Political activism / Political engagement Books
Bristol University Press Living Against Austerity: A Feminist
Book SynopsisWith austerity’s disproportionately heavy impact on women now apparent, this engaging book considers activism against it from a feminist perspective. Emma Craddock goes deep inside activist culture to explore the many cultural and emotional dimensions of political participation. She questions what motivates and sustains protest, considering the enabling aspects of solidarity and empathy, as well as the constraining factors of negative emotions and gendered barriers associated with activism, examining the role of gender and emotion within protest. This is a lived-in study that gets to the heart of what it means to be an anti-austerity activist and an important addition to social justice debate.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Establishing Context A Critical Review of Social Movement Theory: Gender and Emotion in Activist Cultures The Empirical and Political Context of Anti-Austerity Activism Part II: Doing Activism: Enabling and Constraining Factors The Affective, the Normative and the Everyday: Exploring What Motivates and Sustains Anti-Austerity Activism Barriers to Doing Activism PART III: Being Activist: The Activist Identity and Its Problems The Authentic and Ideal Activist Identities: Having the ‘Right’ Motivation and Doing ‘Enough’ of the ‘Right’ Type of Activism The Dark Side of Activist Culture and its Gendered Dimension Part IV: Concluding Remarks Subverting/Reinforcing Neoliberal Capitalism: The Complex Ambivalence of Anti-Austerity Activism References Appendix
£25.64
Bristol University Press Cultural Sexism: The politics of feminist rage in
Book SynopsisHow does gendered power work? How does it circulate? How does it become embedded? And most importantly, how can we challenge it? Heather Savigny highlights five key traits of cultural sexism – violence, silencing, disciplining, meritocracy and masculinity – prevalent across the media, entertainment and cultural industries that keep sexist values firmly within popular consciousness. She traces the development of key feminist thinkers before demonstrating how the normalization of misogyny in popular media, culture, news and politics perpetuates patriarchal values within our everyday social and cultural landscape. She argues that we need to understand why #MeToo was necessary in the first place in order to bring about impactful, lasting and meaningful change.Table of ContentsIntroduction: From Waves to Tsunamis Repoliticizing Sexism Media Merit Silence Discipline Violence Conclusion: The Politics of Feminist Rage Appendix: Practical Steps to Overcoming Cultural Sexism
£20.89
Bristol University Press Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia: An
Book SynopsisThis is a nuanced and compelling analysis of grassroots feminist activism in Russia in the politically turbulent 2010s. Drawing on rich ethnographic data, the author illustrates how a new generation of activists chose feminism as their main political beacon, and how they negotiated the challenges of authoritarian and conservative trends. As we witness a backlash against feminism on a global scale with the rise of neoconservative governments, this highly relevant book decentres Western theory and concepts of feminism and social movements, offering significant insights into how resistance can mobilize and invent creative tactics to cope with an increasingly repressed space for independent political action.Table of ContentsIntroduction Fifteen Cases of Disability Hate Crime From Hate Crime to Disability Hate Crime Agenda Triggering Agenda Development Towards Agenda Institutionalization? The Problem with the Current Agenda: Focus on Vulnerability An Agenda Item Yet to Fully Speak Its Name: Ableism and Disability Hate Crime Conclusion
£76.00
Bristol University Press Alternative Societies: For a Pluralist Socialism
Book SynopsisIn a time of great gloom and doom internationally and of major global problems, this book offers an invaluable contribution to our understanding of alternative societies that could be better for humans and the environment. Bringing together a wide range of approaches and new strands of economic and social thinking from across the US, Mexico, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Middle East and Africa, Luke Martell critically assesses contemporary alternatives and shows the ways forward with a convincing argument of pluralist socialism. Presenting a much-needed introduction to the debate on alternatives to capitalism, this ambitious book is not about how things are but how they can be!Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Alternative Economies 2. Social Alternatives 3. Utopianism and its Critics 4. Socialism and its Critics 5. The Democratic Economy 6. Alternative Globalization Conclusion
£72.00
Bristol University Press The Ethics of Hacking
Book SynopsisPolitical hackers, like the infamous Anonymous collective, have demonstrated their willingness to use political violence to further their agendas. However, many of their causes – targeting terrorist groups, fighting for LGBTQ+ rights, and protecting people’s freedom of expression, autonomy and privacy – are intuitively good things to fight for. This book will create a new framework that argues that when the state fails to protect people, hackers can intervene and evaluates the hacking based on the political or social circumstances. It highlights the space for hackers to operate as legitimate actors; guides hacker activity by detailing what actions are justified toward what end; outlines mechanisms to aid hackers in reaching ethically justified decisions; and directs the political community on how to react to these political hackers. Applying this framework to the most pivotal hacking operations within the last two decades, including the Arab Spring, police brutality in the USA and the Nigerian and Ugandan governments’ announcements of homophobic legislation, it offers a unique contribution to conceptualising hacking as a contemporary political activity.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Hacks, Hackers and Political Hacking 2. An Ethical Framework for Hacking Operations 3. Political Autonomy, the Arab Spring and Anonymous 4. Leaks: From Whistleblowing to Doxxing 5. Correcting the Failure of the State 6. Looking Back, Moving Forward Conclusion
£72.00
Bristol University Press The Internet Left: Ideology in the Age of Social
Book SynopsisDefying the current pessimistic narrative, this book challenges the prevailing assumptions that the political Left is spent, hopeful ideological discourse has collapsed and social media has corroded public debates about politics. Instead, the book argues that ideological activism remains vibrant on the Left, but there is currently no clear way of recognising and analysing this phenomenon. The book fills this gap by first defining what political social media is and then by taking a morphological approach to investigating political ideologies and revealing the ways in which interconnected concepts are arranged. It concludes by coining the term ‘proto-ideologies’ to approach the construction of concepts that generate ideologies in the making.Trade Review"A masterful analysis of left-wing discourse in the age of social media. This book provides an ultimately uplifting account of political social media, contrary to the widespread accusations that it is damaging public debate." Remi Adekoya, University of YorkTable of ContentsPart I 1. Introduction 2. Chaos, Crisis, Decline, Contention 3. ‘A Largeness of Vision and Imagination’: Marxism and Socialism 4. Proto-Ideologies Part II 5. Democratic Marxist Nationalism 6. Identitarian Socialism 7. Contention 8. Conclusion
£72.00
Fordham University Press Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the
Book SynopsisProvides unique insight into Reconstruction’s downfall and Jim Crow’s emergence. In the years and decades following the American Civil War, veteran abolitionists actively thought and wrote about the campaign to end enslavement immediately. This study explores the late-in-life reflections of several antislavery memorial and historical writers, evaluating the stable and shifting meanings of antebellum abolitionism amidst dramatic changes in postbellum race relations. By investigating veteran abolitionists as movement chroniclers and commemorators and situating their texts within various contexts, Raymond James Krohn further assesses the humanitarian commitments of activists who had valued themselves as the enslaved people’s steadfast friends. Never solely against slavery, post-1830 abolitionism challenged widely held anti-Black prejudices as well. Dedicated to emancipating the enslaved and elevating people of color, it equipped adherents with the necessary linguistic resources to wage a valiant, sustained philanthropic fight. Abolitionist Twilights focuses on how the status and condition of the freedpeople and their descendants affected book-length representations of antislavery persons and events. In probing veteran– abolitionist engagement in or disengagement from an ongoing African American freedom struggle, this ambitious volume ultimately problematizes scholarly understandings of abolitionism’s racial justice history and legacy.Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Is Abolitionism Now? From the Disposition of the AASS to the Determinants of Abolitionist History | 1 1 Antislavery Moderated: Samuel Joseph May and the Lessons of Respectable Reform | 19 2 Antislavery Elevated: William Wells Brown and the Purpose of Black Activism | 45 3 Antislavery Vindicated: Oliver Johnson and the Value of Abolitionism’s Grand Old Party | 72 4 Antislavery Sanctified: Parker Pillsbury and the Spirit of Abolitionism in the Fields | 100 5 A Tale of Two Slaveries: Aaron Macy Powell and the Transfiguration of Abolitionism | 125 6 Songs of Innocence and Experience: Thomas Wentworth Higginson and the Abdication of Abolitionism | 154 7 What Was Antislavery For? From the Disbandment of the AASS to the Determination of Abolitionist Women | 191 Coda: Complicated Legacies | 219 Acknowledgments | 221 Notes | 225 Index | 269
£95.20
Fordham University Press Abolitionist Twilights: History, Meaning, and the
Book SynopsisProvides unique insight into Reconstruction’s downfall and Jim Crow’s emergence. In the years and decades following the American Civil War, veteran abolitionists actively thought and wrote about the campaign to end enslavement immediately. This study explores the late-in-life reflections of several antislavery memorial and historical writers, evaluating the stable and shifting meanings of antebellum abolitionism amidst dramatic changes in postbellum race relations. By investigating veteran abolitionists as movement chroniclers and commemorators and situating their texts within various contexts, Raymond James Krohn further assesses the humanitarian commitments of activists who had valued themselves as the enslaved people’s steadfast friends. Never solely against slavery, post-1830 abolitionism challenged widely held anti-Black prejudices as well. Dedicated to emancipating the enslaved and elevating people of color, it equipped adherents with the necessary linguistic resources to wage a valiant, sustained philanthropic fight. Abolitionist Twilights focuses on how the status and condition of the freedpeople and their descendants affected book-length representations of antislavery persons and events. In probing veteran– abolitionist engagement in or disengagement from an ongoing African American freedom struggle, this ambitious volume ultimately problematizes scholarly understandings of abolitionism’s racial justice history and legacy.Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Is Abolitionism Now? From the Disposition of the AASS to the Determinants of Abolitionist History | 1 1 Antislavery Moderated: Samuel Joseph May and the Lessons of Respectable Reform | 19 2 Antislavery Elevated: William Wells Brown and the Purpose of Black Activism | 45 3 Antislavery Vindicated: Oliver Johnson and the Value of Abolitionism’s Grand Old Party | 72 4 Antislavery Sanctified: Parker Pillsbury and the Spirit of Abolitionism in the Fields | 100 5 A Tale of Two Slaveries: Aaron Macy Powell and the Transfiguration of Abolitionism | 125 6 Songs of Innocence and Experience: Thomas Wentworth Higginson and the Abdication of Abolitionism | 154 7 What Was Antislavery For? From the Disbandment of the AASS to the Determination of Abolitionist Women | 191 Coda: Complicated Legacies | 219 Acknowledgments | 221 Notes | 225 Index | 269
£26.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Women's Activism and Feminist Agency in
Book SynopsisA pioneering study of women's movements in two developing-world revolutions and post-revolutionary transitions to neo-liberal democraciesTrade Review"Women's Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua provides a compelling account of women's contributions to revolutionary struggle and social transformation in two nations, illuminating the enormity of the challenge posed by gender equality, the effects of revolution on women's and men's lives, and the increasing precariousness of social justice struggles in a globalizing world."—Mary Hawkesworth, Professor and Chair, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, and Editor in Chief, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and SocietyTable of ContentsList of Maps and Tables Preface Acknowledgements List of Acronyms 1. "Women Must Occupy and Give Themselves the Place They Deserve" Women's Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua 2. "After Acknowledging Differences, We Must Also See What We Have in Common" Feminist Contestations and Commonalities across First World/Third World, African, and Latin American Divides 3. "Doing a Revolution Doesn't Stop You from Being Machista" The Birth of Revolutionary Women's Organizations and the Limits of Marxism-Leninism in Mozambique and Nicaragua 4. "Women are Not Cows—We Are Active Agents of History" Autonomy Struggles Emerge in Mozambique and Nicaragua 5. "The Oppressed Woman Is Easier to Deal With" Political Participation, Legal Reforms, and Cultural Constraints in Mozambique and Nicaragua 6. "I Can Do Anything a Man Can Do" Military Participation, Economic Production, and Women's Emancipation in Mozambique and Nicaragua 7. "There Are No Alternatives: Is This Really Democracy?" Democratization and Civil Society in Mozambique and Nicaragua 8. "Partners in the Home, at Work, and on the Street" The Contemporary Women's Movements and Emergent Feminisms in Mozambique and Nicaragua Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£55.20
Temple University Press,U.S. Women's Activism and Feminist Agency in
Book SynopsisA pioneering study of women's movements in two developing-world revolutions and post-revolutionary transitions to neo-liberal democraciesTrade Review"Women's Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua provides a compelling account of women's contributions to revolutionary struggle and social transformation in two nations, illuminating the enormity of the challenge posed by gender equality, the effects of revolution on women's and men's lives, and the increasing precariousness of social justice struggles in a globalizing world."—Mary Hawkesworth, Professor and Chair, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, and Editor in Chief, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and SocietyTable of ContentsList of Maps and Tables Preface Acknowledgements List of Acronyms 1. "Women Must Occupy and Give Themselves the Place They Deserve" Women's Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua 2. "After Acknowledging Differences, We Must Also See What We Have in Common" Feminist Contestations and Commonalities across First World/Third World, African, and Latin American Divides 3. "Doing a Revolution Doesn't Stop You from Being Machista" The Birth of Revolutionary Women's Organizations and the Limits of Marxism-Leninism in Mozambique and Nicaragua 4. "Women are Not Cows—We Are Active Agents of History" Autonomy Struggles Emerge in Mozambique and Nicaragua 5. "The Oppressed Woman Is Easier to Deal With" Political Participation, Legal Reforms, and Cultural Constraints in Mozambique and Nicaragua 6. "I Can Do Anything a Man Can Do" Military Participation, Economic Production, and Women's Emancipation in Mozambique and Nicaragua 7. "There Are No Alternatives: Is This Really Democracy?" Democratization and Civil Society in Mozambique and Nicaragua 8. "Partners in the Home, at Work, and on the Street" The Contemporary Women's Movements and Emergent Feminisms in Mozambique and Nicaragua Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£26.09
Temple University Press,U.S. The Transnational Politics of Asian Americans
Book SynopsisDiscusses Asian Americans as a force for political change on both sides of the PacificTrade Review“The book conveys the sense that there is something dynamic, complex and compelling at work here when considering the transnational dimension of Asian American political lives. The reader is left with a sense as well that in looking at these questions for Asian Americans one is getting at least a glimpse at issues that will apply to a growing number of immigrant Americans from reaches other than Asia.”—Paul Watanabe, Director of the Institute for Asian American Studies, University of Massachusetts, BostonTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Foreword Acknowledgments 1. The Transnational Politics of Asian Americans: Controversies, Questions, ConvergencePART I: Asian States and Nationalisms in Asian American Politics: Then and Now 2. Dancing with the Rising Sun: Strategic Alliances between Japanese Immigrants and Their “Home” Government 3. Journeys of Discovery and Difference: Transnational Politics and the Union of Democratic Filipinos 4. Contested Nation: Vietnam and the Emergence of Saigon Nationalism in the United StatesPART II: The Practices and Sites of Asian American Transnational Politics 5. Transnational Dimensions of Community Empowerment: The Victories of Chanrithy Uong and Sam Yoon 6. Working Democracy: Transnational Repertoires of Citizenship among New Chinese Americans 7. The Limits of Transnational Mobilization: Indian American Lobby Groups and the India–U.S. Civil Nuclear Deal 8. Network Governance of Asian American Diasporic PoliticsPART III: Transnational Political Behavior and Asian American Identities 9. Like Latinos? Explaining the Transnational Political Behavior of Asian Americans 10. The Intersection of “Americanization” and “Racial Expansion”: Nisei Identity Politics in Prewar Hawai‘i 11. Does Transnational Living Preclude Pan-Ethnic Thinking? An Exploration of Asian American Identities Notes References About the Contributors Index
£26.99
New Village Press The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of
Book SynopsisIn this work, Carl Anthony shares his perspectives as an African-American child in post-World War II Philadelphia; a student and civil rights activist in 1960s Harlem; a traveling student of West African architecture; and an architect, planner, and environmental justice advocate in Berkeley. He contextualizes this within American urbanism and human origins, making profoundly personal both African American and American urban histories as well as planetary origins and environmental issues, to not only bring a new worldview to people of color, but to set forth a truly inclusive vision of our shared planetary future. The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race connects the logics behind slavery, community disinvestment, and environmental exploitation to address the most pressing issues of our time in a cohesive and foundational manner. Most books dealing with these topics and periods silo issues apart from one another, but this book contextualizes the connections between social movements and issues, providing tremendous insight into successful movement building. Anthony's rich narrative describes both being at the mercy of racism, urban disinvestment, and environmental injustice as well as fighting against these forces with a variety of strategies. Because this work is both a personal memoir and an exposition of ideas, it will appeal to those who appreciate thoughtful and unique writing on issues of race, including individuals exploring their own African American identity, as well as progressive audiences of organizations and community leaders and professionals interested in democratizing power and advancing equitable policies for low-income communities and historically disenfranchised communities.
£17.09
New Village Press Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central
Book SynopsisA feminist organizer in East Central Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall reveals the struggles of women fighting for their rights during the rise of the Right in Europe Visitors tells the story of Ann Snitow’s adventures as a Western feminist helping to build a new, post-communist feminist movement in Eastern Central Europe. Snitow stumbles onto this fast-changing, chaotic scene by chance, but falls in love with the passionate feminists she meets in Poland, the former Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, Hungary and Romania. What kinds of feminism should they hope for? Visitors is a book about forging enduring relationships and creating formerly unimaginable institutions—a feminist school, the Network of East-West Women, women’s centers, gender studies programs. It is about unity amid fractiousness and perseverance through uncertainty, Snitow’s flickering lodestar. Visitors moves gracefully between vivid anecdote, political analysis, and unsparing introspection. It is richly peopled with “brilliant” comrades and vexing detractors alike, all described with respect and humor. Every sentence is imbued with the experience and insight of this sui generis feminist activist, writer, and pedagogue of 50 years. Most of all, Visitors is the story of friendship, the heart and sinew of the leaderless feminist movement. Reading like the best historical novel, it is intimate and worldly, resolutely unsentimental yet finally, even as the political skies darken, optimistic in the conviction that feminism can make life meaningful, fascinating, fun, pleasurable—and better for everyone, even as better is redefined again and again.Trade Review"This is an inspired piece of personal journalism that takes us to Eastern Europe where we follow the social and political adventures, over a period of twenty five years, of one of the great feminists of the Second Wave. As Ann Snitow discovers the historic antagonism to women’s rights that marks the region, she also experiences the remarkably courageous women who are spending their lives fighting it. Richly informed, emotionally centered, beautiful written, Visitors is a book to be read by all who crave a deeper understanding of the times in which we live." -- Vivian Gornick"Ann Snitow’s extraordinary gifts for friendship and organizing spill off the pages of this illuminating memoir, which lights up a formerly obscure but important aspect of our history. The lucky reader gets to follow Ann and her new friends as they create a broad, potent network of feminist activists practically from scratch in the ruins of Soviet communism." -- Alix Shulman
£19.79
New Village Press Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central
Book SynopsisA feminist organizer in East Central Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall reveals the struggles of women fighting for their rights during the rise of the Right in Europe Visitors tells the story of Ann Snitow’s adventures as a Western feminist helping to build a new, post-communist feminist movement in Eastern Central Europe. Snitow stumbles onto this fast-changing, chaotic scene by chance, but falls in love with the passionate feminists she meets in Poland, the former Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, Hungary and Romania. What kinds of feminism should they hope for? Visitors is a book about forging enduring relationships and creating formerly unimaginable institutions—a feminist school, the Network of East-West Women, women’s centers, gender studies programs. It is about unity amid fractiousness and perseverance through uncertainty, Snitow’s flickering lodestar. Visitors moves gracefully between vivid anecdote, political analysis, and unsparing introspection. It is richly peopled with “brilliant” comrades and vexing detractors alike, all described with respect and humor. Every sentence is imbued with the experience and insight of this sui generis feminist activist, writer, and pedagogue of 50 years. Most of all, Visitors is the story of friendship, the heart and sinew of the leaderless feminist movement. Reading like the best historical novel, it is intimate and worldly, resolutely unsentimental yet finally, even as the political skies darken, optimistic in the conviction that feminism can make life meaningful, fascinating, fun, pleasurable—and better for everyone, even as better is redefined again and again.Trade Review"This is an inspired piece of personal journalism that takes us to Eastern Europe where we follow the social and political adventures, over a period of twenty five years, of one of the great feminists of the Second Wave. As Ann Snitow discovers the historic antagonism to women’s rights that marks the region, she also experiences the remarkably courageous women who are spending their lives fighting it. Richly informed, emotionally centered, beautiful written, Visitors is a book to be read by all who crave a deeper understanding of the times in which we live." -- Vivian Gornick"Ann Snitow’s extraordinary gifts for friendship and organizing spill off the pages of this illuminating memoir, which lights up a formerly obscure but important aspect of our history. The lucky reader gets to follow Ann and her new friends as they create a broad, potent network of feminist activists practically from scratch in the ruins of Soviet communism." -- Alix Shulman
£64.00
New Village Press Portraits of Racial Justice: Americans Who Tell
Book SynopsisA vivid portrait collection of past and present Americans speaking truth to power The first volume of Robert Shetterly's Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series, Portraits of Racial Justice takes a multimedia, interdisciplinary approach, blending art and history with today’s issues concerning social, environmental, and economic fairness. Shetterly's paintings, as well as profiles of those portrayed, illuminate a community of people not only willing to recognize the shortcomings of America’s history, but most importantly, individuals who offer their visions of a better world moving forward. Starting with Michelle Alexander and ending with Dave Zirin, the diverse array of fifty full-color portraits spans multiple generations and struggles. This volume also includes four original opening essays on racial justice in the United States by Ai-jen Poo, Dave Zirin, Sherri Mitchell, and Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr., which provide an intersectional response to the long-term goal of diversity and inclusion. As Shetterly says, “without activism, hope is merely sentimental.” Portraits of Racial Justice, Shetterly’s homage to transformative game-changers and status-quo fighters, provides the inspiration necessary to spark social change.Trade Review"The work of Robert Shetterly is the work of a brilliant artist who cares about a living, breathing democracy of the people, by the people, and for the people—and not being saddled to a brittle history of the past. Inspired by vibrant paths of engagement, Shetterly’s Portraits of Racial Justice is a loving chronicle of charismatic change in the name of transformative and passionate leadership across disciplines, race, gender, and beliefs. This project is more than a series of spirited portraits, it is a masterpiece of revolutionary ideas." -- Terry Tempest Williams"I'm lucky enough to know some of these great heroes, and can testify that Robert Shetterly has captured not just their likeness but their essence. These portraits inspire and comfort, reminding us of how many fine people have built our history, and how possible it is for the rest of us to emulate them." -- Bill McKibben"Situated powerfully and beautifully at the intersection of art and history, Portraits of Racial Justice: Americans Who Tell the Truth inspires, teaches, and captivates. The visually spectacular work highlighting the courage of Americans past and present who dared to advocate for a more just world serves as a reminder of the roads we have traveled and offers hope for future generations in the ongoing struggle for justice, human rights, equality, and equity. The individuals featured in this series and book demand integrity and compel us all to carry forward the work of past generations." -- LaVonda N. Reed"What history do you stand on? What future do you stand for? Robert Shetterly’s dazzling portraits cut through the gauzy cotton wool that entangles us, shake us awake from the deep American sleep of denial, and invite us to question the taken-for-granted as we rise up and move beyond the United States of Amnesia. Here are the peace-makers and the freedom fighters, the dissidents and dissenters, the loving rebels and the justice-seeking radicals—those who know that in an era of ‘alternate facts,’ duplicity and fraud, the simple truth can itself be revolutionary, and the fundamental, first questions can become our guide: Who are your people? Who do you claim? Where do we want to go?" -- Bill Ayers"This book is a fierce concentration of moral truth. It breaks down the borders of false supremacy—white, male, and otherwise—that too many people too easily accept as ‘reality.’ The heart of a sane future beats within." -- Bob Koehler"If you want inspiration in these challenging times, you could do no better than the portraits of patriots in Americans Who Tell the Truth. From leaders in the early days of the civil rights movement to the heroes and heroines in the current fight for racial justice, Rob Shetterly brings to life people whose work has been to build a more just world, and to whom we are all indebted." -- Cecile Richards"Teachers: Introduce your students to Robert Shetterly’s magnificent portraits of racial justice and invite young people to join the current of conscience that flows through our history. How can one not feel hope when surrounded by these defiant truth-tellers—painted by Shetterly with love and respect. This book is a gift to educators; it belongs in every classroom in the United States." -- Bill Bigelow
£26.99
University of Tennessee Press Black Power in the Bluff City: African American
Book SynopsisDuring the civil rights era, Memphis gained a reputation for having one of the South’s strongest NAACP branches. But that organization, led by the city’s black elite, was hardly the only driving force in the local struggle against racial injustice. In the late sixties, Black Power proponents advocating economic, political, and cultural self-determination effectively mobilized Memphis’s African American youth, using an array of moderate and radical approaches to protest and change conditions on their campuses and in the community.While Black Power activism on the coasts and in the Midwest has attracted considerable scholarly attention, much less has been written about the movement’s impact outside these hotbeds. In Black Power in the Bluff City, Shirletta J. Kinchen helps redress that imbalance by examining how young Memphis activists like Coby Smith and Charles Cabbage, dissatisfied by the pace of progress in a city emerging from the Jim Crow era, embraced Black Power ideology to confront such challenges as gross disparities in housing, education, and employment as well as police brutality and harassment. Two closely related Black Power organizations, the Black Organizing Project and the Invaders, became central to the local black youth movement in the late 1960s. Kinchen traces these groups’ participation in the 1968 sanitation workers’ strike—including the controversy over whether their activities precipitated events that culminated in Martin Luther King’s assassination—and their subsequent involvement in War on Poverty programs. The book also shows how Black Power ideology drove activism at the historically black LeMoyne-Owen College, scene of a 1968 administration-building takeover, and at the predominately white Memphis State University, where African American students transformed the campus by creating parallel institutions that helped strengthen black student camaraderie and consciousness in the face of marginalization.Drawing on interviews with activists, FBI files, newspaper accounts from the period, and many other sources, the author persuasively shows not only how an emerging generation helped define the black freedom struggle in Memphis but also how they applied the tenets of Black Power to shape the broader community.
£40.50
University of Massachusetts Press The Most Dangerous Communist in the United
Book SynopsisWhen J. Edgar Hoover declared Herbert Aptheker “the most dangerous Communist in the United States,” the notorious FBI director misconstrued his true significance. In this first book-length biography of Aptheker (1915–2003), Gary Murrell provides a balanced yet unflinching assessment of the controversial figure who was at once a leading historian of African America, radical political activist, literary executor of W. E. B. Du Bois, and lifelong member of the American Communist Party. Although blacklisted at U.S. universities, Aptheker published dozens of books, including the groundbreaking American Negro Slave Revolts (1943) and the monumental seven-volume Documentary History of the Negro People (1951–1994).He also edited four volumes of the correspondence and unpublished writings of Du Bois, an achievement that Eric Foner, writing in the New York Times Book Review, called “a milestone in the coming of age of Afro-American history.” As Murrell shows, Aptheker the historian was inseparable from Aptheker the leading Communist Party intellectual, polemicist, and agitator. During the 1960s, his ability to rouse and inspire both black and white student radicals made him one of the few Old Leftists accepted by the New Left. Aptheker had joined the CPUSA during its heyday in the 1930s, convinced that only through the party’s leadership could fascism be defeated and true liberation be achieved: he ended his affiliation five decades later in 1991 after the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. In an afterword, Bettina Aptheker adds to Murrell’s narrative by illuminating her mother Fay’s vital contributions to her father’s work and by affirming the particularly devastating challenges of life in a family dedicated to radical political and social change.
£26.06
University of South Carolina Press Hosea Williams: A Lifetime of Defiance and Protest
Book SynopsisWhen civil rights leader Hosea Lorenzo Williams died in 2000, U.S. Congressman John Lewis said of him, "Hosea Williams must be looked upon as one of the founding fathers of the new America. Through his actions, he helped liberate all of us."In this first comprehensive biography of Williams, Rolundus Rice demonstrates the truth in Lewis's words and argues that Williams's activism in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was of central importance to the success of the larger civil rights movement. Rice traces Williams's journey from a local activist in Georgia to a national leader and one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s chief lieutenants. He helped plan the Selma-to-Montgomery march and walked shoulder-to-shoulder with Lewis across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on "Bloody Sunday." While his hard-charging tactics were counter to the diplomatic approach of other SCLC leaders, Rice argues that it was this contrast in styles that made the organization successful.Andrew Young Jr., former SCLC executive director, U.S. Congressman, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and mayor of Atlanta, provides a foreword.
£73.15
University of South Carolina Press Hosea Williams: A Lifetime of Defiance and
Book SynopsisWhen civil rights leader Hosea Lorenzo Williams died in 2000, U.S. Congressman John Lewis said of him, "Hosea Williams must be looked upon as one of the founding fathers of the new America. Through his actions, he helped liberate all of us."In this first comprehensive biography of Williams, Rolundus Rice demonstrates the truth in Lewis's words and argues that Williams's activism in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was of central importance to the success of the larger civil rights movement. Rice traces Williams's journey from a local activist in Georgia to a national leader and one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s chief lieutenants. He helped plan the Selma-to-Montgomery march and walked shoulder-to-shoulder with Lewis across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on "Bloody Sunday." While his hard-charging tactics were counter to the diplomatic approach of other SCLC leaders, Rice argues that it was this contrast in styles that made the organization successful.Andrew Young Jr., former SCLC executive director, U.S. Congressman, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and mayor of Atlanta, provides a foreword.
£23.36
University of South Carolina Press The Democratic Ethos: Authenticity and
Book SynopsisWhat did Occupy Wall Street accomplish? While it began as a startling disruption in politics as usual, in The Democratic Ethos Freya Thimsen argues that the movement's long-term importance rests in how its commitment to radical democratic self-organization has been adopted within more conventional forms of politics. Occupy changed what counts as credible democratic coordination and how democracy is performed, as demonstrated in opposition to corporate political influence, rural antifracking activism, and political campaigns.By comparing instances of progressive politics that demonstrate the democratic ethos developed and promoted by Occupy and those that do not, Thimsen illustrates how radical and conventional rhetorical strategies can be brought together to seek democratic change. Combining insights from rhetorical studies, performance studies, political theory, and sociology, The Democratic Ethos offers a set of conceptual tools for analyzing anticorporate democracy-movement politics in the twenty-first century.
£73.15
University of Arkansas Press Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black
Book SynopsisThe first major study to consider Black women’s activism in rural Arkansas, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps foregrounds activists’ quest to improve Black communities through language and foodways as well as politics and community organizing. In reexamining these efforts, Cherisse Jones-Branch lifts many important figures out of obscurity, positioning them squarely within Arkansas’s agrarian history.The Black women activists highlighted here include home demonstration agents employed by the Arkansas Agricultural Cooperative Extension Service and Jeanes Supervising Industrial Teachers, all of whom possessed an acute understanding of the difficulties that African Americans faced in rural spaces. Examining these activists through a historical lens, Jones-Branch reveals how educated, middle-class Black women worked with their less-educated rural sisters to create all-female spaces where they confronted economic, educational, public health, political, and theological concerns free from white regulation and interference.Centered on the period between 1914 and 1965, Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps brings long-overdue attention to an important chapter in Arkansas history, spotlighting a group of Black women activists who uplifted their communities while subverting the formidable structures of white supremacy.Trade Review“In Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps, Cherisse Jones-Branch offers a ground-breaking, comprehensive study of African American women who worked on behalf of their rural Arkansas communities through the cooperative extension service, educational institutions, and other organizations. By centering Black women’s transformative leadership within the contexts of segregation, global war, racial violence, natural disasters, and the civil rights movement, Jones-Branch brings the voices of rural Black women into larger conversations about the significance of life and labor in the countryside. Painstakingly researched, her thoughtful cultivation of historical records brings to life the Black women who worked in Arkansas as extension agents, farmers, educators, and activists during a period of tremendous transformation.” —Jenny Barker-Devine, author of On Behalf of the Family Farm: Iowa Farm Women’s Activism Since 1945 “American rural history needs more women’s history. And rural women’s history needs more Black history. Cherisse Jones-Branch addresses these needs by writing about Black women in Arkansas who had been rendered invisible by previous scholarship. Beginning with a profound respect for Black women leaders, Jones-Branch brings her skillful archival research and her enthusiastic storytelling to the task of setting the historical record straight. Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps makes a major contribution to Arkansas history and American rural history.” —Linda M. Ambrose, author of A Great Rural Sisterhood: Madge Robertson Watt and the ACWW “In impressive detail and lovely, engaging prose, Cherisse Jones-Branch argues that African American women who remained in Arkansas during the years of widespread migration remade the countryside through their struggle to improve their communities’ access to health care, food, political representation, and economic opportunity. With this book, Jones-Branch has established herself as a leading historian not only of rural Black women’s twentieth-century activism but also of American rural history overall.” —Adrienne Monteith Petty, author of Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina since the Civil War
£34.36
NewSouth Publishing Yes Yes Yes: Australia’s Journey to Marriage
Book SynopsisA compelling, moving account of the long journey to marriage equality in Australia. Yes Yes Yes, written by two advocates intimately involved in the struggle for marriage equality, reveals the untold story of how a grassroots movement won hearts and minds and transformed a country. From its tentative origins in 2004, through to a groundswell of public support, everyday people contributed so much to see marriage equality become law. The book captures the passion that propelled the movement forward, weaving together stories of heartbreak, hope and triumph. It is based on personal memories and more than twenty interviews with key figures and everyday advocates from across Australia. It covers the movement’s origins in 2004, when the Marriage Act of 1961 was amended to exclude same-sex couples, through to the unsuccessful High Court challenge, a public vote in 2017 and the Parliamentary aftermath. It reminds us that social change is possible and that love is love.Trade Review‘A wonderful record of a huge and heart-warming moment in Australia's history.’- Magda Szubanski ‘Winning the freedom to marry and changing hearts and minds – and the law – is never easy, even in a progressive democracy like Australia. By sharing the ins and outs and behind the scene stories from Australia‘s long and dramatic journey to marriage equality, Alex Greenwich and Shirleene Robinson offer valuable inspiration and instruction to all those heroes working tirelessly across the world to gain much-needed human rights wins and turn NOs into overwhelming and vitally important declarations of YES YES YES in support of equality!’ - Evan Wolfson, Founder, Freedom to Marry, USA
£17.06
AU Press Bucking Conservatism: Alternative Stories of
Book SynopsisWith lively, informative contributions by both scholars and activists, Bucking Conservatism highlights the individuals and groups who challenged Alberta’s conservative status quo in the 60s and 70s. Drawing on archival material, newspaper articles, police reports, and interviews, the contributors examine Alberta’s history through the eyes of Indigenous activists protesting discriminatory legislation and unfulfilled treaty obligations, women and lesbian and gay persons standing up to the heteropatriarchy, student activists arguing for a new democracy, and anti-capitalist environmentalists demanding social change. This book recognizes the lasting influence of Alberta’s noncomformists—those who recognized the need for dissent in a province defined by wealth and right-wing politics—and leaves a set of questions, perhaps sobering ones, for contemporary activists.
£28.90
University of Calgary Press Protest and Democracy
Book SynopsisIn 2011, political protests sprang up across the world. In the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, the United States unlikely people sparked or led massive protest campaigns from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. These protests were made up of educated and precariously employed young people who challenged the legitimacy of their political leaders, exposed a failure of representation, and expressed their dissatisfaction with their place in the aftermath of financial and economic crisis. This book interrogates what impacts, if any, this global protest cycle had on politics and policy and shows the sometimes unintended ways it continues to influence contemporary political dynamics throughout the world. Proposing a new framework of analysis that calls attention to the content and claims of protests, their global connections, and the responsiveness of political institutions to protest demands, this is one of the few books that not only asks how protest movements are formed but also provides an in-depth examination of what protest movements can accomplish. With contributions examining the political consequences of protest, the roles of social media and the internet in protest organization, left- and right-wing movements in the United States, Chile's student movements, the Arab Uprisings, and much more this collection is essential reading for all those interested in the power of protest to shape our world.Table of Contents List of Tables and Figures Abbreviations Acknowledgements Part I: Concepts and Explanations The Political Consequences of Protest MoisÉs Arce and Roberta Rice How Do We Explain Protest? Social Science, Grievances, and the Puzzle of Collective Action Erica S. Simmons Part II: Mechanisms and Processes Transnational Protest: 'Going Global' in the Current Protest Cycle against Economic Globalization Jeffrey Ayres and Laura Macdonald Collective Action in the Information Age: How Social Media Shapes the Character and Success of Protests Jennifer M. Larson Schools for Democracy? The Role of NGOs in Protests in Democracies in the Global South Carew E. Boulding Part III: Cases and Consequences The Ebbing and Flowing of Political Opportunity Structures: Revolution, Counter-Revolution, and the Arab Uprisings Paul Kingston 'You Taught Us to Give an Opinion, Now Learn How to Listen:' The Manifold Political Consequences of Chile's Student Movement Sofia Donoso and NicolÁs M. Somma Protest Cycles in the United States: From the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street to Sanders and Trump Ted Goertzel Conclusions Re-Thinking Protest Impacts MoisÉs Arce, Roberta Rice, and Eduardo Silva Index
£26.96
Wits University Press Memory against forgetting: Memoir of a life in
Book Synopsis‘The silence of the cell is less disturbing than the deliberate silence of the human beings who come and go. I know that it is part of the process, designed to break my morale, but that doesn’t make it any easier. I calculate that I am speaking less than twenty words a day, and begin to wonder whether my vocal chords will dry up and wither if this goes on … I have never been very talkative, but now I begin to hunger after talk more strongly than for either food or drink.’Lionel ‘Rusty’ Bernstein was arrested at Liliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, on 11 July 1963 and tried for sabotage, alongside Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki and other leaders of the African National Congress and Umkhonto we Sizwe in what came to be known as the Rivonia Trial. He was acquitted in June 1964, but was immediately rearrested. After being released on bail, he fl ed with his wife Hilda into exile, followed soon afterwards by their family. This classic text, fi rst published in 1999, is a remarkable man’s personal memoir of a life in South African resistance politics from the late 1930s to the 1960s. In recalling the events in which he participated, and the way in which the apartheid regime affected the lives of those involved in the opposition movements, Rusty Bernstein provides valuable insights into the social and political history of the era.Trade ReviewThe memory so eloquently contained in this book tells especially the younger generations of South Africans who live in freedom that they should never forget that, indeed, that freedom was not free.' - Thabo Mbeki, anti-apartheid activist and former President of South Africa, 1994–2008Table of Contents Foreword (by Thabo Mbeki) The Rivonia Trial Attorney Remembers (by Lord Joel Joffe) Prologue 1. Starting Blocks 2. Time at the Crossroads 3. A Foot in Each Camp 4. Across the Divide 5. Spoils of War 6. Warning Winds 7. A Line in the Sand 8. Goodbye to All That 9. Overground – Underground 10. To Speak of Freedom 11. Power, Treason and Plot 12. Cracking the Fortress Wall 13. Exercise Behind Bars 14. To Put Up or Shut Up 15. Things Fall Apart 16. To Sit in Solemn Silence 17. In a Deep Dark Dock 18. Telling It As It Was 19. In A Closing Net 20. Over, and Out Epilogue Notes Index
£23.75
Wits University Press Shadow State: The Politics of State Capture
Book SynopsisThe 2017 publication of Betrayal of the Promise, the report that detailed the systematic nature of state capture, marked a key moment in South Africa’s most recent struggle for democracy. In the face of growing evidence of corruption and of the weakening of state and democratic institutions, it provided a powerful analysis of events that helped galvanise resistance within the Tripartite Alliance and across civil society. Working often secretly, the authors consolidated large amounts of evidence from a variety of sources. They showed that the Jacob Zuma administration was not simply a criminal network but part of an audacious political project to break the hold of white business on the economy and to create a new class of black industrialists. State-owned enterprises (SOEs) such as Eskom and Transnet were central to these plans.Shadow State is an updated version of the original, explosive report that changed South Africa’s recent history. It introduces a whole new language to discuss state capture, showing how SOEs were ‘repurposed’, how political power was shifting away from constitutional bodies to ‘kitchen cabinets’, and how a ‘shadow state’ at odds with the country’s constitutional framework was being built.Trade Review"The analysis is so brilliant. I can’t think of a better example of how academic research can shape the public debate." - Patrick Heller, Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Brown University. "This is a compelling example of how committed academics conducting rigorous research and analysis can help crystallize our understanding of fundamental problems in our society." - Blade Nzimande, General Secretary of the South African Communist PartyTable of Contents List of figures and tables Abbreviations and acronyms Key terms Acknowledgements Foreword Mcebisi Jonas Prologue Introduction Chapter 1 Structuring the Capture of the State Chapter 2 The Politics of Betrayal Chapter 3 Power, Authority and Audacity: How the Shadow State Was Built Chapter 4 Repurposing Governance Chapter 5 Conclusion Afterword Ferial Haffajee
£20.25
Wits University Press Patrick van Rensburg: Rebel, Visionary and
Book SynopsisPatrick van Rensburg (1931-2017) was an anti-apartheid activist and self-made 'alternative educationist' whose work received international recognition with the Right Livelihood Award in 1981.Born in KwaZulu-Natal into what he described as a 'very ordinary South African family that believed in the virtue of racism', Van Rensburg became a self-styled rebel who tirelessly pursued his own vision of a brighter future for emerging societies in post-colonial southern Africa.His emotional and intellectual struggle against his upbringing and cultural roots led him to reject his life of white privilege in South Africa. Determined to prevent the emergence of a privileged black elite in post-colonial society, he devoted his life to implementing an alternative, egalitarian approach to education, focusing on quality and functional schooling for the majority. Rewarded with the internationally prestigious Right Livelihood Award for his unique contribution to education, he saw this work as a 'necessary tool of development'.Exiled from South Africa in 1960 because of his involvement in the London boycott campaign that gave birth to the Anti-Apartheid Movement, Van Rensburg moved to Botswana (then Bechuanaland). There he founded cooperatives, provided vocational training and was among the earliest educationists to espouse the discipline of development studies.Perhaps his best-known legacy is the Swaneng Hill School, which he founded to provide an educational home for primary school 'dropouts' through a curriculum that combined theory and practice, and academic and manual labour. He involved his pupils in building their school, running it, providing their own food, and making their own equipment and furniture.Van Rensburg was an innovative and charismatic visionary who captured the zeitgeist of the late twentieth century, and whose work and vision still have resonance for debates in educational policy today.Trade ReviewThis is a story that has to be told and Van Rensburg has found a worthy biographer … The dominant image is of a man who had a great appetite for life: work, projects, parties, women, debate, travel, but who is simultaneously a semi-heroic, semi-tragic figure. — Linda Chisholm, Professor in the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation, University of Johannesburg Patrick van Rensburg’s philosophies and projects were beneficial, stimulating our thinking and urging us to reshape Botswana’s education. He shook our ideas. Kevin Shillington is to be commended for bringing his story to a wide audience. This book should be read by anyone interested in education, as Pat’s Education with Production model is relevant to the whole education ladder, from early childhood through to university. — Gaositwe K. T. Chiepe, educationist and politician, Minister of Education, Botswana, 1995–1999Table of Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations and acronyms List of illustrations Maps Introduction Chapter 1 Origins and Identity in South Africa Chapter 2 An Anglophone South African, 1936-1948 Chapter 3 The Making of an Afrikaner, 1949-1953 Chapter 4 Diplomat and Rebel, 1953-1957 Chapter 5 Anti-Apartheid Activist, 1957-1959 Chapter 6 Boycott, 1959-1960 Chapter 7 Into Exile, 1960-1961 Chapter 8 Return to Africa, 1961-1962 Chapter 9 The Founding of Swaneng Hill School, 1962-1963 Chapter 10 Challenging 'the Ladder to Privilege', 1963-1965 Chapter 11 The Alternative Educationist, 1965-1967 Chapter 12 Expansion and Replication, 1967-1969 Chapter 13 Time of Crisis, 1969-1971 Chapter 14 Education with Production, the 1970s Chapter 15 Foundation for Education with Production and Spreading the Word, the 1980s Chapter 16 Education with Production and South Africa, the 1990s Chapter 17 Return to Botswana Epilogue Bibliography Index
£26.25
Wits University Press Can Themba: The Making and Breaking of the
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£71.00
Liverpool University Press Political Communication in the Republic of
Book SynopsisThis book presents an overview of political communication in the Republic of Ireland from a multiplicity of perspectives and sources. It brings together academics and practitioners to examine the development and current shape of political communication in modern Ireland. It also examines what the future holds for political communication in an increasingly gatekeeper-free media landscape. The field of political communication, where journalists, public relations professionals and politicians intersect and interact, has always been a highly contested one fuelled by suspicion, mutual dependence and fraught relationships. While politicians need the media they remain highly suspicious of journalists. While journalists remain wary of politicians, they need access to them for information. For most of the time, what emerges is a relatively stable relationship of mutual dependence with the boundaries policed by public relation professions. However, every so often, in times of political crisis or upheaval, this relationship gives way to a near free-for-all. Politicians, spokespersons and sometimes even journalists, become fair game in the battle for public accountability and support. The determination of public relations professions to avoid this and keep the relationship based on mutual dependence has become a central component of modern statecraft and systems of governance. The need to keep politicians and the media ‘on message’ and use the media to inform, shape and manage public discourse has become central to the workings of government, opposition and interest groups. On the other hand, the packaging of politics has potentially troublesome implications for the democratic process. In the era of the instant news cycle, new technologies and constant opinion polling, just where does information end and misinformation begin? With millions being spent annually on advisors and ‘spin-doctors’, just where does media access end and media manipulation begin?Trade ReviewReviews “This excellent book has been meticulously edited by Donnacha Ó Beacháin and Mark O’Brien. The practice of political communications can sometimes be characterised by reaction over reflection. The contributors to this book display the kind of thoughtfulness and insight that can be lacking in a world where perhaps there has been too much 'us and them' - politicians on one hand, media on the other. I have no doubt it will be a fascinating and invaluable work for students of the subject.”'… the themes have been well chosen and thoughtfully addressed. Recommended reading for the aspirant mediaworker, the political scientist or the sociologist of communications.'The Sunday Times 'Political Communication in the Republic of Ireland is an intriguing work that, at minimum, ought to be read by anyone interested in the democratic political process and especially by those who have a research or other interest in Ireland.'Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly'The title Political Communication in the Republic of Ireland reflects this book’s academic origins, but it reads like an insider’s guide to life in Leinster House and editors’ offices. This is the first time that Irishstyle political communication – or spin, or propaganda: call it what you will – has got an impartial examination. Its editors, Mark O’Brien and Donnacha Ó Beacháin, of Dublin City University, have drawn together contributors from across the political and communications disciplines to cast their authoritative eyes over Irish political discourse … What makes this book a trove is its lack of partisan politics. The detached, measured view offered by the assembled academics rings true to anyone involved or interested in political communication. This is a good insight into politics for genuine hurlers on the ditch and for devotees of the black art.'The Irish Times'Today’s spin-doctors are faced with the serious problems posed by fake news on social media and the crucial debate about where does information end and misinformation begin. For anyone who wants to inform themselves about the terrain from which Irish political communications has emerged and where this may lead, this very enjoyable book is required reading.'Irish Literary Supplement'In an era of 24/7 news cycles, constant opinion polling and new technologies, political communications will continue to evolve. Today's spin-doctors are faced with the serious problem posed by fake news on social media and the crucial debate about where does information end and misinformation begin. For anyone who wants to inform themselves about the terrain from which Irish political communications has emerged and where this may lead, this very enjoyable book is required reading.' Irish Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPART ONE: POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND POLITICIANS 1. Farrel Corcoran - Political communication: an overview 2. Donnacha Ó Beacháin - Elections and political communication 3. Sarah Kavanagh - A pragmatic partnership? Politicians and local media 4. Bryce Evans - Political communication and the ‘loony left’ PART TWO: POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND JOURNALISM 5. Mark O’Brien - ‘Sources say . . .’ Political journalism since 1921 6. Mark Byrne - In sickness and in health: politics, spin and the media 7. Tom Clonan - Media advisors and programme managers 8. Declan Fahy - A limited focus? Journalism, politics and the Celtic Tiger PART THREE: POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND THE PUBLIC 9. Gary Murphy - A private affair? Lobbying and transparency in modern Ireland 10. Colum Kenny - Equal Time for Judas Iscariot? Broadcast treatment of political contests in the Republic of Ireland 11. Kevin Rafter - ‘There now follows . . .’ The role of the party political broadcast and the 2007 ‘peace broadcast’ 12. Martin Molony - Social Media and political communication 13. Eoin O’Malley et al - Mediating elections in Ireland: evidence from the 2011 general election Conclusion Bibliography Index
£109.50
Liverpool University Press Political Communication in the Republic of
Book SynopsisThis book presents an overview of political communication in the Republic of Ireland from a multiplicity of perspectives and sources. It brings together academics and practitioners to examine the development and current shape of political communication in modern Ireland. It also examines what the future holds for political communication in an increasingly gatekeeper-free media landscape. The field of political communication, where journalists, public relations professionals and politicians intersect and interact, has always been a highly contested one fuelled by suspicion, mutual dependence and fraught relationships. While politicians need the media they remain highly suspicious of journalists. While journalists remain wary of politicians, they need access to them for information. For most of the time, what emerges is a relatively stable relationship of mutual dependence with the boundaries policed by public relation professions. However, every so often, in times of political crisis or upheaval, this relationship gives way to a near free-for-all. Politicians, spokespersons and sometimes even journalists, become fair game in the battle for public accountability and support. The determination of public relations professions to avoid this and keep the relationship based on mutual dependence has become a central component of modern statecraft and systems of governance. The need to keep politicians and the media ‘on message’ and use the media to inform, shape and manage public discourse has become central to the workings of government, opposition and interest groups. On the other hand, the packaging of politics has potentially troublesome implications for the democratic process. In the era of the instant news cycle, new technologies and constant opinion polling, just where does information end and misinformation begin? With millions being spent annually on advisors and ‘spin-doctors’, just where does media access end and media manipulation begin?Trade ReviewReviews “This excellent book has been meticulously edited by Donnacha Ó Beacháin and Mark O’Brien. The practice of political communications can sometimes be characterised by reaction over reflection. The contributors to this book display the kind of thoughtfulness and insight that can be lacking in a world where perhaps there has been too much 'us and them' - politicians on one hand, media on the other. I have no doubt it will be a fascinating and invaluable work for students of the subject.”'… the themes have been well chosen and thoughtfully addressed. Recommended reading for the aspirant mediaworker, the political scientist or the sociologist of communications.'The Sunday Times 'Political Communication in the Republic of Ireland is an intriguing work that, at minimum, ought to be read by anyone interested in the democratic political process and especially by those who have a research or other interest in Ireland.'Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly'The title Political Communication in the Republic of Ireland reflects this book’s academic origins, but it reads like an insider’s guide to life in Leinster House and editors’ offices. This is the first time that Irishstyle political communication – or spin, or propaganda: call it what you will – has got an impartial examination. Its editors, Mark O’Brien and Donnacha Ó Beacháin, of Dublin City University, have drawn together contributors from across the political and communications disciplines to cast their authoritative eyes over Irish political discourse … What makes this book a trove is its lack of partisan politics. The detached, measured view offered by the assembled academics rings true to anyone involved or interested in political communication. This is a good insight into politics for genuine hurlers on the ditch and for devotees of the black art.'The Irish Times'Today’s spin-doctors are faced with the serious problems posed by fake news on social media and the crucial debate about where does information end and misinformation begin. For anyone who wants to inform themselves about the terrain from which Irish political communications has emerged and where this may lead, this very enjoyable book is required reading.'Irish Literary Supplement'In an era of 24/7 news cycles, constant opinion polling and new technologies, political communications will continue to evolve. Today's spin-doctors are faced with the serious problem posed by fake news on social media and the crucial debate about where does information end and misinformation begin. For anyone who wants to inform themselves about the terrain from which Irish political communications has emerged and where this may lead, this very enjoyable book is required reading.' Irish Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPART ONE: POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND POLITICIANS 1. Farrel Corcoran - Political communication: an overview 2. Donnacha Ó Beacháin - Elections and political communication 3. Sarah Kavanagh - A pragmatic partnership? Politicians and local media 4. Bryce Evans - Political communication and the ‘loony left’ PART TWO: POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND JOURNALISM 5. Mark O’Brien - ‘Sources say . . .’ Political journalism since 1921 6. Mark Byrne - In sickness and in health: politics, spin and the media 7. Tom Clonan - Media advisors and programme managers 8. Declan Fahy - A limited focus? Journalism, politics and the Celtic Tiger PART THREE: POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND THE PUBLIC 9. Gary Murphy - A private affair? Lobbying and transparency in modern Ireland 10. Colum Kenny - Equal Time for Judas Iscariot? Broadcast treatment of political contests in the Republic of Ireland 11. Kevin Rafter - ‘There now follows . . .’ The role of the party political broadcast and the 2007 ‘peace broadcast’ 12. Martin Molony - Social Media and political communication 13. Eoin O’Malley et al - Mediating elections in Ireland: evidence from the 2011 general election Conclusion Bibliography Index
£32.29
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Political Citizenship and Social
Book SynopsisThis outstanding Handbook establishes the relationship between political citizenship and social movements as an area of study. As an in-depth and well-conceived source for beginners, experienced scholars and students alike, it provides theoretically rich, methodologically diverse, and empirically wide-ranging chapters on political struggles over citizenship. Moreover, the bridging between sociological and political theories of movements and citizenship reveals both in a different light.'- Engin Isin, The Open UniversitySince the 1960s, social movements and political citizenship have become buzzwords not only in social and political life but also in social and political science. The impact of the environmental and women's movements, and the advance of multicultural, European and cosmopolitan citizenship in modern history are cases in point.The study of citizenship traditionally refers to the individual dimension of social and political behavior. Social movement studies, however, refer to the collective dimension of such behavior. Despite distinct trajectories in their theoretical development, the social movement and citizenship paradigms converge where social movements are viewed as collective forms of political citizenship. This Handbook uniquely collates results of several decades of academic research in these two fields. The expert contributions successively address the different forms of political citizenship and current approaches and recent developments in social movement studies. Salient social movements in recent history are explored in depth, covering the environmental, women's, international human rights, urban, Tea Party, and animal rights movements. Social movements and political citizenship in the global South : China, India, Africa, and the Arab World, are discussed, presenting a novel empirical insight into these fields of study.Social scientists, MA and PhD students conducting research in social movements and citizenship, at a theoretical and empirical level, will benefit from the authoritative assessment of forms of political citizenship and major developments in social movement studies.Contributors: E. Ashbee, J. Bohman, P. Bond, A.M. Clark, R.J. Dalton, P. Danyi, J. Earl, B. Edwards, E. Evans, H. Flam, R.K. Garrett, S. Griggs, P. Hamel, D. Howarth, J. Hunt, M. Kane, D. Kapoor, S. MacGregor, N. Massoumi, N. Meer, R. Meijer, D.S. Meyer, S. Monro, L. Munro, E.D.H. Olsen, M. Reddy, J. Reger, D. Richardson, C. Scholl, S. Tijsterman, H-A. Van der Heijden, P. Wood, L. XieTrade Review‘This new Handbook edited by Hein-Anton van der Heijden systematically presents the literature on social movements and citizenship. It provides a valuable resource for scholars working in both fields, and is useful for faculty and students alike. Most importantly, by bringing together key authors from both fields, this edited volume encourages research linking the two fields, and thus it could provide the basis for a new research agenda that bridges the focus on the microlevel in citizenship research with the meso- or macrolevel foci typical of the social movement literature. The book covers a breadth of research. . . familiar with one or both fields. This volume takes the contributions of citizenship research and applies them to the study of social movements, thereby moving scholarship beyond divisive distinctions between institutional and non-institutional participation.’ -- Swen Hutter and Jasmine Lorenzini, Mobilization‘Enhanced with the inclusion of a fifty-one page Index, the Handbook of Political Citizenship and Social Movements is an essential addition to academic library Political Science reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists.’ -- Midwest Book Review‘Social movement and citizenship studies have distinct trajectories of development, but Van der Heijden clearly argues that the fields share much ground in common. What's more, he sucessfully accomplishes the goal stated in the volume's introduction: to bridge or narrow the gap between the two literatures "in order to lay the foundations for a social science research program that would do more justice to social and political reality"’ -- J.J. Reed, Choice‘This outstanding Handbook establishes the relationship between political citizenship and social movements as an area of study. As an in-depth and well-conceived source for beginners, experienced scholars and students alike, it provides theoretically rich, methodologically diverse, and empirically wide-ranging chapters on political struggles over citizenship. Moreover, the bridging between sociological and political theories of movements and citizenship reveals both in a different light.’ -- Engin Isin, The Open University‘Overall, this rich Handbook provides a useful theorisation of many emerging political phenomena.’ -- Political StudiesTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Linking Political Citizenship and Social Movements Hein-Anton van der Heijden PART I: POLITICAL CITIZENSHIP: APPROACHES AND FORMS 2. Political Citizenship: Mapping the Terrain Russell J. Dalton 3. Republican Citizenship James Bohman 4. Citizenship, Gender and Sexuality Surya Monro and Diane Richardson 5. Multicultural Citizenship Narzanin Massoumi and Nasar Meer 6. Ecological Citizenship Sherilyn MacGregor 7. Urban Citizenship Patricia Burke Wood 8. European Citizenship Espen D.H. Olsen 9. Global and Cosmopolitan Citizenship Sebastiaan Tijsterman PART II: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: CURRENT APPROACHES AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS 10. Resource Mobilization and Social and Political Movements Bob Edwards and Melinda Kane 11. The New Social Movement Approach Christian Scholl 12. Citizenship, Political Opportunities and Social Movements David S. Meyer and Erin Evans 13. Poststructuralism, Social Movements and Citizen Politics Steven Griggs and David Howarth 14. Social Movements and Emotions Helena Flam 15. The Transnationalization of Social Movements Movindri Reddy 16. Social Movements and the ICT-Revolution Jennifer Earl, Jayson Hunt and R. Kelly Garrett PART III: CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS 17. The Environmental Movement Hein-Anton van der Heijden 18. The Women’s Movement Jo Reger 19. The International Human Rights Movement Ann Marie Clark and Paul Danyi 20. Urban Social Movements Pierre Hamel 21. The Tea Party Movement Edward Ashbee 22. The Animal Rights Movement Lyle Munro PART IV: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND POLITICAL CITIZENSHIP IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH 23. Social Movements and Political Citizenship in China Lei Xie 24. Social Movements in India Dip Kapoor 25. Social Movements and Political Citizenship in Africa Patrick Bond 26. Political Citizenship and Social Movements in the Arab World Roel Meijer Index
£218.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on Youth Activism
Book SynopsisThis dynamic Handbook offers state-of-the-art analysis of the new generation of youth activists who are demanding change. Bringing together eminent scholars, rising academic stars and youth activists, this Handbook provides a unique and essential insight into the power of youth activism today.Jerusha Conner deftly brings together contributors from the global north and south who explore youth activism through a range of multidisciplinary methods including systematic literature reviews, ethnographic studies, photo-voice exhibits and first-hand narrative accounts. Chapters cover the nature of youth activism in different geopolitical contexts, the invisible labour of youth activism, and the effects of youth activism on youth, their institutions, and societies. Presenting findings from cutting-edge research, this Handbook highlights how youth activists are sparking important conversations about what is right and what must change in their institutions, nation-states, and the world in order to secure a just and viable future for themselves and others.An authoritative analysis of the field, this Handbook will be an invaluable resource for academics, students and researchers specialising in politics and public policy, sociology and social policy, education policy and the sociology of youth and childhood. It will also be of interest to youth activists and their allies to better understand, assess, and improve their movements’ efficacy.Trade Review‘This Handbook provides a remarkable compendium of the essential work young people are doing to demand change at the local, national, and transnational levels. Although warned by the editors not to romanticize youth activists, it is impossible to walk away from this book without a deep sense of hope for the future.’ -- Amy J. Binder, Johns Hopkins University, US‘Jerusha Conner has pulled together a remarkable collection that reflects the diversity of the burgeoning field of research on youth activism. Like the field itself, these chapters are interdisciplinary, international, multi-method, and engaged with a wide range of theoretical traditions, but united in their commitment to taking youth activists seriously as a source of both social transformation and academic insight. This Handbook will be invaluable to anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the cultural, social, and political dynamics of contemporary youth activism.’ -- Jessica Taft, University of California, Santa Cruz, US‘This important book takes a much-needed global and environmental perspective to key issues of our time, providing new insights about how activism impacts young people, society, and their communities. Its deep description of local contexts and new methodologies honors the complexity of how young people challenge intersecting systems of power.’ -- Matthew Diemer, University of Michigan, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: youth activism in a context of global uncertainty and biographical precarity xix Jerusha Conner, Uyiosa Elegon and Alison K. Cohen PART I THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF YOUTH ACTIVISM 1 The political participation of young people in times of crisis: a framework for analysis 2 Daniela Chironi, Donatella della Porta and Chiara Milan 2 Developmental foundations of environmental activism 16 Alisa A. Pykett, Erin Gallay and Constance Flanagan 3 The disruptive power of recognition and young environmental activists 31 Judith Bessant and Sarah Pickard 4 Using a human rights lens: learning from children’s activism 46 E. Kay M. Tisdall and Patricio Cuevas-Parra PART II YOUTH ACTIVISM IN SPECIFIC GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXTS 5 Youth activism in Ukraine before and during the Russia–Ukraine war 61 Olena Nikolayenko 6 Why and how South Asian youth are involved in politics: a systematic review of literature 75 Yog Raj Lamichhane and Bharat Raj Dhakal 7 Charting youth activism in Chile: contemporary areas and trends 91 Juan Pablo Rodríguez, Lucía Miranda Leibe, Rodrigo Torres, Nicolás Ortiz and Nicolás Angelcos PART III METHODOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN THE STUDY OF YOUTH ACTIVISM 8 Methods for a multimodal, collaborative, and engaged research practice: mapping youth activism and cultural production across time and space 107 Maurice Rafael Magaña, Anthony Gerard Wright and Jurhamuti José Velázquez Morales 9 By us, for us: a women of color student activist photo-narrative exhibit for sociopolitical wellbeing 123 Jesica Siham Fernández and Danielle N. Aguilar 10 Visual politicization and youth challenges to an unequal public sphere: conceptual and methodological perspectives 140 Eeva Luhtakallio, Taina Meriluoto and Carla Malafaia 11 Ambivalent narratives of the political self: notes on the coproduction of audio-visual stories in Cape Town and Luanda 154 Chloé Buire PART IV THE NATURE OF YOUTH ACTIVISTS’ LABOR 12 Keeping the store in order: an ethnography of youth activism’s everyday work 169 Ilaria Pitti 13 Coming out in solidarity: the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy as a space of support and experimentation for queer youth 183 Gavin Brown 14 Racism and youth climate activism: what can we learn from racism allegations about the image exclusions of black women activists? 196 Brendon Barnes 15 Enabling conditions and challenges of youth sexual and reproductive rights activism in Indonesia 210 Rinaldi Ridwan and Putri Widi Saraswati 16 An ideal activist in a privileged society: studying the internal negotiations and practices of being a young Danish activist 226 Maria Bruselius-Jensen PART V EFFECTS OF YOUTH ACTIVISM ON YOUTH 17 Reframing school engagement: relationships to school among youth organizing participants working for educational justice 241 Sara McAlister 18 Movements forward: finding healing through activism 257 Marlene Palomar, Abraham Jones and Ben Kirshner 19 Black youth, digital activism, and racial battle fatigue: how Black youth enact hope, humor, and healing online 272 Tiera Tanksley and Alexis E. Hunter 20 Political context and Russian youth: the political socialization of young activists under authoritarianism 289 Svetlana Erpyleva PART VI EFFECTS OF YOUTH ACTIVISM ON THEIR INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETY 21 “These are my greatest accomplishments”: how US youth activists frame their biggest wins 304 Oladimeji Fatoki, Amanda Galczyk, Christopher M. Wegemer, Laura Wray-Lake and Jerusha Conner 22 “Real change takes time”: building multi-dimensional youth community power in a participatory design collective 319 Kathryn Y. Morgan, Kayla Anderson, Joseph KaiKai, Lema Shaltaf and Brian D. Christens 23 On and off: representations and omissions of youth activism in political campaign ads (Brazil and Argentina, 1980s and 2010s) 336 Dolores Rocca Rivarola 24 #WeAreRemovingADictator: the 2021 Uganda election crisis, the possibilities and limits of youth digital activism 351 M. Ainomugisha and Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire 25 The White Ribbon movement and its achievement in uprooting the conservative Thai state 365 Kanokrat Lertchoosakul
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Political Change through Social Innovation: A
Book SynopsisThis book asks why socially innovative initiatives, including attempts to rejuvenate democracy by introducing new modes of participation, are not leading to a democratization of the State or overcoming the gap between political leaders and people. It offers a vivid and thought-provoking conversation on why we are at such an impasse and explores concrete possibilities for change. Offering insights on the failures of modern democracies from three leading voices of contemporary social science, the book interrogates the possibilities of progressive socio-political agendas, strategies, and movements seeking to overcome these failures. It highlights examples of bottom-linked forms of governance that provide signs of positive change and focuses on the essential role that progressive institutions play in enabling socio-political transformation. It also analyses how processes of self-emancipation driven by social innovation and political mobilization movements represent the most promising form of political engagement today. Students and scholars of social innovation and governance will find this to be an invigorating read. It will also be helpful to politicians and government officials seeking to understand, respond to, and explore efforts towards democratizing political change.Trade Review‘This thought-provoking volume sits at the nexus of social innovation and democratic political theory and practice. Leading international scholars compare and confront different approaches to nurturing emancipatory social change in a world increasingly encountering populist politics and ruptures to “democratic” systems. It provides a valuable landmark for anyone interested in solidarity-based social relations and the potential for social political change.’ -- Jean Hillier, RMIT University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Can Mutual Aid in a Post-industrial Society Reforge the Political? Frank Moulaert, Bob Jessop, Erik Swyngedouw and Liana Simmons 2. Bottom-linked Governance and Socio-political Transformation Frank Moulaert 3. Is Emancipatory Politicization Still Possible Today? Erik Swyngedouw 4. Exploring the Dilemma between Self-emancipation and Self-responsibilization Bob Jessop 5. Debate: A Dialogical Encounter on the Potentialities of Social Innovation for Social-Political Transformation 6. Towards Socially Innovative Political Transformation Frank Moulaert, Pieter Van den Broeck, Liana Simmons, Bob Jessop and Erik Swyngedouw Index
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Emerald Publishing Limited Contesting Platform Power
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Emerald Publishing Limited Future Feminisms
Book SynopsisFuture Feminisms is an interdisciplinary exploration of the contemporary experiences of women within the private, public, and online spheres. Chapters explore women's experiences of insecurity, instability and change, migration, and diaspora as experienced in both physical and digital communication environments.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on Urban Social Movements
Book SynopsisProviding an overview of urban social movements from a diverse range of empirical and theoretical perspectives, this Handbook includes not only a critical analysis of the transformations that have occurred in the urban landscape recently, but also sheds light on the strategies implemented by social actors in various socio-political and cultural contexts. It focuses on better understanding how and to what extent collective action around urban issues remains relevant in our modern world.Top international scholars introduce the main features of urban movements from countries and cities around the world, including across Africa, Asia, Europe and North and South America, to highlight their diversity as well as the multiple scales through which they are employed. The Handbook first documents the concrete forms of contemporary urban movements, before highlighting new developments in the field, particularly in the face of new forms of communication, and finally examines the specificity of contemporary urban movements in the context of emerging unexpected local and global challenges.With a broad range of case studies and in-depth coverage of key issues, this Handbook is critical reading for urban studies and social movement studies scholars. The practical advice offered throughout also makes this an invigorating read for representatives of international institutions working on urban policies and development, as well as urban activists looking for a more in-depth study of the field.Trade Review‘Academic interest in urban social movements has surged around the world since the notion was first introduced in the early 1970s. This Handbook gathers novel as well as retrospective knowledge on (the outcomes of) these movements, and helps to reveal the phases, patterns, cycles and convergences shaping the plethora of struggles around the right to the city.’ -- Margit Mayer, Center for Metropolitan Studies Berlin, Germany‘This Handbook brings to the fore the structural roots of urban conflicts and identities, in creative tension with human agency. Covering an admirably broad range of cases, not restricted to the West, and recognizing the temporal dimension inherent to both urban conflicts and theories on urban dynamics, Anna Domaradzka and Pierre Hamel have edited a collection that will appeal to a broad readership across the social sciences.’ -- Mario Diani, University of Trento, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Urban Social Movements 1 Anna Domaradzka and Pierre Hamel PART I THE RIGHT TO THE CITY IN FRONT OF CAPITALIST ACCUMULATION AND STATE PLANNING 2 Beyond the localism of urban social movements 14 Pierre Hamel 3 A structural field of contention approach to urban struggles 28 Ioana Florea, Agnes Gagyi and Kerstin Jacobsson 4 Urban battlegrounds: strategies of action and drivers of participation in radical movements in Italy 43 Carlo Genova 5 Urban social movements and regulation theory: tenant protest in Berlin 58 Lisa Vollmer PART II FIGHTING SOCIAL INEQUALITIES, RACISM, EXCLUSION, AND POVERTY IN CITIES AROUND THE WORLD 6 Spatial segregation during ‘financial apartheid’: Reclaim the City and its struggle for housing in Cape Town, South Africa 81 Antje Daniel 7 Tenants’ movements in Europe: from working-class struggles to marginalization 97 Dominika V. Polanska 8 Anti-eviction mobilizations in Barcelona, Montreal, and New York City 114 Marcos Ancelovici and Montserrat Emperador Badimon 9 Hands up, don’t shoot: safety and the city in the twenty-first century 131 Mary Bernstein and Jordan McMillan 10 Rural–urban migration and the right to the city: urban social movements in the informal settlements of Namibia and Ghana 148 Eric Yankson and Ada Adoley Allotey PART III URBAN MOVEMENTS AND CITY LIFE IN RETROSPECT 11 Brazil’s urban social movements and urban transformations in perspective 168 Abigail Friendly 12 Squatting, a SWOT analysis 185 Hans Pruijt 13 Building real utopias: urban grassroots activism, emotions and prefigurative politics 199 Tommaso Gravante 14 Gentrification, resistance, and the reconceptualization of community through place-based social media: the future will not be Instagrammed 214 Ashleigh Weeden PART IV IN SEARCH OF URBAN CITIZENSHIP THROUGH EXPERIENCING VARIOUS MODELS OF SOLIDARITY 15 Claiming urban citizenship: rights and practices 232 Maciej Kowalewski 16 Beyond co-optation and autonomy: the experience of two Argentinean social organizations in the face of the left turn 248 Francisco Longa 17 The rise of urban resistance movements and spatialized oppression: the Gezi legacy 265 Aysegul Can PART V COLLECTIVE ACTION, URBAN POLITICS AND/ OR URBAN POLICIES 18 The everyday politics of the urban commons: ambivalent political possibilities in the dialectical, evolving and selective urban context 284 Iolanda Bianchi 19 The 2019–2020 Chilean protests: the emergence of a movement of urban memories 300 Alicia Olivari and Manuela Badilla 20 Rage against the machine: how twenty-first century political machines constitute their own opposition 315 Stephanie Ternullo and Jeffrey N. Parker 21 Neoliberal urban redevelopment and its discontents: rising urban activism in Seoul 330 Chungse Jung 22 Political engagement of urban social movements: a road to decolonization or recolonization of urban management? 343 Tomasz Sowada 23 Neoliberal urban governance and slum dweller movements: the mutual fragmentation of policies and community-based organizations in the city of Buenos Aires 363 Joaquín Andrés Benitez, María Cristina Cravino, Maximiliano Duarte and Carla Fainstein
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Liverpool University Press Rights of Way to Brasília Teimosa: The Politics
Book SynopsisThe site of Recife's Brasília Teimosa favela emerged as a flash point of economic and political interests in the 1930s and the scene of subsequent strife into the 1980s. The name of this district is a contemptuous allusion to the new capital of Brazil, with its forward-thinking planning policies and urban design, in stark contrast to the favela. This concise account unearths events surfacing through periods of revolution, dictatorship, populism, Cuban Communism, the 1964 military coup d'etat and crackdown to the amplified reverberation of civil society voices and engagement decades later. Shifting ideologies and jolting transitions between regimes directly affected what occurred on this 110-acre parcel of urban land. Between 1934 and 1984 competing groups and individuals came to covet this space because of its strategic location and political consequence. Brasília Teimosa is about the politics of ouster and the power of resistance. What took place there still resonates in squatter settlements throughout Brazil; deplorable living conditions prevalent in favelas are the result of deprivation of access to market resources. This work examines the interactions between the state and neighbourhood associations regarding the allocation of public goods and services in the context of urban resources and their system of supply. In particular it focuses on the political struggles of shanty residents of Brasília Teimosa that are pertinent to the provision of and access to urban land tenure. Control and use of public lands have functioned as instruments of the state to pursue political projects in coalition with private real estate partners, to undermine the strength of opposing factions, or to seal populist pacts with the urban poor who, as illegal occupants of public land, are locked into a dependency relationship with the state. As will be shown, the residents of Brasília Teimosa discovered and exploited "space" for political manoeuvres in order to secure permanence on a centrally located, publicly-owned site.
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Liverpool University Press Democracy, Trade Unions and Political Violence in
Book SynopsisValencia has traditionally been seen as somewhat exceptional within Spain: a prosperous, agricultural export-oriented economy dominated by small- and medium-sized farmers. This tranquil image of Levante feliz contrasts sharply with those of rebellious, proletarian Barcelona, or impoverished, feudal Andalusia, with which the CNT and the Spanish anarchist movement is most closely associated. However, this new study shows that Valencia in the 1920s and 1930s was anything but tranquil. The vertiginous growth of the CNT between 1918 and 1920 led to the province being a major target of government repression. The situation there was considered by one Interior Minister as more worrying than in Barcelona. Later, in the 1930s, urban Valencia became the focus of a fierce struggle between hard-line revolutionaries linked to the anarchist FAI and more moderate trade unions, whilst numerous local insurrections broke out in rural areas of the province. Eventually, these two factions would form an uneasy truce in time to lead the Valencian left in the battle to overcome the military coup of July 1936 and secure this vital economic region for the Republican side. In providing the first English-language study of this important movement, Dr Purkiss fills a significant gap in the historiography of the Spanish left. Drawing on a wide range of previously underused primary sources, he shows that not only was Valencia a hugely important source of anarchist support, but that the local movement was far more radical than has previously been thought. He thus provides a vital insight into the origins of the revolutionary and anti-clerical violence which swept the province in the early months of Civil War, introducing us to the 'expropriators' and 'men of action' whose activities terrified bourgeois Valencia in the 1930s. Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Valencian Politics, Society & Economy at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century; The Rise of the CNT in Valencia, 1918-1920; Anarchist Violence, the Grupos & Repression, 1920-1923; Culture, Ideology, & Conspiracy: The Battle for Control of the CNT; The Re-organisation of the CNT, 1930-1932: Consolidation & Conflict; 'Revolutionary Gymnastics', Expropriations & the Split Within the CNT; The Fascist Danger & the Search for Working-class Unity, 1934--1936; Conclusion; Index.
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James Currey The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at autobiography
Book SynopsisPoet and anti-apartheid activist Dennis Brutus recorded a series of tapes in the 1970s which have been edited and annotated by Bernth Lindfors to give valuable insights into Brutus's life and works. Dennis Brutus (1924-2009) is known internationally as a South African poet, anti-apartheid activist and campaigner for human rights and the release of political prisoners. His literary works include Sirens Knuckles Boots (1963), Letters to Martha, and Other Poems from a South African Prison (1968), A Simple Lust (1973), and Stubborn Hope (1978). When Dennis Brutus was a Visiting Professor at The University of Texas at Austin in 1974-75, he recorded on tape a series of reflections on his life and career. In addition, he frequently responded to questions about his poetry and political activities put to him by students and faculty in formal and informal interviews that were also captured on tape. Transcripts of a selection of these tapes, as well as reprints of two interviews recorded earlier, are reproduced here in order to put on record fragments of the autobiography of a remarkable man who lived in extraordinary times and managed to leave his mark on the land and literature of South Africa. Brutus was an effective anti-apartheid campaigner who succeeded in getting South Africa excluded from the Olympics. His opposition to racial discrimination in sports led to his arrest, banning, and imprisonment on Robben Island. Upon release, he left South Africa and lived most of the rest of his life in exile, where he continued his political work and simultaneously earned an international reputation as a poet who often sang of his love for his country. The tapes are edited by Bernth Lindfors who has added an Introduction and a transcript of a 1970 interview as well as other transcripts of lectures and discussions. Bernth Lindfors is Professor Emeritus of English and African Literatures, The University of Texas at Austin, and founding editor of Research in AfricanLiteratures. He has written and edited numerous books on African literature, including Folklore in Nigerian Literature (1973), Popular Literatures in Africa (1991), Africans on Stage (1999), Early Soyinka (2008), and Early Achebe (2009).Trade ReviewAn exceptionally well-edited volume, greatly enriched by a comprehensive index and by succinct footnotes that offer essential biographical details. * JOURNAL OF THE AFRICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION *An important and useful publication. [...] Brutus emerges here as modest and self-critical, courageous and articulate, convinced of the need for political commitment and artistic integrity. * WASAFIRI *This collection valuably fills out our picture of Dennis Brutus. [...] Bernth Lindfors is to be commended for producing this posthumous tribute to one of South Africa's most significant writer-activists. * RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES *[A] fascinating and highly readable volume. [Brutus'] fascinating account is greatly enriched by editor Lindfors who meticulously provides a succinctly footnoted biographical sketch of every individual identified in the story. * JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY *A vivid and moving portrait of a man who contributed significantly, through his actions and words, to the fight against apartheid. [It] is a deeply informative and very personal portrait of both the public and private man. * LEEDS AFRICAN STUDIES BULLETIN *Table of ContentsIntroduction by the Editor - Part I: Life Recollections Family Background Attempt to Escape (Tapes 1, 2 and 3) Robben Island Interlude Notes on My Activities Notes on My Life - Part II: Writings Somehow Tenderness Survives Talking with Students Reviewing a Review On My Poetry On Literature and Commitment
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University of KwaZulu-Natal Press SADTU and the Struggle for Professional Unionism
Book SynopsisThis book traces the emergence and development of SADTU's professional unionism and explores its implications for teachers and the delivery of quality education in the context of SADTU's relationship with the state and the governing party, specifically the union's location within the ANC-led Tripartite Alliance.It highlights SADTU's role in the struggle for democracy, including its crusade for recognition as a non-racial union and its involvement in the development of post-apartheid education policy. However, despite its centrality in the education struggles of the past, SADTU's continued role and relevance in the development of the education system have become the subject of intense debate in the public domain, as it is seen as more focused on unionism and the political battles in the Alliance than on furthering teacher professionalism. This volume explores how and why this has come about, and offers insights that would enable SADTU to reclaim its role and relevance in reimagining the future of education in South Africa in response to the socio-economic development challenges that confront the country in the twenty-first century.Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgements Abbreviations Contributors Introduction Logan Govender and Michael Cross 1. SADTU and the Origins of Professional Unionism, 1976–1995 27 — Ihron Rensburg 2. The Influence of COSATU on the Evolution and Development of SADTU: An Insider's Perspective — Khetsi Lehoko 3. Teacher Unions and Policy-Making in South Africa: Exclusion, Contestation and Collaboration — Logan Govender and Michael Cross 4. Organisational Development and Efficiency: Key Ingredients for Professional Unionism — Logan Govender 5. Dilemmas of Unionism and Professionalism in the Promotion of Teacher Accountability — Michael Cross and Sibonokuhle Ndlovu 6. Leaders, Leadership and Change in SADTU — Michael Cross and David Matsepe 7. SADTU's Future Role in the South African Education Landscape — Ahmed Essop Conclusion — Michael Cross and Logan Govender Index
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Quiet Activism: Climate Action at the Local Scale
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the potential and possibilities for socially innovative responses to the climate emergency at the local scale. Climate change has intensified the need for communities to find creative and meaningful ways to address the sustainability of their environments. The authors focus on the creative and collaborative ways local- scale climate action reflects the extra-ordinary measures taken by ordinary people. This includes critical engagement with the ways in which novel social practices and partnerships emerge between people, organisations, institutions, governance arrangements and eco-systems. The book successfully highlights the transformative power of socially innovative activities and initiatives in response to the climate crisis; and critically explores how different individuals and groups undertake climate action as ‘quiet activism’ – the embodied acts of collective disruption, subversion, creativity and care at the local scale.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Addressing the climate emergency at the local scale.- Chapter 2: Building and bridging the knowledge base.- Chapter 3: Bringing missing actors to the table.- Chapter 4: Walking together with care.- Chapter 5: Realising transformative potential.- Chapter 6: Making and breaking connections.- Chapter 7: Quiet activism in climate change.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Women’s Activism in Twentieth-Century Britain:
Book SynopsisThis book serves as an introduction to the extraordinary diversity of women’s activism. Paula Bartley's original research is supported by a range of writing to provide a powerful impression of the actions taken by groups of women from across the social and political spectrum, making the book invaluable to both students and interested readers. These women set out to make a difference to their locality, their country and sometimes the world. The story of women’s activism embodies stimulating accounts of progress and reversals, of commitment and uncertainty, of competing rights and challenging wrongs. The story of women’s activism is not tidy or well-ordered. It is messy and unorthodox. And full of surprises.Trade Review“The book offers considerable geographical diversity with Bartley assessing the presence and impact of women’s activism within the home nations, as well as highlighting the different economic contexts across England. … Women’s Activism in Twentieth-Century Britain is a valuable work in its surveying of the century from the perspective of not only those women who were nationally significant to political developments, but also the organisations that worked at grassroots, local levels to change the position of women in society.” (Amy Longmuir, Women's History Review, July 27, 2023)“Women's Activism is an accessible and engaging read and makes an important contribution to the historiography. It is essential reading for students, academics and general readers interested in modern British women's history.” (Lisa Berry-Waite, Gender & History, June 20, 2023)“This book will, I am sure, become a core textbook for students, researchers, teachers, and general readers interested in twentieth-century British Women’s History and Politics. This will be facilitated by Women’s Activism in the Twentieth Century having been produced in both paperback and electronic form at a price which is accessible.” (Maggie Andrews, 20th Century British History, February 7, 2023)“I read Women’s Activism in Twentieth Century Britain as an activist who believes strongly in telling my history – and that of my community – and as a socialist, feminist and trade unionist. It is an ambitious book which sometimes made me feel overwhelmed with the inclusion of so much history. … This is so important-as is this book-as Paula concludes ‘Without new research and these fresh interpretations, there is a real danger that history itself-not just the people in the past-will perish.’” (lipsticksocialist.wordpress.com, May 9, 2022)Table of Contents1. Introduction: Themes and Debates.2. A New Age: 1900–1914.3. The Home Front: 1914–1918.4. The Not-So-Roaring Twenties: 1918–1929.5. The Hungry Thirties: 1930–1939.6. The Second World War: 1939–1945.7. The Post-War World: 1945–1960.8. The Less-Than-Swinging Sixties: 1960–1970.9. The Selfish Seventies?: 1970–1979.10. Margaret Thatcher’s Age and After: 1979–2000.11. Conclusion: Change and Continuities.
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de Gruyter The Iran National Front and the Struggle for
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Campus Verlag Protest and Opportunities: A Theory of Social
Book SynopsisAlthough grassroots social movements are an important force of social and political change, they quite often fail to achieve their lofty goals. Similarly, the inability of research to systematically explain the impact of such movements stands in sharp contrast to their emotional appeal. "Protest and Opportunities" attempts to rejuvenate current scholarship by developing a comprehensive theory of social movements and political change. In addition to reviewing the existing literature on the political outcomes of social movements, this volume analyzes the examples of the American civil rights movement and anti-nuclear energy efforts in eighteen countries to forge a new understanding of their momentous impact.
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NIAS Press Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China: 2018
Book Synopsis* First book on gay identity and queer activism in the PRC examined from a cultural studies perspective. * An interdisciplinary project that combines historical and critical analysis of queer cultural texts and ethnographic studies of queer public culture in urban China. * Offers keen insights on identity, power and governmentality in China. This very timely, well-written and insightful exploration of gay identity and queer activism in the People's Republic of China today is more than a study of `queer China' through the lens of male homosexuality; it also examines identity, power and governmentality in contemporary China, as shaped by China's historical conditions and contemporary situations. This book offers in-depth analysis of recent queer history and contemporary cultural texts, including the processes by which queer theory and activism was introduced and received in the PRC, the transformation of Shanghai's queer spaces, leading queer filmmaker Cui Zi'en life and works, and personal diaries written by gay men receiving conversion therapies. It also presents rich ethnographic data gained from fieldwork conducted in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou's urban gay communities and documents queer public cultural events such as the Shanghai LGBT Pride, the Beijing Queer Film Festival, the China Queer Film Festival Tour, as well as a clash between cruising gay men and the police over the use of public space in the People's Park, Guangzhou. This book offers a queer Marxist analysis of sexual identity and social movements in contemporary China, where ideological negotiations between socialism and neoliberalism are constantly played out in the formation of public cultures and intimate spheres. In doing so, it critically assesses the role of Marxism and China's socialist legacies in shaping sexual identity, queer popular culture and political activism. Although the first of its kind from a cultural studies perspective, this interdisciplinary study speaks to scholars working in disparate fields including anthropology, sociology, media studies, film studies, political theory, and Asian Studies.
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NIAS Press Campaigning in Europe for a Free Indonesia:
Book SynopsisOffering important new understandings of the Indonesian independence struggle, this fine-grained study explores the international activities in the capitals of interwar Europe of the Perhimpoenan Indonesia (PI), an Indonesian nationalist student organisation based in the Netherlands. Operating in a vibrant political environment, the PI interacted with different anticolonial movements in cities across Europe. Focusing on the period between 1917 and 1931, the book follows the personal journeys of different students to cities such as Zurich, Paris, Brussels and Berlin as they established contacts, joined associations and attended international conferences. Here, the complex reality of movement building is examined, going beyond superficial suggestions of contact and collaboration. The study shows that the activities of the PI reverberated in the Indonesian political landscape, where the new collaborations in Europe were followed with great interest. In this way, the book offers new findings for multiple audiences - Indonesianists and scholars of anticolonial resistance alike. However, it also demonstrates that the political awakening of Indonesian elites should be understood not just as an indigenous response to Dutch rule but also as part of global anticolonial movements and struggles.Trade ReviewKlaas Stutje’s monograph is a pioneering contribution to global history from below. It interprets the origins of Indonesian nationalism and anti-colonialism in a radically new way. Stutje shows that Indonesian anticolonial activists in Europe were part of an emerging global network, and deliberately connected to members of other anticolonial movements. This highly original book may be the beginning of a new approach to the study of anticolonialism worldwide. (Marcel van der Linden, University of Amsterdam)
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NIAS Press Waves of Upheaval in Myanmar: Gendered
Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive account of the multifaceted processes of gendered transformation that took place in Myanmar between 2011 and 2021, and which continues to shape events today. The period began with the end of direct military rule and the transition to a hybrid, semi-democratic regime, precipitating far-reaching political, economic and social changes across Myanmar. To date, the gendered dynamics and effects of this transition have not yet received sustained scholarly attention. Remedying this gap, this book provides a much-needed historical corrective through a careful, nuanced analysis of the gendered dynamics of transitional politics, institutions and policymaking; feminist resistance, mobilization, and movement building; and their effects on labor, land, and everyday lives. Although the February 2021 military coup brought an end to this decade of experimentation and transition, in the richness of its analysis and detail, the book offers a deeper understanding of the current political situation in Myanmar. The gendered changes that the transition brought about have shaped both the current configuration of masculinized, military dictatorship, as well as the unprecedented role played by women in resistance to military rule after the 2021 coup. This analysis of the gendered dynamics and effects of the recent decade of political transition in Myanmar is therefore critical for understanding current events, as well as the ways in which Myanmar’s political landscape might continue to be reshaped.
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NIAS Press Civil Society Elites: Field Studies from Cambodia
Book SynopsisThis innovative volume is the first systematic study of civil society elites in Southeast Asia (and indeed anywhere in the world). Spanning two previously separate areas of research – civil society and elites – it sheds new light on power inequalities within and beyond civil society, identifies different types of elite formation and elite interaction within and beyond civil society, and traces interactions and integration with elite groups from party politics, the state, and the business sector. This tightly edited volume, produced by a research team ranging from senior scholars to promising younger academics, analyses how such processes are influenced by reliance on foreign funding and explores how they play out in two settings – where the political space for civil society is generally shrinking (Cambodia) and where it is relatively expanding (Indonesia). However, the volume offers more than a rethinking of civil society in Cambodia and Indonesia; it looks beyond. It thus challenges a view of civil society entities as relatively isolated from the state and from political and economic society, revealing power relations that link them. Suggesting a new direction for civil society research, the book will be of great interest to the many researchers working on civil society, elites and contemporary Southeast Asian politics as well as those engaged in other areas of society in Cambodia and Indonesia. Policymakers, donors and not least civil society activists themselves will find the volume highly relevant to their work.
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