Political activism / Political engagement Books

Book SynopsisChanging relations between science and democracy â and controversies over issues such as climate change, energy transitions, genetically modified organisms and smart technologies â have led to a rapid rise in new forms of public participation and citizen engagement. While most existing approaches adopt fixed meanings of âparticipationâ and are consumed by questions of method or critiquing the possible limits of democratic engagement, this book offers new insights that rethink public engagements with science, innovation and environmental issues as diverse, emergent and in the making. Bringing together leading scholars on science and democracy, working between science and technology studies, political theory, geography, sociology and anthropology, the volume develops relational and co-productionist approaches to studying and intervening in spaces of participation. New empirical insights into the making, construction, circulation and effects of participation across cultures are Trade Review"The insightful chapters collected in this book show how concerns raised by technosciences provide a tremendous opportunity for remaking democracy. The editors and authors invite us to consider the so-called participatory turn neither as a masquerade nor as a mere social technology but as a global multisite construction place where new forms of collective life and government are imagined and experimented. A brilliant book that should be read by all those interested in the future of our planet." –Michel Callon, Professor of Sociology, École des mines and Centre de sociologie de l'innovation, Paris, France"Do not mistake the modesty advocated by this book for half-heartedness. Remaking Participation argues that we should expand our perspectives on participation, and need to get better at appreciating the incredible variety of locations, devices and genres with which participation is done in today’s technological societies. This situation makes it necessary to ‘un-fix’ our understanding of participation. In practice, participation often does not conform to the democratic ideal of participation that we know so well – it is not necessarily good, necessary, authentic. But neither would it do to declare that participation has turned into its opposite (that it has become co-opted, trivial, ineffective). Bringing together leading intellectual voices on science, technology and democracy, Remaking Participation shows that participation lies at the very heart of current technological, environmental and political transformations, and outlines a much needed research agenda that engages with the intensely ambivalent situations that result from this."–Noortje Marres, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, UK"Modern societies remain hampered by myths about the relationship between science and democracy. The myths produce unwelcome practices, such as attempts to scientize political decisions or to discredit science by politicising it. This landmark volume explodes the myths and shows how science and democracy can achieve a new relationship underpinned by the core value of public participation. It shows how and why science needs to rethink its relationship with society, and how societies can make science and democracy far more responsive to their needs and desires. The book takes readers to the cutting-edge of debates about the proper relationships between science and democracy. More than this, it also explores new territory, showing how science and democracy can be more richly infused with the practices of both. The editors and authors have together done a brilliant job of showing us what needs to change, and how. It will be a key reference for many years to come. "–Noel Castree, Professor of Geography, University of Wollongong, Australia and University of Manchester, UK"Whether sparked by gene editing or geoengineering, fracking or food crops, arguments about the possibilities and pitfalls of advances in science and technology ripple through our societies with increasing frequency. How, and on what terms, experts, policymakers and wider publics engage in these debates is a topic of constant and fierce negotiation. In Remaking Participation, Jason Chilvers and Matthew Kearnes have brought together an exciting and original series of contributions from some of the leading thinkers in this field. The end result is a collection of rare quality, insight and relevance to real-world questions. It should be read by scholars, students, practitioners, policymakers, and all those who care about the future of science, technology and society."–James Wilsdon, Professor of Science & Democracy, University of Sussex, UK & Chair, Campaign for Social Science"‘Participation’ is the word that covers all sins, a term so elastic that it can be used to both challenge and legitimize any given decision-making process. Remaking Participation shows how to redeem this slippery concept and sharpen its critical edge. By examining in detail how citizens engage with controversial scientific and environmental issues, this book invites us to see the objects and the subjects of participation, the problems that trigger political action and the collectives that gather around them, as emergent, mutually constitutive realities. Far from being a recipe for relativism and detachment, the authors’ embrace of the contingency that besets participatory democracy in the making reinvigorates the ideal of civic engagement and recasts the role of social scientists as participants in open-ended political experiments."–Javier Lezaun, Deputy Director, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford, UK"This is the book that many have long been waiting for. It tackles head-on, some of the most important current issues at the meeting of social science and wider politics: What does participation mean? Where is it going? Transcending the usual dichotomised tropes, these essays take diverse and highly nuanced critically reflectively views – with many very practical implications. The conclusions are of enormous importance to all those academics and practitioners working in policy arenas touched by the language and practice of participation"–Andy Stirling, Professor of Science and Technology Policy and Co-Director of the STEPS Centre, University of Sussex, UK"Exercises of participatory technology assessment are a fascinating window onto relations of science, citizens, and state. Bringing together a rich diversity of cases and arguments, the book builds on the idea that public assessment of technology is a form of democratic experiment by analyzing the variety of ways in which this is so. In the process, we gain a useful theoretical framework for understanding the modern enterprise of ‘public engagement’ as a co-constructive process of making publics, democratic idioms, and technoscience itself." –David Winickoff, Director, Berkeley Program in Science & Technology Studies, USA"This important book argues for a new approach to public participation in science and technology, one which understands participation as co-produced, relational and emergent. Written by the leading contributors in the field, and combining theoretical depth with engaging empirical material, this refreshing and timely collection is essential reading for all those concerned with science, innovation and democracy." –Jane Calvert, Science Technology & Innovation Studies, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK"Participatory politics are all the rage. This is especially the case when science, technology, corporate and political power shape innovation and policymaking. Such forces also manipulate opinion and even political and social outlooks. So the very act of participation could, in the wrong hands, reinforce the tools of power and influence. Jason Chilvers and Matthew Kearnes are very much alive to these dangers. They have brought together an impressive array of contributors who show that effective participation can be truly revolutionary and politically transforming. They are all on their guard that such a rewarding outcome has constantly to be fought for and reinvented through genuine partnerships and dialogue. The ultimate test is how far power is progressively shared and social justice genuinely created." –Tim O’Riordan, Emeritus Professor, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK"Participation is a key field within the study of international development. This book adds significantly to existing approaches to participation by adding insights from science and technology studies and theories of democracy. It should be read by students and analysts working on international development, and anyone interested in participation as a research and policy tool." –Tim Forsyth, Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK"[T]he individual chapters in the book, which comprise a series of excellent explorations of participatory practices in our science and technology drenched democracies, showing how those practices are continually (re)configured during unending contestations over democracy.The strength of the volume resides in those excellent chapters, and in the good intentions of Chilvers and Kearnes" - Darrin Durant, Metascience Journal, 2018Table of Contents1.Science, democracy and emergent publics Part 1 Rethinking participation 2. Participation in the making: rethinking public engagement in co-productionist terms 3. Engaging in a decentred world: overflows, ambiguities, and the governance of climate change 4. Engaging the Mundane: Complexity and Speculation in Everyday Technoscience 5. Ghosts of the machine: Publics, meanings and social science in a time of expert dogma and denial 2 Making participation 6. State experiments with public participation: French nanotechnology, Congolese deforestation, and the search for national publics 7. Technologies of participation and the making of technologised futures 8. Participation as pleasure: Citizenship and science communication 9. The temporal choreographies of participation: Thinking innovation and society from a time-sensitive perspective Part 3 Remaking Participation 10. An ‘experiment with intensities’: village hall reconfigurings of the world within a new participatory collective 11. Against blank slate futuring: Noticing obduracy in the city through experiential methods of public engagement 12. Reflexively engaging with technologies of participation: constructive assessment for public participation methods 13. Remaking participation: towards reflexive engagement

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Book SynopsisFrom bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreementTrade Review"Hitchens is expanding his influence, showing the next generation how to 'think independently'." - USA Today"

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Book SynopsisThe outbreak of the “Minamata Disease” in 1950s Japan remains one of the most horrific examples of environmental poisoning in history. Based on primary documents and interviews, this book describes responses to this incidence of mercury poisoning, focusing on the efforts of its victims and their supporters to secure redress.Trade ReviewThis is the first account, in any language, which covers the controversies surrounding the infamous mercury poisoning in Minamata in southern Kyushu over the time frame of ninety years, from the founding of the factory which caused the pollution, up to the settlement for compensation reached in 1995… George’s monograph provides an excellent point of departure for further inquiries. -- Anja Osiander * Social Science Journal *

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Book SynopsisA Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022 A Financial Times Politics Book of the Year 2021 A fascinating account of Russia’s famous dissident and the politics he embodies. Who is Alexei Navalny? Poisoned in August 2020 and transported to Germany for treatment, the politician returned to Russia in January 2021 in the full glare of the world media. His immediate detention at passport control set the stage for an explosive showdown with Vladimir Putin. But Navalny means very different things to different people. To some, he is a democratic hero. To others, he is betraying the Motherland. To others still, he is a dangerous nationalist. This book explores the many dimensions of Navalny’s political life, from his pioneering anti-corruption investigations to his ideas and leadership of a political movement. It also looks at how his activities and the Kremlin’s strategies have shaped one another. Navalny makes sense of this divisive character, revealing the contradictions of a man who is the second most important political figure in Russia—even when behind bars. In order to understand modern Russia, you need to understand Alexei Navalny. This updated version includes new material following Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.Trade Review'Anyone reading [Navalny] from the safety and comfort of Britain will be daunted, humbled — and outraged.' -- Edward Lucas, The Times'At a moment when Alexei Navalny has emerged as a global figure in his fight from captivity for Russian democracy, Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, and Ben Noble have provided the world with a tremendous service by writing the first comprehensive account of the country’s most important opposition leader. Filled with facts and devoid of hyperbole, the book offers a complete portrayal of Navalny, as an anti-corruption activist, politician, and protestor. Navalny: Putin’s Nemesis, Russia’s Future? is a must read for anyone who wants to learn what Alexei Navalny actually does and believes, and what he might do to shape Russia’s future.' -- Michael McFaul, author of 'From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia'

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Book SynopsisManning Marable was Professor of History and Political Science at Columbia University and director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. He was the founding director of the Center for Contemporary Black History, established in 2002 and the Institute for Research in African-American Studies, where he served from 1993 to 2003. He died as the hardback of Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention was published. The book was a Finalist for the National Book Award 2011.Trade Review[A] groundbreaking piece of work. ...The result is not just a biography, but also a history of Muslims in America and a sweeping account of one man's transformation... It will be difficult for anyone to better this book. ... a work of art, a feast that combines genres skillfully: biography, true-crime, political commentary. It gives us Malcolm X in full gallop. -- Wil Haygood * Washington Post *[L]ucid, hugely researched and surely definitive...an extraordinary story. * Sunday Times *[A]n incredibly detailed account of Malcolm's life (and an investigation of his murder) and it is, of course, completely riveting....it is inevitably much more than a biography of one man... Marable is intensely and intimately sympathetic. -- Geoff Dyer * New Yorker *In the pantheon of black American protest figures only Martin Luther King occupies a more exalted position, but it is Malcolm X whose legend has the greater street credibility and aura of cool...Now, almost a half century [after his assassination], Malcolm has finally received the biography that his unique role in black culture demands...A meticulous, comprehensive, and fair-minded portrait. -- Andrew Anthony * Observer *Professor Manning Marable's Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention is encyclopaedic in its approach. The endnotes and bibliography indicate the staggering breadth and depth of scholarship underpinning this volume....Undoubtedly it will stand as a last lecture on the subject by one of America's most distinguished historians. -- Wilbert Rideau * Financial Times *[A] wealth of detail, some of it new, some of it old stories confirmed...At the end of it all, Malcolm X remains Malcolm X, for good or ill, one of the most fascinating historical figures of the 20th Century...a labour of love...a courageous endeavour. -- Hugh Muir * Guardian *Malcolm's short life (he was slain at 39) makes a fascinating story...Mr Marable has scoured contemporary press clippings in America, Europe and Africa...and benefitted...from the recent release to the public of hundreds of Malcolm's letters, photographs and texts of speeches. * The Economist *Marable gives us all the raw material for a harshly critical appraisal... Marable's is very far from the first biography of Malcolm, but it is undoubtedly the most penetrating and thoroughly researched. It clearly surpasses the best previous effort, Bruce Perry's 1991 study -- Stephen Howe * The Independent *By the end of the 1960s, Malcolm's disciples had elevated him to what Manning Marable, in this weighty biography, calls 'secular sainthood'; in death, his image was quickly refashioned to 'embody the very ideal of blackness for an entire generation'... But Marable... resists the temptation of hagiography and fills in the gaps left by previous books. Where the autobiography, carefully organised by the NOI-sceptic Haley, presents an idealised vision of a man's growth as a thinker, Marable gives us Malcolm in all his self-contradiction and self-doubt... By refusing to pin him down, he offers glimpses of the human being behind the legend. -- Yo Zushi * New Statesman *Striking... Marable is intensely sympathetic but always conscious of the contradictions of his subject...the fulfilment of a life's work -- Geoff Dyer, Books of the Year * Prospect *From petty criminal to drug user to prisoner to minister to separatist to humanist to martyr. Marable, who worked for more than a decade on the book and died earlier this year, offers a more complete and unvarnished portrait of Malcolm X than the one found in his autobiography. The story remains inspiring -- 10 Best Books of 2011 * New York Times *An exploration of the legendary life and provocative views of one of the most significant African-Americans in U.S. history, a work that separates fact from fiction and blends the heroic and tragic * Pulitzer Prize in History 2012 award citation *

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Book SynopsisResisting Hitler is a biography of the only American woman to have been executed for treason against Germany during World War II. Mildred Harnack was born in Wisconsin but moved to Germany with her husband in 1929 where she taught American literature. Both Mildred and her husband, Arvid (a professor of philosophy and a native of Gemany), socialised with the intellectual elite of Berlin. Appalled by the rise of Hitler, they joined with others to resist fascism by any means they could. Brysac''s exhaustive reasearch has found evidence to support the theory that both Mildred and Arvid gave classified information on Germany to both the Soviets and the US in an effort to sabotage the Nazis. Before and during the war, the Harnacks were founding and leading members of the Red Orchestra, an important covert intelligence group that transmitted messages of resistance with the use of contraband radios. In 1942, Hitler personally ordered their execution.That the heroic efforts of Mildred Harnack''Trade ReviewReview from previous editionResisting Hitler is one of the best researched books on the Second World War that I have ever read . . . Shareen Brysac has added greatly to our knowledge of anti-Nazi resistance in Germany. * Andrew Roberts, Mail on Sunday, 25/02/01 *splendid richly textured biography . . . . This is fine writing * Richard Overy, The Sunday Telegraph, 04/02/2001 *

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Book SynopsisIndepth study of one of the largest and most successful Islamist parties, examining its role in Lebanese politics and the wider Muslim umma.Trade Review'A fine exposition of the evolution, the religious and political philosophy of one of the most important movements in the contemporary Middle East' -- Tribune'This is one of the very best works on the subject' -- Middle East International'The most detailed and scholarly analysis to date of the ideology of the Lebanese Shi'a radical Hizb'ullah' -- CHOICETable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Political Accommodation And Violence In Non-Islamic States 2. The Islamic State And Democracy 3. The Concept Of The Guardianship Of The Jurisprudent 4. Islamic Universalism And National Identity 5. The Struggle With The West 6. The Resistance To The Israeli Occupation Of South Lebanon 7. Anti-Zionism And Israel 8. Anti-Judaism Conclusion Appendix 1: Miladi Equivalents To Hijri Years Appendix 2: List Of Hijri Months References Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewConboy and Morrison do a wonderful job of weaving an intricate maze of details within the wider perspective of CIA’s operations in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Laos, in retelling a story very few know about."—The Tibet Journal"This is a work that makes the reader sit up and take notice. In the hands of Conboy and Morrison, the broader story of the U.S.-backed operation that lasted into the 1970s is engaging as well as important. The tale of Tibet still stands as a salutary warning of the dilemmas of secret and not-so-secret wars."—International History Review"A superb case study on intelligence that will stand the test of time."—Journal of Military History"An important story and one that is well told."—Journal of Asian Studies"The inside story of one of the CIA’s most tragic covert operations. Agency officers in the Wild East; nationalist, religious, and ethnic conflict—this is the stuff of a great yarn, which the authors tell in engaging detail."—John Prados, author of Presidents’ Secret Wars: CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations from World War II Through the Persian Gulf"A masterful account of how the CIA sought to play the ‘new great game’ on the roof of the world."—David F. Rudgers, author of Creating the Secret State: Origins of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1943–1947"An excellent and impressive study of a major CIA covert operation during the Cold War."—William M. Leary, author of Perilous Missions: Civil Air Transport and CIA Covert Operations in Asia

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Book SynopsisIn the mediated digital era, communication is changing fast and eating up ever greater shares of real-world power. Corporate battles and guerrilla wars are fought on Twitter. Facebook is the new Berlin, home to tinkers, tailors, spies ? and terrorist recruiters. We recognize the power shift instinctively but, in our attempts to understand it, we keep using conceptual and theoretical models that are not changing fast, that are barely changing at all, that are laid over from the past. Journalism remains one of the main sites of communication power, an expanded space where citizens, protesters, PR professionals, tech developers and hackers can directly shape the news. Adrienne Russell reports on media power from one of the most vibrant corners of the journalism field, the corner where journalists and activists from countries around the world cross digital streams and end up updating media practices and strategies. Russell demonstrates the way the relationship between digitaTrade Review"Journalism has always overlapped with activism, and certainly does so today. In Journalism as Activism, Adrienne Russell focuses on this overlap and shows how small groups of progressives around causes like Occupy Wall Street are trying to connect activism, technology, and journalism to develop new forms of media aimed not at covering the world, but at changing it." Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, University of Oxford �Journalists have traditionally been cast as storytellers, but emerging technologies embed them into stories in ways that radicalize the affective nature of their involvement with events in the making. In Journalism as Activism, Adrienne Russell reconsiders the place of journalists in developing stories, and challenges the traditional dogma of objectivity, thus helping us reimagine the meaning of journalism in contemporary and future societies. Compellingly presented, elegantly written, and deeply original, this is a credo for enlightenment through journalism.� Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois at ChicagoTable of Contents Contents Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Networks Chapter 3: Tools: Prototyping Change Chapter 4: Practice Chapter 5: Power Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe life and influence of singer Phil Ochs Phil Ochs burst onto the American music scene just as the popularity of folk music was breaking through on the national consciousness. Along with friend and rival Bob Dylan, Ochs wrote some of the most compelling topical music of his time. In There But for Fortune, Michael Schumacher explores the life and career of a singer, songwriter, and political activist whose music resonates today as much as it applied to a divided country a half-century ago. His politically charged songs were covered by Pete Seeger; Joan Baez; Gordon Lightfoot; Peter, Paul and Mary; and a host of others, and such songs as “I Ain’t Marching Anymore” and “The War Is Over” became anthems of the anti–Vietnam War movement. He seemed to be performing everywhere, from concerts on college campuses to huge demonstrations, culminating with an appearance at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968.But as this biography illustrates in painstaking detail, Ochs suffered from a dark side that gravely affected his life and music. Diagnosed as manic depressive, he shifted between incredible highs and debilitating lows that ultimately drove him to suicide at age 36. To piece together his life story, Schumacher interviewed Ochs’s friends, family members, and fellow musicians; examined his journals and scrapbooks; and even scrutinized his FBI files. While Phil Ochs’s life might have been plagued by downturn and tragedies, his music is an enduring call to activism and fighting for a better future.Trade Review"A riveting, colorful, and anecdote-rich tale, well researched and finely told."—Boston Globe"Schumacher keeps his eye on the main theme: Phil Ochs wanted to sing the truth."—Chicago Tribune"Through extensive interviews with Ochs's family members, friends and business associates, Schumacher constructs a balanced portrait of the musician's brief but eventful life."—Publishers Weekly"There But for Fortune intensely studies the burgeoning—and surprisingly competitive—‘60s folk scene and Ochs’ place in it. In revisiting the societal and political tumult of the period, following Ochs to the deep South for an education in the Civil Rights Movement and detailing his involvement in the anti-war movement, Schumacher employs the zeal of a journalist searching for the truth and a historian’s passion for the subject matter."—Elmore MagazineTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologueBook One: I’m Going to Say It Now1. Boy in Ohio2. The Singing Socialists3. Bound for Glory4. What’s That I Hear?5. I Ain’t Marching Anymore6. Changes7. The War Is Over8. Pleasures of the Harbor9. Tape from CaliforniaBook Two: Critic of the Dawn10. Chicago11. Rehearsals for Retirement12. Gunfight at Carnegie Hall13. Travels and Travails14. Here’s to the Sate of Richard Nixon15. An Evening with Salvador Allende16. The Downhill Slide17. Train18. No More SongsAfterwordSource NotesSelected DiscographyIndex

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Book Synopsis''Fierce, fresh and feminist, Fern Riddell tells the story of Suffragette Kitty Marion in a way that fizzes and shocks. Exciting, twisty and very very timely.'' Lucy WorsleyIn Death in Ten Minutes Fern Riddell uncovers the story of radical suffragette Kitty Marion, told through never before seen personal diaries in Kitty''s own hand. Kitty Marion was sent across the country by the Pankhurst family to carry out a nationwide campaign of bombings and arson attacks, as women fought for the vote using any means necessary. But in the aftermath of World War One, the dangerous and revolutionary actions of Kitty and other militant suffragettes were quickly hushed up and disowned by the previously proud movement, and the women who carried out these attacks were erased from our history. Now, for the first time, their untold story will be brought back to life.Telling a new history of the women''s movement in the light of new and often shocking revelTrade ReviewFierce, fresh and feminist, Fern Riddell tells the story of Suffragette Kitty Marion in a way that fizzes and shocks. Exciting, twisty and very very timely. * Lucy Worsley *Passionate and brilliant, a compelling portrait of an extraordinary woman in extraordinary times. * Richard Osman *A compelling, passionate and timely account of a fierce and extraordinary woman. In 2018, Kitty Marion's story is required reading. * Helen Castor *A brilliant political biography of the dangerous, dramatic and uncompromisingly political life of an incredible woman. Viscerally written this book is a powerful reminder that women were not given the vote, they demanded it and took it by force as much as by persuasion. * David Olusoga *Fern has brought to life the drama and tension of suffragette attacks in early 20th century Britain. Never before have I thought of the noise, colour, sounds, smells and sensations of fighting for women's rights to the vote, sexual and legal freedoms. She creates a textured tapestry of bustling streets and a myriad of personalities, amidst which devastating bomb attacks are given a potency so often eroded from history books. The world needs more books like this - books that challenge where we are now, and the brave, dangerous, fascinating women who got us here. * Janina Ramirez *The tale this book tells is as explosive as its title. Riddell's vivid prose follows this unsung heroine in her fight for birth control and suffrage. * Independent *An exhilarating slice of incredibly relevant history. Highly recommended. * Matt Haig *

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Book SynopsisWhen students at Oxford University called for a statue of Cecil Rhodes to be removed, following similar calls by students in Cape Town, the significance of these protests was felt across continents. This was not simply about tearing down an outward symbol of British imperialism – a monument glorifying a colonial conqueror – but about confronting the toxic inheritance of the past, and challenging the continued underrepresentation of people of colour at universities. And it went to the very heart of the pernicious influence of colonialism in education today. Written by key members of the movement in Oxford, Rhodes Must Fall is the story of that campaign. Showing the crucial importance of both intersectionality and solidarity with sister movements in South Africa and beyond, this book shows what it means to boldly challenge the racism rooted deeply at the very heart of empire.Trade ReviewThe wonderful pieces in Rhodes Must Fall, grounded in the immense learning of the Fallist movements, enrich the student movement literature and offer concrete paths forward in the quest to decolonise our institutions. * LSE Review of Books *This bracingly direct collection of essays maps the contours of a debate Britain must finally have – from how we commemorate the past to how whiteness remains a central axis of institutional power. Essential reading for anyone who is interested in the question of how Britain and the globe can and must decolonise. * Priyamvada Gopal, University of Cambridge, and author of The Indian English Novel: Nation, History and Narration *From the colonies to the heart of empire, #RhodesMustFall reinvigorated the academy like no other student movement since the 1960s. This book is an explosive testament to that collective achievement, and a signpost for the intellectual road ahead. * Xolela Mangcu, University of Cape Town, and author of Biko: A Life *Table of ContentsPreface - Kehinde Andrews Introduction from the Editors - Roseanne Chantiluke, Brian Kwoba and Athinangamso Nkopo Part I: Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford! 1. Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford Founding Statement - RMFO 2. Protesting the Rhodes Statue at Oriel College - Ntokozo Qwabe 3. Wake Up, Rise Up - Andre Dallas 4. Skin Deep: The Black Women of Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford - Athinangamso Nkopo, Tadiwa Madenga and Roseanne Chantiluke 5. Dreaming Spires Remix - Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh 6. Ignorance Must Fall - Princess Ashilokun 7. Letter of Support: The Codrington Legacy in Oxford - Michelle Codrington 8. Codrington Conference: What is to be done? - Simukai Chigudu 9. Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations owed for the Crimes of Native Genocide and Chattel Slavery in the Caribbean - Sir Hilary McDonald Beckles KA 10. Reparations in the Space of the University in the Wake of Rhodes Must Fall - Patricia Daley 11. Interviewing for the Rhodes Scholarship - Julian Brave NoiseCat 12. The Rhodes Scholarship: A Silver Lining? - Brian Kwoba 13. Decolonizing Whiteness: White Voices in Rhodes Must Fall - Arthur (Eirich), Anasstassia Baichorova, Claudio Sopranzetti, JanaLee Cherneski, Max Harris, and Roné McFarlane 14. Anti-Blackness, Intersectionality, and People Of Colour Politics - Athinangamso Nkopo and Rose Chantiluke Part II: Sister Movements 15. Black Feminist Reflections on the Rhodes Must Fall at UCT - Kealeboga Ramaru 16. Of Air. Running. Out - Athi-Nangamso Esther Nkopo 17. Decolonising SOAS: Another University Is Possible - Akwugo Emejulu 18. Colston: What Can Britain Learn from France? - Olivette Otele 19. Students Voices from Decolonise Sussex - Lavie Williams, Isabelle Clark, and Savannah Sevenzo 20. The Pro-Indo-Aryan Anti-Black M.K. Gandhi and Ghana’s #GandhiMustFall Movement - O?ba´de´le´ Kambon and Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua 21. Harvard: Reclaim Harvard and Royall Must Fall - Rena Karefa-Johnson 22. An Interview with Princeton University’s Black Justice League - Asanni York 23. #LeopoldMustFall: Queen Mary University of London - QM Pan-African Society Part III: Global Reflections and Reverberations 24. Resisting Neocolonialism from Patrice Lumumba to #RhodesMustFall - Kofi Klu 25. Decolonising Mathematics - Kevin Minors 26. To Decolonize Math, Stand Up to its False History and Bad Philosophy - Chandra Kant Raju 27. Decolonising Pedagogy: An Open letter to the Coloniser - Lwazi Lushaba 28. 'British Values' and Decolonial Resistance in the Classroom - Roseanne Chantiluke 29. Decolonizing Reparations: Intersectionality and African Heritage Community Repairs - Esther Stanford-Xosei 30. Decolonisation, Palestine, and the University - Anonymous 31. The Struggle to Decolonize West Papua - Benny Wenda 32. Why Does My University Uphold White Supremacy? The Violence of Whiteness at UCL - Ayo Olatunji

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Book SynopsisMake Your Voice Heard Through Nonviolent Resistance Craft “This book is a must for anyone who loves to make, and who seeks inspiration to make a more compassionate world though the art of craft.” ―Dr. Cathy Hope, Director of the Play, Creativity and Culture Project at the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra # 1 Best Seller in Crafts & Hobbies, Stenciling Craft Consciously. Craftivism can be your voice of resistance. Craftivism is a form of activism that gives people a voice when they feel voiceless and power where they feel powerless. Noted craftivism expert Sayraphim Lothian has put together the first-ever tutorial book on craftivism. Join us in the craftivism movement. Craftivism is a movement growing worldwide. Hand-crafted works are being used to highlight political issues, creatively engage in activism, and encourage change in the world. Craftivists employ their works to open a space for people to be introduced to issues and to broaden the discussion surrounding them. While it might seem that this most colorful movement began recently, creative resistance has been with us for centuries around the globe, and craftivism and makers stating their mind through the medium of art is here to stay. Tap into creative resistance. Artist, scholar, activist, and YouTube art teacher Sayraphim Lothian gives you an introduction to the art of craftivism and provides a brief history of creative resistance. Learn how to make and use various crafts for protest and political purposes. You will learn: Embroidery Cross stitch Knitting Stenciling Decoupage Stamping and much more If you have read Craft Activism, Crafting the Resistance, or Feminist Cross Stich, Guerrilla Kindness and Other Acts of Creative Resistance should be your next read.

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Book SynopsisIn this new edition of her accessible autoethnography of fat feminist activism in the West, Charlotte Cooper revisits and discusses her activism in the context of recent shifts in the movement. The new preface explores the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on fat people and fat activism and how Black Lives Matter is inspiring new forms of activism. Cooper issues a call to action in Fat Studies and offers alternatives to current public health approaches to Diabetes. What is fat activism and why is it important? To answer this question, Charlotte Cooper presents an expansive grassroots study that traces the forty-year history of international fat activism and grounds its actions in their proper historical and geographical contexts. She details fat activist methods, analyses existing literature in the field, challenges long-held assumptions that uphold systemic fatphobia, and makes clear how crucial feminism, queer theory and anti-racism are to the lifeblood of the movement. She also considers fat activism’s proxy concerns, including body image, body positivity, the obesity epidemic and fat stigma. Combining rigorous scholarship with personal, accessible writing, Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement is a rare insider’s view of fat people speaking about their lives and politics on their own terms. This is the book you have been waiting for.Trade Review'Cooper's writing style is refreshingly accessible, in a conversational tone that will ensure this book manages to appeal to activist readerships well beyond the narrow scope of academia. [...] It will be of particular interest to feminist scholars how Cooper manages to develop sharp critical analysis of what she identifies as problematic elements of the movement, including cultural imperialism, white supremacy, homogeneity and moralism, whilst still championing its value and necessity. The nuance with which Cooper navigates this thorny terrain is valuable for thinking about ongoing conflict within feminist debates on how we can reconcile the varied and often contradictory strands of past and present feminist thinking. [...] [The book's] contributions go well beyond the specificity of fat, making it a useful resource for anyone, inside or outside of academia, who is interested in activism, social movements, feminism and intersectionality.' -- Vikki Chalklin, Feminist Review'Explores a long-standing social movement, revealing complex relationships with feminism, class and capitalism. [...] Cooper provides both an account of a radical social movement and a consideration of how we might come to a broad but useful understanding of the nature of activism, through an examination of one of the less-prominent struggles of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.' -- Elaine Graham-Leigh, Counterfire'Cooper guides the reader into a fertile place of growth a million miles from timebombs and epidemics, and gives a human face to a large segment of the population who are too often dehumanised.' -- Tania Glyde, The Lancet'Cooper creates an arena for a more dynamic, comprehensive discourse that makes space for all types of experiences and voices in fat activist communities. [...] She is making space for fat activists to re-occupy the fat discourse.' -- Cassandra Kuyvenhoven, Canadian Food Studies'Charlotte Cooper’s Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement may not be the final volume on fat history, but it is, without doubt, an essential one, and should be required reading for all generations of fat activists, both in the academy and beyond it.' -- Elliot Director, Fat Studies An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society'Not only offers a thorough history of the fat acceptance movement, which seeks to change societal attitudes towards fat people, but also provides insight into activist practices more broadly. [...] This accessible book [is] an important read for those working in the field of critical weight studies and fat studies and [...] show[s] how academic research can be mobilised to reach audiences beyond the academy.... Invaluable.' -- Rose Deller, LSE Review of Books'Charlotte Cooper’s fierce new book Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement should be required reading for scholars and activists. Cooper draws on extensive interviews with fat activists to render a trenchant analysis of our field of motion. She takes a penetrating look at activist efforts and self-understandings, eschewing easy praise in favor of discernment that ultimately promises to invigorate the movement.' -- Kathleen LeBesco, Marymount Manhattan College (Associate Dean)'Charlotte Cooper is once again in the vanguard of radical social change with this book about fat activism. She has captured the history of the fat rights movements, interviewed fat activists, and demonstrated the extensive and exciting breadth of fat activism in a global setting. Fat activism is often portrayed as ineffective when in fact its lack of conformity and interdisciplinarity can serve as a model for other social movements.' -- Esther Rothblum, Editor / Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society'For any civil rights movement to succeed, it must know its history; to build on its strengths and learn from its mistakes. With the ubiquity of the Internet, the historical knowledge and record of activism can be rewritten with 140 characters. That is one of the many reasons that Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement is important. Anyone interested in the epistemology, ontology, and methodology, (not to mention history) of fat activism should make this a central text of their library.' -- Cat Pausé, Massey University / Co-Editor of Queering Fat Embodiment'It is in the interest of the ethically and intellectually dubious field of “Obesity Research” to flatten fat subjects; rendering our voices narrowly defined by punchy rhetoric, our activist interventions reduced to child-like flailing against the big bad thin-dominated world. Charlotte Cooper’s book resists this myopic view of resistance to fat oppression in form and content. Fat Activists need more researchers and writers examining and reflecting on our work from within, and this book stands as an offering and opening in that vein.' -- Naima Lowe, Artist and Member of the Faculty at The Evergreen State CollegeTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Undoing 2. Doing 3. Locating 4. Travelling 5. Accessing 6. 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Book SynopsisThe Resistance in Western Europe is a sweeping analytical history of the underground anti-Nazi forces during World War II. Examining clandestine organizations in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Italy, Olivier Wieviorka sheds new light on the factors that shaped the resistance and its place in Anglo-American military strategy.Trade ReviewWith a subject like this, where the stories are almost always saturated with romanticism, and tend to look at events in just one country, Wieviorka's transnational accounting provides a useful antidote. -- Thomas E. Ricks * New York Times Book Review *Olivier Wieviorka treats the resistance in Western Europe as a multinational coalition. Anglo-Americans supplied arms and funding to resistance groups on the continent, and Resistance movements in turn aided in the Allied war effort. It was part tug-of-war, résistants striving to maintain autonomy, and part pas de deux, the two sides working together in a common effort that helped shape what Wieviorka calls an incipient “European consciousness.” This is a history on a grand scale commensurate with the epic character of the complex struggle it recounts. -- Philip Nord, Princeton UniversityWieviorka presents a clear-eyed view of the achievements and limitations of resistance efforts, moving beyond romanticized tales of valor and dismissive tales of military ineffectiveness. Above all, the book shows the vital role played first by the British and, later, American secret services—all too often forgotten in Europe since the war—in coordinating and directing the efforts of disparate movements across Western Europe. -- Clifford Rosenberg, City College of New YorkThis book is as richly informative about the Allies as about the resistance. Wieviorka examines more fully than any previous work the complicated three-way negotiations among the Anglo-American authorities, the exiled governments of France, Holland, Belgium, and Norway in London, and the underground movements that together made it possible to plan and execute clandestine operations. -- From the foreword by Robert O. Paxton[An] impressive overview of Western European resistance during the war. * New York Review of Books *Masterfully analyzes the resistance to the German occupations of Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Norway during World War II. * Foreign Affairs *With a subject like this, where the stories are almost always saturated with romanticism, and tend to look at events in just one country, Wieviorka’s transnational accounting provides a useful antidote. * New York Times Book Review *His study is a welcome addition to WWII collections. * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword, by Robert O. PaxtonList of MapsList of AbbreviationsPrelude: A Glowing Picture1. Reinventing a Coalition2. Set Europe Ablaze!3. Internecine Struggles4. Ententes Cordiales?5. Legitimacy at Stake6. The Dual Shock of 1941 and Its Consequences7. Coming of Age8. Developments9. Compulsory Labor: An Opportunity or a Curse?10. Mixed Results11. Taking Up Arms12. Propaganda13. Cadres14. Minor Maneuvers, Major Policies15. Italian Complexities16. Planning for Liberation17. Plans and Instructions18. Political Liberation19. Action!20. Peripheries21. Order or Chaos?EpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisWhat if our understanding of Israel/Palestine has been wrong all along?Trade Review'It is fashionable to say that the two-state solution to Israel-Palestine is dead. Jeff Halper thinks it was never born. In this brave, thought-provoking and highly original book, he presents both a searching critique of Zionist settler colonialism and a compelling case for one democratic state with equal rights for all its citizens' -- Avi Shlaim, Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Oxford and author of 'The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World' (Penguin, 2014)'Strikes at the core of the political revolution boiling under the surface in Israel/Palestine. Halper serves a generous helping of hope for anyone who cares about the future of this land' -- Shir Hever, author of 'The Political Economy of Israel's Occupation' (Pluto Press, 2010)'An important chapter in the development of a conversation that will form the foundation of a just regime for the inhabitants of the country and the refugees' -- Eitan Bronstein Aparicio, founder and former director of the NGO Zochrot'Jeff Halper harnesses his extremely sharp and original mind alongside his prophetic voice to change the international debate. A gem for both the novice as well as the expert, his book offers a brilliant analysis of Israel's colonial project and outlines what a decolonial horizon might look like' -- Neve Gordon, author of 'Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire' (University of California Press, 2020)'This is the first serious contribution in drawing a path to the project of liberating Palestine' -- Awad Abdelfattah, Former Secretary General of the Balad/Tajamu Party and Coordinator of the One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC)'Helps us to see light at the end of the tunnel. At a time when Israel is seeking to legalise its apartheid regime and colonisation of occupied Palestine, it is vital to imagine and discuss alternative futures' -- Haidar Eid is Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Postmodern Literature at Gaza al-Aqsa University'A powerful and convincing case - a must read for anyone looking for fresh ideas of how to end the long and bloody conflict in Palestine' -- Ilan Pappe, Professor of History and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter'With informed lucidity, political sophistication and moral integrity Halper depicts the path from here to there. What is most unexpected, given present realities, is that this manages to be a book of realistic hope, the finest work of advocacy scholarship I have ever read' -- Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, and author of 'Palestine's Horizon' (Pluto, 2017)'This is a serious work that deserves to be widely read. Halper is among the few who not only understands that we are at a critical historical juncture, but is also able to analyze its multiple dimensions and offer a transformative plan of action' -- Mouin Rabbani, Co-Editor of 'Jadaliyya''Amid a raft of failed policy choices, Halper's book is a cathartic practical vision of one possible way out of the protracted Israel-Palestine conflict' -- Sophia Akram, The New Arab'Halper's book is informative, offering an in-depth perspective that is lacking and addresses the concept of memory within the political framework of decolonisation' -- Middle East Monitor'An extremely convincing and persuasive argument that the only conceivable future for justice and peace necessitates a process of decolonization and equal rights for all' -- Electronic Intifada'He doesn’t pretend that creating one democratic state will be easy but he contends that it is the only way for Palestinians and Israelis to gain long-term security and a viable way of life' -- Jordan TimesAn essential and empowering text for anyone interested in the history and future of Israel-Palestine' -- Morning Star'Thoughtful' -- Labour Hub'[Halper] reframes Israel as a settler-colonial state necessitating a clear oppositional political strategy with an end-game of actively decolonizing the whole political structure' -- Counterpunch'A return to an explicitly anti-colonial Palestinian liberation politics' -- ROAR‘Timely’ -- ‘Counterfire’‘Powerful’ -- ‘Against the Current’Table of ContentsForeword by Nadia Naser-Najjab Acknowledgements Introduction: The Colonist Who Refuses, the Comrade in Joint Struggle PART I ZIONISM AS SETTLER COLONIAL PROJECT 1. Analysis Matters: Beginning with Settler Colonialism Acknowledgements 2. Zionism: A Settler Colonial Project PART II THREE CYCLES OF ZIONIST COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT 3. Settler “Invasion” and Foundational Violence: The Pre-State Cycle (1880s–1948) 4. The Israeli State Cycle (1948–67) 5. The Occupation Cycle (1967–Present): Completing the Settler Colonial Project PART III DECOLONIZING ZIONISM, LIBERATING PALESTINE 6. Decolonization: Dismantling the Dominance Management Regime 7. Constructing a Bridging Vision and Set of Acknowledgements 8. A Plan of Decolonization 9. Towards Post-coloniality 10. Addressing the Fears and Concerns of a Single Democratic State A Last Word: Being Political Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finkelstein's life of activism and creativity is hugely impressive, and this book is a perfect reflection of that. It is emotionally and intellectually engaging at once, never losing sight of the political history the author is recounting." * Gay and Lesbian Review *"While there is no equation for writing history, this generous and generative book will inspire artists, activists, and historians to do the math themselves." * Critical Inquiry *"Finkelstein makes sure to emphasise the partiality of his story, while offering an admirably detailed and carefully drawn picture of the many affinities that made his story to stick out." * Gesnerus *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Author’s Note Introduction: AIDS 2.0 PART I. SILENCE = DEATH 1. The Immigrant 2. The Political Poster 3. War PART II. GRAN FURY 4. Read My Lips 5. Kissing Doesn’t Kill 6. Art Is Not Enough PART III. AFFINITY 7. Men: Use Condoms or Beat It 8. Women Don’t Get AIDS, They Just Die from It 9. The Four Questions, Part 1: The Viral Divide 10. The Four Questions, Part 2: Intergenerationality Epilogue: Notstalgia Index

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Book SynopsisRich, personal stories shed light on midwives at the frontier of women's reproductive rights. Midwives in the United States live and work in a complex regulatory environment that is a direct result of state and medical intervention into women's reproductive capacity. In Birthing a Movement, Renée Ann Cramer draws on over a decade of ethnographic and archival research to examine the interactions of law, politics, and activism surrounding midwifery care. Framed by gripping narratives from midwives across the country, she parses out the often-paradoxical priorities with which they must engage—seeking formal professionalization, advocating for reproductive justice, and resisting state-centered approaches. Currently, professional midwives are legal and regulated in their practice in 32 states and illegal in eight, where their practice could bring felony convictions and penalties that include imprisonment. In the remaining ten states, Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) are unregulated, but nominally legal. By studying states where CPMs have differing legal statuses, Cramer makes the case that midwives and their clients engage in various forms of mobilization—at times simultaneous, and at times inconsistent—to facilitate access to care, autonomy in childbirth, and the articulation of women's authority in reproduction. This book brings together literatures not frequently in conversation with one another, on regulation, mobilization, health policy, and gender, offering a multifaceted view of the experiences and politics of American midwifery, and promising rich insights to a wide array of scholars, activists, healthcare professionals alike. Trade Review"A beautifully written narrative weaving together passionate, sometimes harrowing stories from midwives, activists, and mothers. This book is a significant legal intervention and a brave, innovative, and sophisticated exploration." -- Eve Darian-Smith * University of California, Irvine *"Integrating an impressive array of qualitative data, rich personal stories, sophisticated theoretical analysis, exquisite writing, and a compassionate authorial voice, this splendid book is a great read and a major addition to the sociolegal scholarship on law and social movements." -- Michael McCann * University of Washington *"Engaging and compassionate. A must-read for every social movements scholar, it is written so as to be accessible and relevant to the undergraduate reader as well. Birthing a Movement is a book that I plan to cite and assign for years to come." -- Sarah Hampson * University of Washington *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Knowing About Legality and Illegality in Midwifery Care in the United States chapter abstractThe introduction tells the story of Gina, a midwife working illegally at the time of our interview. Using Gina's story as a frame of reference, the introduction explains the varying legal status for midwives in the United States and distinguishes certified professional midwives from other professionals who attend labor and delivery. The introduction also provides the theoretical and scholarly context for the rest of the book, focusing on legal pluralism, legal consciousness, legal mobilization, and the limits of law as it is implemented. Finally, the introduction explains my methodology in both researching and presenting the data and argues that we need to tell stories about law and society that are embodied, integrative, and holistic—much like the care provided by midwives to their clients. 1History and Status of Midwives in the United States chapter abstractChapter 1 begins with a story from Missouri after Ophelia, a certified professional midwife, attends a birth that brings her to the attention of the police. The chapter asks how we got to a place where a safe, qualified, trained birth attendant can fear prosecution for a good-outcome birth. The history of midwifery in the United States is one that combines medicalization and professionalization of birth, imperatives of nation-building through reproduction, and a renaissance in care that brought the profession of non-nurse midwifery back from the brink of extinction. Chapter 1 provides a version of that history, stressing that this version is the one told by advocates and midwives as they seek to expand access to care. 2Modern and Professional: Legitimating, Marketing, and Reimagining Midwives chapter abstractChapter 2 demonstrates that, in the name of professionalization, midwives have engaged in seeking legitimization of non-nurse midwifery via national organizations, 3Mostly Happy Accidents: Successfully Mobilizing for Legal Status chapter abstractChapter 3 explores the multiple ways that midwives and advocates use politics to mobilize for legal status. Focusing on the success stories in South Dakota and Missouri, it highlights how the long-term activism in both states, combined with "happy accidents" or contingencies, facilitated the passage of legalization bills. Midwives and advocates use traditional and social media, letter-writing to legislators, and consistent presence in the statehouse to get their bills passed. They also engage in novel attention-seeking activities like making quilts and calendars, designing T-shirts, and handing out M&M cookies (for "moms and midwives"). 4Rights, Rules, and Regulation chapter abstractThis chapter begins with the unusual story of how lawyers needed to defend the constitutionality of the Missouri bill against claims by the Missouri Medical Association, as a way to frame the examination the legal mobilization undertaken on behalf of midwives nationwide. This mobilization includes criminal defense of their practice and lawsuits brought on behalf of victims of obstetric violence. It also includes seeking regulatory governance in rulemaking, defining the scope of practice for midwives, and articulating access to the state as a goal for the movement. 5Catching Babies and Catching Hell: Constitutive Interactions in the Limits and Shadow of the Law chapter abstractChapter 5 examines the various ways that midwives experience their daily practices and finds that, even in states where they are legal and regulated, the law limits and shadows how CPMs work. This limiting of the law is related to cultural disapprobation of out-of-hospital birth and the ways that that disapprobation is reinforced by friends, family, and hospital staff. Chapter 5 shares the stories of midwives who find constraints on their practice from the expressions of these norms and details the difficulties they have finding insurance, finding back-up physicians, and even knowing what the law is. It also shares stories of midwives and mothers who "catch hell" when they discuss their out-of-hospital birth plans or must transfer a client to the hospital for emergency care. 6Deep Transformations, Deep Contradictions: Changing Birth Culture One Movie, One Picnic, One<3.>Tiny Little Epistemological Shift at a Time chapter abstractThis chapter examines the multiple ways that midwives and advocates seek to change birth culture in any given locale, from hosting movies and picnics to thinking through the proper role of hospital and state in labor and delivery. It moves from eco-feminist midwifery advocacy in Berkeley, California, to emergency childbirth classes in rural South Dakota, highlighting the ways that locale shapes approaches to thinking about midwifery care. Chapter 6 also focuses on the contradictions and tensions within the pro-midwifery movement—around issues like abortion, vaccination and homeschooling, rights-seeking, partisan politics, and the decision to seek government intervention and approval at all. The goal in all of these conversations is to facilitate expanded access to midwifery care and the extension of reproductive justice to all who labor and deliver. Conclusion: Attending to Birth in Sociolegal Scholarship: Embodied, Interdisciplinary, and Authoritative Knowledge chapter abstractThe conclusion offers closing thoughts on the relationship between disciplinarity and regulation—seeing both as simultaneously emancipatory and constraining. The conclusion examines the tensions within midwifery communities, and within sociolegal scholarship, and argues that sitting with those tensions in an embodied, interdisciplinary, authoritative epistemology is the way to do good work in both settings.

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Book SynopsisEarly in the 1980s AIDS epidemic, six gay activists created one of the most iconic and lasting images that would come to symbolize a movement: a protest poster of a pink triangle with the words Silence = Death. The graphic and the slogan still resonate today, often usedand misusedto brand the entire movement. Cofounder of the collective Silence = Death and member of the art collective Gran Fury, Avram Finkelstein tells the story of how his work and otherprotest artwork associated with the early years of the pandemic were created. In writing about art and AIDS activism, the formation of collectives, and the political process, Finkelstein reveals a different side of the traditional HIV/AIDS history, told twenty-five years later, and offers a creative toolbox for those who want to learn how to save lives through activism and making art.Trade Review"Finkelstein's life of activism and creativity is hugely impressive, and this book is a perfect reflection of that. It is emotionally and intellectually engaging at once, never losing sight of the political history the author is recounting." * Gay and Lesbian Review *"While there is no equation for writing history, this generous and generative book will inspire artists, activists, and historians to do the math themselves." * Critical Inquiry *"Finkelstein makes sure to emphasise the partiality of his story, while offering an admirably detailed and carefully drawn picture of the many affinities that made his story to stick out." * Gesnerus *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Author’s Note Introduction: AIDS 2.0 PART I. SILENCE = DEATH 1. The Immigrant 2. The Political Poster 3. War PART II. GRAN FURY 4. Read My Lips 5. Kissing Doesn’t Kill 6. Art Is Not Enough PART III. AFFINITY 7. Men: Use Condoms or Beat It 8. Women Don’t Get AIDS, They Just Die from It 9. The Four Questions, Part 1: The Viral Divide 10. The Four Questions, Part 2: Intergenerationality Epilogue: Notstalgia Index

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Book SynopsisAn extradisciplinary investigation into the radical potentials of design by the global Memefest network. This book is an investigation of the key aspects of capitalist domination and resistance to it through design; its five sections explore dialogue, power, land, interventions, and radical praxis. Vodeb’s curated chapters engage radical intimacies with design and connects it with media, communication, and art. Radical intimacies imply a closeness to the world created through our relations, which work towards the decolonization of knowledge and the public sphere. The closeness is political as it involves qualities that constitute and enable an alternative and opposition to extractive relationalities imposed by capitalism. Radical Intimacies connects frameworks on (de)colonization with the work of Memefest, a global network of people interested in social change through radical design. Bringing together original written and visual contributions from around the world, the collection connects universities, practitioners, and social movements. This book explores design as a central domain of thought and action concerned with the meaning and production of sociocultural life. Contributors are interested in design that operates outside the dominant social orders, narrow disciplines and extractive paradigms and imagines and builds new worlds and social relations. An inter/ extradisciplinary collection of original works, the audience will be academics, artists, designers and activists and adventurous professionals who are interested in the crossovers between design, arts, and social change. Students of design, art, media, and communication interested in social change. Higher level undergraduate and graduate students. Content warning: Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders are advised that the following publication contains the words & images of deceased persons.Trade Review'A diverse collection of chapters ranging from the descriptive and matter-of-fact to the personal and anecdotal, thought-provoking interviews to captivating scholarly writings, Radical Intimacies is essential reading for academics, artists and activists interested in the crossover between design, arts and social change.' -- Stephen Duncombe, New York University'Maybe we can think about power, and ‘designing with’ as opposed to ‘designing for,’ and designing with in contexts of power, and designing with in terms of maintaining and healing and mending and repairing the web of relations that make up the bodies, places, landscapes, and communities in which we live, that we are and inhabit, that we are destroying right and left.' -- Arturo Escobar, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA'So particularly, with the onslaught of climate change coming it does surprise me. I’m just like, why are we not more openly dissenting to what’s happening? Because it’s going to destroy everything, and we should be defending it with everything we have.' -- Kyle Magee, anti-advertising activist, MelbourneTable of ContentsINTRO Radical Intimacies: Designing Non-Extractive Relationalities OLIVER VODEB TxTS/ ONE The Onto-epistemic Politics of Participatory Design OLIVER VODEB AND ARTURO ESCOBAR Dialogue, Intimacy, and Memefest GEORGE PETELIN How to Participate in the Public Sphere KYLE MAGEE AND OLIVER VODEB TWO Designing Facts: Assembling Survivors, Satellite Data, and Interfaces in the Case Against NATO in the Mediterranean Sea PATRICIO DÁVILA The Emancipatory Design of Suffering: Design, Work, and Radical Intimacy in the Experience of Suff ering MARIANO MUSSI Capitalism’s Addictions: Design and the Displacement of Intimacy DANIEL MARCUS AND OLIVER VODEB THREE Black Land and Food Sovereignty Praxis: Humanizing and Restoring Intimacies between Land, Food, Culture, and Black People ERIC JACKSON Seeing Country: Decolonization, Timeless Intimacies, and an Escape from the Tyranny of the Dead Man’s Vision SAM BURCH Seed Balls as Method ILARIA VANNI AND ALExANDRA CROSBY FOUR Design Research as Radical Social Practice OLIVER VODEB Intimacy as Infrastructure: Anecdotes on graphic Design and Friendship KEVIN YUEN KIT LO Viral Love KEELY MACAROW What’s in a Name? SnackArt and The Ekphrastic Agency JANE NAYLOR Design is Not Enough TONY CREDLAND, SANDY KALTENBORN, AND BRIAN HOLMES FIVE Curated Visual Works from the Memefest Radical Intimacies Friendly Competition CURATED BY OLIVER VODEB I have NOT Read and Agreed to the Terms of Use CLEBER RAFAEL DE CAMPOS Chain of Poverty SHEHAB UDDIN Playing Nice in the Workplace THERESA MOSO Don’t Let Them Bring You Down ELA ALISPAHIC Memeorial Browser Extension ADAM SULZDORF-LISZKIEWICZ, LUCAS MILLER, AND LIEUTENANT JOHN PIKE Seed Broadcast JEANETTE HART-MANN AND CHRISSIE ORR QUEST NOULA DIAMANTOPOULOS In the Hammock KATHARINAJEJ Sponsor a Wealthy Child JULIEN BOISVERT Sit-In TUCKER MCLACHLAN Memefest Radical Intimacies Extradisciplinary Action Research Results CURATED BY OLIVER VODEB Notes on Contributors Index Acknowlegments

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Book SynopsisTrade 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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Book Synopsis2023 WINNER OF THE BOLOGNA RAGAZZI AWARD!2022 WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK DESIGN & PRODUCTION AWARDS IN THE CHILDREN'S TRADE 9 TO 16 CATEGORY!"Start making. Start being the change you want to see in this world." - De NicholsFrom Keith Haring to Extinction Rebellion, the civil rights movement to Black Lives Matter, what does a revolution look like? Discover the power of words and images in this thought-provoking look at protest art by highly acclaimed artivist, De Nichols. With an emphasis on design, analyse each artwork to understand how colour, symbolism, technique, typography and much more play an important role in communication, and learn about some of the most influential historical movements.Tips and activities are also included to get you started on making some of your own protest art.Guided by activist, lecturer and speaker De Nichol's powerful own narrative and stunningly illustrated by a collaboration of young artists from around the world, including Diana Dagadita, Olivia Twist, Molly Mendoza, Raul Oprea and Diego Becas, Art of Protest is as inspiring as it is empowering.

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Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHYA finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award Named one of the ten best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and TimeA New York Times bestseller and notable book of 2023 One of Barack Obama?s favorite books of 2023One of The New Yorker?s essential reads of 2023 A Christian Science Monitor best book of the year One of Air Mail?s twelve best books of 2023A Washington Post and national indie bestseller One of Publishers Weekly?s best nonfiction books of 2023 One of Smithsonian magazine?s ten best books of 2023?Supple, penetrating, heartstring-pulling and compulsively readable . . . Eig?s book is worthy of its subject.? ?Dwight Garner, The New York Times (Editors? Choice)?[King is] infused with the narrative energy of a thriller . . . The most compelling account of King?s life in a generation.? ?Mark Whitaker, The Washington Post?No book could be more timely than Jonathan Eig?s sweeping and majestic new King . . . Eig has created 2023''s most vital tome.? ?Will Bunch, The Philadelphia InquirerHailed by The New York Times as ?the new definitive biography,? King mixes revelatory new research with accessible storytelling to offer an MLK for our times.Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig?s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.?and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself. He casts fresh light on the King family?s origins as well as MLK?s complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. King reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death. As he follows MLK from the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis, Eig dramatically re-creates the journey of a man who recast American race relations and became our only modern-day founding father?as well as the nation?s most mourned martyr.In this landmark biography, Eig gives us an MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history?s greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.Includes 8 pages of black-and-white photographs

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Book SynopsisIn a world we cannot recognize, how do we find a way forward? In this world we do not understand, how do we know what to do? When so little is comprehensible, what is meaningful work? What is genuine contribution?Bestselling author Margaret Wheatley has summoned us to be courageous leaders who strengthen community and rely on fully engaged people since her 1992 classic book, Leadership and the New Science, and eight subsequent books. In response to how quickly society is changing and the exponential increase in leadership challenges, this second edition of her latest bestseller is 80% new material.How do we see clearly so that we can act wisely? Wheatley brings present reality into clear and troubling focus using multiple lenses of Western and Indigenous sciences, and the historic patterns of collapse in complex civilizations. With gentle but insistent guidance to face reality, she offers us the path and practices to be sane leaders who know how to evoke people’s inherent generosity, creativity, and kindness.Skillfully weaving science, history, exemplars, poetry, and quotes with stories and practices, Wheatley asks us to be Warriors for the Human Spirit, leaders and citizens who stay engaged, choose service over self, stand steadfast in the midst of crises, and offer our reliable presence of compassion and insight no matter what.

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