Political activism / Political engagement Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Rebellion in Black and White
Book SynopsisSynnottJeffrey A. TurnerErica WhittingtonJoy Ann Williamson-LottTrade ReviewThis collection makes a strong contribution to the prevailing conversation about student activism with its less-told, and often surprising, narratives from the South. -- John Blythe North Carolina Historical Review An excellent starting point for anyone wanting to understand the protests of the 1960s... Essential. Choice This quality volume is an excellent foundation for scholars eager to further complicate our understanding of 1960s activism nationally. -- Benjamin Houston Journal of American History This fine volume on southern student activism in the 1960s offers a timely reminder -- several actually -- of a troubled and not so distant past... An impressive range of well-argued, fresh contributions. -- Charles J. Holden Journal of Southern History Taken together, this collection of taut, well-organized essays reveals the contest that the decade of the 1960s was, and its memory remains... This well-balanced collection should contribute in important ways to ongoing efforts to bring greater nuance to narratives of the 1960s, the South, and the nation as a whole. -- David Taft Terry HistoryTable of ContentsForeword. Deep South Campus Memories and the World the Sixties MadeOrigins and Acknowledgments Introduction. Prophetic Minority versus Recalcitrant Majority: Southern Student Dissent and the Struggle for Progressive Change in the 1960sPart I: Early Days: From Talk to ActionChapter 1. Freedom Now! SNCC Galvanizes the New Left Chapter 2. Student Free Speech on Both Sides of the Color Line in Mississippi and the Carolinas Chapter 3. Interracial Dialogue and the Southern Student Human Relations Project Chapter 4. Moderate White Activists and the Struggle for Racial Equality on South Carolina Campuses Part II: Campus Activism Takes ShapeChapter 5. The Rise of Black and White Student Protest in NashvilleChapter 6. Student Radicalism and the Antiwar Movement at the University of Alabama Chapter 7. Conservative Student Activism at the University of Georgia Part III: A Cultural Revolution and Its DiscontentsChapter 8. Sexual Liberation at the University of North Carolina Chapter 9. The Counterculture as Local Culture in Columbia, South Carolina Chapter 10. Government Repression of the Southern New LeftPart IV: Black Power and the Legacy of the Freedom MovementChapter 11. North Carolina A&T Black Power Activists and the Student Organization for Black Unity Chapter 12. Black Power and the Freedom Movement in Retrospect Historiographical Reflections Afterword List of ContributorsIndex
£47.18
Johns Hopkins University Press Taking to the Streets
Book SynopsisTaking to the Streets will be used in courses on Middle East politics and will be relevant to scholars and the general public interested in democratization, political change, and activism.Trade ReviewThe volume is a welcome contribution to the literature on contentious politics and mobilization and should be equally valuable for university courses and scholars working on political sociology. -- Jacob Hoigilt American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences This volume will have a longer shelf life than many volumes about the uprisings because of its focus on providing a rich empirical context... It will be of interest to a broad readership and will be terrific in undergrad courses-I intend to use it myself... I would strongly recommend it to anyone interested in a deeper understanding of the uprisings, and particularly their genesis. -- Jillian Schwedler Middle East JournalTable of ContentsForewordAcknowledgementsIntroduction. Reconsidering Activism in the Arab World: Arab Uprisings and BeyondChapter 1. Architecture of Resistance in TunisiaChapter 2. Egypt: A Decade of RupturesChapter 3. Activism and Civil War in LibyaChapter 4. Explaining Political Activism in YemenChapter 5. Activism in Syria: Between Nonviolence and Armed ResistanceChapter 6. Activism in Bahrain: Between Sectarian and Issue PoliticsChapter 7. Morocco's Makhzen and the Haphazard ActivistsChapter 8. Jordan: Evolving Activism in a Divided SocietyChapter 9. Political Activism in Kuwait: Reform in Fits and StartsChapter 10. No Spring in Riyadh: Saudi Arabia's Seemingly Impossible RevolutionPostscript. From Activism to DemocracyList of Contributors Index
£23.85
Johns Hopkins University Press Coxeys Army
Book SynopsisDespite running a gauntlet of ridicule, the marchers laid down a rough outline of what, some forty years later, emerged as the New Deal.Trade ReviewCoxey's Army has much to recommend it. Alexander writes clearly and crisply, and he effectively conveys the crisis of the moment that produced the Coxey movement as well as the considerable colorfulness of the characters involved Ohio Valley History Alexander's distillation of the details of the march and its leading personalities together with a through examination of its long-term significance makes for good reading and a worthy addition to Johns Hopkins University Press's Witness to History book series. In addition to his highly readable text, Alexander thoughtfully includes a detailed map of the route of Coxey's march, a variety of pictures, detailed notes, and a list of suggestions for further reading. The Annals of IowaTable of ContentsPrologue1. The Gilding of an Age2. Hard Times3. Petition in Boots4. Other Regiments5. Reception in the CapitalEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesSuggested Further ReadingIndex
£38.70
Johns Hopkins University Press Coxeys Army
Book SynopsisDespite running a gauntlet of ridicule, the marchers laid down a rough outline of what, some forty years later, emerged as the New Deal.Trade ReviewCoxey's Army has much to recommend it. Alexander writes clearly and crisply, and he effectively conveys the crisis of the moment that produced the Coxey movement as well as the considerable colorfulness of the characters involved Ohio Valley History Alexander's distillation of the details of the march and its leading personalities together with a through examination of its long-term significance makes for good reading and a worthy addition to Johns Hopkins University Press's Witness to History book series. In addition to his highly readable text, Alexander thoughtfully includes a detailed map of the route of Coxey's march, a variety of pictures, detailed notes, and a list of suggestions for further reading. The Annals of IowaTable of ContentsPrologue1. The Gilding of an Age2. Hard Times3. Petition in Boots4. Other Regiments5. Reception in the CapitalEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesSuggested Further ReadingIndex
£17.58
Johns Hopkins University Press The New Student Activists
Book SynopsisMeet the new breed of student activistsuncompromising, focused, and connected. Activism is once again back on college campuses as students protest issues such as sexual assault, climate change, racial injustice, and student debt. It's perhaps unsurprising that the current political moment has triggered the rise of a new breed of student activistuncompromising, focused, and connected. But many pundits have variously derided student activists as either snowflakes, too fragile to encounter opinions that run contrary to their own, or as social justice warriors who aggressively fight against those who transgress the ever-changing bounds of political correctness. The New Student Activists moves beyond these simple stereotypes and convenient caricatures to examine the nuanced motives and complex experiences of real-life, present-day college student activists. Jerusha O. Conner offers insight into who these student activists arethe causes they care about, the strategies they deploy, the faTable of ContentsPreface AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Identifying as an ActivistChapter 2. Becoming an Activist: The Turn toward Activism Chapter 3. The Emotional and Relational Dimensions of Activism: Familial and Peer InfluencesChapter 4. The Intellectual Dimension of Activism: Educational InfluencesChapter 5. The Behavioral Dimension of Activism: Strategies and SuccessesConclusionNotes BibliographyIndex
£31.50
Johns Hopkins University Press Global Struggles and Social Change
Book SynopsisDeftly demonstrates how the rise and fall of social movements throughout history is closely linked to economic and political developments. In the early decades of the twenty-first century, an international movement to slow the pace of climate change mushroomed across the globe. The self-proclaimed Climate Justice movement urges immediate action to reduce carbon emissions and calls for the adoption of bold new policies to address global warming before irreversible and catastrophic damage threatens the habitability of the planet. On another front, since the 1980s, multiple waves of resistance have occurred around the world against the uneven transition from state-led development to the neoliberal globalization project. Both Climate Justice and Anti-Austerity movements represent the urgency of understanding how global change affects the ability of citizens around the world to mobilize and protect themselves from planetary warming and the loss of social protections granted in earlier eraTable of ContentsList of Tables and FiguresPrefaceIntroduction Chapter 1. Social Movements and Collective Behavior in History and PrehistoryChapter 2. Resistance to Neoliberalism in the Global North and South: National and Local Dynamics Chapter 3. Transnational Movements: Climate Justice Chapter 4. The New Global Left and the World Revolution of 20xx: Movements, Culture, Fronts, and OrganizationChapter 5. Evolution of the Global Right in the GeocultureChapter 6. The Future of Global Change and Social Movements NotesReferencesIndex
£23.85
Johns Hopkins University Press Saving the World from Nuclear War
Book SynopsisExamines how the June 12, 1982, rally for nuclear disarmament paved the way for a new generation of activists. On June 12, 1982, one million people filled the streets of New York City and rallied in Central Park to show support for the United Nations' Second Special Session on Disarmament. They demanded an end to the nuclear arms race and called for a shift from military funds to money allocated for human needs. In Saving the World from Nuclear War, Vincent J. Intondi draws on archival materials and interviews with rally organizers and activists in Central Park to explore this demonstration from its inception through the months of organizing, recruiting, and planning, to the historic day itself.
£33.75
Temple University Press,U.S. Civic Talk
Book SynopsisExploring how the simple act of talking about politics and current events with friends, colleagues, and relatives causes us to become more civically activeTrade Review"[A]n excellent work that transcends political science, political communication, and political sociology... Klofstad is to be commended for his efforts to overcome analytical biases associated with the study of civic talk, as well as for his focus on young people, whose civic life and engagement are all too often ignored by the political process due to their lack of previous participation. Summing Up: Highly recommended." - Choice "In his carefully constructed study of political conversations, Casey Klofstad provides compelling evidence for the impact of civic talk on the participatory habits of today's young adults. Civic Talk is a well-documented portrait of how our social network can pull us into voluntary civic life and even get us to the polls on election day. The book fills a gap in the literature on political communication and reinvigorates the importance of peers as key socializers in political life... Overall, this book contributes to two distinct but overlapping literatures. The detailed analysis of political conversations addresses a causal question that has stumped a field burgeoning with rich, thoughtful studies. And the emphasis on the role of peers as a socializing influence within the college environment adds a much needed element to our understanding of civic engagement in higher education. Both traditions are enhanced by Klofstad's contribution." - Political CommunicationTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Civic Talk and Civic Participation 3. Does Civic Talk Cause Civic Participation? 4. Why Does Civic Talk Cause Civic Participation? 5. Do You Matter? 6. Do Your Peers Matter? 7. The Significant and Lasting Effect of Civic Talk 8. Peers, Politics, and the Future of Democracy APPENDIX A: The Collegiate Social Network Interaction Project (C-SNIP) APPENDIX B: C-SNIP Panel Survey Questions and Variables APPENDIX C: Matching Data Pre-processing References Index
£49.50
Temple University Press,U.S. Civic Talk
Book SynopsisExploring how the simple act of talking about politics and current events with friends, colleagues, and relatives causes us to become more civically activeTrade Review"[A]n excellent work that transcends political science, political communication, and political sociology... Klofstad is to be commended for his efforts to overcome analytical biases associated with the study of civic talk, as well as for his focus on young people, whose civic life and engagement are all too often ignored by the political process due to their lack of previous participation. Summing Up: Highly recommended." - Choice "In his carefully constructed study of political conversations, Casey Klofstad provides compelling evidence for the impact of civic talk on the participatory habits of today's young adults. Civic Talk is a well-documented portrait of how our social network can pull us into voluntary civic life and even get us to the polls on election day. The book fills a gap in the literature on political communication and reinvigorates the importance of peers as key socializers in political life... Overall, this book contributes to two distinct but overlapping literatures. The detailed analysis of political conversations addresses a causal question that has stumped a field burgeoning with rich, thoughtful studies. And the emphasis on the role of peers as a socializing influence within the college environment adds a much needed element to our understanding of civic engagement in higher education. Both traditions are enhanced by Klofstad's contribution." - Political CommunicationTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Civic Talk and Civic Participation 3. Does Civic Talk Cause Civic Participation? 4. Why Does Civic Talk Cause Civic Participation? 5. Do You Matter? 6. Do Your Peers Matter? 7. The Significant and Lasting Effect of Civic Talk 8. Peers, Politics, and the Future of Democracy APPENDIX A: The Collegiate Social Network Interaction Project (C-SNIP) APPENDIX B: C-SNIP Panel Survey Questions and Variables APPENDIX C: Matching Data Pre-processing References Index
£21.59
Temple University Press,U.S. Rude Democracy
Book SynopsisHow American politics can become more civil and amenable to public policy solutions, while still allowing for effective argumentTrade Review"In this thought-provoking text, Susan Herbst tackles the role of civility in public discourse.... Throughout Rude Democracy, Herbst identifies potential empirical research topics and unmet scholarly needs into which a new generation of scholars can profitably delve." —Perspectives on Politics"Herbst’s contention that incivility and civility should be viewed as strategic assets is potentially game changing and a contribution that all future scholarly work on incivility cannot ignore." —Journal of Politics"[A] valuable, fair-minded book. It is a contribution to the literature of history, ethics, and public affairs, and it could easily be used to stimulate lively classroom conversations—the kind that spill into the halls when the hour has ended." —Journalism and Mass Communication QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements New Preface for 2020 1. The Powerful-if Elusive-Nature of Civility 2. Sarah Palin and Her Publics 3. Barack Obama, Difference, and Civility 4. Our Future Leaders: College Students and Political Argument 5. Conclusion: Civility, Communication, and a Culture of Argument Appendix I: Transcript of President Barack Obama's Commencement Address, University of Notre Dame, May 17, 2009 Appendix II: University System of Georgia Survey on Student Speech and Discussion Notes Bibliography Index
£19.94
Temple University Press,U.S. Rude Democracy
Book SynopsisWinner of the Doris Graber Award, American Political Science Association, 2013Democracy is, by its very nature, often rude. But there are limits to how uncivil we should be. In the 2010 edition ofRude Democracy, Susan Herbst explored the ways we discuss public policy, how we treat each other as we do, and how we can create a more civil national culture. She used the examples of Sarah Palin and Barack Obama to illustrate her case. She also examined how young people come to form their own attitudes about civility and political argument. In a new preface for this 2020 paperback edition, the author connects her book to our current highly contentious politics and what it means for the future of democratic argument.Trade Review"In this thought-provoking text, Susan Herbst tackles the role of civility in public discourse.... Throughout Rude Democracy, Herbst identifies potential empirical research topics and unmet scholarly needs into which a new generation of scholars can profitably delve." —Perspectives on Politics"Herbst’s contention that incivility and civility should be viewed as strategic assets is potentially game changing and a contribution that all future scholarly work on incivility cannot ignore." —Journal of Politics"[A] valuable, fair-minded book. It is a contribution to the literature of history, ethics, and public affairs, and it could easily be used to stimulate lively classroom conversations—the kind that spill into the halls when the hour has ended." —Journalism and Mass Communication QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements New Preface for 2020 1. The Powerful-if Elusive-Nature of Civility 2. Sarah Palin and Her Publics 3. Barack Obama, Difference, and Civility 4. Our Future Leaders: College Students and Political Argument 5. Conclusion: Civility, Communication, and a Culture of Argument Appendix I: Transcript of President Barack Obama's Commencement Address, University of Notre Dame, May 17, 2009 Appendix II: University System of Georgia Survey on Student Speech and Discussion Notes Bibliography Index
£11.39
ML - Temple University Press Push Back Move Forward The National Council of Womens Organizations and Coalition Advocacy
£69.70
Temple University Press,U.S. Push Back Move Forward
Book SynopsisAn in-depth explanation of the origin, workings, strengths and weaknesses of the National Council of Women's Organizations
£23.39
Temple University Press,U.S. The Memoirs of Wendell W. Young III
Book SynopsisPhiladelphia native Wendell W. Young III was one of the most important American labor leaders in the last half of the twentieth century. An Acme Markets clerk in the 1950s and '60s, he was elected top officer of the Retail Clerks Union when he was twenty-four. His social justice unionism sought to advance wages while moving beyond collective bargaining to improve the conditions of the working-class majority, whether in a union or not. Young quickly gained a reputation for his independence, daring at times to publicly criticize the policies of the city's powerful AFL-CIO leadership and tangle with the city's political machine. Editor Francis Ryan, whose introduction provides historical context, interviewed Young about his experiences working in the region's retail and food industry, measuring the changes over time and the tangible impact that union membership had on workers. Young also describes the impact of Philadelphia's deindustrialization in the 1970s and '80s and recounts his ac
£25.19
Temple University Press,U.S. Are We the 99
Book SynopsisThe protestors that comprised the Occupy Wall Street movement came from diverse backgrounds. But how were these activistswho sought radical social change through many ideologiesable to break down oppressions and obstacles within the movement? And in what ways did the movement perpetuate status-quo structures of inequality? Are We the 99%? is the first comprehensive feminist and intersectional analysis of the Occupy movement. Heather McKee Hurwitz considers how women, people of color, and genderqueer activists struggled to be heard and understood. Despite cries of We are the 99%, signaling solidarity, certain groups were unwelcome or unable to participate. Moreover, problems with racism, sexism, and discrimination due to sexuality and class persisted within the movement. Using immersive first-hand accounts of activists' experiences, online communications, and media coverage of the movement, Hurwitz reveals lessons gleaned from the conflicts within the Occupy movement. She compares her f
£73.80
Temple University Press,U.S. Are We the 99
Book SynopsisThe protestors that comprised the Occupy Wall Street movement came from diverse backgrounds. But how were these activistswho sought radical social change through many ideologiesable to break down oppressions and obstacles within the movement? And in what ways did the movement perpetuate status-quo structures of inequality? Are We the 99%? is the first comprehensive feminist and intersectional analysis of the Occupy movement. Heather McKee Hurwitz considers how women, people of color, and genderqueer activists struggled to be heard and understood. Despite cries of We are the 99%, signaling solidarity, certain groups were unwelcome or unable to participate. Moreover, problems with racism, sexism, and discrimination due to sexuality and class persisted within the movement. Using immersive first-hand accounts of activists' experiences, online communications, and media coverage of the movement, Hurwitz reveals lessons gleaned from the conflicts within the Occupy movement. She compares her f
£18.99
University of Toronto Press Transnationalism Activism Art
Book SynopsisTransnationalism, Activism, Art goes beyond Banksy by investigating how the three complementary political, social, and cultural phenomena listed in the title interact in the twenty-first century.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Transnationalism, Activism, Art 1 Manhattanism and Future Cities: Some Provocations on Art and New Urban Forms 2 Mumbai, Slumbai: Transnationalism and Postcolonialism in Urban Slums 3 Ends of Culture 4 Transnational Culture: An Interview with Graham Huggan 5 The Translegality of Digital Nonspace: Digital Counter-Power and Its Representation 6 Queers without Borders? On the Impossibility of 'Queer Citizenship' and the Promise of Transnational Aesthetic Mutiny 7 Outernational Transmission: The Politics of Activism in Electronic Dance Music 8 Transnational Indigenous Feminism: An Interview with Lee Maracle 9 This Is What Democracy Looks Like? or, The Art of Opposition 10 Transnationalizing the Rhythm / Remastering the National Dance: The Politics of Black Performance in Contemporary Cinema of the Americas 11 Author as Metabrand in the Postcolonial UK: Booking Daljit Nagra Afterword: Sentiment or Action The Contributors Notes Index
£45.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Faction Displayed
Book SynopsisFaction Displayed: Reconsidering the Impeachment of Dr. Henry Sacheverell features a collection of essays that examine the turbulent partisan culture during Queen Anne's reign that ensued as a result of the 1710 parliamentary trial of English clergyman Henry Sacheverell. Features several essays originating from a 2010 conference held at the Palace of Westminster to mark the tercentenary of Sacheverell's impeachment Links events in Parliament to the public that was both fascinated and enraged by them Explores the nature of the public sphere and critiques Habermas's notion of it Offers a form of cultural parliamentary history and addresses the many forms of partisanship evident in the rage of party' Trade Review“Faction Displayedtrace[s] the ways in which the controversy was spun … richly documented.” (London Review of Books, 21 August 2014)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Bibliographical Note List of Contributors Introduction: The View from 1710 (MARK KNIGHTS) 1. The Current State of Sacheverell Scholarship (W.A. SPECK) 2. The Spin Doctor: Sacheverell's Trial Speech and Political Performance in the Divided Society (BRIAN COWAN) 3. The ‘End of Censorship’ and the Politics of Toleration, from Locke to Sacheverell (GEOFF KEMP) 4. Sacheverell's Harlots: Non-Resistance on Paper and in Practice (EIRWEN E.C. NICHOLSON) 5. Irish Tories and Victims of Whig Persecution: Sacheverell Fever by Proxy (D.W. HAYTON) 6. Addison's Empire: Whig Conceptions of Empire in the Early 18th Century (STEVE PINCUS) Note and Documents 7. A Non-Resisting, Passively Obedient Revolution: Lord North and Grey and the Tory Response to the Sacheverell Impeachment (DANIEL SZECHI) Index
£19.71
Policy Press Minority women and austerity
Book SynopsisBassel and Emejulu explore minority women's experiences of austerity measures in France and Britain. They demonstrate how they use their race, class, gender and legal status for collective action in the face of the neoliberal colonisation.Trade Review"This book's focus on minority women's agency and resistance makes a valuable contribution to research on crisis and austerity." Majella Kilkey, University of Sheffield "For detailed, original analyses of minority women's activism and claims-making in this Europe of austerity politics, read this excellent book." Khursheed Wadia, University of Warwick, UK "Brings a theoretically sophisticated intersectional approach to interviews with minority ethnic women activists and policy officers and illuminates the multi-faceted ways in which the women experience and resist often patronising initiatives. The insights are compelling and repay close reading. It is hoped that future initiatives will start from the insights it provides." Ann Phoenix, University College LondonTable of ContentsForeword by Patricia Hill Collins Taking minority women's activism seriously Theorising and resisting 'political racelessness' in Europe Whose crisis counts? Enterprising activism The politics of survival Learning across cases, learning beyond 'cases' Conclusion: warning signs
£25.64
Bristol University Press Tomorrows Communities
Book SynopsisThis book sets out how people’s lives can be positively transformed through diverse forms of community involvement. It shows how communities can become more collaborative and resilient in dealing with the problems they face and provides a guide to what a holistic policy agenda for community-based transformation should encompass.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The challenges for tomorrow’s communities ~ Henry Tam PART A: Transforming socioeconomic relations in communities 2 The case for community economic development ~ Ed Mayo and Pat Conaty 3 Reciprocity and alternative mediums of exchange ~ Martin Simon 4 Regeneration in partnership with communities ~ Gabriel Chanan 5 Worker cooperatives and economic democracy ~ Pat Conaty and Philip Ross PART B: Transforming collaborative behaviour with communities 6 Four factors for better community collaboration ~ Steve Wyler 7 The importance of community-based learning ~ Marjorie Mayo 8 The 45 ° Change model for remaking power relations ~ Colin Miller and Neal Lawson 9 Connecting at the edges for collective change ~ Alison Gilchrist PART C: Transforming policy outcomes by communities 10 Co-production and the role of preventive infrastructure ~ David Boyle 11 Humanising health and social care ~ John Restakis 12 Reshaping the food aid landscape ~ Alice Willatt, Rosalind Beadle and Mary Brydon- Miller 13 Sustainable communities for the future ~ Diane Warburton Conclusion 14 The policy agenda for community-based transformation ~ Henry Tam
£76.00
Bristol University Press Tomorrows Communities
Book SynopsisThis book sets out how people's lives can be positively transformed through diverse forms of community involvement. It shows how communities can become more collaborative and resilient in dealing with the problems they face and provides a guide to what a holistic policy agenda for community-based transformation should encompass.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The challenges for tomorrow’s communities ~ Henry Tam PART A: Transforming socioeconomic relations in communities 2 The case for community economic development ~ Ed Mayo and Pat Conaty 3 Reciprocity and alternative mediums of exchange ~ Martin Simon 4 Regeneration in partnership with communities ~ Gabriel Chanan 5 Worker cooperatives and economic democracy ~ Pat Conaty and Philip Ross PART B: Transforming collaborative behaviour with communities 6 Four factors for better community collaboration ~ Steve Wyler 7 The importance of community-based learning ~ Marjorie Mayo 8 The 45 ° Change model for remaking power relations ~ Colin Miller and Neal Lawson 9 Connecting at the edges for collective change ~ Alison Gilchrist PART C: Transforming policy outcomes by communities 10 Co-production and the role of preventive infrastructure ~ David Boyle 11 Humanising health and social care ~ John Restakis 12 Reshaping the food aid landscape ~ Alice Willatt, Rosalind Beadle and Mary Brydon- Miller 13 Sustainable communities for the future ~ Diane Warburton Conclusion 14 The policy agenda for community-based transformation ~ Henry Tam
£25.64
Bristol University Press Young People Radical Democracy and Community Deve
Book SynopsisFocusing on youth activism for greater equality, liberty and mutual care - radical democracy - this timely collection explores the movement’s impacts on community organisations and workers. Essays from the Global North and Global South cover the Black Lives Matter movement, environmental activism and the struggles of refugees.Table of ContentsPART I Young people: radical democracy and community development Introduction: Young people, radical democracy and community development - Janet Batsleer, Harriet Rowley and Demet Lüküslü Thinking/acting with migrants under neoliberalism: "It's horrible to perceive solidarity as merely absorbing the sorrow of one side". - Cihan Erdal PART II Young people acting together for eco-justice Imagining the future under capitalism: young people involved in environmental activism in an economic crisis - Dena Arya Community building for and through sustainable food - Dominic Zimmermann Daring, dissolving and dancing: making communities with water - Róisín O’Gorman PART III Acts of citizenship? Community development, empowerment and youth participation in social-housing neighbourhoods in France - Gülçin Erdi LGBTQ+ young peoples’ sexuality and gender citizenship in digital spaces - Sally Carr and Ali Hanbury Enabling spaces for and with marginalised young people: the case of the Disha peer support and speak out group - Sadhana Natu Meaningful youth engagement in community programming in Kenya - Yvonne Akinyi Ochieng, Su Lyn Corcoran and Kate Pahl PART IV Black lives still matter Conceptualising community development through a pedagogy of convivência: youth, race and territory in Brazil - Fernando Lannes Fernandes and Andrea Rodriguez "I did not want the project to end. For me, it should last forever": exploring a community development framework based on learned lessons from marginalised youth voices in Brazil - Andrea Rodriguez and Fernando Lannes Fernandes Burning work: field map - Christxpher Oliver PART V Practising hope They are not your warriors: intergenerational tensions and practices of hope in young people’s environmental activism - Dena Arya Afterword: Community as prefigurative practice – practices of hope - Janet Batsleer, Harriet Rowley and Demet Lüküsl ü
£76.50
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Power to the Poor BlackBrown Coalition and the Fight for Economic Justice 19601974
£30.56
University of North Carolina Press High School Students Unite
£90.00
Duke University Press Naked Agency
Book SynopsisAcross Africa, mature women have for decades mobilized the power of their nakedness in political protest to shame and punish male adversaries. This insurrectionary nakedness, often called genital cursing, owes its cultural potency to the religious belief that spirits residing in women's bodies can be unleashed to cause misfortune in their targets, including impotence, disease, and death. In Naked Agency, Naminata Diabate analyzes these collective female naked protests in Africa and beyond to broaden understandings of agency and vulnerability. Drawing on myriad cultural texts from social media and film to journalism and fiction, Diabate uncovers how women create spaces of resistance during socio-political duress, including such events as the 2011 protests by Ivoirian women in Côte d'Ivoire and Paris as well as women's disrobing in Soweto to prevent the destruction of their homes. Through the concept of naked agency, Diabate explores fluctuating narratives of power and victimhood to challenge simplistic accounts of African women's helplessness and to show how they exercise political power in the biopolitical era.Trade Review“This is an expansive but nuanced and thought-provoking study of female nakedness as political intervention around Africa. Naked Agency offers a rich analysis of the many potential meanings of defiant disrobing as a signifying shorthand in relation to questions of agency within, but also potentially outside of an African context.” -- Moradewun Adejunmobi, coeditor of * Routledge Handbook of African Literature *“Bringing new insights to discussions of biopolitics and subjectivity, Naminata Diabate explores African women's naked protests to illuminate the contradictory nature of women's agency and the paradox of aggressive disrobing as a counter to globalization that depends on the globalized meaning of state power. She also makes a strong case for avoiding the problems found in most writings on African women of seeing women as either victims or heroic agents while doing an especially great job of exposing the double-edged nature of secularization in the postcolonial world.” -- E. Frances White, author of * Dark Continent of Our Bodies: Black Feminism and the Politics of Respectability *“Bold and erudite, Naked Agency analyses strategic skirt-lifting to shame, take revenge on or punish offensive men by exposing the vulva.... Naked Agency has made a profound impression on me.” -- Tobe Levin Von Gleichen * Canadian Journal of African Studies *“With a mixed method of textual analysis validated by ethnography, Naked Agency stands out among most scholarships that employ either one or the other, to arrive at a contextually nuanced epistemology. . . . I hope this book helps reconstruct and decolonize the mind of the West about the cultural practices of the other.” -- Oladoyin Abiona * Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry *“Naked Agency is a book that challenges censorship and manipulations of African modes of being, knowing, thinking, and theorizing about itself. . . . Naked Agency is what happens when scholars theorize and write from an Africa centered perspective.” -- Marame Gueye, Kenneth Harrow, Adélékè Adé?`k?´ * Journal of the African Literature Association *“The strengths of Diabate’s work rest not merely rest in her extensive review of theories of power but also in her ability to interweave multiple narratives. . . . Thought-provoking for students at any level.” -- Cathy Skidmore-Hess * Journal of Global South Studies *“[Naked Agency] is flawless, in its arguments, its language, and its clarity. . . . Although [Diabate’s] book may seem to be targeted at academics, her conceptualization of agency is relevant to anyone trying to understand the dynamic aspect of agency and resistance in complex bio-political arenas in the world.” -- Supriya Joshi * Rural Sociology *“Naked Agency [is] extraordinarily capacious in its geographical, cultural, and generic scope. . . . By reading openly, the author is able to read across actors, sites, languages, cultures, genres, etc.” -- Chijioke K. Onah * Research in African Literature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Exceptional Nakedness 1 Section I. Restriction Scene 1. Exceptional Conditions and Darker Shades of Biopolitics 29 Scene 2. Dobsonville and the Question of Autonomy 43 Section II. Co-operation Scene 3. Africanizing Nakedness as (Self-)Instrumentalization 65 Scene 4. In the Name of National Interest 89 Scene 5. Film as Instrumental and Interpretive Lens 107 Section III. Repression Scene 6. Secularizing Genital Cursing and Rhetorical Backlash 131 Scene 7. Epistemic Ignorance and Menstrual Rags in Paris 149 Scene 8. Mis(Reading) Murderous Reactions 175 Epilogue: Defiant Disrobing Going Viral 191 Notes 197 References 219 Index 251
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Duke University Press Students of the World
Book SynopsisOn June 30, 1960—the day of the Congo’s independence—Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a fiery speech in which he conjured a definitive shift away from a past of colonial oppression toward a future of sovereignty, dignity, and justice. His assassination a few months later showed how much neocolonial forces and the Cold War jeopardized African movements for liberation. In Students of the World, Pedro Monaville traces a generation of Congolese student activists who refused to accept the foreclosure of the future Lumumba envisioned. These students sought to decolonize university campuses, but the projects of emancipation they articulated went well beyond transforming higher education. Monaville explores the modes of being and thinking that shaped their politics. He outlines a trajectory of radicalization in which gender constructions, cosmopolitan dispositions, and the influence of a dissident popular culture mattered as much as access to various networks of actTrade Review"Students of the World is richly referenced in the endnotes and stands as an example of the creative possibilities of scholarly monographs. Students of the World will prove an enduring reference point for global histories of Cold War-era activism." -- Ismay Milford * H-Soz-Kult *"With his well-researched and meticulously wrought study, Monaville has conjured up a bygone world of possibilities that clashed with the realities of Africa’s postcolonial hubris, a world that ended up crushed in the vortex of global politics. Students of the World possesses all the trappings of the kind of seminal works that pave the way for a historiographical renewal." -- Didier Gondola * The Global Sixties *"This study is a significant, well-written contribution to the history of youth movements in the late 20th century. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- J. M. Rich * Choice *"The beauty of this book lies in both its content and form. . . . . Monaville’s book exemplifies an approach that integrates ‘theory and form’, thereby offering a valuable contribution to the historiography of student activism, decolonization, the Cold War, and the Global Sixties." -- Emery Kalema * Journal of African History *Table of ContentsPreface. Memory Work in the Age of Cinq Chantiers ix Note on Toponyms xvii Acknowledgments xix Introduction. The School of the World 1 Interlude I. Postal Musings 20 1. Distance Learning and the Production of Politics 23 2. Friendly Correspondence with the Whole World 42 Interlude II. To Live Forever Among Books 63 3. Paths to School 65 4. Dancing the Rumba at Lovanium 84 Interlude III. To the Left 103 5. Cold War Transcripts 109 6. Revolution in the (Counter)revolution 129 7. A Student Front 144 Interlude IV. The Dictator and the Students 161 8. (Un)natural Alliances 166 9. A Postcolonial Massacre and Caporalisation in Mobutu's Congo 179 Epilogue. The Gaze of the Dead 201 Notes 213 Bibliography 287 Index 323
£75.65
Duke University Press Students of the World
Book SynopsisOn June 30, 1960—the day of the Congo’s independence—Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a fiery speech in which he conjured a definitive shift away from a past of colonial oppression toward a future of sovereignty, dignity, and justice. His assassination a few months later showed how much neocolonial forces and the Cold War jeopardized African movements for liberation. In Students of the World, Pedro Monaville traces a generation of Congolese student activists who refused to accept the foreclosure of the future Lumumba envisioned. These students sought to decolonize university campuses, but the projects of emancipation they articulated went well beyond transforming higher education. Monaville explores the modes of being and thinking that shaped their politics. He outlines a trajectory of radicalization in which gender constructions, cosmopolitan dispositions, and the influence of a dissident popular culture mattered as much as access to various networks of actTrade Review"Students of the World is richly referenced in the endnotes and stands as an example of the creative possibilities of scholarly monographs. Students of the World will prove an enduring reference point for global histories of Cold War-era activism." -- Ismay Milford * H-Soz-Kult *"With his well-researched and meticulously wrought study, Monaville has conjured up a bygone world of possibilities that clashed with the realities of Africa’s postcolonial hubris, a world that ended up crushed in the vortex of global politics. Students of the World possesses all the trappings of the kind of seminal works that pave the way for a historiographical renewal." -- Didier Gondola * The Global Sixties *"This study is a significant, well-written contribution to the history of youth movements in the late 20th century. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- J. M. Rich * Choice *"The beauty of this book lies in both its content and form. . . . . Monaville’s book exemplifies an approach that integrates ‘theory and form’, thereby offering a valuable contribution to the historiography of student activism, decolonization, the Cold War, and the Global Sixties." -- Emery Kalema * Journal of African History *Table of ContentsPreface. Memory Work in the Age of Cinq Chantiers ix Note on Toponyms xvii Acknowledgments xix Introduction. The School of the World 1 Interlude I. Postal Musings 20 1. Distance Learning and the Production of Politics 23 2. Friendly Correspondence with the Whole World 42 Interlude II. To Live Forever Among Books 63 3. Paths to School 65 4. Dancing the Rumba at Lovanium 84 Interlude III. To the Left 103 5. Cold War Transcripts 109 6. Revolution in the (Counter)revolution 129 7. A Student Front 144 Interlude IV. The Dictator and the Students 161 8. (Un)natural Alliances 166 9. A Postcolonial Massacre and Caporalisation in Mobutu's Congo 179 Epilogue. The Gaze of the Dead 201 Notes 213 Bibliography 287 Index 323
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New York University Press Changing Land
Book SynopsisHow diaspora activism in the Irish land movement intersected with wider radical and reform causes The Irish Land War represented a turning point in modern Irish history, a social revolution that was part of a broader ideological moment when established ideas of property and land ownership were fundamentally challenged. The Land War was striking in its internationalism, and was spurred by links between different emigrant locations and an awareness of how the Land League's demands to lower rents, end evictions, and abolish landlordism in Ireland connected with wider radical and reform causes. Changing Land offers a new and original study of Irish emigrants' activism in the United States, Argentina, Scotland, and England and their multifaceted relationships with Ireland. Niall Whelehan brings unfamiliar figures to the surface and recovers the voices of women and men who have been on the margins of, or entirely missing from, existing accounts. Retracing their tTrade ReviewChanging Land is a fascinating study of class, gender, social and political reform, and the diaspora during the Land War in nineteenth-century Ireland. It argues convincingly that the land war was part of a wider ideological moment in world history and that social activism should be accorded attention equal to the political perspective, in the nationalist narrative. It is a fine exemplar of how to take an integrated approach to the history of Ireland and that of its geographically widespread diaspora. Based on hitherto unseen primary sources, this book offers an innovative and significant contribution to the received historical narrative of the land war in Ireland and within the diaspora, as well as inserting Ireland into the history of international radicalism. -- Bernadette Whelan, Professor Emeritus, University of Limerick, Ollscoil Luimnigh, IrelandAn outstanding work, meticulously researched, lucidly written, and conceptually sophisticated. Changing Land promises to be one of the most exciting books published on Irish history this year. Whelehan is an outstanding scholar and this volume will consolidate his reputation as among the leading historians of Ireland. -- Thomas Bartlett, Professor Emeritus, University of AberdeenNiall Whelehan’s groundbreaking study…will surely provide an essential cornerstone for future studies of emigrant activism. * Irish Historical Studies *
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New York University Press Protest and Dissent
Book SynopsisEssays on the justification, strategy, and limits of mass protests and political dissent In Protest and Dissent, the latest installment of the NOMOS series, distinguished scholars from the fields of political science, law, and philosophy provide a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on the potentialand limitsof mass protest and disobedience in today's age. Featuring ten timely essays, the contributors address a number of contemporary movements, from Black Lives Matter and the Women's March, to Occupy Wall Street and Standing Rock. Ultimately, this volume challenges us to re-imagine the boundaries between civil and uncivil disagreement, political reform and radical transformation, and democratic ends and means. Protest and Dissent offers thought-provoking insights into a new era of political resistance.Trade ReviewNothing could be timelier than this collection. * CHOICE *
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New York University Press The Kids Are in Charge
Book SynopsisDetails the possibilities and challenges of intergenerational activism and social movements Since 1976, the Peruvian movement of working children has fought to redefine age-based roles in society, including defending children's right to work. In The Kids Are in Charge, Jessica K. Taft gives us an inside look at this groundbreaking, intergenerational social movement, showing that kids canand should berespected as equal partners in economic, social, and political life. Through participant observation, Taft explores how the movement has redefined relationships between kids and adults; how they put these ideas into practice within their organizations; and how they advocate for them in larger society. Ultimately, she encourages us to question the widely accepted beliefs that children should not work or participate in politics. The Kids Are in Charge is a provocative invitation to re-imagine childhood, power, and politics.Trade ReviewThe Kids Are in Charge is a powerful, provocative, and necessary book. Centering the voices and strategies of the Peruvian movement of working children, Jessica Taft urges us to question assumptions about children—who they are, and who they can be—to imagine childhood otherwise. In engaging and accessible prose, Taft's analysis of children as critical thinkers and political agents should be required reading not only for scholars of Latin America, but teachers, parents, policy makers and everyone concerned with the complexity of childhood. -- María Elena García, author of Making Indigenous Citizens: Identities, Development, and Multicultural Activism in PeruWhile children are gaining global renown anew as activists for the environment and for peace, for gun control, and for human rights, Taft reveals the potent challenge children pose for movements against social inequality, arguing that until we address the hierarchy of age, all other inequalities will fail to crumble. Incisive, empathic, surprising, The Kids Are in Charge is a powerful account of children refusing to settle for a hierarchical, paternalistic status quo, a story of children modeling a new way of being together even as they push for political and institutional change. -- Allison J. Pugh, author of The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of InsecurityThe Kids Are in Charge is an insightful scholarly but accessible work on one of the most amazing social and human rights movements of modern history. Jessica K. Taft must be commended for providing new and powerful perspectives to understand this unique phenomenon. She convincingly busts myths about children and builds the case of treating children as equal citizens of this world...Written in beautiful and easy-to-understand language, The Kids Are in Charge is a very well-researched book. It is a must-read if you are interested in Latin America or child rights. -- Washington Book ReviewFor those social movement scholars who have yet to grapple with age as a form of power relations, Jessica Taft’s book The Kids Are in Charge provides a terrific introduction. * Mobilization *
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New York University Press The Kids Are in Charge
Book SynopsisDetails the possibilities and challenges of intergenerational activism and social movements Since 1976, the Peruvian movement of working children has fought to redefine age-based roles in society, including defending children's right to work. In The Kids Are in Charge, Jessica K. Taft gives us an inside look at this groundbreaking, intergenerational social movement, showing that kids canand should berespected as equal partners in economic, social, and political life. Through participant observation, Taft explores how the movement has redefined relationships between kids and adults; how they put these ideas into practice within their organizations; and how they advocate for them in larger society. Ultimately, she encourages us to question the widely accepted beliefs that children should not work or participate in politics. The Kids Are in Charge is a provocative invitation to re-imagine childhood, power, and politics.Trade ReviewThe Kids Are in Charge is a powerful, provocative, and necessary book. Centering the voices and strategies of the Peruvian movement of working children, Jessica Taft urges us to question assumptions about children—who they are, and who they can be—to imagine childhood otherwise. In engaging and accessible prose, Taft's analysis of children as critical thinkers and political agents should be required reading not only for scholars of Latin America, but teachers, parents, policy makers and everyone concerned with the complexity of childhood. -- María Elena García, author of Making Indigenous Citizens: Identities, Development, and Multicultural Activism in PeruWhile children are gaining global renown anew as activists for the environment and for peace, for gun control, and for human rights, Taft reveals the potent challenge children pose for movements against social inequality, arguing that until we address the hierarchy of age, all other inequalities will fail to crumble. Incisive, empathic, surprising, The Kids Are in Charge is a powerful account of children refusing to settle for a hierarchical, paternalistic status quo, a story of children modeling a new way of being together even as they push for political and institutional change. -- Allison J. Pugh, author of The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of InsecurityThe Kids Are in Charge is an insightful scholarly but accessible work on one of the most amazing social and human rights movements of modern history. Jessica K. Taft must be commended for providing new and powerful perspectives to understand this unique phenomenon. She convincingly busts myths about children and builds the case of treating children as equal citizens of this world...Written in beautiful and easy-to-understand language, The Kids Are in Charge is a very well-researched book. It is a must-read if you are interested in Latin America or child rights. -- Washington Book ReviewFor those social movement scholars who have yet to grapple with age as a form of power relations, Jessica Taft’s book The Kids Are in Charge provides a terrific introduction. * Mobilization *
£66.60
New York University Press Queer Nuns
Book SynopsisAn engaging look into the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, queer activists devoted to social justice The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence make up an unlikely order of nuns. Self-described as twenty-first century queer nuns, the Sisters began in 1979 when three bored gay men donned retired Roman Catholic nuns' habits and went for a stroll through San Francisco's gay Castro district. The stunned and delighted responses they received prompted these already-seasoned activists to consider whether the habits might have some use in social justice work, and within a year they had constituted the new order. Today, with more than 83 houses on four different continents, the Sisters offer health outreach, support, and, at times, protest on behalf of queer communities. In Queer Nuns, Melissa M. Wilcox offers new insights into the role the Sisters play across queer culture and the religious landscape. The Sisters both spoof nuns and argue quite seriously that they are nunsTrade ReviewWilcox (religious studies, Univ. of California, Riverside) has a sterling record of scholarship on queer theory in religion. Here she offers a history and critical assessment of the work of LGBTQ activists who consider themselves nuns … Readers benefit from not only the author’s extensive field work but also her commitment to critical theory and ability to see power dynamics. -- CHOICEWilcox, chair of Religious Studies at UC-Riverside, has written an ambitious analysis of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a worldwide “order” of drag queens that originated in San Francisco in the late 1970s as the gay rights movement was gaining momentum -- The Gay & Lesbian QuarterlyIn this interdisciplinary tour de force, Melissa M. Wilcox draws from history, sociology, queer studies, and religious studies to understand the origins, cultural politics, and religious landscape of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a network of men who describe themselves as “queer nuns” dedicated to “‘the promulgation of universal joy and the expiation of stigmatic guilt’” (their mission, as quoted on p. 15). Since their formation in 1979, the Sisters have been at the forefront of queer activism. Wilcox’s detailed and analytically rich account of the Sisters’ history, activism, and growth draws from an array of archival records and an impressive number of interviews. In addition, Wilcox’s development of the theoretical concept of “serious parody” charts how religious studies and queer studies can intersect in unexpected ways. -- Resources for Gender and Women's StudiesWilcox beautifully demonstrates how serious political and social engagement can emerge from queer religious camp. In short, this book piles fascinating and novel theoretical engagement upon great historical and sociological narrative--it's a must read! -- Anthony M. Petro,author of After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, and American ReligionA serious study of serious parody. Melissa Wilcox shows how the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have combined a certain lightness of being with a definite seriousness of purpose to create performative politics and religious practices that open onto a very different world than the one in which we find ourselves. Wilcox brings a scholarly richness and wonderful intelligence to the Sisters stories, offering a lesson about how to live in times when parody is the best, if not the only, way to communicate with any seriousness. -- Janet Jakobsen,Claire Tow Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College, Columbia UniversityAn important contribution to queering religious studies [...] this book will prove equally useful (in whole or in part) within introductory courses on religious studies (“in America” or “and politics,” for instance) and queer studies as well as upper-level investigations of theory and method for the study of religion. Students will find this text both outrageously entertaining and thought-provoking, and Wilcox is especially adept at coherently synthesizing and making use of concepts from across the academy—like “disidentification” and “homonormativity”—as well as terms and practices from queer life and activism. * Religious Studies Review *Wilcox’s study demonstrates how much scholars of religion have to learn about religion by attending to its parodic representations. This book is therefore essential reading in American religions and in queer studies. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Wilcox’s study is rigorously researched, beautifully crafted and highly readable. It invites us to rethink what it is to queer spirituality, to be religious and do religion in the 21st century.. * Journal of Religion, Media, and Digital Culture *
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New York University Press By Any Media Necessary
Book SynopsisThe participatory politics and civic engagement of youth in the digital ageThere is a widespread perception that the foundations of American democracy are dysfunctional, public trust in core institutions is eroding, and little is likely to emerge from traditional politics that will shift those conditions. Youth are often seen as emblematic of this crisisfrequently represented as uninterested in political life, ill-informed about current-affairs, and unwilling to register and vote. By Any Media Necessary offers a profoundly different picture of contemporary American youth. Young men and women are tapping into the potential of new forms of communication such as social media platforms, spreadable videos and memes, remixing the language of popular culture, and seeking to bring about political changeby any media necessary. In a series of case studies covering a diverse range of organizations, networks, and movements involving young people in the political procesTrade ReviewReaders are given a nuanced picture of the successes and complications of youth activism and participatory politics in the current era. * Choice *By Any Media Necessaryis fascinating continuation of Jenkinss previous work and should be of great use for media studies scholars, as well as anyone interested in better understanding youth perceptions and actions related to the political realm. * Journal of American Culture *In line with civic media scholarship that focuses on the opportunities for emerging technologies and digital cultures to buttress collective action, By Any Media Necessary suggests the important role of new media and technologies in facilitating political engagement and participatory practice. The notions of transmedia activism and mobilization are effectively analyzed to discuss how youth tap into the potentials of media platforms and networked communications—from social media, spreadable videos, and Internet memes—and use their digital skills in a collaborative and participatory manner in seeking to bring about political change. -- International Journal of CommunicationFantasy is not an escape from our world; its an invitation to go deeper into it. The most relevant book of our era, it will undoubtedly inspire you and those you love to join the millions of people who are transforming our world: by any media necessary. -- Andrew Slack,creator/co-founder of the Harry Potter AllianceA far-reaching book that explores the many different digital strategies and platforms young people use to have their voices heard and their political agendas advanced. The case studies at the heart of this book are powerful, telling the story of how young people across demographic categories are using digital media to engage in a new form of politicsParticipatory Politicsthat is destined to significantly shape civic life for years to come. -- Cathy J. Cohen,author of Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American PoliticsA much-needed narration of political agency that tackles its many contradictions head on, without losing sight of nuance. The books case studies, rich in detail, are wonderful invitations to think more and better about the role of empathy, care, ethics, empowerment, and participation in our contemporary political realities. -- Nico Carpentier,Uppsala University, SwedenAn indispensable guide to the changing shape of civic and political agency in a digital age. With richly detailed case studies, Jenkins and his team have captured an origin story: the moment when participatory culture got hooked up with politics and the fundamentals of modern democracies shifted beneath our feet. -- Danielle Allen,co-editor of From Voice to Influence: Understanding Citizenship in the Digital AgeUnderstanding the connections between practices of media consumption andenduringcivic engagement is one of the most exciting challenges that cultural studies currently faces. For over a decade, Henry Jenkins has been exploring this issue, and now he and an excellent team of co-authors offer the most searching examination of this question for a U.S. context that we have. An inspiring and enlivening book, this is a definite must read! -- Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science
£22.79
New York University Press Coming Out of Communism
Book SynopsisHow homophobic backlash unexpectedly strengthened mobilization for LGBT political rights in post-communist Europe While LGBT activism has increased worldwide, there has been strong backlash against LGBT people in Eastern Europe. Although Russia is the most prominent anti-gay regime in the region, LGBT individuals in other post-communist countries also suffer from discriminatory laws and prejudiced social institutions. Combining an historical overview with interviews and case studies in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, Conor O'Dwyer analyzes the development and impact of LGBT movements in post-communist Eastern and Central Europe. O'Dwyer argues that backlash against LGBT individuals has had the paradoxical effect of encouraging stronger and more organized activism, significantly impacting the social movement landscape in the region. As these peripheral Eastern and Central European countries vie for inclusion or at least recognition in the increasingly LGBT-frTrade ReviewReaders will learn a great deal about activist groups in those countries, and will understand the role “Europeanization” had on the LGBT movement after the fall of communism … This book will best serve graduate students, faculty, and practitioners in politics. * Choice *This book is an ambitious, mixed-method examination of LGBT activism in postcommunist East-Central Europe that makes the counterintuitive argument that backlash to international pressures can be constructive to a social movement’s development... Coming Out of Communism is a tour de force in comparative analysis, interrogating civil society—which is notoriously difficult to study—and covering issues often ignored by the field. * Perspectives on Politics *In this masterful and timely study, ODwyer shows us how backlash can paradoxically benefit the domestic organizing capacity of LGBT rights advocates. This is a novel and compelling argument, substantiated by meticulously documented contention around those rights in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe. In crafting this argument, ODwyer demonstrates the great potential that the often-ignored study of LGBT politics offers for understanding a host of theoretical debates pertinent to political scientists. As unfettered populism and nationalism shake the core of liberal democracies, this book is needed more than ever, because it provides a sliver of hope in times of great peril for the most vulnerable among us. -- Phillip M. Ayoub,Author of When States Come Out: Europe's Sexual Minorities and the Politics of VisibilityWhy has LGBT rights activism flourished in some post-communist states and floundered in others following accession to the European Union? How come joining the EU was, in some places, accompanied by increasingly intolerant public attitudes toward sexual minorities, rather than acceptance? In Coming Out of Communism, Conor ODwyer solves these puzzles, highlighting the role of homophobic backlash in provoking stronger organizing for LGBT rights in the region.Anyone interested in LGBT issues, social movements, or the impact of transnational institutions on domestic politics, will undoubtedly enjoy learning from ODwyers keen analysis and intriguing field research in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania. -- Valerie Sperling,Author of Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in RussiaCompelling and illuminating, especially where O’Dwyer’s local informants, observation, and research blends with synthesis from area-specific scholarship. * Slavic Review *
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University of Toronto Press Radical Housewives
Book SynopsisRadical Housewives is a history of the Canada's Housewives Consumers Association. Julie Guard reinterprets the view of postwar Canada as economically prosperous and reveals the left's role in the origins of the food security movement.Trade Review"In her book, Guard tells a fascinating story of this little-known but very influential movement in mid-twentieth-century Canada." -- Joel Trono-Doerksen * Canada’s History *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 2: Housewife-Patriots and Wartime Price Controls Chapter 3: Fighting for the Working Class: The Struggle for Postwar Price Controls Chapter 4: Mothers, Breadwinners, and Citizens Chapter 5: Citizen Consumers or Kitchen Communists? Chapter 6: "Reds," Housewives, and the Cold War Conclusion
£50.15
University of Toronto Press Radical Housewives
Book SynopsisRadical Housewives is a history of Canada’s Housewives Consumers Association. This association was a community-based women’s organization with ties to the communist and social democratic left that, from 1937 until the early 1950s, led a broadly based popular movement for state control of prices and made other far-reaching demands on the state. As radical consumer activists, the Housewives engaged in gender-transgressive political activism that challenged the government to protect consumers’ interests rather than just those of business while popularizing socialist solutions to the economic crises of the Great Depression and the immediate postwar years. Julie Guard''s exhaustive research, including archival research and interviews with twelve former Housewives, recovers a history of women’s social justice activism in an era often considered dormant and adds a Canadian dimension to the history of politicized consumerism and of politicized mateTrade Review"In her book, Guard tells a fascinating story of this little-known but very influential movement in mid-twentieth-century Canada." -- Joel Trono-Doerksen * Canada’s History *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 2: Housewife-Patriots and Wartime Price Controls Chapter 3: Fighting for the Working Class: The Struggle for Postwar Price Controls Chapter 4: Mothers, Breadwinners, and Citizens Chapter 5: Citizen Consumers or Kitchen Communists? Chapter 6: "Reds," Housewives, and the Cold War Conclusion
£22.49
University of Toronto Press Female Doctors in Canada
Book SynopsisFemale Doctors in Canada is an accessible collection of articles by experienced physicians and researchers exploring how systems, practices, and individuals must change as medicine becomes an increasingly female-dominated profession.Table of ContentsPreface: Why a Book about Female Doctors? Acknowledgments Section One. Introductory Perspectives: Female Doctors in Canada 1. The Feminization of Medicine: Issues and Implications SHELLEY ROSS 2. "Unsex Me Here!" Gender as a Barrier to Female Practice: A Historical Introduction to Women Doctors in Canada Professionalization in Canada – An Annotated Timeline HEATHER STANLEY 3. Cultural Barriers within Medicine SETORME TSIKATA 4. Current State of Women in Medicine: The Statistics DEENA M. HAMZA AND SHELLEY ROSS Section Two. Navigating the Reality of Becoming and Being a Female Physician in a Traditionally Male Profession: Social and Cultural Issues 5. Gendered Experience, Role Models and Mentorship, Leadership, and the Hidden Curriculum CHERI BETHUNE 6. Female International Medical Graduates in Canada INGE SCHABORT Section Three. Career Experience: Examining Cultural Patterns within the Medical Community and Health Care System 7. Career Trajectory of Women in Medicine: Taming the Winds That Blow Us KATHLEEN GARTKE AND JANET DOLLIN 8. Quality of Life/Life-Work Balance SHELLEY ROSS Section Four. Contemporary Perspectives on Women in Medicine 9. Women Physicians as Ethical Decision Makers ERIN FREDERICKS 10. Women Physicians and New Forms of Medicine MONICA OLSEN, MAMTA GAUTAM, AND GILLIAN KERNAGHAN |11. Patients, Women Family Doctors, and Patient-Centred Care PERLE FELDMAN Section Five. Female Doctors in Canada: Futures 12. Female Doctors in Canada: The Way Forward EARLE WAUGH, SHELLEY ROSS, AND SHIRLEY SCHIPPER Contributors
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University of Nebraska Press Standing Up to Colonial Power
Book SynopsisFocuses on the lives, activism, and intellectual contributions of Henry Cloud (1884-1950), a Ho-Chunk, and Elizabeth Bender Cloud (1887-1965), an Ojibwe, both of whom grew up amid settler colonialism that attempted to break their connection to Native land, treaty rights, and tribal identities.Trade Review"Ramirez tells a valuable story of indigenous resistance and a family legacy of activism."—Publishers Weekly"The themes that Ramirez presents in this book are of great relevance today to the ways in which we examine Indigenous resistance in the settler colonial state, making this book extremely useful and accessible to scholars in a variety of fields, from Indigenous studies, to anthropology, geography, and history."—Deondre Smiles, Great Plains Quarterly"These elegant family sources reveal Henry Cloud as a genuinely indigenous person. Ramirez emphasizes, for example, how her grandfather loved to tell Winnebago Trickster (“Wakdjunkaga”) stories. And these stories are as marvelous and complex as this storyteller."—Dennis (Denny) J. Smith, Nebraska History"An important and informative examination of the careers of two brilliant and proficient activists."—Jay Freeman, Booklist"Ramirez pulls from archives and personal letters to give us a full picture of her grandparents' activist work, including the contradictions, at a time when Indian activism was virtually unheard of."—Mark Anthony Rolo, Progressive"Ramirez's work offers both an intimate story of a scholar's family and insights into how Native Americans navigated and shaped twentieth-century settler colonialism as it operated through institutions that allowed some space for Native participation."—Mark Boxell, Kansas History"Ramirez offers priceless insights into the Clouds’ lives as Native intellectuals coming of age in the oppressive early decades of the twentieth century."—K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Native American and Indigenous Studies“Moving. . . . This is the first project authored by a descendant of these leaders and offers a uniquely nuanced understanding of their activism. The book is a beautiful contribution to the literature on the early twentieth-century Native American experience and honors the life and legacy of two extraordinary leaders.”—Amy Lonetree (Ho-Chunk), associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums “Renya Ramirez explores how Ho-Chunk and Ojibwe cultures influenced [her grandparents’] shared visions. . . . [and] discusses the vital work of these two leaders in a deeply personal voice.”—Lisbeth Haas, professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Saints and Citizens: Indigenous Histories of Colonial and Mexican California “Ramirez’s insightful biography of Henry and Elizabeth Cloud is an excellent example of ‘writing from home,’ and shows us the full richness of the Clouds’ lives as well as their important legacies, both personal and political.”—Cathleen Cahill, associate professor of history at Pennsylvania State University and author of Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869–1933Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Henry Cloud’s Childhood and Young Adulthood 2. Society of American Indians and the American Indian Institute 3. Henry Cloud’s Role in the Meriam Report, the Indian Reorganization Act, and the Haskell Institute 4. The Work of Henry and Elizabeth Cloud at Umatilla 5. Elizabeth Bender Cloud’s Intellectual Work and Activism Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Informal Workers and Collective Action
Book SynopsisInformal Workers and Collective Action features nine cases of collective action to improve the status and working conditions of informal workers. Adrienne E. Eaton, Susan J. Schurman, and Martha A. Chen set the stage by defining informal work and describing the types of organizations that represent the interests of informal workers and the lessons that may be learned from the examples presented in the book. Cases from a diverse set of countriesBrazil, Cambodia, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Georgia, Liberia, South Africa, Tunisia, and Uruguayfocus on two broad types of informal workers: waged workers, including port workers, beer promoters, hospitality and retail workers, domestic workers, low-skilled public sector workers, and construction workers; and self-employed workers, including street vendors, waste recyclers, and minibus drivers.These cases demonstrate that workers and labor organizations around the world are rediscovering the lessons of early labor organizers onTrade ReviewInformal Workers and Collective Action: A Global Perspective is innovative in its scope and claims.... This volume shows that workers around the world are finding new and old ways to organize, and I join the editors in hoping that their stories will inspire others to do the same. * Work and Occupation *This book is extremely important and timely, as it demonstrates that it is possible to achieve measurable benefits for vulnerable workers through collective action even in dire circumstances. Authors convincingly argue that workers' organizations need to take advantage of structural resources as well as their associational power by collaborating with other domestic and international unions and/or social movements. * ILR Review *This book added greatly to my understanding of the various forms of informal work and the difficulties that informal workers face in securing recognition and rights.... By the end of the book, it is evident that collective bargaining can involve many categories of both formal and informal workers, government entities, and employer representatives. The way forward may be slow, but these case studies show that progress is possible. * Monthly Labor Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction, Adrienne E. Eaton, Martha A. Chen, and Susan J. SchurmanPart I. Formalizing or Reformalizing Distanced Employment Relationships1. Port Workers in Colombia: Reinstatement as Formal Workers, Daniel Hawkins2. Retail and Hospitality Workers in South Africa: Organized by Trade Union of Formal Workers to Demand Equal Pay and Benefits, Sahra Ryklief3. Haitian Migrant Workers in the Dominican Republic: Organizing at the Intersection of Informality and Illegality, Janice Fine and Allison J. Petrozziello4. Domestic Workers in Uruguay: Collective Bargaining Agreement and Legal Protection, Mary R. Goldsmith5. Beer Promoters in Cambodia: Formal Status and Coverage under the Labor Code, Mary Evans6. Informalized Government Workers in Tunisia: Reinstatement as Formal Workers with Collective Bargaining Rights, Stephen Juan KingPart II. Securing Recognition and Rights for the Self-Employed7. Minibus Drivers in Georgia: Secure Jobs and Worker Rights, Elza Jgerenaia and Gocha Aleksandria8. Waste Pickers in Brazil: Recognition and Annual Bonus, Sonia Maria Dias and Vera Alice Cardoso Silva9. Street Vendors in Liberia: A Written Agreement With Authorities and a Secure Workplace, Milton A. Weeks and Pewee ReedConclusion: Expanding the Boundaries of Labor Organizing and Collective Bargaining,Susan J. Schurman, Adrienne E. Eaton, and Martha A. Chen
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Cornell University Press Protest Politics in the Marketplace
Book SynopsisProtest Politics in the Marketplace examines how social media has revolutionized the use and effectiveness of consumer activism. In her groundbreaking book, Caroline Heldman emphasizes that consumer activism is a democratizing force that improves political participation, self-governance, and the accountability of corporations and the government. She also investigates the use of these tactics by conservatives.Heldman analyzes the democratic implications of boycotting, socially responsible investing, social media campaigns, and direct consumer actions, highlighting the ways in which such consumer activism serves as a countervailing force against corporate power in politics. In Protest Politics in the Marketplace, she blends democratic theory with data, historical analysis, and coverage of consumer campaigns for civil rights, environmental conservation, animal rights, gender justice, LGBT rights, and other causes. Using an inter-disciplinary approach applicable to politicTrade ReviewHeldman builds on studies by historians and sociologists to look at market activism as a political phenomenon.... A fruitful area for political science research, and her book should be widely read. * Choice *Caroline Heldman's Protest Politics in the Marketplace successfully accomplishes her goal to argue how and why consumer activism in the United States should be considered by academics as empirical indicators of a healthy democracy, rather than the predominant perspective that Americans are becoming less civically and politically engaged. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. A Consumer Revolution? 2. "We Are the 99%" 3. "We Are Not a Mascot" 4. "600,000 Bosses Telling Me What To Do" 5. "Stop Servibng Gay Chickens" 6. "Yes to Jesus Christ, No to JC" 7. Who Rules? Conclusion Notes
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Cornell University Press Shopping for Change
Book SynopsisConsuming with a conscience is one of the fastest growing forms of political participation worldwide. Every day we make decisions about how to spend our money and, for the socially conscious, these decisions matter. Political consumers buy green for the environment or they buy pink to combat breast cancer. They boycott Taco Bell to support migrant workers or Burger King to save the rainforest. But can we overcome the limitations of consumer identity, the conservative pull of consumer choice, co-optation by corporate marketers, and other pitfalls of consumer activism in order to marshal the possibilities of consumer power? Can we, quite literally, shop for change? Shopping for Change brings together the historical and contemporary perspectives of academics and activists to show readers what has been possible for consumer activists in the past and what might be possible for today's consumer activists.Trade Review"Shopping for Change is replete with the documented beliefs that individual and collective political purchasing reduce and redirect the basic reservoir of giant corporate power—the dollars we give them that they use against the people and the planet. Read this book and shop wisely, sometimes shop less, and, increasingly, shop together for your democratic voice.""Hyman and Tohill have produced a valuable collection that belongs on the short shelf of essential histories of North American consumer culture. This book will become a go-to resource for scholars and activists alike." -- Lawrence Glickman, author of Buying Power"This book could not be more timely. Smarter, more active, and more restrained buying is what is called fo. Shopping for Change provides an outstandingly detailed guide for how to proceed." -- Amitai Etzioni, author of The New Normal"Shopping for Change is a compelling call to harness the full potential of the consumer marketplace to create a more equitable, democratic society." -- Lizabeth Cohen, author of A Consumers' Republic
£25.64
Cornell University Press I the Citizen
Book SynopsisI, the Citizen is an attempt to understand citizen development and engagement. R. Balasubramaniam takes the reader through interpretations of development initiatives at the grassroots and what good governance means to ordinary people. He unravels the power of citizen engagement through his experiences of leading civil society campaigns against corruption and towards strengthening democratic participation of people. I, the Citizen also deals with the philosophical underpinnings of public policies, drawing from his on-the-ground experience as well as engagement with those in the higher echelons of policymaking and implementation. The last section of the book provides glimpses into milestones of a development movement, which Balu founded and led, milestones that are responsible for a continued faith in citizen engagement despite the hindering forces.Trade Reviewi, the citizen is a rare book linking multiple topics and domains such as leadership, development, corruption, governance, democracy, and citizen engagement.... The way the issues are highlighted through the experiences of the author makes the book reading interesting and hard to put down. The narrative style of the book ensures that the tone of the book is positive and evokes the reader to ponder over possible solutions. * Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword Preface 1. Understanding development 2. Voices from the grassroots level 3. Governance, democracy and citizenship 4. Information indeed is power – people and their right to information 5. Citizen engagement and the ght against corruption 6. Citizen engagement towards making democracy work 7. Perspectives on policy 8. An unending movement Epilogue: Citizen Engagement – Exemplars and Realities Glossary
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Cornell University Press Nuclear Summer
Book SynopsisWhen thousands of women gathered in 1983 to protest the stockpiling of nuclear weapons at a rural upstate New York military depot, the area was shaken by their actions. What so disturbed residents that they organized counterdemonstrations, wrote hundreds of letters to local newspapers, verbally and physically harassed the protestors, and nearly rioted to stop one of the protest marches? Louise Krasniewicz reconstructs the drama surrounding the Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice in Seneca County, New York, analyzing it as a clash both between and within communities. She shows how debates about gender and authorityincluding questions of morality, patriotism, women's roles, and sexualitycame to overshadow arguments about the risks of living in a nuclear world. Vivid ethnography and vibrant social history, this work will engage readers interested in American culture, women's studies, peace studies, and cultural anthropology.Trade ReviewNuclear Summer cuts through conceptual chain-link fences and applies the rich intersection of feminist and poststructural analyses to unravel complicated tensions that exploded during the summer of 1983 at the Seneca Women's Peace Encampment. Krasniewicz leads the reader through historical contexts of the county, the formation of the encampment, initial perceptions of the peace camp by the local community, and the development of the relationship between camp women and members of the local community. Analysis of conversations, videotapes, brochures, clothing, songs and ritual, protest events, posters, and editorial letters make it clear that the emergent clashes did not necessarily arise from differing opinions over whether the United States should produce, store, and deploy nuclear weapons but instead were linked intimately to Foucauldian-type wars concerning notions of 'real women' and 'good Americans.' -- Lynn Wilson * Man *
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Cornell University Press Activists in Transition
Book SynopsisActivists in Transition examines the relationship between social movements and democratization in Indonesia. Collectively, progressive social movements have played a critical role over in ensuring that different groups of citizens can engage directly inand benefit fromthe political process in a way that was not possible under authoritarianism. However, their individual roles have been different, with some playing a decisive role in the destabilization of the regime and others serving as bell-weathers of the advancement, or otherwise, of Indonesia''s democracy in the decades since. Equally important, democratization has affected social movements differently depending on the form taken by each movement during the New Order period. The book assesses the contribution that nine progressive social movements have made to the democratization of Indonesia since the late 1980s, and how, in turn, each of those movements has been influenced by democratization.Trade ReviewActivists in Transition is an excellent and empirically rich volume that fills in the existing gap in the scholarship of social movement and democratic transition, which is of interest to Indonesian studies, Asian studies, and comparative politics scholars alike. * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations and Terms Introduction: Social Movements and Democratization in Indonesia, by Thushara Dibley and Michele Ford 1. Student Movements and Indonesia's Democratic Transition, by Yatun Sastramidjaja 2. Democratization and Indonesia's Anticorruption Movement, by Elisabeth Kramer 3. Indonesia's Labor Movement and Democratization, by Teri L. Caraway and Michele Ford 4. Movements for Land Rights in Democratic Indonesia, by Iqra Anugrah 5. Urban Poor Activism and Political Agency in Post–New Order Jakarta, by Ian Wilson 6. Reformasi and the Decline of Liberal Islam, by Greg Fealy 7. The Women's Movement and Indonesia's Transition to Democracy, by Rachel Rinaldo 8. The Unfulfilled Promise of Democracy: Lesbian and Gay Activism in Indonesia, by Hendri Wijaya and Sharyn Graham Davies 9. Democratization and Disability Activism in Indonesia, by Thushara Dibley Conclusion: Social Movements, Patronage Democracy, and Populist Backlash in Indonesia, by Edward Aspinall List of Contributors Index
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Cornell University Press Activists in Transition
Book SynopsisActivists in Transition examines the relationship between social movements and democratization in Indonesia. Collectively, progressive social movements have played a critical role over in ensuring that different groups of citizens can engage directly inand benefit fromthe political process in a way that was not possible under authoritarianism. However, their individual roles have been different, with some playing a decisive role in the destabilization of the regime and others serving as bell-weathers of the advancement, or otherwise, of Indonesia''s democracy in the decades since. Equally important, democratization has affected social movements differently depending on the form taken by each movement during the New Order period. The book assesses the contribution that nine progressive social movements have made to the democratization of Indonesia since the late 1980s, and how, in turn, each of those movements has been influenced by democratization.Trade ReviewActivists in Transition is an excellent and empirically rich volume that fills in the existing gap in the scholarship of social movement and democratic transition, which is of interest to Indonesian studies, Asian studies, and comparative politics scholars alike. * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations and Terms Introduction: Social Movements and Democratization in Indonesia, by Thushara Dibley and Michele Ford 1. Student Movements and Indonesia's Democratic Transition, by Yatun Sastramidjaja 2. Democratization and Indonesia's Anticorruption Movement, by Elisabeth Kramer 3. Indonesia's Labor Movement and Democratization, by Teri L. Caraway and Michele Ford 4. Movements for Land Rights in Democratic Indonesia, by Iqra Anugrah 5. Urban Poor Activism and Political Agency in Post–New Order Jakarta, by Ian Wilson 6. Reformasi and the Decline of Liberal Islam, by Greg Fealy 7. The Women's Movement and Indonesia's Transition to Democracy, by Rachel Rinaldo 8. The Unfulfilled Promise of Democracy: Lesbian and Gay Activism in Indonesia, by Hendri Wijaya and Sharyn Graham Davies 9. Democratization and Disability Activism in Indonesia, by Thushara Dibley Conclusion: Social Movements, Patronage Democracy, and Populist Backlash in Indonesia, by Edward Aspinall List of Contributors Index
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Cornell University Press Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer
Book SynopsisIn the personal and frank Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer, Rodney A. Smolla offers an insider''s view on the violent confrontations in Charlottesville during the summer of hate. Blending memoir, courtroom drama, and a consideration of the unhealed wound of racism in our society, he shines a light on the conflict between the value of free speech and the protection of civil rights.Smolla has spent his career in the thick of these tempestuous and fraught issues, from acting as lead counsel in a famous Supreme Court decision challenging Virginia''s law against burning crosses, to serving as co-counsel in a libel suit brought by a fraternity against Rolling Stone magazine for publishing an article alleging that one of the fraternity''s initiation rituals included gang rape. Smolla has also been active as a university leader, serving as dean of three law schools and president of one and railing against hate speech and sexual assault on US campuses.Well befoTrade ReviewIt's hard to imagine a mayor or police chief who—in planning for the arrival of controversial figures—wouldn't profit from Smolla's account of the cascade of missteps in Charlottesville. * Kirkus Reviews *Smolla's book is a remarkable examination of the intersection of history, law, speech, violence, and hate. It may be the definitive work on what can be wrought by hate speech and, in the face of that, why free speech remains important. * Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly *Table of Contents1. A Call from the Task Force 2. The Charleston Massacre 3. Becoming Richard Spencer 4. Reverend Edwards 5. The Charlottesville Monuments 6. Blut und Boden 7. Mr. Jefferson's University 8. Kessler v. Bellamy 9. The Monuments Debate 10. Competing Conceptions of Free Speech 11. May Days 12. Cue the Klan—Stage Right 13. The Rise of the Marketplace 14. Cue the Counterprotesters—Stage Left 15. A Rolling Stone Gathers No Facts 16. The Marketplace Doubles Down 17. The Day of the Clan 18. When Speech Advances Civil Rights 19. Duke and the Desciples 20. The Russian Connection 21. A Call to Conscience 22. Preparations 23. The Day to the Cross 24. The Idea of the University 25. Heckler's Veto 26. Channels of Communication 27. Rednecks and Saint Paul 28. The Lawn and the Rotunda 29. Bloodshed 30. Aftermath
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Cornell University Press The Roots of Resilience
Book SynopsisIn The Roots of Resilience Meredith L. Weiss examines governance from the ground up in the world's two most enduring electoral authoritarian or "hybrid" regimesSingapore and Malaysiawhere politically liberal and authoritarian features blend, evading substantive democracy. Weiss explains that while key attributes of these regimes differ, affecting the scope, character, and balance among national parties and policies, local machines, and personalized linkages, the similarity in the overall patterns in these countries confirms the salience of those dimensions. The Roots of Resilience shows that high levels of authoritarian acculturation, amplifying the political payoffs of what parties and politicians actually provide their constituents, explain why electoral turnover alone is insufficient for real regime change in either state.Trade ReviewRoots of Resilience makes an important contribution to the literature on Malaysia and Singapore by providing historical depth and empirical richness to the argument that dominant parties reshape the political sphere to maximize their advantages. It will serve as a useful reference point in navigating the increasing uncertainty that the dominant parties of both countries face in the years ahead. * Pacific Affairs *A timely analysis of regime durability in Singapore and Malaysia. Weiss has made a significant contribution to the literature on comparative politics, specifically in the subfield of transitology, or the study of why democratic transitions occur. Through her focus on the minutiae of grassroots politics, she has shown just how sophisticated electoral authoritarians have to be to remain in power, and how entrenched their dominance is. * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of Contents1. Parties, Machines, and Personalities 2. Regimes and Resilience Reconceptualized 3. The Convoluted Political Path to Malaysia 4. Edging toward Sovereign Singapore 5. Competitive Authoritarianism in Malaysia: Consolidated but Challenged 6. Hegemonic Electoral Authoritarianism in Singapore: Firmly Entrenched 7. Drivers of Stasis and Change: Will the Pattern Hold?
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Cornell University Press Freeze
Book SynopsisIn Freeze!, Henry Richard Maar III chronicles the rise of the transformative and transnational Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. Amid an escalating Cold War that pitted the nuclear arsenal of the United States against that of the Soviet Union, the grassroots peace movement emerged sweeping the nation and uniting people around the world.The solution for the arms race that the Campaign proposed: a bilateral freeze on the building, testing, and deployment of nuclear weapons on the part of two superpowers of the US and the USSR. That simple but powerful proposition stirred popular sentiment and provoked protest in the streets and on screen from New York City to London to Berlin. Movie stars and scholars, bishops and reverends, governors and congress members, and, ultimately, US President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev took a stand for or against the Freeze proposal. With the Reagan administration so openly discussing the prospect of winnaTrade ReviewMaar's Freeze! skillfully shows the interplay between activists, public opinion, and political leaders, and should put to rest the outdated notion that social movements cannot and do not influence foreign policy. The book is also well-written and eminently useful for college courses on nuclear weapons, foreign policy, and the 1980s. * Peace & Change *Maar's important examination of the freeze campaign highlights the challenges of that effort but also the ingredients that brought success to the movement: a clear mobilizing narrative, the development of creative grassroots strategies, and an appeal to moral values in partnership with the religious community. * Arms Control Association *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Grassroots Diplomacy 1. The Lost Years: The Peace Movement, from Vietnam to Nuclear Freeze 2. Igniting a Movement: The Reagan Administration's War on Peace 3. From the Streets to the Pulpit: The Catholic Challenge to the Arms Race 4. With Friends Like These: Congress and the Nuclear Freeze Debate 5. Envisioning the Day After: Fear of the Bomb in 1980s Political and Popular Culture 6. The Perils of Failed Diplomacy: 1983 and the Year of Living Dangerously 7. Seizing the Peace: The Nuclear Freeze Movement and the 1984 Election Epilogue: Bedtime for the Bomb
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