Political activism / Political engagement Books
Griffin Publishing A Thousand Miles to Freedom
Book SynopsisEunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her countrydespite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the country-wide famine escalated.By the time she was eleven years old, Eunsun''s father and grandparents had died of starvation, and Eunsun too was in danger of starving. Finally, her mother decided to escape North Korea with Eunsun and her sister, not knowing that they were embarking on a journey that would take them nine long years to complete. Before finally reaching South Korea and freedom, Eunsun and her family would live homeless, fall into the hands of Chinese human traffickers, survive a North Korean labor camp, and cross the deserts of Mongolia on foot.Now, in A Thousand Miles to Freedom, Eunsun is sharing her remarkable story to give voice to the tens of millions of North Koreans still suff
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Picador USA Permanent Record
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREdward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it.Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary acc
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Abrams Press WE WILL BE JAGUARS
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Blue Light Press You Are Leaving the American Sector
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Chronicle Books Act Now
Book SynopsisUse these spirited protest postcards to write your elected representative or inspire a friend—or just post one above your desk. And feel good about yourself at the same time: All proceeds go to the ACLU, a nonprofit organization that protects civil rights for all Americans.
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Open Road Media Honorary White
Book Synopsis Acclaimed author E. R. Braithwaite (To Sir, With Love) chronicles the brutality, oppression, and courage he witnessed as a black man granted “Honorary White” status during a six-week visit to apartheid South Africa As a black man living in a white-dominated world, author E. R. Braithwaite was painfully aware of the multitude of injustices suffered by people of color and he wrote powerfully and poignantly about racial discrimination in his acclaimed novels and nonfiction works. So it came as a complete surprise when, in 1973, the longstanding ban on his books was lifted by the South African government, a ruling body of minority whites that brutally oppressed the black majority through apartheid laws. Applying for a visa—and secretly hoping to be refused—he was granted the official status of “Honorary White” for the length of his stay. As such, Braithwaite would be afforded some of the freedoms that South Africa&rsTrade Review“A valuable, even unique perspective.” —Kirkus ReviewsTable of Contents Contents Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve About the Author
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Open Road Media Paid Servant
Trade Review“A kind of social worker’s journal, offering intimate glimpses into troubled lives but without jargon or tortured psychoanalytic interpretations.” —The New York Times Book Review“Paid Servant adds to Mr. Braithwaite’s stature. . . . Absorbing to read and skilfully composed.” —The Times Literary Supplement “Warm but never sentimental.” —Booklist Table of Contents Contents Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven About the Author
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Political Animal The Life and Times of Stewart
Book SynopsisBased on Stewart Butler’s own personal papers, including hundreds of letters, and dozens of interviews, Political Animal paints an intimate portrait of a legendary figure in gay politics and the times in which he lived.
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Simon & Schuster Color Me Flo
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Creative Activism Conversations on Music Film Literature and Other Radical Arts
Book SynopsisRachel Lee Rubin is Professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA, where she directs the Center for the Study of Humanities, Culture, and Society. She has authored and edited numerous books on American popular culture including Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture, American Identities: An Introductory Textbook, American Popular Music: New Approaches to the Twentieth Century, and an upcoming title for Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series, Okie from Muskogee. She is a regular commentator on public radio and frequently quoted as a popular culture expert in the mainstream media.Trade ReviewThere is a wonderfully useful group of contemporary thinkers assembled here. I am glad it exists. * Samuel R. Delany, author of Babel-17 (1966) and Dhalgren (1975) *Featuring an extraordinary range of artists and voices, Creative Activism is an indispensable compilation of oral histories—and an often-exhilarating exchange of ideas on the roles of artists on the front lines of activism today. As an instructive and evocative guide, Rachel Lee Rubin allows us to re-envision how we view the world, redefine the limits of change, and reconsider the role of artists in shaping our lives. The great oral historian Studs Terkel often reminded us that reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation. As an essential resource, Creative Activism offers one of the most important and raucous conversations of our times. * Jeff Biggers, author of Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition (forthcoming 2018) *Table of ContentsIntroduction SECTION 1: Coal 1. “I'll Throw This Apple Atcha”: The Meaning of Mining According to Billy Edd Wheeler 2. “Visible, Horrible, Ugly”: Toxicity According to John Sabraw 3. “The Baby Needed Milk”: Collectivity According to Diane Gilliam Fisher SECTION 2: War and Peace 4. “It's a Great American Tradition”: War and Industry According to John Sayles 5. “Revolution by Tricks and Clowning”: Trips According to Maxine Hong Kingston 6. “Part of My Being”: Politics and Poetics According to Keorapetse Kgositsile SECTION 3: Borders 7. “I Sing about Cesar Chavez in Gold Lamé Hot Pants”: Revolution and Celebration According to El Vez 8. "I’m Not Some Fucking Gadjo!": Migration According to Eugene Hutz 9. “Gaps We Cross with Technology”: Solidarity and Surveillance According to Cory Doctorow 10. “What It’s Like to Be Stuck”: Interruption According to Julio Salgado SECTION 4: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality 11. “It’s Like Walt Whitman Gave Me a Blow Job”: Action According to Abe Rybeck 12. “Simultaneity of Actions”: Liberation According to Sarah Schulman 13. “Wigs and Skin”: Colonialism According to Ama Ata Aidoo SECTION 5: Economic Justice 14. “Hey, I See You”: Revolution According to Boots Riley 15. “Power and Powerlessness”: Detecting History According to Sara Paretsky 16. “Sometimes I Get Political, Sometimes I Get Offensive”: Pushing Back According to Dallas Wayne SECTION 6: Prisons 17. “The Anti-Slavery Act of 2002”: Private Prisons and Social Justice According to Si Kahn 18. “Politics through Artistic Eyes, and Art through Political Eyes”: Prison Rebellion According to Raúl Salinas 19. “From My 6 x 9 Cell”: Prison and Painting According to Anthony Papa SECTION 7: Transformations 20. “It’s All Connected”: Service According to Betye Saar 21. “I’m a Bit of a Threat”: Immortality According to Roz Kaveney 22. “Folklore, Fakelore and Fucklore”: Metamorphosis According to Emma Bull and Will Shetterly Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All
Book SynopsisWATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF 2023: POLITICS ‘A riveting blend of memoir and manifesto ... I found myself dog-earing every page’ Elizabeth Day 'Profoundly articulate. Entirely wise. Beautifully real.' Attitude ‘Transitional is a clever, moving book that packs a lot into its 194 pages’ Guardian Transitioning is an alignment of the invisible and the physical. It is truth rising to the surface. It is one of the most fundamental aspects of the human condition – a part of our experience as a conscious being, no matter who we are. As time goes on, we all develop as people. We all transition. It’s what unites us, not what separates us. In this life-affirming, heartfelt and intimate book, activist and model Munroe Bergdorf shares reflections from her own life to illustrate how transitioning is an essential part of all our lives. Through the story of one woman’s extraordinary mission to live with authenticity, Transitional shows us how to heal, how to build a stronger community and how to evolve as a society out of shame and into pride. ------ PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR: ‘Bergdorf is proof that speaking up for what you believe in can provoke real change’ Vogue ‘A phenomenon’ Owen Jones, Guardian ‘A powerful and unstoppable new force . . . The world should take notice’ Teen Vogue ‘One of the UK’s most committed and outspoken transgender activists’ StylistTrade ReviewA powerful rallying cry from an influential voice * Cosmopolitan *This version of Bergdorf offers a glimpse into the human cost of being a Black trans activist in the unrelenting public sphere ... she puts herself on the firing line to make the world more tolerant for us all * TIME *The model and trans activist tells the story of her own search for authenticity and argues that we all transition, one way or another * Guardian *Her much-anticipated manifesto on gender also aims to explore the transitions we all go through in life * iNews *As Bergdorf beautifully points out: we all transition. Whether it’s growing up and coming of age, reacting to the things that happen to us, learning from our mistakes, dealing with trauma or finding love, we all evolve. This is the book that explores the things that bind us together * Stylist *A manifesto on gender and an exploration of transitioning * GQ *By shining a light on the inevitable reality of change, it aims to bring us together and build a more understanding and inclusive world * Dazed *A compelling non-fiction title from the model and activist that discusses fluidity of identity, sexuality and gender through the experience of transition every human faces at some point in their life * Huffington Post *An intimate and life affirming exploration * Luxury London *I am forever in awe of Munroe and all of the incredible things she does * Clara Amfo *The transgender and model is trailblazing a way for the trans community through her activism * Dailymail *A riveting blend of memoir and manifesto . . . so enlightening and quotable, I found myself dog-earing every page -- Elizabeth DayAs you start reading Transitional, it might come as little surprise that every word of this honest and enriching book feels very carefully chosen. Then, as she settles into her story, you come to realise the extraordinary intelligence, insight and power of this tenacious woman. She writes unflinchingly about growing up different; a childhood spent trying to conceal the innate femininity that would distress family members, and the ostracisation she experienced at school. Profoundly articulate. Entirely wise. Beautifully real. * Attitude *It's in this era of the complete dehumanisation of trans people that Munroe Bergdorf’s debut book, Transitional, is needed more than ever. Transitional is a memoir that offers hope. It stretches way beyond Bergdorf’s own gender transition story to explore the many transitions we all go through in our brief time on this earth. Crucially, it reframes the conversation away from the medicalisation of trans people – such a small part of the trans experience – and shifts focus onto the real story, sheer humanity. * Vice *The model and trans activist writes movingly on prejudice, navigating controversy and personal growth * Guardian *
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David R. Godine Publisher The Boston Way
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. Tell the Bosses We're Coming: A New Action Plan
Book SynopsisLengthening hours, lessening pay, no parental leave, scant job security. Never have so many workers needed so much support. Yet the very labour unions that could garner us protections and help us speak up for ourselves are growing weaker every day. In an age of rampant inequality, of increasing social protest and strikes—and when a majority of workers say they want to be union members — why does union density continue to decline? In this compelling new book, Shaun Richman offers some answers. But bringing unions back from the edge of institutional annihilation, says Richman, is no simple proposition. The next few years offer a rare opportunity to undo the great damage wrought on labour by decades of corporate union-busting, if only union activists raise our ambitions. Based on deft historical research and legal analysis, as well as his own experience as a union organizing director, Richman lays out an action plan for U.S. workers in the twenty-first century by which we can internalize the concept that workers are equal human beings, entitled to health care, dignity, job security—and definitely, the right to strike. Unafraid to take on some of the labour movement’s sacred cows, this book describes what it would take—some changes that are within activists’ power and some that require meaningful legal reform—to put unions in workplaces across America.Trade Review“Shaun Richman is a critical voice in the fight for workers’ rights in the New Gilded Age and Tell the Bosses is a manifesto for real change to give workers power over their jobs.”—Erik Loomis, author, A History of America in Ten Strikes
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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.
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Omnidawn Publishing, Inc. Everyone I Love Alive
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Bloomsbury USA That Librarian
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Graywolf Press Regaining Unconsciousness
£15.30
BLACK EAGLE BOOKS Odia Sahitya Sanskruti O Kabichandra Kalicharana
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Cosimo Classics The Life of Elbert H. Gary: The Story of Steel
£24.99
Resource Publications (CA) Lewis Gompertz
£21.85
Bloomsbury Academic Performance Activism in the Contemporary Middle East North Africa and Beyond
Book SynopsisJoseph Alagha is Professor of Political Science, Sociology, and Intercultural Studies at Haigazian University, Beirut, Lebanon. He is the author of Hizbullah's Identity Construction (2011).
£76.00
Washington Square Press Tell Me How You Eat
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Martin Luther King Jr.: A Life From Beginning to End
£12.39
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Tengo un sueño: Martin Luther King Jr. La biografía no autorizada.
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Swift & Sparrow Press A Womans Work
£15.99
Faith in Public Life Who Stole My Bible?: Reclaiming Scripture as a Handbook for Resisting Tyranny
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4Streams Series, LLC River of Truth
£14.24
Ediciones Laponia, LLC Los cantos de Samael
£11.48
Everything is Connected Press To Be of Use
£23.75
Fremantle Press The Archipelago of Us: A search for our identity
Book SynopsisFive years after first living in the Indian Ocean Territories, Reneé Pettitt-Schipp finds herself returning, haunted by memories of the asylum seekers she taught there in Australias detention system. Why do the islands still have a hold on her? Why are her memories such troubled ones? And why can she not let go? Closer to Indonesia than Australia, Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands are out of sight and out of mind to most Australians, but they are the sites of some of our frontier wars, the places where our identity is laid bare in all its flawed complexity and the places where there is time and space enough to ask: can we be better than this? A travel narrative, a memoir and a thought-provoking look at Australias complicated history with Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the asylum seekers detained there.
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Ella Zelensky Iridescence
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Iguana Books The eclipse
£8.99
Must Have Books Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel
£10.20
PageMaster Publishing Mystic Wand
£12.76
Wits University Press Patrick Van Rensburg: Rebel, Visionary and Radical Educationist, a Biography
£71.00
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Words and Muse Inks
£8.97
Ocean Droplets Loosening the Knot of Oppression
£12.76
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power: Capitalism, Creativity and the Commons
Book SynopsisToday, when it seems like everything has been privatized, when austerity is too often seen as an economic or political problem that can be solved through better policy, and when the idea of moral values has been commandeered by the right, how can we re-imagine the forces used as weapons against community, solidarity, ecology and life itself? In this stirring call to arms, Max Haiven argues that capitalism has colonized how we all imagine and express what is valuable. Looking at the decline of the public sphere, the corporatization of education, the privatization of creativity, and the power of finance capital in opposition to the power of the imagination and the growth of contemporary social movements, Haiven provides a powerful argument for creating an anti-capitalist commons. Capitalism is not in crisis, it is the crisis, and moving beyond it is the only key to survival. Crucial reading for all those questioning the imposition of austerity and hoping for a fairer future beyond it.Trade ReviewHaiven's provocative book does justice to a topic that has been too long neglected. He not only explains the constraints that are everywhere placed on our political imagination, but also makes a strong case for transcending them. * Andrew Ross, author of Creditocracy and the Case for Debt Refusal *The right has taken possession of the field of values with a politics that is inadequate to deal with the crises therein, whereas the left has the concepts needed to deal with the crises but has all but abandoned the field. This is a conundrum that must be explored and solved. Haiven is to be thanked for formulating this problem so precisely. * George Caffentzis, author of In Letters of Blood and Fire *Fatalism and futility beware! We now have a handbook for the invention of a new commons. In Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power, Max Haiven explains how and why we need to struggle to take back creativity, imagination and our sense of collective purpose from those forces that seek to use it to their own ends. With the help of this book, another world really is possible. * Imre Szeman, Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies, University of Alberta *In this inspired and engaged book, Max Haiven provides us with what he calls a series of exercises of the imagination. Readers will emerge from these invigorating sessions, which rework the machineries of finance, labor and activism, equipped with a contemporary radicalism to face the demands of a full immersion in the possibilities and complexities of our moment. * Randy Martin, New York University *Against the bankruptcy of liberal politics, Max Haiven puts forward a renewed called for the elaboration of others values, lives, and ways of being together. This is a radicalism based not upon pie-in-the-sky ideas, but on expanding the commons of a social reproduction not premised on capital's measure but its own, extending and learning from practices already in motion. Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power helps bring us closer to the utopia that is within our grasp. * Stevphen Shukaitis, author of Imaginal Machines: Autonomy and Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life *[Haiven's] consideration of the potential cracks in the status quo, and how these might provide spaces for the collective work of imagining alternatives, demonstrates the ways in which global activist networks have already started transforming our world. * TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Crises of the Imagination 1. Reimagining Value 2. Publics, Commons, Occupations 3. The Crisis of the Financialized Imagination 4. Within and Beyond the Edu-factory 5. The Enclosure of History, the Debt of the Past, the Commons of Memory 6. The Enclosure of Creativity 7. What is the Radical Imagination? Conclusion: Fatalism and its Discontents
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Revolt and Protest: Student Politics and Activism in Sub-saharan Africa
Book SynopsisThe evolution of student activism in sub-Saharan Africa is crucial to understanding the process of democratic struggle and change in Africa. Focusing on the recent period of 'democratic transitions' in the 1990s, Leo Zeilig discusses the widespread involvement of student activism in democratic struggles across contemporary Africa and focuses on two case studies, Senegal and Zimbabwe. He provides an historical examination of the student-intelligentsia on the continent that played a crucial role in the independence struggles across much of Africa, leading and organising nationalist movements and outlines the development of grass-root activism. Zeilig demonstrates how students shape and are shaped by national processes of political change and popular protest and reveals both the continuities and transformations in student activism in an era of austerity, crisis and poverty.Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Chapter 1: Politics, students and protest Chapter 2: Student activism, structural adjustment and the ‘democratic transition’ Chapter 3: Researching students Chapter 4: Reform, revolt and student activism in Zimbabwe Chapter 5: Political Change and student resistance in Senegal Chapter 6: The meaning of student protest in the democratic transition Conclusion: The return of the student-intelligentsia
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The Mercier Press Ltd Utter Disloyalist: Tadhg Barry and the Irish Revolution
Book SynopsisTadhg Barry was the last high-profile victim of the crown forces during the Irish War of Independence. A veteran republican, trade unionist, journalist, poet, GAA official and alderman on Cork Corporation, he was shot dead in Ballykinlar internment camp on 15 November 1921. Barry’s tragic death was a huge, but subsequently largely forgotten, event in Ireland. Dublin came to a standstill as a quarter of a million people lined the streets and the IRA had its last full mobilisation before the Treaty split. The funeral in Cork echoed those of Barry’s comrades, the martyred lord mayors Tomás MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney. The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed three weeks later, all internees were released and the movement that elevated him to hero/martyr status was ripped asunder in the ensuing civil war. The name of Tadhg Barry became lost in the smoke. This is the first biography of a fascinating activist described by his British enemies as an ‘Utter disloyalist’ and by a comrade as ‘a characteristic product of Rebel Cork – courageous, kindly, generous to a fault, bold and daring, and independent in speech and action’. It offers fascinating new perspectives on the dynamics of Ireland’s long revolution, including glimpses of the roads not taken.
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Benediction Classics Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself
£9.67
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Women's Activism in Africa: Struggles for Rights and Representation
Book SynopsisThroughout Africa, growing numbers of women are coming together and making their voices heard, mobilising around causes ranging from democracy and land rights to campaigns against domestic violence. In Tanzania and Tunisia, women have made major gains in their struggle for equal political rights, and in Sierra Leone and Liberia women have been at the forefront of efforts to promote peace and reconciliation. While some of these movements have been influenced by international feminism and external donors, increasingly it is African women who are shaping the global struggle for women’s rights. Bringing together African authors who themselves are part of the activist groups, this collection represents the only comprehensive and up-to-date overview of women’s movements in contemporary Africa. Drawing on case studies and fresh empirical material from across the continent, the authors challenge the prevailing assumption that notions of women’s rights have trickled down from the global north to the south, showing instead that these movements have been shaped by above all the unique experiences and concerns of the local women involved.Trade ReviewA valuable and thought-provoking volume. In illuminating less familiar aspects of women’s politics in Africa, [the book] contributes to our wider understanding of the dynamics of (national) women’s movements and of the contemporary global movement for women’s rights.' * Commonwealth and Comparative Politics *This is an excellent contribution to the literature on African feminism and international women’s rights agendas … valuable to students and researchers of African politics, development studies, human rights and gender studies, as well as policymakers.' * Journal of Modern African Studies *A very inspiring and necessary read at a time when women's voices are regularly muffled.' * Strategic Review for Southern Africa *Badri and Tripp have assembled a remarkable collec-tion of essays by impressive, accomplished women that challenges masculinist histories of political change and challenges. * African Studies Review *(An) excellent collection of essays on women’s activism in Africa ... The volume’s message is thus both celebratory and deeply realistic. * Choice *Women’s Activism in Africa is an act of epistemological social justice, as it reveals the important, yet overlooked, role that women have been playing on the continental and global stage. * International Feminist Journal of Politics *An enjoyable, informative read, a concise yet richly detailed and timely addition to knowledge on women’s activism in Africa, and a strong foundation for research on young African feminisms … invaluable reading for students and scholars of feminist politics all over the world. * Social Movement Studies *This book is distinctive for its critical analysis on issues around African women’s movements and mobilisations. The contributors represent scholarship and activism from diverse regions, and their work broadens our understanding of current African feminist discourses. * Josephine Beoku-Betts, Florida Atlantic University *Coming from African scholars, this captivating book makes a much needed contribution to the current literature. Not only does it provide new perspectives and insights, but it also highlights the diversity of activism across the continent. This is a must read. * Kathleen Fallon, Stony Brook University *This compact volume on women’s activism, by many of the most outstanding scholars in the field, is among the best and most useful I have seen. The editors, bolstered by excellent contributions, turn conventional wisdom about African women on its head. * Sondra Hale, UCLA (Emerita) *Harnesses women’s voices and experiences across Africa to help build a common heritage of protest and activism which is normally left out of histories of the struggles of African states. It is a must read for all those interested in knowing what African women have been doing and continue to do in the African continent. * Wanjiku Kabira, University of Nairobi, Kenya *Table of Contents1. African Influences on Global Women’s Rights: An Overview - Aili Mari Tripp and Balghis Badri 2. The Evolution of the Women’s Movement in Sierra Leone - Nana Claris Efua Pratt 3. Market Women’s Associations in Ghana - Akua Opokua Britwum and Angela Dziedzom Akorsu 4. Tunisian Women’s Literature of Denunciation - Lilia Labidi 5. The Moroccan Feminist Movement (1946–2014) - Fatima Sadiqi 6. Women’s Rights and the Women’s Movement in Sudan (1952–2014) - Samia Al Nagar and Liv Tønnessen 7. The Women's Movement in Tanzania - Aili Mari Tripp 8. The Women’s Movement in Kenya - Regina G. Mwatha 9. Women Organising for Liberation: South Africa - Sheila Meintjes 10. African Women Activists: Contributions and Challenges Ahead - Balghis Badri
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Independently Published Prohibido Ser Ciudadano: Versión Impresa a Todo Color
£48.51
Cognella Academic Publishing Anti-Black Racism in Contemporary America
£42.00
Playful Pomegranate Press Rosewater
£11.39
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Israeli Peace Movement: Anti-Occupation Activism and Human Rights since the Al-Aqsa Intifada
Book SynopsisThe Israeli peace movement has been in decline since the 2000s. In particular, the liberal Zionist groups, who call for peace for the sake of the security and continuity of Israel, have become paralysed and almost voiceless since the second Intifada. However, despite the stagnation around the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process, this book argues that other important groups have emerged that present new ways to challenge the status quo. These are radical groups that act in solidarity with the Palestinians and human rights organisations and whose aim is to reveal the realities of the occupation and hold the government to account. Leonie Fleishmann argues that these groups have been, and remain, the agenda setters, pushing the more moderate groups to mobilise more quickly and encouraging them to take up more confrontational ideas. Using social movements theory, and based on 50 interviews and participant observation, this book sheds light on contemporary Israeli peace activism.Trade ReviewThis is an important work for students of Israeli politics and the Palestine question, as well as for other specialists in comparative and international politics concerned with ethnic conflict, human rights in the face of apartheid-like structures, and social movements. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals. * CHOICE *A meticulously presented work of impeccable scholarship and an unreservedly recommended contribution to college and university library Israeli/Palestinian collections and supplemental curriculum studies. * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsList of Tables Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Re-Framing Israeli Anti-Occupation Activism The Liberal Zionist Component: Failing to Resonate The Radical Component: Consistently Confrontational The Human Rights Component: Challenging Israeli Consensus Gender and the Framing of Israeli Anti-Occupation Activism Irreconcilable Differences Reconciling Differences: The Case of Sheikh Jarrah Moving Forward: New Ideas Chapter 3: New Ways to Resist Contained Collective Action Harnessing Institutionalised Forms of Activism Tours Nonviolent Resistance Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Conscientious Objection Conclusion: Demobilisation, Expansion and Evolution Chapter 4: A Changing Landscape Who are the Activists? Mobilisation Structures since the Al Aqsa Intifada The International Dimension Mobilisation Beyond People: Funding Chapter 5: Three Paths of Activism Path One: Demobilisation of the Liberal Zionist Component Path Two: The Continued Efforts of the Human Rights Component Path Three: A New Wave of Radical Activism Chapter 6: Beyond the Policy Realm Reflections on the Theoretical Foundations of Social Movements The Influence of Israeli Anti-Occupation Activism Notes Appendix: Table of Israeli Peace and Anti-Occupation Groups Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Threat from Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism
Book SynopsisA Threat from Within presents a history of Jewish opposition to Zionism, and challenges the myths that lie at the very root of contemporary or 'new' anti-Semitism. A principled and enduring opposition to Zionism has come from spiritual leaders of Judaism and has not died away despite the State of Israel existence as an imposing military power. The violence in Israel/Palestine acquires a different meaning when seen in the context of internal opposition to Zionism. Dire warnings voiced at the birth of Zionism now sound prophetic. The anti-Zionists have claimed all along that far from 'solving the Jewish question' and offering Jews a safe haven, Zionism would only fan hatred of the Jews. A Threat from Within and its seemingly paradoxical theme - Jews opposing Zionism in the name of Judaism - will fascinate a wide range of readers from different political and religious orientations. Yakov Rabkin‘s book has been translated into several languages and has been nominated for the 2006 Governor General‘s Literary Awards, Canada‘s most prestigious literary prize.Trade Review'An extremely interesting and valuable book.' Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 'Timely, well researched and thorough treatment of probably the most controversial issue in today’s Jewish world. Fascinating contemporary material. The author deserves our thanks for presenting our case so eloquently.' Jewish Telegraph 'Yakov Rabkin argues that Jewish rejection of the Zionist state should be taken seriously.' Jewish Chronicle 'This book sheds light on religious anti-Zionism, which, demographically and ideologically, represents the most serious threat to Israel as a State and as a collective identity. In fact, it is a more grievous and dangerous challenge than Arab and Palestinian hostility. The State, by increasing its achievements, leads the country straight into an abyss. To paraphrase Marx, one could say that Israel, by virtue of its spectacular development, is digging its own tomb.' Joseph Hodara, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 'I can only welcome the publication of this unconventional book based on often ignored historical facts. It is up to us to draw lessons from it.' Rabbi Moshe Gérard Ackermann, Director of the Nerlitz Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem 'Yakov Rabkin has produced an altogether remarkable book that tells the story and analyses the ideas of the Orthodox Jewish movement opposed to Zionism and the State of Israel. I am enormously impressed by the author‘s historical scholarship, by his brilliant analysis of a complex literature and by the lucidity of his prose. This is an extraordinary book.' Gregory Baum, McGill University 'This book is fascinating. it presents a range of anti-Zionist arguments developed in Jewish religious circles that are practically unknown to the public. It is a solid contribution to scholarship.' Alain Bouchard, Laval University 'This is a capital book that comes at the very time that "the eternal Middle East question" demands new approaches that may defuse the crisis. This is why this book must be read without delay that the greatest number of people possible.' Charles Rhéaume, historian, Department of National Defense, Ottawa 'As an Israeli patriot and as a philosopher, I consider it essential to integrate the discourse of Judaic anti-Zionism into the badly needed public debate about our past, present and future.' Joseph Agassi, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; Tel-Aviv University and York University, Toronto '...mastery of detail and succinct referencing...[the book] is rich and deserves serious attention and respect.' Journal of the Middle East in London 'This is an excellent and an urgent book at a time when criticism is confronted by an iron wall.' Yerah Gover, Journal of Palestine StudiesTable of Contents Preface - Joseph Agassi Prologue 1. Historical Signposts 2. A New Identity 3. Land of Israel between Exile and Return 4. Use of Force 5. Collaboration with the Zionists: Limits and Opportunities 6. Zionism, the Shoah and Israel 7. Prophecies of Destruction and Strategies of Survival Epilogue
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