? Ungovernable: An Interview with Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin Index
£72.25
Pluto Press What is Islamophobia Racism Social Movements and
Book SynopsisReveals the endemic nature of Islamophobia in the West across various sections of society, both left and rightTrade Review'A masterful volume, intellectually provocative ... it challenges the basic assumptions of the Islamophobia scholarship field ... A must read for any person concerned with the current period and the rising tide of bigotry and racism' -- Hatem Bazian, founder of the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project, University of California at Berkeley'A remarkably courageous and painstakingly evidence-based book… This unique and much needed framework for understanding Islamophobia is a must read for social scientists, policy makers and human rights activists alike!' -- Salma Yaqoob, Political Activist and Head of the Birmingham Stop the War Coalition'The best study I have ever seen of this scourge that now plagues the world' -- Joel Kovel, author of Overcoming Zionism (2007) and The Lost Traveller's Dream (2017)'This important, thoughtful and disturbing book could not be more timely. The authors compel us to examine our institutions, face unwelcome facts, and revise some of our culturally entrenched positions and assumptions' -- Karen Armstrong, author of A History of GodTable of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures List of Acronyms Acknowledgements Part I: Introduction: What is Islamophobia? 1. Islamophobia, Social Movements and the State: For a Movement-centred Approach - Narzanin Massoumi, David Miller and Tom Mills Part II: Islamophobia, Counter-terrorism and the State 2. Islamophobia as Ideology of U.S. Empire - Arun Kundnani 3. Islamophobia and Empire: An Intermestic Approach to the Study of Anti-Muslim Racism - Deepa Kumar 4. The U.K. Counter-terrorism Matrix: Structural Racism and the Case of Mahdi Hashi - Asim Qureshi 5. The ‘War on Terror’ and the Attack on Muslim Civil Society - Shenaz Bunglawala Part III: Social Movements From Above 6. Mainstreaming Anti-Muslim Prejudice: The Rise of the Islamophobia Industry in American Electoral Politics - Nathan C. Lean 7. Terror Incognito: Black Flags, Plastic Swords and Other Weapons of Mass Disruption in Australia - Scott Poynting and Linda Briskman 8. Islamophobia, Counter-extremism and the Counterjihad Movement - Hilary Aked 9. The Transatlantic Network: Funding Islamophobia and Israeli Settlements - Sarah Marusek 10. The Neoconservative Movement: Think Tanks as Elite Elements of Social Movements from Above - Tom Griffin, David Miller and Tom Mills 11. Liberal and Left Movements and the Rise of Islamophobia - Narzanin Massoumi, Tom Mills and David Miller Part IV: Fighting Back 12. Fighting Back: Challenging the State and Social Movements from Above - Narzanin Massoumi, Tom Mills and David Miller Notes on Contributors Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Diary of an Escape
Book Synopsisn Many people across the world know Antonio Negri as an internationally renowned political thinker whose book, Empire, co-authored with Michael Hardt, is an international bestseller. Much less well known is the fact that, up until 1979, Negri was a university professor teaching in Paris and Padova.Trade Review"At once a narration of philosophy, politics and personal memoir. The experience of the oppressed political prisoner divests the courts of their own web of rationality, exposing the system which upholds the semblance of justice." Irish Left Review "No one who seeks to comment on global capitalism or the movements opposing it can afford to ignore Negri. He remains one of Europe's few truly public intellectuals." Katharine Ainger, The New Statesman (The New Statesman list of 12 great thinkers of our time) "A guru of the post-modern left." Slavoj Zizek "One of the most important thinkers of our time." Fredric JamesonTable of ContentsIntroduction by the author Chapter 1. The Trial (24 February to 24 May 1983) 1-37 Chapter 2: Self Defence in Court (25 May to 8 July 1983) 38-57 Chapter 3: In Parliament (9 July to 18 September 1983) 58-98 Chapter 4: Freedom (19 September to 30 November 1983) 99-135
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Diary of an Escape
Book Synopsisn Many people across the world know Antonio Negri as an internationally renowned political thinker whose book, Empire, co-authored with Michael Hardt, is an international bestseller. Much less well known is the fact that, up until 1979, Negri was a university professor teaching in Paris and Padova.Trade Review"At once a narration of philosophy, politics and personal memoir. The experience of the oppressed political prisoner divests the courts of their own web of rationality, exposing the system which upholds the semblance of justice." Irish Left Review "No one who seeks to comment on global capitalism or the movements opposing it can afford to ignore Negri. He remains one of Europe's few truly public intellectuals." Katharine Ainger, The New Statesman (The New Statesman list of 12 great thinkers of our time) "A guru of the post-modern left." Slavoj Zizek "One of the most important thinkers of our time." Fredric JamesonTable of ContentsIntroduction by the author Chapter 1. The Trial (24 February to 24 May 1983) 1-37 Chapter 2: Self Defence in Court (25 May to 8 July 1983) 38-57 Chapter 3: In Parliament (9 July to 18 September 1983) 58-98 Chapter 4: Freedom (19 September to 30 November 1983) 99-135
£14.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd States and Social Movements
Book SynopsisSince the late eighteenth century, politics, protest, and the state have evolved together, each shaping the other in significant ways. This title shows how the modern national state developed in tandem with social movement mobilization, arguing that to understand the state fully, you cannot ignore the role of political protest.Trade Review"A thoughtful, concise and engaging account that will serve as an admirable introduction to the field." Choice "States & Social Movements is not only timely, but also timeless, as it presents a blueprint of political protest that is equally relevant for the 18th century Western states, as for the globalised world of today." London School of Economics and Political Science blog "Globalization has not reduced the importance of the state for social movements as actors of a politics by other means. In this clearly written and well-researched volume, Hank Johnston builds upon the best scholarship on social movements, adding an innovative perspective in particular on the dynamics of protest in non-democratic regimes and democratizing polities." Donatella Della Porta, European University Institute "Movements shape states, and states shape movements. Hank Johnston adds depth and nuance to this insight by examining a wide range of state forms and political protest - including revolutionary movements and transnational activism. Along the way, he provides a lucid overview of different theoretical perspectives on movements. The result is an excellent short introduction to social movement studies." Jeff Goodwin, New York University "This book is an outstanding synthesis of a diverse and difficult body of work. It is unique among surveys of social movements in balancing coverage of protests in both democratic and authoritarian societies, in its even-handed treatment of the relations between globalization and protest, and in giving substantial and well thought out space to revolutions." Jack A. Goldstone, George Mason UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1: The State, Protest, and Social MovementsChapter 2: Protest in Contemporary DemocraciesChapter 3: The Social Movement SocietyChapter 4: Repressive States and ProtestChapter 5: Revolutions and StatesChapter 6: Globalization, Protest, and the StateReferences
£45.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd States and Social Movements
Book SynopsisSince the late eighteenth century, politics, protest, and the state have evolved together, each shaping the other in significant ways. This title shows how the modern national state developed in tandem with social movement mobilization, arguing that to understand the state fully, you cannot ignore the role of political protest.Trade Review"A thoughtful, concise and engaging account that will serve as an admirable introduction to the field." Choice "States & Social Movements is not only timely, but also timeless, as it presents a blueprint of political protest that is equally relevant for the 18th century Western states, as for the globalised world of today." London School of Economics and Political Science blog "Globalization has not reduced the importance of the state for social movements as actors of a politics by other means. In this clearly written and well-researched volume, Hank Johnston builds upon the best scholarship on social movements, adding an innovative perspective in particular on the dynamics of protest in non-democratic regimes and democratizing polities." Donatella Della Porta, European University Institute "Movements shape states, and states shape movements. Hank Johnston adds depth and nuance to this insight by examining a wide range of state forms and political protest - including revolutionary movements and transnational activism. Along the way, he provides a lucid overview of different theoretical perspectives on movements. The result is an excellent short introduction to social movement studies." Jeff Goodwin, New York University "This book is an outstanding synthesis of a diverse and difficult body of work. It is unique among surveys of social movements in balancing coverage of protests in both democratic and authoritarian societies, in its even-handed treatment of the relations between globalization and protest, and in giving substantial and well thought out space to revolutions." Jack A. Goldstone, George Mason UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1: The State, Protest, and Social MovementsChapter 2: Protest in Contemporary DemocraciesChapter 3: The Social Movement SocietyChapter 4: Repressive States and ProtestChapter 5: Revolutions and StatesChapter 6: Globalization, Protest, and the StateReferences
£17.09
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Maulana Karenga
Book SynopsisIn this book, the most prolific contemporary African American scholar and cultural theorist Molefi Kete Asante leads the reader on an informative journey through the mind of Maulana Karenga, one of the key cultural thinkers of our time. Not only is Karenga the creator of Kwanzaa, an extensive and widespread celebratory holiday based on his philosophy of Kawaida, he is an activist-scholar committed to a dignity-affirming life for all human beings. Asante examines the sources of Karenga''s intellectual preoccupations and demonstrates that Karenga''s concerns with the liberation narratives and mythic realities of African people are rooted in the best interests of a collective humanity. The book shows Karenga to be an intellectual giant willing to practice his theories in order to manifest his intense emotional attachment to culture, truth and justice. Asante''s enlightening presentation and riveting critique of Karenga''s works reveal a compelling account of a thinker whose contributioTrade Review"Asante provides an informative background reading on a scholar for whom the Kwanzaa celebration represents the tip of the iceberg in his activist and academic achievements."Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies"To have the seminal thinker Molefi Asante writing on the legendary Maulana Karenga is a grand treat! This work is an historic encounter of great significance and contemporary relevance."Cornel West, Princeton University "Asante has given us the first in-depth study of the thought of Maulana Karenga. A major cultural influence in the sixties, Karenga's Kawaida Philosophy serves as a primary source of Afrocentric thinking today."Charles Henry, University of California, Berkeley "In this remarkable study, Professor Asante not only provides an intellectual biography of Karenga, undertaken with rare devotion and deep understanding, but also renders homage to an outstanding scholar whose work, spanning some four decades, has been fundamental in the development of African American cultural awareness in our time."F. Abiola Irele, Harvard University Table of ContentsForeword by Ama Mazama, Temple University vi Preface ix Acknowledgements xiii 1 Karenga and the Drawing of Cultural Grounds 1 2 The Cultural Narrative 30 3 Controlling Intellectual Territory 57 4 Creating Historical Possibilities 94 5 Implementing the Lessons 164 Notes 183 Bibliography of Key Writings 187 References 191 Index 201
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Maulana Karenga
Book SynopsisIn this book, the most prolific contemporary African American scholar and cultural theorist Molefi Kete Asante leads the reader on an informative journey through the mind of Maulana Karenga, one of the key cultural thinkers of our time. Not only is Karenga the creator of Kwanzaa, an extensive and widespread celebratory holiday based on his philosophy of Kawaida, he is an activist-scholar committed to a dignity-affirming life for all human beings. Asante examines the sources of Karenga''s intellectual preoccupations and demonstrates that Karenga''s concerns with the liberation narratives and mythic realities of African people are rooted in the best interests of a collective humanity. The book shows Karenga to be an intellectual giant willing to practice his theories in order to manifest his intense emotional attachment to culture, truth and justice. Asante''s enlightening presentation and riveting critique of Karenga''s works reveal a compelling account of a thinker whose contributioTrade Review"Asante provides an informative background reading on a scholar for whom the Kwanzaa celebration represents the tip of the iceberg in his activist and academic achievements."Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies"To have the seminal thinker Molefi Asante writing on the legendary Maulana Karenga is a grand treat! This work is an historic encounter of great significance and contemporary relevance."Cornel West, Princeton University "Asante has given us the first in-depth study of the thought of Maulana Karenga. A major cultural influence in the sixties, Karenga's Kawaida Philosophy serves as a primary source of Afrocentric thinking today."Charles Henry, University of California, Berkeley "In this remarkable study, Professor Asante not only provides an intellectual biography of Karenga, undertaken with rare devotion and deep understanding, but also renders homage to an outstanding scholar whose work, spanning some four decades, has been fundamental in the development of African American cultural awareness in our time."F. Abiola Irele, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsForeword by Ama Mazama, Temple University vi Preface ix Acknowledgements xiii 1 Karenga and the Drawing of Cultural Grounds 1 2 The Cultural Narrative 30 3 Controlling Intellectual Territory 57 4 Creating Historical Possibilities 94 5 Implementing the Lessons 164 Notes 183 Bibliography of Key Writings 187 References 191 Index 201
£16.14
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Politics of Volunteering
Book SynopsisMany of us may have participated in grassroots groups, changing the world in small and big ways, from building playgrounds and feeding the homeless, to protesting wars and ending legal segregation.Trade Review"A useful book for students on all sorts of courses ... the book is written in a scholarly, informing and engaging style ... The key thing about this book is that it reminds us that volunteering is political."—Journal of Social Policy "Amid the sea of muddled thinking about civil society and social policy, Nina Eliasoph's work shines like a beacon of clarity and rigor. This honest and nuanced account of the politics of volunteering marks a landmark contribution to the field."—Michael Edwards, Distinguished Senior Fellow, Demos "With unerring aim, Nina Eliasoph punctures some of the most cherished myths about volunteerism. Yet, with sensitivity and compassion, she shows volunteers struggling to do good while coping with contradictions not of their own making. The result is a remarkable book that brings the concept of civil society to life in all its moral messiness."—Francesca Polletta, University of California, Irvine "The Politics of Volunteering is a pleasure to read. Nina Eliasoph helps us to understand how civic associations based on volunteering are different from but overlap with civic associations devoted to political activism, and how each may be led to cross the boundary between them. In clarifying the landscape of our public life she helps us to see how a deeper look at the total picture can help us to be more effective in our public engagement. This is a valuable book for students but also for the many thousands of volunteers and activists in our midst."—Robert Bellah, University of California, Berkeley "The Politics of Volunteering represents the kind of sociological literature that is written with both academics and a larger audience in mind. Eliasoph manages to examine challenging and complex questions with admirable clarity." (Sosiologia 2015)Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Are Civic Associations?Chapter 1: Why Do Theorists Say Associations Are Crucial for Democracy?Chapter 2: Volunteering and Political Activism Chapter 3: Civic Association, the Market and Government: How Do Different Societies Balance Them Differently?Chapter 4: Neoliberalism and Grassroots OrganizationsChapter 5: What Happens to Civic Participation in Conditions of Vast Social Inequality?Chapter 6: Opening Up Civic ParticipationConclusion: Is Democracy in Our Future?Bibliography
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd LGBTQ Social Movements
Book SynopsisIn recent years, there has been substantial progress on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights in the United States. We are now, though, in a time of incredible political uncertainty for queer people. LGBTQ Social Movements provides an accessible introduction to mainstream LGBTQ movements in the U.S.Trade Review"Adeptly synthesizing decades of research and writing, charting both major events and central dynamics, Lisa Stulberg offers a foundation for understanding LGBTQ movements that is at once accessible and complex, informative and lively." Joshua Gamson, University of San Francisco "This is the book we have been waiting for - a comprehensive, concise, and engaging overview of the LGBT movement that is accessible not only to students and general readers, but scholars. Stulberg has managed to condense a vast amount of literature to provide the clearest, best organized, and most up-to-date review of the LGBT movement available." Verta Taylor, University of California Santa Barbara “Lisa Stulberg provides a concise, accessible, and engaging introduction to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) activism… [T]he material that Stulberg presents will appeal to many audiences, including undergraduate and graduate students, emerging scholars, and established scholars.”Amin Ghaziani, Contemporary Sociology "Stulberg provides an accessible, well-researched overview of LGBTQ activism, suitable for a wide-ranging audience."SexualitiesTable of Contents Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Before and After Stonewall Chapter 3. Activism in the Early Days of AIDS Chapter 4. Marriage Politics Chapter 5. LGBTQ Youth and Social Change Chapter 6. The “B” and the “T” Chapter 7. Conclusion
£46.80
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Protest Politics Today
Book SynopsisSocial movements play a vital and increasingly visible role in modern politics. Headline-grabbing demonstrations against authoritarian governments, police brutality, economic inequality, and other grievances suggest that, around the world, social movements are seen as powerful catalysts of change.Trade Review"From its opening discussion of protests in North Charleston, Sana'a (Yemen), Cape Town, and Madrid on April 10, 2015 to its analysis of the Women's March on January 22, 2017, Protest Politics Today is a compelling synthesis of theory and practice that will be taught in a wide range of social science courses. I look forward to using it in my own course, Contesting Injustice."—Elisabeth Jean Wood, Yale University "How do deeply invested participants come together in public displays of commitment and passion - in social movements? This is the subject of Devashree Gupta's riveting new book. The book ranges from how modern movements developed to the approaches scholars have used to study them, to how movements organize and strive to influence social and political change. Immensely readable and deeply informative, Protest Politics Today provides a succinct yet rich introduction to the field of social movements and contentious politics."—Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University and author of Power in MovementTable of Contents1. The Politics of Protest 2. The Activist 3. The Organization 4. The Target 5. The Message 6. The Tactic 7. The Response 8. The Aftermath 9. The Future Bibliography
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Journalism as Activism
Book SynopsisIn the mediated digital era, communication is changing fast and eating up ever greater shares of real-world power. Corporate battles and guerrilla wars are fought on Twitter. Facebook is the new Berlin, home to tinkers, tailors, spies ? and terrorist recruiters. We recognize the power shift instinctively but, in our attempts to understand it, we keep using conceptual and theoretical models that are not changing fast, that are barely changing at all, that are laid over from the past. Journalism remains one of the main sites of communication power, an expanded space where citizens, protesters, PR professionals, tech developers and hackers can directly shape the news. Adrienne Russell reports on media power from one of the most vibrant corners of the journalism field, the corner where journalists and activists from countries around the world cross digital streams and end up updating media practices and strategies. Russell demonstrates the way the relationship between digitaTrade Review"Journalism has always overlapped with activism, and certainly does so today. In Journalism as Activism, Adrienne Russell focuses on this overlap and shows how small groups of progressives around causes like Occupy Wall Street are trying to connect activism, technology, and journalism to develop new forms of media aimed not at covering the world, but at changing it." Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, University of Oxford �Journalists have traditionally been cast as storytellers, but emerging technologies embed them into stories in ways that radicalize the affective nature of their involvement with events in the making. In Journalism as Activism, Adrienne Russell reconsiders the place of journalists in developing stories, and challenges the traditional dogma of objectivity, thus helping us reimagine the meaning of journalism in contemporary and future societies. Compellingly presented, elegantly written, and deeply original, this is a credo for enlightenment through journalism.� Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois at ChicagoTable of Contents Contents Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Networks Chapter 3: Tools Chapter 4: Practice Chapter 5: Power Notes References Index
£45.00
University of British Columbia Press Grassroots Politicians Party Activists in
Book SynopsisThe first systematic account of party activists at the provincial level in Canada.Trade ReviewGrassroots Politicians is highly readable. And it is a book that provides terrific background for anyone who salivates at the prospect of following the intricate power plays so integral to the pageantry of a British Columbia election.This timely book convincingly demonstrates that party activists have shaped the contours of BC's distinctively oddball politics. And Grassroots Politicians provides a unique perspective from which to view the political battle lines that have so decisively shaped the province and that will help determine the outcome of the electoral warfare on the near horizon. -- David Mitchell * The Vancouver Sun *A first-class scholarly study, by three accomplished political scientists, of party activists and activism in British Columbia. The first effort of its kind, this work is based on surveys, personal interviews with the politicians themselves, direct observation, and soundly rooted background analysis. -- P. Regenstreif * Choice *Table of ContentsTables and Figures Preface 1. The Polarization of BC Politics 2. Party Activists in British Columbia 3. Continuity and Change: Party Activists, 1973-87 4. Social Credit: Pragmatic Coalition or Ideological Right? 5. The New Democrats: What Kind of Left? 6. The Liberals: Centre or Fringe? 7. Leadership Selection in the BC Parties 8. The Social Credit Grassroots Recapture Their Party 9. Resisting Polarization: The Survival of the Liberals 10. Towards the Centre?: The Dynamics of Two-Party Competition Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£66.30
University of British Columbia Press The Changing Nature of EcoFeminism
Book SynopsisIn its careful account of eco/feminist activism in Clayoquot Sound in the early 1990s, The Changing Nature of Eco/Feminism confounds prevailing stories about eco/feminism, feminism, and Clayoquot itself.Table of ContentsPreface: “She Goes On and On and On”1 Rethinking Eco/Feminism through Clayoquot Sound2 Eco/Feminist Genealogies: Essentialism, Universalism, and Telling (Trans)national Histories3 Eco/Feminism and the Question of Nature4 Clayoquot Histories: Our Home and Native Land?5 “It was like a war zone”: The Clayoquot Peace Camp and the Gendered Politics of (Non)Violence6 Mothers, Grandmothers, and Other Queers in Eco/Feminist Activism7 Romanticizing the (Gendered) Nature of Childhood?8 Unnatural Histories: Mother Nature, Family Trees, and Other Human-Nature Relationships9 Eco/Feminism and the Changing Nature of FeminismAppendixNotesReferencesIndex
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Tools for Radical Democracy
Book SynopsisTools for Radical Democracy is an essential resource for grassroots organizers and leaders, students of activism and advocacy, and anyone trying to increase the civic participation of ordinary people. Authors Joan Minieri and Paul Getsos share stories and tools from their nationally recognized and award-winning work of building a community-led organization, training community leaders, and conducting campaigns that changed public policy and delivered concrete results to tens of thousands of people. This how-to manual includes: In-depth analysis of how to launch and win a campaign Tools and guidelines for training people to lead their own campaigns and organizations Insights for using technology effectively, building more powerful alliances, and engaging in the social justice movement Trade Review"if you're looking for a practical how-to guide to building community power without a lot of excursions into the ins and outs of fundraising, Tools is just the ticket." (Philanthropy News Digest, 03/04/08) " It is well-organized and easy to use." (CharityVillage.com, 10/29/2007) "…it is refreshing to see a book that focuses downward- at the community level- and outward- at social movements." (Nonprofit Online News, 09/05/2007) "The authors offer a guide to involving and organizing others -- especially the most marginalized members of society -- in a social-justice movement. Throughout the book are examples of meeting agendas, campaign plans, surveys to determine the key issues that are important to local residents, lists of desired qualities in community-organizing leaders, and other resources that can serve as templates." --Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 10, 2008Table of ContentsForeword ix Peter Edelman Preface: Why We Believe in Organizing and Building Power xiii The Authors xvii Introduction: The Power of Participation xix The Story of Community Voices Heard xxxi Part One Building Community Power 1 1. Taking It On: Starting to Build Power 3 2. Powering Up 23 Part Two Building a Base for Power 35 3. Recruiting Constituents for Collective Action 37 4. Involving Members in Building Their Own Organization 61 5. Developing Leaders from All Walks of Life 81 6. Uploading Technology 109 Part Three Developing and Running Campaigns 125 7. Identifying the Right Issue 129 8. Researching the Politics of an Issue 155 9. Developing a Winning Strategy 183 10. Planning a Comprehensive Campaign 209 11. Implementing an Effective Campaign 239 12. Running Kick-A** Actions! 261 13. Evaluating a Campaign from Beginning to End 301 Part Four Building a Movement 323 14. Forging Partnerships for Power 325 15. Moving from Self-Interest to Social Change: Movement-Building 345 Conclusion: Putting Your Principles into Practice 361 Resources Supporting the Work of Organizing 373 A. Organizing Lingo 375 B. Raising Money for Organizing 379 C. Power in the Voting Booth: Electoral Organizing 389 D. Training Tips 399 E. Approaches to Addressing Community Problems 407 F. Creating a Legal Community Power-Building Organization 411 G. For More Information 413 H. The Phases and Steps of a Campaign: An Annotated Case Example 415 Index 425
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Cornell University Press Religious Rhetoric and American Politics
Book SynopsisFrom Reagan's regular invocation of America as a city on a hill to Obama's use of spiritual language in describing social policy, religious rhetoric is a regular part of how candidates communicate with voters. Although the Constitution explicitly forbids a religious test as a qualification to public office, many citizens base their decisions about candidates on their expressed religious beliefs and values. In Religious Rhetoric and American Politics, Christopher B. Chapp shows that Americans often make political choices because they identify with a civil religion, not because they think of themselves as cultural warriors.. Chapp examines the role of religious political rhetoric in American elections by analyzing both how political elites use religious language and how voters respond to different expressions of religion in the public sphere. Chapp analyzes the content and context of political speeches and draws on survey data, historical evidence, and controlled experiments toTrade Review"In this very impressive bookChapp provides the first systematic treatment of the use of religious rhetoric in American politics.... Religious Rhetoric and American Politics provides a thorough review of a largely under studied phenomenon." —J. Christopher Soper * American Historical Review *This brief but valuable volume provides a rich history of the use of religious rhetoric throughout American political history from the Puritans to the founders, through the Civil War, Progressive Era, Cold War, and contemporary politics, and it evaluates the impact of emotion and tone in the use of that rhetoric.... This book would be useful to the historian and political scientist alike. * Choice *Whether we like it or not, religious rhetoric is part of the American political landscape, but this book provides some sorely needed perspective for policymakers seeking to understand what kind of spiritual language appeals to most Americans. * Conscience *Table of Contents1. A Theory of Religious Rhetoric in American Campaigns2. Religious Rhetoric in American Political History3. Religious Rhetoric and the Politics of Identity4. Religious Rhetoric and the Politics of Emotive Appeals5. The Consequences of Religious Language on Presidential Candidate Evaluations6. Civil Religion Identity and the Task of Political Representation7. The Rhetorical Construction of Religious ConstituenciesNotes References Index
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Cornell University Press Accidental Activists
Book SynopsisGovernment wrongdoing or negligence harms people worldwide, but not all victims are equally effective at obtaining redress. In Accidental Activists, Celeste L. Arrington examines the interactive dynamics of the politics of redress to understand why not. Relatively powerless groups like redress claimants depend on support from political elites, active groups in society, the media, experts, lawyers, and the interested public to capture democratic policymakers'' attention and sway their decisions. Focusing on when and how such third-party support matters, Arrington finds that elite allies may raise awareness about the victims' cause or sponsor special legislation, but their activities also tend to deter the mobilization of fellow claimants and public sympathy. By contrast, claimants who gain elite allies only after the difficult and potentially risky process of mobilizing societal support tend to achieve more redress, which can include official inquiries, apologies, compensationTrade ReviewThis study is an important addition to research on social movements, particularly given the limited amount of work in English about social movements in Japan and Korea. The book is also a model for how to produce significant comparative qualitative research... * Social Science Japan Journal *Anthropologists, political scientists, and historians, indeed any political activist or scholar interested in popular politics, will benefit from the insights presented. * PoLAR *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Victimhood and Government Accountability 1. Explaining Redress Outcomes 2. Constructing Victimhood and Villainy in Japan and Korea 3. Leprosy Survivors' Rights 4. The Politics of Hepatitis C-Tainted Blood Products 5. The North Korean Abductions and Abductee Families’ Activism Conclusion: The Politics of Redress
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Cornell University Press Unexpected Power
Book SynopsisU.S. human rights advocacy has long focused on civil and political rights-issues such as torture, censorship, and lack of democratic freedoms abroad. In the 1990s a series of high-profile anti-sweatshop and fair-trade campaigns shifted the spotlight...Trade ReviewIn her analysis of transnational advocacy campaigns around labor and economic rights within the broader human rights advocacy frame-work, Shareen Hertel emphasizes the ability of activists within countries and their transnational allies to impact and even shift the agendas of the campaigns. Hertel uses two high profile transnational advocacy campaigns to expand our understanding of the mechanisms in the evolution of norms and framing of human rights claims within such campaigns. Delivering a multifaceted explanation of the genesis and evolution of both campaigns, Hertel synthesizes rationalist, structural, and social movement analyses. Drawing upon Jonathan Fox's work, Hertel evaluates the effects of both campaigns with almost a decade's distance. In the end, she draws the conclusion that blocking produces more significant changes than backdoor movements. * Mobilization *
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MB - Cornell University Press Chinas Water Warriors
Book SynopsisMertha argues that as China has become increasingly market driven and decentralized, the control and management of water has transformed from an unquestioned economic imperative to a lightning rod of bureaucratic infighting, opposition, and open protest.Trade ReviewChina's Water Warriors not only enriches our understanding of emergent environmental politics in the People's Republic of China but also directly takes on the evolution of state-society relations and policymaking within the context of the Chinese state. Mertha examines how nonstate actors can have an impact on policy. Mertha points out that the indeterminate outcome of pluralistic politics may impede and complicate the search for clean alternatives to coal for China's soaring energy needs. Local victory for citizens may not translate into victory for the environment or the planet. * Asian Studies *Addressing the role of forces outside the government in China's policymaking, Andrew C. Mertha's China's Water Warriors makes a significant and insightful contribution. Mertha takes advantage of three campaigns to resist the construction of dams that occur at roughly the same time (the mid-2000s), and in the same region (southwestern China's Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces) yet result in three different outcomes. Mertha draws on these different outcomes to explore whether, and how, the activities of the opposition to the government-planned dams can explain the different outcomes observed. -- Bryan Lohmar * Political Science Quarterly *Andrew C. Mertha, who has extensive research, teaching, and business experience in China, examines three major hydropower projects to shed light on how China's 'fragmented authoritarianism' is becoming ever more pluralistic in nature. China's Water Warriors is a careful and theoretically sophisticated contribution to the literature on the evolution of China's political system. * Choice *In this concise and well-organized book, Andrew Mertha makes several significant contributions.... He assesses public response to potentially disruptive hydropower projects to sort out the various distinctive Chinese elements of concern and protest. Specific contexts addressed include government agency roles at national, provincial, and local levels; NGO inputs; and scientific and engineering assessments. These point up the complexity and changing nature of water politics in China during the present transition from still-prevalent earlier models of bureaucratic control, management, use, and quality assurance of fresh water to currently popular market-based experiments in the energy, agriculture, supply, and pollution control sectors.... This book is a refreshing and informative investigative foray into the critically important water dimension of the still mostly opaque mechanisms of political and social adjustments underway in the course of China's technological, economic, and geographic modernization. -- Baruch Boxer * H-Water *Mertha's tales of water warriors, the proponents and critics of the river dam projects in northwestern China, provide a vantage point into China's social and political changes in the last two decades. Both the stories and the theoretical messages are refreshing to readers interested in state-society relations, policymaking processes, and citizen mobilization in contemporary China. Mertha's work has led us to a higher platform for China watching. * Mobilization *Table of ContentsPreface1 China's Hydraulic Society? 2 Actors, Interests, and Issues at Stake 3 From Policy Confl ict to Political Showdown: The Failure at Pubugou 4 From Economic Development to Cultural Heritage: Expanding the Sphere at Dujiangyan 5 The Nu River Project and the Middle Ground of Political Pluralization 6 A Kinder, Gentler "Fragmented Authoritarianism"?Index
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Cornell University Press Radicals on the Road Internationalism
Book SynopsisWu analyzes how interactions among people from the U.S. and several East and Southeast Asian nations inspired transnational identities and multiracial coalitions that challenged political commitments during the Vietnam War era.Trade ReviewRadicals on the Road makes several contributions. First, it highlights the experiences of a much broader range of social actors than is usually portrayed in most of the existing literature. The book's focus on nonstate actors from diverse background who created partnerships—some successful and some quite challenging— provides valuable insight into how ideological and physical boundaries can be crossed. Second, these cases demonstrate how international travel sparked contributions to a variety of social movements, answering questions about participation, motivation, retention, and experiences in the aftermath of collective action. Finally, Radicals on the Road is a wonderful example of careful and rigorous scholarship that avoids simplistic narratives of failed partnerships or accolades to global sisterhood. Instead, it delves head first into the complexities of creating national and transnational partnerships among diverse communities for a unified goal. This contribution to me is by far the largest. In Wu's studies, social actors are never painted in black and white but rather taken in their social and historical context, illuminating what was at stake in arguments, divisions and failed partnerships and what worked in relationships that overcame such challenges. -- Nicky Fox * Mobilization *"By expanding the geopolitical framework and focalizing on the "political partnerships" between social activists of different nationalracialethnicgenderand religious backgroundsWu makes more complex the picture of social activism during the Vietnam era. In additionby focusingon travelWu shows how the discursive registers of race and gender also shift across space as they are produced and reproduced in different contexts and for different political purposes." —Quyne Nhu Le * Journal of Asian American Studies *Judy Tzu-Chun Wu has taken the theory of orientalism and applied it in a fascinating way to her study of U.S. anticolonial activists who traveled to Asia during the Vietnam War. She has combined thorough research and sophisticated analysis with lively prose to create a work that will impress an academic audience but also engage a broad readership. Wu's study undoubtedly will inspire future scholarship, including work that explores the complicated realities of the nations that the Anti-Imperialist Delegation and other U.S. activists idealized. -- Heather Marie Stur * The American Historical Review *Judy Tzu-Chun Wu's book Radicals on the Road is a valuable contribution to the growing literature on the varied and unpredictable circuits of U.S. internationalism. In particular, she privileges the role of African American, Asian American, and feminist activists in shaping an alternate vision of 'Asia,' and she argues that in the 1960s and 1970s, antiwar proponents adopted their own 'radical orientalism.'...Wu’s work opens the pathways for new research, particularly on Asian American, African American, and women’s roles in the antiwar movement...Wu’s work simultaneously respects her subjects’ radical pasts while also recognizing the limitations of their 'radical Orientalism.' In the end, antiwar activists’ 'radical orientalism' and romantic views of Asia continued to demonstrate far more about U.S. racial and political culture than they ever could reveal about the far more chaotic and contested politics of revolutionary movements in Southeast Asia. -- Jana K. Lipman * Journal of American Ethnic History *Wu seeks to broaden perspectives on the movement that opposed US involvement in Indochina, offering a racially rooted, gendered, and internationalist perspective.... A valuable work. * Choice *A dazzling contribution. Its focus is encounters between North American activists and East Asian peoples during the Vietnam War, often through travel to the 'enemy' nations of North Vietnam and communist China. Documenting both literal and ideological journeys, Tzu-ChunWu demonstrates the prominent place of East Asia in the imaginary of the American left. Activist attitudes toward Asia were developed through particular lenses of nation, race, ethnicity, and gender. These lenses encouraged Americans' sense of connection to Asian peoples, while often deeply dividing activists among themselves. Chronicling this dynamic with remarkable detail, Tzu-Chun Wu offers an impressive account of both the power and perils of the categories of belonging and analysis animating the American left. -- Jeremy Varon * The Sixties *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Journeys for Peace Chapter 1. An African American Abroad Chapter 2. Afro-Asian Alliances Chapter 3. Searching for Home and PeacePart II: Journeys for Liberation Chapter 4. Anticitizens, Red Diaper Babies, and Model Minorities Chapter 5. A Revolutionary Pilgrimage Chapter 6. The Belly of the BeastPart III: Journeys for Global Sisterhood Chapter 7. "We Met the 'Enemy'— and They Are Our Sisters" Chapter 8. War at a Peace Conference Chapter 9. Woman WarriorsLegacies: Journeys of ReconciliationAcknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Contending with Stalinism
Book SynopsisResistance has become an important and controversial analytical category for the study of Stalinism. The opening of Soviet archives allows historians an unprecedented look at the fabric of state and society in the 1930s. Researchers long spellbound by...Trade ReviewDrawing extensively on archival research, the contributors demonstrate the wide variation of popular responses to actions initiated by the Stalinist state.... Contending with Stalinism is an important work that is well grounded both theoretically and empirically. The combination of theoretical sophistication and empirical research makes this volume a significant contribution to our understanding of both the Stalinist phenomenon and popular responses to it. -- Robert Owen Krikorian, George Washington University * Journal of Cold War Studies *Viola's elucidating introduction and essay map out the slipperiness of the concept of resistance, noting the need to contextualize action and intent, and state perceptions and prescriptions. The seven excellent essays illustrate how opposition to the regime in the early 1930s could be overt... or existential, that is, simply by living in a minority culture.... Some Soviets were clearly defiant; others were defined by the regime as deviant and thus disloyal.... The Viola collection shows that in the early 1930s organized opposition was still possible, although ultimately futile. -- Patricia Herlihy, Brown University * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *Contending with Stalinism certainly adds to the continuing discussion of state-society relations.... Viola rightly remarks that the term Stalinism lacks explanatory or causal force; it is necessary to look closely at how people in and outside the governing apparatus behaved. We should hope that this point and the fine research presented here in its support increasingly find their way into textbooks, western civilization classes, and finally the attitudes of the educated public. -- Robert W. Thurston, Miami University * Slavic Review *Drawing on a wealth of recently available archival materials, the contributors to this volume greatly enhance our understanding of the 1930s and give us a clearer sense of the size and content of popular resistance under Stalin. Based on solid research, this volume makes a substantive scholarly contribution in illuminating forms of popular resistance with new detail and fresh perspective. -- Kate Transchel, California State University, Chico * Russian Review *
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Johns Hopkins University Press Democracy and the Rise of Womens Movements in
Book SynopsisIn demonstrating how women's activism is evolving with and shaping democratization across the region, Democracy and the Rise of Women's Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa reveals how women's social movements are challenging the barriers created by colonization and dictatorships in Africa and beyond.Trade ReviewA groundbreaking chronicle... Highly recommended for both public and college library collections. Midwest Book Review 2008 Fallon's work presents an insightful distillation of a large and important set of events and issues. I am impressed with the stages she proposes as critical turning points in the evolution of the women's movement in Sub-Saharan Africa and specific evidence she provides to describe those periods and their transitions. Contemporary Sociology All scholars of social movements and comparative politics, and in particular by specialists in African studies and gender and politics, should read Fallon's book. It is a model of the power of a well-grounded case study that pushes scholarship toward broader implications. International Studies Review Fallon makes an important contribution to understanding democratization and the experiences of sub-Saharan African women's movements. This work will undoubtedly spur discussion among scholars of women and democratization, and future comparative studies of women's mobilization in sub-Saharan Africa will build on this solid foundation. -- Julie Kaye Canadian Journal of Sociology 2009 Democracy and the Rise of Women's Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa deepens our understanding of the African women's activism that coincided with democratization across the continent in the 1990s and 2000s. -- Gretchen Bauer African Studies Review 2009 An important contribution to the literature [that] should be included in college and university libraries. Choice 2009 An engaging and thought-provoking read and a welcome contribution to our thinking about women's emerging political roles and opportunities. -- Andrea Brown Journal of Modern African Studies 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Acronyms1. Reclaiming Power2. Queenmothers, Colonization, and the Struggle for Legitimacy3. Democracy in Perspective4. The Iron Fist5. Capturing Democracy6. Big Men, Small Girls, and the Politics of Power7. Women on the MoveAppendix A: MethodsAppendix B: Survey DataNotesReferencesIndex
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University of Toronto Press Human Welfare Rights and Social Activism
Book SynopsisTaken as a whole, these essays pursue a careful consideration of the historical and contemporary exclusions to polity that occur around gender, ethnicity, class, and race.Trade Review'A broad readership will be drawn to this book. It will be of interest not only to people wanting to know more about Woodsworth or the &lduo;history of the left&rduo; but also to anyone interested in making another, better, world possible through collective action.' -- Karen Bridget Murray BC Studies, no. 172, Winter 2011/12Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Contributors * A Common Interest? Refl ections on the Social Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth and the Contemporary Politics of Social Change in Canada by Jane Pulkingham * The Historical Woodsworth and Contemporary Politics by Allen Mills (University of Winnipeg) * Labour Rights in an Interregnum: The Ambiguous Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth by Eeric Tucker (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University) * The Changing Struggle for Rights: A Critical Look at the Origins and Fate of Human Rights by Gary Teeple (Simon Fraser University) * Social Rights Are Human Rights: Furthering the Democratic Project by Hugh Shewell (Carleton University) * Human Rights and Poverty: A Twenty-First Century Tribute to J.S. Woodsworth and Call for Human Rights by Gwen Brodsky (Poverty and Human Rights Centre, Vancouver) * Human Needs above Property Rights? Rethinking the Woodsworth Legacy in an Era of Economic Globalization by David Schneiderman (University of Toronto) * Zones of Abandonment: The Cultural Politics of Public Health in Vancouver's Inner City by Denielle Elliott (University of British Columbia) *'Re-construction' from the Viewpoint of Precarious Labour: The Practice of Solidarity by Geraldina Polanco (University of British Columbia) and Cecily Nicholson (Downtown Eastside Women's Center and Shelter, Vancouver) * J.S. Woodsworth and the Discourse of White Civility by Daniel Coleman (McMaster University) * Embodied Memory: Universal Citizenship and Indigenous Cree Identity by Neal McLeod (Trent University) * Canadians of Tomorrow: J.S. Woodsworth and the New Ethnicities by David Chariandy (Simon Fraser University) Index
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Stanford University Press Activism Inc.
Book SynopsisAn unprecedented look at grassroots level progressive politics, the connection between the young people canvassing on the streets and the national organizations, the different strategies of the Right and the Left, and what happens to the passionate young activists outsourced to the clients of Activism, Inc.Trade Review"This book describes how grassroots politics has withered and what must be done to revive it. A timely message for America in the 21st century."—Former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley"Fisher has written an inspiring and insightful study of the crisis of left-leaning civic live in modern America... her diligent, non-judgmental primary research overturns every half-baked and ill-formed prejudice that ha been spouted about 'middle America' on both sides of the pond."—Spiked Review of Books"Dana Fishers Activism, Inc. is an extraordinarily important and incisive book, both readable and extremely well informed. An insiders look at todays civic activism and Democratic Party campaigns, it could well catalyze a national debate on the future and nature of progressive politics."—Harry C. Boyte, Co-Director, Center for Democracy and Citizenship, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs"What a delicious political irony! Progressivism, champion of the little person, has organized its grassroots outreach like a 19th-century meat-packing plant, burning out young workers with low pay, long hours, and regimented, alienating working conditions. In this imminently readable, insightful volume, Dana Fisher brings us face to face with this counterintuitive state of affairs. Conservatives may draw some comfort from it. But as Americans, we should all be alarmed at the pitiless strip-mining of our young peoples idealism."—William A. Schambra, Director, Bradley Center for Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, Hudson Institute"An original grass roots critique as to why progressive citizen groups and the Democratic Party are failing to prevail and weakening themselves. Dana Fisher argues that you cannot outsource democratic movements. Listen up, national progressive groups, Fishers insights are lighting up the path to greater effectiveness. Democrats also would be well advised to put this book at the top of their reading list. That is, if they want to understand better how to win elections."—Ralph Nader"For idealistic young progressives today, there is basically only one paid entry-level job left in politics: canvassing. Dana R. Fisher is the first to study this crucial formative experience. Essentially, she finds that the canvass is an alienating and undemocratic experience. As a result, we are squandering the energy and ideas of a whole generation. Whats more, a progressive movement that relies on regimented canvassing is doomed to defeat because it lacks an authentic connection with citizens. Unless we take seriously the rigorous evidence and acute arguments of Activism, Inc., the future looks grim."—Peter Levine, Director, CIRCLE (The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement), University of Maryland"This is a provocative and sobering account of progressive politics in contemporary America enlivened by the stories of the no-longer so idealistic young canvassers. A must read for anyone who believes that youth activism inevitably deepens ones commitment to civic participation and who cares about the health and well-being of grass roots politics in the United States."—Doug McAdam, Stanford University, author of Freedom Summer"Few scholars have taken such a close look at the individuals involved in progressive activism and their backgrounds, motivations, and experiences, which makes Fisher's work an important contribution to the study of social movements. Required reading for anyone considering a summer job trying to change the world."—Library Journal"For a charmingly recherch complaint, check out Activism, Inc. by Dana R. Fisher. Fisher, who teaches sociology at Columbia, is upset about the professionalization of grass-roots campaigning, which she believes has sliced the bottom rung off the political ladder and keeps inspired young people from entering politics and pointing it in a more salubrious direction." —The New York Times Book Review"A new and hotly debated book by Columbia University sociologist Dana Fisher documents the fact that most liberal political groups have dismantled their grassroots operations since the mid-'90s and subcontracted their activism to a small group of for-profit and nonprofit companies."—Wall Street JournalTable of ContentsCONTENTS @toc4:Acknowledgments vii Preface xxx @toc2:1 The Man, The Message, and The Members: The 3Ms of Politics in America Today 1 2 Institutionalizing Activism: The People's Project 000 3 Making a Difference as a Canvasser: Jobs with a Conscience 000 4 Outsourcing Activism: Politics and the Bottom Line 000 5 Laying Sod vs. Cultivating the Grass: A Post- Mortem on the 2004 Election 000 6 Where Do We Go from Here? The Future of Grassroots Politics in America? 000 @toc4:Appendix: Research Methods Used in Data Collection and Comparing Canvassers to a National Sample 000 Notes 000 References 000 Index 000
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Frank Little and the IWW The Blood That Stained
Book SynopsisFranklin Henry Little (1878-1917) fought in some of the early twentieth century's most contentious labour and free-speech struggles. Following his lynching in Butte, Montana, his life and legacy became shrouded in tragedy and secrets. Jane Little Botkin chronicles her great-granduncle's fascinating life.Trade ReviewThis beautifully written account is also family history at its best. This book deserves to be read as much for its creative methodology as for its fascinating narrative. Insightful and highly recommended."" - Carlos A. Schwantes, author of Radical Heritage: Labor, Socialism and Reform""Botkin explores the life of Frank Little, a prominent member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) during its radical effort to organize laborers in the early 20th century. . . compelling and informative, even for those unfamiliar with the IWW and labor struggles of the time."" - Library Journal""Both a work of history and biography. . .Little's is, above all else, a human story about a man who fought for justice and fair treatment for workers, and paid the ultimate price for that fight."" - Foreword Reviews
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LSU Press We Came to Rebuild New Orleans
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Northwestern University Press Beyond Disaster
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University of Pennsylvania Press Everyday Politics
Book SynopsisTrade Review"As Mark Twain said about the weather, everybody talks about the need for a new politics of participation and deliberation, but nobody does anything about it. Harry Boyte has. Through a combination of experience, political analysis, and philosophy, he shows us how 'everyday politics' can actually improve people's lives." * Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University, and editor of Perspectives on Politics *"Boyte's novel take on the burgeoning efforts to renew civic life is a must-read for scholars and community-based practitioners alike who are recreating work-centered commonwealth traditions in an information age." * David Mathews, President, Kettering Foundation *"An upbeat appraisal of how citizens have formed community organizations that have tackled local issues-crime, economic development-that government policies along could not address. This worthy antidote for political apathy includes several case studies of successful civic organizations." * Foreword Magazine *"This is a wonderful book for anyone with a concern about the failings of the present political system and culture and a need to explore ways to offset them. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Harry Boyte and the Center for Democracy and Citizenship have without doubt exercised the premier intellectual leadership role in the movement for civic renewal in the U.S. over the past decade. In Everyday Politics, Boyte describes their approach." * Carmen Sirianni, coauthor of Civic Innovation in America *Table of ContentsPreface. Developing a Theory and Practice of Everyday Politics Chapter 1. The Stirrings of a New Politics Chapter 2. Populisms Chapter 3. The Growth of Everyday Politics Chapter 4. Citizenship as Public Work Chapter 5. Citizen Education as a Craft, not a Program Chapter 6. The Jane Addams School for Democracy Chapter 7. Professions as Public Work Chapter 8. Architects of Democracy Chapter 9. Spreading Everyday Politics Chapter 10. The Commonwealth of Freedom Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Public Discourse in America
Book SynopsisTaking a comprehensive look at institutional and leadership practices in recent public debates over a variety of hot button public policy issues, Public Discourse in America outlines how such conversations can be used to reintegrate our fragmented communities and bridge barriers of difference and hostility among communities and individuals.Trade Review"Substantively illuminating, this book casts new light on a range of important issues. Highly recommended." * Cass R. Sunstein *Table of ContentsPrologue: The Work of the Penn National Commission —Judith Rodin Introduction: Incivility and Public Discourse —Judith Rodin and Stephen P. Steinberg PART ONE. PUBLIC DISCOURSE AND DEMOCRACY 1. The Thinning of American Political Culture —Thomas Bender 2. Primary Tensions in American Public Life —Robert H. Wiebe 3. Deliberative Democracy and Public Discourse —David M. Ryfe PART TWO. CHALLENGES OF PUBLIC DISCOURSE: TALKING ABOUT RACE 4. Affirmative Action and the Culture of Intolerance —Christopher Edley, Jr 5. The North American —Richard Rodriguez 6. Sports and Public Behavior —Richard Lapchick 7. Performance, Debate, or Productive Conversation? Imagining an Exemplary Conversation on Race —Drew Gilpin Faust and Members of the Penn National Commission PART THREE. LEADING THE PUBLIC'S CONVERSATION: STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY DISCOURSE LEADERSHIP 8. Leadership in a Complex Democratic Society —Michael Schudson 9. Political Leadership in the Great Health Care Debate of 1993-1994 —Derek Bok 10. Part of Our World: Journalism as Civic Leadership —Jay Rosen 11. Modeling Public Discourse in Popular Culture —Neal Gabler PART FOUR: DISCOURSE OF RECONCILIATION: TRUTH, APOLOGY, AND FORGIVENESS 12. Creating a National Discourse: Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa —Alex Boraine 13. Political Apologies and Public Discourse —Graham G. Dodds PART FIVE: Thickening Public Discourse: Principles and Practices 14. The Principles of Public Discourse: What Is Good Public Discourse? —David M. Ryfe 15. A Paradox of Public Discourse and Political Democracy —Neil Smelser 16. The Practice of Public Discourse: A Study of Sixteen Discourse Organizations —David M. Ryfe 17. Lessons from the Field: Practitioner Perspectives on Public Discourse Programs —Jay Rosen and Members of the Penn National Commission PART SIX: CREATING COMMUNITY THROUGH PUBLIC DISCOURSE 18. Building Community in the Twenty-First Century —Joyce Appleby 19. The Myth of Academic Community —Don M. Randel 20. The University as Discourse Community —Judith Rodin 21. Creating Community in Cyberspace: Criteria for a Discourse Technology Project —Stephen P. Steinberg Epilogue: The Centrality of Public Discourse —Stephen P. Steinberg Notes Contributors Bibliography Index Members of the Penn National Commission on Society, Culture and Community Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Lucretia Motts Heresy
Book SynopsisLucretia Mott was a central figure in the interconnected struggles for racial and sexual equality in nineteenth-century America. This biography, the first in thirty years, focuses on Mott's long and controversial public career as an abolitionist, women's rights activist, and Quaker minister.Trade Review"This is the first biography of Mott in thirty years, and it proves to be thoroughly researched, well written, and fascinating. Faulkner's accessible writing style makes this book appropriate for any reader interested in women's history generally or the history of the U.S. abolitionist and women's suffrage movements." * Library Journal *"Mott did not make her biographer's task easy; except for a three- month period in 1840, she kept no diary, and although, like her compatriot Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she often spoke publicly, unlike Stanton, she seldom wrote for publication. Faulkner has more than met the challenge; her book is interesting and well written, offering fresh perspectives at every turn on Mott's roles within Quakerism and the antislavery and women's rights movements while also providing glimpses of her personal life. . . . With this timely book, Faulkner makes a compelling case for Mott's contemporary significance." * Journal of American History *"This much-needed, coherently argued, and beautifully written biography does justice to Mott's centrality to the history of antislavery, woman's rights, Quakerism, and Philadelphia." * Lori D. Ginzberg, author of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life *"Lucretia Mott is as important to the birth of the women's rights movement as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Sophisticated, lively, direct, and often riveting, Lucretia Mott's Heresy will be the definitive biography of Mott for decades to come." * Bruce Dorsey, author of Reforming Men and Women: Gender in the Antebellum City *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Heretic and Saint 1 Nantucket 2 Nine Partners 3 Schism 4 Immediate Abolition 5 Pennsylvania Hall 6 Abroad 7 Crisis 8 The Year 1848 9 Conventions 10 Fugitives 11 Civil War 12 Peace Epilogue Notes Index Acknowledgments Gallery appears after page 108
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University of Pennsylvania Press Messengers of the Right
Book SynopsisFrom Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to Glenn Beck and Matt Drudge, Americans are accustomed to thinking of right-wing media as integral to contemporary conservatism. But today''s well-known personalities make up the second generation of broadcasting and publishing activists. Messengers of the Right tells the story of the little-known first generation.Beginning in the late 1940s, activists working in media emerged as leaders of the American conservative movement. They not only started an array of enterprises—publishing houses, radio programs, magazines, book clubs, television shows—they also built the movement. They coordinated rallies, founded organizations, ran political campaigns, and mobilized voters. While these media activists disagreed profoundly on tactics and strategy, they shared a belief that political change stemmed not just from ideas but from spreading those ideas through openly ideological communications channels.In Messengers of the RTrade Review"Nicole Hemmer's well-researched and well-argued book Messengers of the Right . . . [emphasizes] the contributions of three 'media activists' who helped give coherence to the midcentury right: the radio host and political organizer Clarence Manion, the book publisher Henry Regnery, and the longtime National Review publisher William A. Rusher. Hemmer convincingly shows how all three helped pioneer the ideologically charged conservative media of our own time." * The New York Review of Books *"In recent decades, American politics has been transformed by the explosion of right-wing media outlets-from Rush Limbaugh and talk radio to Roger Ailes and Fox News to countless publishing imprints, websites, and little magazines. With Messengers of the Right, historian Nicole Hemmer has written the single best book to date about the roots and growth of the ideas and networks underneath it all. Deeply researched, subtly argued, and lucidly and often humorously written, this first-rate work of scholarship instantly joins the must-read list for any student of the history of conservatism, the history of modern media, or indeed the history of the polarized political culture in which we find ourselves today." * David Greenberg, author of Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency *"Read Nicole Hemmer's superb new book, and you'll never see 'liberal mainstream media' in the same way again. With rigorous research and sparkling prose, Messengers of the Right tells the fascinating stories of the people whose core convictions and communications artistry helped create modern conservatism. This is political history-and American history-at its finest." * Margaret O'Mara, University of Washington *Table of ContentsPreface PART I. NETWORKS Chapter 1. The Outsiders Chapter 2. The Outlets Chapter 3. The Obstacles PART II. LEADERS Chapter 4. The Movement Chapter 5. The Millstone Chapter 6. The Muzzle PART III. ELECTIONS Chapter 7. The Purists Chapter 8. The Partisans Chapter 9. The Pivot PART IV. ADAPTATIONS Chapter 10. The Compromise Chapter 11. The Contraction Chapter 12. The Comeback Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Radical Pacifism in Modern America
Book SynopsisRadical Pacifism in Modern America traces cycles of success and decline in the radical wing of the American peace movement, an egalitarian strain of pacifism that stood at the vanguard of antimilitarist organizing and American radical dissent from 1940 to 1970.Using traditional archival material and oral history sources, Marian Mollin examines how gender and race shaped and limited the political efforts of radical pacifist women and men, highlighting how activists linked pacifism to militant masculinity and privileged the priorities of its predominantly white members. In spite of the invisibility that this framework imposed on activist women, the history of this movement belies accounts that relegate women to the margins of American radicalism and mixed-sex political efforts. Motivated by a strong egalitarianism, radical pacifist women rejected separatist organizing strategies and, instead, worked alongside men at the front lines of the struggle to construct a new paradTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: The War for Total Brotherhood Chapter 2: The Peacemakers' Alternative Vision Chapter 3: Familialism and the Struggle Against the Bomb Chapter 4: Reviving the Compact of Brotherhood Chapter 5: Reversing the Traditional Pattern Chapter 6: No Bars to Manhood Conclusion Acknowledgments
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