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Book SynopsisTracking the evolution of medical care from an individualized small cottage profession to a giant impersonal corporate industry costing Americans over $3 trillion each year. Over the past three decades, the once-efficient American health care system has evolved into a complex maze of monopolies and a racket of bureaucratic checks, approvals, denials, roadblocks, and detours. This shift has created a massive and at times redundant workforce that frustrates patients, as well as physicians, nurses, and administrative staff. Health care costs the United States over $3 trillion each year and consumes over 18% of the country's gross domestic product. That's more than $11,000 for each person in the country each yearmore than double what it costs in most Western European countries to deliver equal or even better care. In Corporatizing American Health Care, Robert W. Derlet, MD, traces the progression of health care policy in the United States. How, he asks, has US health care transformed fTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Outrageous Cost of American Health CareChapter 1. Prescription Drugs: Monopolies and ProfitsChapter 2. Hospitals: Profit FirstChapter 3. PhysiciansChapter 4. Health Plans: The Money MiddlemenChapter 5. European Systems of Health Care DeliveryChapter 6. The Affordable Care Act of 2010 and Other Federal Health Care LawsChapter 7. Emergency DepartmentsChapter 8. The Medical Implant Device IndustryChapter 9. Tests and Studies: Radiology, Laboratory, and Technical ProceduresChapter 10. Nursing Homes and Special FacilitiesConclusionReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing the dynamics of two recent nonviolent, student-led protests in light of China's growth and power

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Book SynopsisOn the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most important moment in LGBTQ historydepicted by the people who influenced, recorded, and reacted to it.June 28, 1969, Greenwich Village: The New York City Police Department, fueled by bigoted liquor licensing practices and an omnipresent backdrop of homophobia and transphobia, raided the Stonewall Inn, a neighborhood gay bar, in the middle of the night. The raid was met with a series of responses that would go down in history as the most galvanizing period in this country''s fight for sexual and gender liberation: a riotous reaction from the bar''s patrons and surrounding community, followed by six days of protests.Across 200 documents, Marc Stein presents a unique record of the lessons and legacies of Stonewall. Drawing from sources that include mainstream, alternative, and LGBTQ media, gay-bar guide listings, state court decisions, political fliers, first-person accounts, song lyrics, and photographs, Stein painTrade ReviewWhen you’re trying to figure out what Stonewall meant to people at the time, these documents, many of which were first printed in the couple of years afterward, are indispensable. -- SlateA generous survey of LGBTQ lives before and after the Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village in June 1969, Steins research fills in gaps in the American history of the fight for free expression of sexuality...A valuable resource for high school, college, and public libraries, Steins work offers reasons for pride and hope. * Booklist *[A] mosaic of the cultural and political realities before, during, and after the riots. The book reflects both the brilliance and contradictions of a multifaceted history...Stein's reflective curation is an important contribution to understanding what Stonewall was and what it represents...illuminating. * Kirkus Reviews *A comprehensive collection of 200 transcribed documents from the early stages of the LGBTQ rights movement. Stein is a capable curator...[A] worthwhile dive into LGBTQ history. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *The Stonewall Riotsis an invaluable addition to LGBTQ+ history, gathering for the first time a wealth of primary documents that will deepen understanding of a pivotal, culture-changing event. * Foreword Reviews *The fiftieth anniversary of Stonewall is coming up this summer, and this documentary history is the perfect way to celebrate the occasion ... a fascinating glimpse into the struggles and the triumphs of a movement that shaped the world we know today. -- Book RiotThe Stonewall Riots is an invaluable addition to the existing literature on the LBGT movement and the sexual revolution. It is a perfect tribute to the LGBT resistance struggle that has shaped the modern world. -- Washington Book ReviewAn encyclopedic work that invites readers to look past legends and examine primary documents for themselves… a must read for students and scholars of LGBT history. -- Washington BladeStein confronts the twists and turns of Stonewall’s gordian knot. * The Journal of American History *In assembling The Stonewall Riots, an evocative, clarifying collection of original sources organized meticulously and introduced with intelligence and insight, Marc Stein has made a brilliant contribution to our understanding of this iconic event. * Journal of the History of Sexuality *

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding the explosive protests over police killings and the legacy of racismFollowing the high-profile deaths of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, both cities erupted in protest over the unjustified homicides of unarmed black males at the hands of police officers. These local tragediesand the protests surrounding themassumed national significance, igniting fierce debate about the fairness and efficacy of the American criminal justice system. Yet, outside the gaze of mainstream attention, how do local residents and protestors in Ferguson and Baltimore understand their own experiences with race, place, and policing?In Hands Up, Don't Shoot, Jennifer Cobbina draws on in-depth interviews with nearly two hundred residents of Ferguson and Baltimore, conducted within two months of the deaths of Brown and Gray. She examines how protestors in both cities understood their experiences with the police, how thoTrade Review"Beginning with an expansive history of racial inequality in America, the author posits that such racism has often led to excessive force used disproportionately against blacks by police. A useful reference on a topic that requires continued examination." -- Kirkus Reviews"In her tightly focused and morally important book … Cobbina is careful to establish historical and cultural context for the deep-seated distrust so many African Americans feel toward law enforcement in a way that makes the book accessible to a wide readership." -- NPR Books"Hands Up, Don't Shoot is such an important and timely work. With equal parts passion and theoretical nuance, and an eye on history, Cobbina makes explicit why the deaths of Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, and so many others matter so much. Her innovative research makes clear the necessity for real change in these dangerous times." -- Jody Miller, author of Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence"Jennifer Cobbina's expertly researched examination of the interlocking dimensions of race, gender, and policing illustrates why the problem of policing in the U.S. is always about much more than policing. [It] is a clarion call for a much broader vision of justice one that relies less on crime-fighting and more on community building. This is a necessary and important book for scholars, activists, and everyday people living under oppressive policing regimes." -- Nikki Jones, author of The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding the explosive protests over police killings and the legacy of racismFollowing the high-profile deaths of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, both cities erupted in protest over the unjustified homicides of unarmed black males at the hands of police officers. These local tragediesand the protests surrounding themassumed national significance, igniting fierce debate about the fairness and efficacy of the American criminal justice system. Yet, outside the gaze of mainstream attention, how do local residents and protestors in Ferguson and Baltimore understand their own experiences with race, place, and policing?In Hands Up, Don't Shoot, Jennifer Cobbina draws on in-depth interviews with nearly two hundred residents of Ferguson and Baltimore, conducted within two months of the deaths of Brown and Gray. She examines how protestors in both cities understood their experiences with the police, how thoTrade Review"Beginning with an expansive history of racial inequality in America, the author posits that such racism has often led to excessive force used disproportionately against blacks by police. A useful reference on a topic that requires continued examination." -- Kirkus Reviews"In her tightly focused and morally important book … Cobbina is careful to establish historical and cultural context for the deep-seated distrust so many African Americans feel toward law enforcement in a way that makes the book accessible to a wide readership." -- NPR Books"Hands Up, Don't Shoot is such an important and timely work. With equal parts passion and theoretical nuance, and an eye on history, Cobbina makes explicit why the deaths of Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, and so many others matter so much. Her innovative research makes clear the necessity for real change in these dangerous times." -- Jody Miller, author of Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence"Jennifer Cobbina's expertly researched examination of the interlocking dimensions of race, gender, and policing illustrates why the problem of policing in the U.S. is always about much more than policing. [It] is a clarion call for a much broader vision of justice one that relies less on crime-fighting and more on community building. This is a necessary and important book for scholars, activists, and everyday people living under oppressive policing regimes." -- Nikki Jones, author of The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption

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Book SynopsisWhen the protests are over, a guide to creating long-lasting social change beyond the barricadesFrom the Women's March in D.C. to #BlackLivesMatter rallies across the country, there has been a rising wave of protests and social activism. These events have been an important part of the battle to combat racism, authoritarianism, and xenophobia in Trump's America. However, the struggle for social justice continues long after the posters and megaphones have been packed away. After the protests are heard, how can we continue to work toward lasting change? This book is an invaluable resource for anyone invested in the fight for social justice. Welch highlights examples of social justice work accomplished at the institutional level. From the worlds of social enterprise, impact investing, and sustainable business, After the Protests Are Heard describes the work being done to promote responsible business practices and healthy, cooperative communities. The book also illuminTrade ReviewAfter the Protests are Heard is one of the most important books of the decade for activists, social entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, and anyone else that envisions a socially just and economically sustainable future. -- Nonprofit Leadership ToolboxWelch offers actionable responses to systemic injustice in this . . . expansive guide to the third wave of social justice... building what is right. Filled with innumerable examples of effective social action, this . . . important work will give the guidance social justiceminded readers are seeking. * Publishers Weekly *Stresses progress and process rather than pie-in-the-sky goals that see protests dissipate when they are unrealized. . . More of a call to reason than a call to arms, the book offers hope in the face of great challenges. * Kirkus Reviews *After the Protests Are Heard makes a luminous case for Sharon Welch's later-career emphasis on enacting a hopeful, constructive, and inclusive feminist progressivism. Like her, the book brims with good-spirited intelligence and a hard-won conviction that progressives must take ethical responsibility for the concrete consequences of their rhetoric and action. -- Gary Dorrien, author of Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit and Imagining Democratic SocialismThis book addresses those with institutional power and influence, helping navigate obligations and opportunities to build communities that promote equality and respect. With Sharon Welch as our guide, we learn the nature of the challenges we confront, including the forces that distort our identities and values. But Welch also explores the specific strategies that are available and, indeed, already being pursued by creative activists to realize a better world. The book is extraordinary: a clear-eyed, theoretically informed, and engaging antidote and response to the authoritarian turn in contemporary politics. -- George F. DeMartino, Professor,Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of DenverAfter the Protests are Heard goes beyond the reasons why social change is necessary right now and speaks to how it can be done. Dr. Welchs book covers the practicalities and pitfalls of affecting change and dispels the notion that saving the world is easy. It show us creative and innovative solutions and encourages us to improve upon and spread the good ideas. -- Tamra Ryan, CEO, Women’s Bean Project and author of The Third LawBoth visionary and pragmatic, presenting daunting challenges to meet lofty goals. * Cross Currents *Starting with the premise that the Trump administration signaled not the death throes of white supremacy but the pangs of its rebirth, Sharon D. Welch calls on liberals and progressives to take responsibility to mitigate evil…. To resource her readers for informed, strategic, collaborative-minded, and responsible action, Welch covers multiple theories of social change—what has worked, what has not, and what can be learned… Her book is a timely resource for both the practical theological and religious studies classroom offering concrete models and theoretical accounts aimed at expanding the student and future leaders’ imagination for civic engagement and collective action. -- Xochitl Alvizo, California State University, Northridge * The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching *

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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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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

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Book Synopsis1970s South Korea is characterized by many as the "dark age for democracy." Most scholarship on South Korea's democracy movement and civil society has focused on the "student revolution" in 1960 and the large protest cycles in the 1980s which were followed by Korea's transition to democracy in 1987. But in his groundbreaking work of political and social history of 1970s South Korea, Paul Chang highlights the importance of understanding the emergence and evolution of the democracy movement in this oft-ignored decade. Protest Dialectics journeys back to 1970s South Korea and provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the numerous events in the 1970s that laid the groundwork for the 1980s democracy movement and the formation of civil society today. Chang shows how the narrative of the 1970s as democracy's "dark age" obfuscates the important material and discursive developments that became the foundations for the movement in the 1980s which, in turn, paved the way for the institutionalization of civil society after transition in 1987. To correct for these oversights in the literature and to better understand the origins of South Korea's vibrant social movement sector this book presents a comprehensive analysis of the emergence and evolution of the democracy movement in the 1970s.Trade Review"Protest Dialectics shows how the dramatic protest of the 1960s transformed during the repressive era of 1970s South Korea, establishing a foundation for effective activism. Chang offers new insight into how democracy movements find ways to continue in hard times, and to reemerge when circumstances change. To understand democratic transitions, we must pay attention to long struggles for reform, even when effective action seems unlikely." -- David S. Meyer, University of California * Irvine *"For all the high drama of movements at the peak of their mobilizing power, the seeds of these struggles almost invariably are sown earlier. The singular contribution of Paul Chang's book on the South Korean Democracy movement during the neglected decade of the 1970s is to lay bare those seeds like no scholar before him." -- Doug McAdam * Stanford University *"This important book gives the 1970s democratization movement in South Korea the recognition it deserves. Chang shows that while the working-class movement was certainly a vital element, Christians and white-collar workers, particularly lawyers and journalists, gave rise to the discourse of human rights, forming the moral backbone of the democratization movement." -- Namhee Lee * University of California, Los Angeles *"The book makes a strong contribution to the study of mobilization by demonstrating how repression can work while simultaneously inducing movement diversification and survival. Chang's pairing of quantitative and qualitative data show that protest counts are an insufficient indication of repression's effects on collective resistance. The findings also have important implications for the study of dissent under authoritarianism: as regimes become stronger and more repressive, they can also render civil society more contentious. Chang deserves praise for his highly readable rendering of the complex events at hand." -- Dana M. Moss * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Protest Dialectics and South Korea's Democracy Movement chapter abstractThe introductory chapter lays out the empirical and theoretical justifications for the study. It focuses on the long historical process of democratization in South Korea. The introduction also discusses limitations of the sociological literature on the relationship between repression and mobilization and argues that the present study offers a more nuanced understanding of social movement development in highly repressive contexts. It ends with a summary of the empirical chapters. 1The Making of the Authoritarian State chapter abstractChapter 1 tracks the transformation of President Park Chung Hee's leadership as he shifted from ruling within the parameters of a democratic system to establishing a formal authoritarian structure in 1972. The chapter discusses his pursuit of national security and economic development that led to two important policy decisions in the 1960s: Korea's participation in the Vietnam War and normalization of relations with Japan. Intent on pushing through his policies, Park Chung Hee reverted to using the military to put down student demonstrations, which reflected his increasing reliance on coercive tactics to silence criticisms of his policies. This chapter shows how this authoritarian tendency culminated in the Yusin Constitution in 1972. 2Consolidating Authoritarianism chapter abstractChapter 2 discusses the repressive structures that undergirded Park's dictatorship including the military and the Korean Central Intelligence Agency. In addition, based on a fairly nuanced and evolving repression strategy, Park consolidated the authoritarian system by enacting additional political control laws that allowed him to ignore basic rights and bypass habeas corpus codified in his own Yusin Constitution. The promulgation of presidential Emergency Decrees, along with the National Security Law and the Anti-Communist Law, reflected a greater capacity for structural repression. This chapter presents a temporal analysis of aggregate protest data that shows that increasing state repression had a profoundly negative impact on the ability of dissidents to stage public protests. 3The Rise and Fall of the Student Movement chapter abstractChapter 3 explains how students, based on a proud history of political engagement, made multiple attempts to organize a nationwide movement against Park Chung Hee's government. The state, consequently, targeted the student movement in recognition of the powerful potential of students to galvanize social change. Increasing state repression was fueled by Park's determination to not let large student protests develop into the kind of "revolution" that brought down Syngman Rhee's government in 1960. This chapter shows that the consequences of repression were dire for students as the arrests and incarceration of thousands of student protestors led to the rapid demobilization of their movement at two critical junctures in 1971 and 1974. 4The Emergence of Christian Activism chapter abstractChapter 4 discusses the emergence of Christian activists who replaced students as central leaders of the movement after 1975. The participation of Christians in anti-government protests was critical to the survival of the democracy movement and for various reasons discussed in the chapter–including symbolic power, organizational resources, and international connections–the state was less effective at repressing them than other secular groups. 5The Politicization of Journalists and Lawyers chapter abstractChapter 5 explores how and why journalists and lawyers became key contributors to the democracy movement in the latter part of the 1970s. While each addressed different aspects of Park Chung Hee's authoritarian government, both groups came to the fore of the movement as the severity of state repression reached new heights. The chapter shows that key state repression strategies–the advertisement repression of newspapers in 1974, the demobilization of students in 1974, the People's Revolutionary Party case in 1975–motivated the politicization of new movement actors. 6Tactical Adaptation and the Rise of Human Rights chapter abstractChapter 6 argues that state repression unintentionally motivated the development of protest strategies and the movement's ideology. Because different groups relied on tactics that were specific to their groups' cultural norms, the demobilization of the student movement and the entry of new movement actors altered the overall character of the movement. Similarly, while the initial goals of the movement in the early 1970s revolved around democratic and economic reforms, new actors further diversified the issues that were raised in anti-government protests including adopting the human rights discourse. 7Repression and the Formation of Alliances chapter abstractChapter 7 explores an additional unintended consequence of state repression. The diversification of movement actors provided the opportunity to create alliances and coalitions which in turn strengthened the solidarity of the movement. Movement solidarity, the chapter argues, was primarily driven by the repression strategies the state employed against dissenting groups. The impact of outgroup contention on ingroup solidarity is evident in the formation of loose-based alliances between diverse sectors of the democracy movement. These informal alliances, in turn, led to formal coalitional organizations that brought together Christians, oppositional politicians, intellectuals, and students. Conclusion: The Legacy of the 1970s Democracy Movement chapter abstractThe concluding chapter broadens the analytic lens by discussing the legacy of the 1970s democracy movement for South Korea's democratization. Although the Yusin system ended with Park Chung Hee's death in 1979, social movements active during Park's reign continued to have consequences for the democracy movement in the 1980s. This chapter shows how the movement in the 1980s inherited from the 1970s several important pillars of mobilization, including a generation of leaders who came of age during the Yusin period, organizational models, and master symbols defining the movement's ideology.

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Book SynopsisA National Endowment for Democracy Notable Book of 2022 Protest has been a key method of political claim-making in Jordan from the late Ottoman period to the present day. More than moments of rupture within normal-time politics, protests have been central to challenging state power, as well as reproducing it—and the spatial dynamics of protests play a central role in the construction of both state and society. With this book, Jillian Schwedler considers how space and geography influence protests and repression, and, in challenging conventional narratives of Hashemite state-making, offers the first in-depth study of rebellion in Jordan. Based on twenty-five years of field research, Protesting Jordan examines protests as they are situated in the built environment, bringing together considerations of networks, spatial imaginaries, space and place-making, and political geographies at local, national, regional, and global scales. Schwedler considers the impact of time and temporality in the lifecycles of individual movements. Through a mixed interpretive methodology, this book illuminates the geographies of power and dissent and the spatial practices of protest and repression, highlighting the political stakes of competing narratives about Jordan's past, present, and future.Trade Review"Protesting Jordan offers readers of Arab politics and contentious politics alike a narrative of how protest shapes how states reproduce their power and, in turn, reshape protest. Jillian Schwedler blends a deep immersion in the Middle East with a firm grasp of contentious politics theory in this thought-provoking book."—Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University"Superbly researched, Protesting Jordan provides a fascinating and groundbreaking alternative history of Jordan. Jillian Schwedler skillfully unpacks and challenges traditional accounts of state-making in Jordan as a top-down process. An essential read for those seeking to better understand Jordan's history and how protests maintain state power."—Janine Clark, University of Toronto"Schwedler has crafted an extraordinarily rich portrait of the creation of Jordan and the fortunes of the Hashemite monarchy through the lens of those who contested its policies, its institutions, and sometimes even its very existence. In doing so, she demonstrates that protest has been a routine part of politics in Jordan since before the modern state was established."—Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs"It's not just the best book I've read about Jordan... but also one of the very best political science books I've read this year... Protesting Jordan should be a must read for scholars of the Middle East and of comparative politics more broadly, as well as for analysts, journalists and policymakers trying to understand the country's politics."—Marc Lynch, Abu Aardvark"[Protesting Jordan] gives a detailed and rich account of Jordan's social and political history, showing how repertoires of protest and repression created, transformed, and continue to afect state and society in Jordan. But the book is also written in a way that makes it essential reading for any scholar interested in protests, repression, and state development – not just in Jordan, but indeed anywhere else."—Curtis R. Ryan, APSA MENA Newsletter"Protesting Jordan is an important contribution to the study of protest. It is a cry and demand not only for scholars to carry on the critical work of studying popular struggle to illuminate its social significance but to forge novel approaches to understand the state, its political economy and urban form."—Deen Sharp, APSA MENA Newsletter"Schwedler's work pushes us to think about the effects of social movements above and beyond narrow conceptions of success or failure; the book traces and convincingly demonstrates the myriad ways that regimes learn from protest activity and deploy repressive state power through the construction (or lack thereof) of cities and communities."—Summer Forester, APSA MENA Newsletter"Protesting Jordan is a wonderful read and an ambitious model for writing contentious politics into political history. ... Schwedler is one of our field's great ethnographic writers, and her keen eye for meaningful details and almost-imperceptible shifts in power relations rendered this routine set of protests into powerful grounds for theorizing about the everyday work of contention."—Chantal Berman, APSA MENA Newsletter"Schwedler's approach is consciously interpretive and inductive....[A]nyone interested in interested in the relationship between popular opposition and state formation in Jordan will find a wealth of new empirical material and fresh analysis here."—Laurie A. Brand, Middle East Journal"Schwedler's scholarship shows how and why in-depth local knowledges are important: certainly to better understand local contexts, but also in order to reflect on 'generalist' scholarship and 'broader' theoretical debates."—Andrea Teti, Mediterranean Politics"Throughout the work, Schwedler challenges readers to rethink the politics of modern protests by interrogating their meaning under Jordan's authoritarian power structure. Protests are not static attacks on normality; they are frequent and normal expressions of commonplace struggles. They enable Jordanians to assert claims and challenge their regime's rules, but they also elicit autocratic responses. Protests represent frontiers where state power is exerted and negotiated and where the state itself becomes seen."—Sean L. Yom, Middle East Research and Information ProjectTable of Contents1. The Shifting Political Stakes of Protest 2. Transforming Transjordan 3. Becoming Amman: From Periphery to Center 4. Jordanization, the Neoliberal State, and the Retreat and Return of Protest 5. An Ethnography of Place and the Politics of Routine Protests 6. Jordan in the Time of the Arab Uprisings 7. The Techniques and Evolving Spatial Dynamics of Protest and Repression 8. Protest and Order in Militarized Spaces 9. Protesting Global Aspirations

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Book SynopsisIn the wake of the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015, millions took to the streets to demonstrate their revulsion, expressing a desire to reaffirm the ideals of the French Republic: liberté, égalité, fraternité. But who were the millions of demonstrators who were suddenly united under the single cry of ‘Je suis Charlie’?In this probing new book, Emmanuel Todd investigates the cartography and sociology of the three to four million who marched in Paris and across France and draws some unsettling conclusions. For while they claimed to support liberal, republican values, the real middle classes who marched on that day of indignant protest also had a quite different programme in mind, one that was far removed from their proclaimed ideal. Their deep values were in fact more reminiscent of the most depressing aspects of France’s national history: conservatism, selfishness, domination and inequality.By identifying the anthropological, religious, economic and political forces that brought France to the edge of the abyss, Todd reveals the real dangers posed to all western societies when the interests of privileged middle classes work against marginalised and immigrant groups. Should we really continue to mistreat young people, force the children of immigrants to live on the outskirts of our cities, consign the poorer classes to the remoter parts of the country, demonise Islam, and allow the growth of an ever more menacing anti-Semitism? While asking uncomfortable questions and offering no easy solutions, Todd points to the difficult and uncertain path that might lead to an accommodation with Islam rather than a deepening and divisive confrontation.Trade Review"Perceptive and chilling"London Review of BooksTable of Contents CONTENTS PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE: A religious crisis The terminal crisis in Catholicism Religious decline and the rise of xenophobia Catholic France and secular France: 1750-1960 The two Frances and equality From the One God to the single currency François Hollande, the Left, and zombie Catholicism 2005: a missed opportunity in class struggle? Difficult atheism CHAPTER TWO: Charlie Charlie: middle class and zombie Catholics Neo-republicanism 1992-2015: from pro-Europeanism to neo-republicanism The neo-republican reality: the ‘social state’ of the middle classes Charlie is anxious Secularism versus the Left Catholicism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism CHAPTER THREE: When equality fails The difficulties of secular, egalitarian France The anthropology of a capitalism in crisis The Europe of inequality France, the Germans and the Arabs Germany and circumcision The great pro-European happening of 11 January 2015 Russia: an exceptional case The mystery of Paris The memory of places The four stages of the crisis CHAPTER FOUR: The French of the Far Right The slow march of the National Front towards la France central A perversion of universalism Republican anti-Semitism Le Pen, Sarkozy and equality The Socialist Party and inequality: the concept of objective xenophobia Mélenchon and inequality The insignificance of human beings and the violence of ideologies CHAPTER FIVE: The French Muslims The disintegration of North African cultures Mixed marriages: Jews and Muslims Ideologues and exogamy The crushing of young people and the jihad factory Scottish fundamentalism Moving beyond the fear of religion Islam and equality The inequality of the sexes The anti-Semitism of the suburbs CONCLUSION The real republican past The neo-republican present Future 1: Confrontation Future 2: the return to the Republic: an accommodation with Islam A foreseeable deterioration The secret weapon of the republican revival

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Book SynopsisLobbying and political interest groups occupy an ambivalent place in advanced democracies. Lobbying is viewed with suspicion, but is also a critical avenue for voices in policy debates. This insightful book injects a new sociological understanding of politics and policy. Interest groups help set political agendas, provide support to policymakers, and mobilize resources around issues. They are also the means by which individuals and organizations achieve advantage over others in social and economic life. John C. Scott incorporates theory and research about interest groups into political sociology’s approach to issues of power, inequality, and public policy. As he convincingly reveals, a sociological understanding of lobbying and interest groups illustrates the edges and boundaries of representative democracy itself. Using case studies and data, and organized by topics such as influence, collective action, representation, and inequality, the book is a critical resource for students of policymaking and political sociology.Trade Review"This book offers an admirably accessible introduction to a broad range of interest group research, from the influence of interest groups to the role they play at the global level. It will be a valuable resource for all students and scholars in this area."—Andreas Dür, Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Salzburg, Austria "Weaving seamlessly between cases and theory, sociology and political science, US, UK, and European politics, John Scott has produced a must-read for any who want better to understand the roles of lobbying organizations, social movements, or policy advocates in any country. One can learn as much from the wealth of case material as from the development of the theories and perspectives offered here."—Frank Baumgartner, The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: A Social Orientation to Interest Groups and Political Life Chapter 1: Interests and Groups Chapter 2: Power, Access, and Influence Chapter 3: Interest Groups as Intermediaries between Nation-States and Citizens Chapter 4: Inequality and Interest Groups Chapter 5: Interest Group Politics in a Global Context Chapter 6: New Directions in the Study of Lobbyists and Interest Groups References

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Book SynopsisLobbying and political interest groups occupy an ambivalent place in advanced democracies. Lobbying is viewed with suspicion, but is also a critical avenue for voices in policy debates. This insightful book injects a new sociological understanding of politics and policy. Interest groups help set political agendas, provide support to policymakers, and mobilize resources around issues. They are also the means by which individuals and organizations achieve advantage over others in social and economic life. John C. Scott incorporates theory and research about interest groups into political sociology’s approach to issues of power, inequality, and public policy. As he convincingly reveals, a sociological understanding of lobbying and interest groups illustrates the edges and boundaries of representative democracy itself. Using case studies and data, and organized by topics such as influence, collective action, representation, and inequality, the book is a critical resource for students of policymaking and political sociology.Trade Review"This book offers an admirably accessible introduction to a broad range of interest group research, from the influence of interest groups to the role they play at the global level. It will be a valuable resource for all students and scholars in this area."—Andreas Dür, Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Salzburg, Austria "Weaving seamlessly between cases and theory, sociology and political science, US, UK, and European politics, John Scott has produced a must-read for any who want better to understand the roles of lobbying organizations, social movements, or policy advocates in any country. One can learn as much from the wealth of case material as from the development of the theories and perspectives offered here."—Frank Baumgartner, The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: A Social Orientation to Interest Groups and Political Life Chapter 1: Interests and Groups Chapter 2: Power, Access, and Influence Chapter 3: Interest Groups as Intermediaries between Nation-States and Citizens Chapter 4: Inequality and Interest Groups Chapter 5: Interest Group Politics in a Global Context Chapter 6: New Directions in the Study of Lobbyists and Interest Groups References

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Book SynopsisEPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply shaken societies and lives around the world. This powerful book reveals how the pandemic has intensified socio-economic problems and inequalities across the world whilst offering visions for a better future informed by social movements and public sociology. Bringing together experts from 27 countries, the authors explore the global echoes of the pandemic and the different responses adopted by governments, policy makers and activists. The new expressions of social action, and forms of solidarity and protest, are discussed in detail, from the Black Lives Matter protests to the French Strike Movement and the Lebanese Uprising. This is a unique global analysis on the current crisis and the contemporary world and its outcomes.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Breno Bringel & Geoffrey Pleyers Part 1: COVID-19 Governance, Politics and the Ambivalence of States Chapter 1. Corona Governance: State Expansion, Capitalist Resilience, and Democracy - Pauli Huotari and Teivo Teivainen Chapter 2. Three Political Regimes, Three Responses to the Coronavirus Crisis - Jean De Munck Chapter 3. Universal Social Protection Floors: a Joint Responsibility - Michelle Bachelet, Olivier de Schutter and Guy Ryder Chapter 4. From Government's Policies to Labour Activism in Indonesia - Michelle Ford Chapter 5. Harmoniously Denied: China's Censorship on COVID-19 - Joy Y. Zhang Chapter 6. State Repression in the Philippines During COVID-19 and Beyond - Leanne Sajor Chapter 7. Normality Was the Problem - Ilan Bizberg Part 2: Crisis, Inequalities and Solidarities Chapter 8. Divided We Stand: What the Pandemic Tell us About Contemporary U.S. - Bandana Purkayastha Chapter 9. The Data Gaps of the Pandemic: Data Poverty and Forms of Invisibility - Stefania Milan and Emiliano Trere Chapter 10. Necropolitics and Biopower in the Pandemic: Death, Social Control or Well-being - Montserrat Sagot Chapter 11. COVID-19 in the Urban Peripheries: Perspectives from the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro - FASE Team Rio de Janeiro Chapter 12. Generational Inequalities in Argentina's Working-class Neighbourhoods - Pablo Vommaro Chapter 13. Pandemic Pedagogical Lessons and Educational Inequalities - Nicolas Arata Chapter 14. Social Work with Homeless People in Belgium - Stephanie Cassilde Chapter 15. Community Spaces in India: Constructing Solidarity During the Pandemic? - Supurna Bannerjee Part 3: Social Movements, Mutual Aid and Self-Reliance in a Global Pandemic Chapter 16. Social Movements in the Emergence of a Global Pandemic - Donatella della Porta Chapter 17. COVID-19 and the Re-configuration of the Social Movements Landscape - Sabrina Zajak Chapter 18. Social Movements as Essential Services in Toronto - Lesley Wood Chapter 19. Creating a Hyperlocal Infrastructure of Care: COVID-19 Mutual Aid Groups in the UK - Anastasia Kavada Chapter 20. 'Solidarity, Not Charity': Emotions as Cultural Challenge of Grassroots Activism - Tommaso Gravante and Alice Poma Chapter 21. Self-reliance as an Answer to the Pandemic: hopes from India's margins - Ashish Kothari Chapter 22. Social Movements and Self-reliance: Community Mobilisation in South Africa - Kate Alexander Chapter 23. Resilience, Reworking, and Resistance in New York City - John Krinsky and Hillary Caldwell Part 4: "The COVID Will Not Kill the Revolution": Protest Movements in the Pandemic Chapter 24. "Defund the Police:" Strategy and Struggle for Racial Justice in the U.S. - Nara Roberta Silva Chapter 25. A Matter of Survival: The Lebanese Uprising in Times of Pandemic - Alexandra Kassir Chapter 26. Hong Kong: From Democratic Protests to Medical Workers' Strike in a Pandemic - Chris Chan and Ana Tsui Chapter 27. Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia: a Return to Authoritarianism After the Revolutions? - Kamal Lahbib Chapter 28. The French Strike Movement: Keeping up the Struggle in Times of Covid-19 - Clement Petitjean Part 5: Critical Thinking and Emerging Theoretical Challenges Chapter 29. Coronavirus, Risk and Social Change - Jose Mauricio Domingues Chapter 30. Challenges to Critical Thinking: Social Life and the Pandemic - Kathya Araujo Chapter 31. A Sociology for a Post-COVID-19 Society - Sari Hanafi Chapter 32. The Paradox of Disturbance: Africa and the Coronavirus - Elisio Macamo Chapter 33. We Are All mortal: From the Empty Signifier to the Open Nature of History - Rita Laura Segato Chapter 34. The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Crisis of Care - Karina Batthyany Part VI. Post-Pandemic Transitions and Futures in Contention Chapter 35. Global Chaos and the New Geopolitics of Power and of Resistances - Breno Bringel Chapter 36. Denialism, 'Gattopardism' and Transitionism - Boaventura de Sousa Santos Chapter 37. Coronavirus, the Gift and Post-neoliberal Scenarios - Paulo Henrique Martins Chapter 38. Post-Pandemic Transitions in a Civilizational Perspective - Arturo Escobar Chapter 39. The World That is Coming: Pandemic, Movements and Change - Geoffrey Pleyers

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Book SynopsisEPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The COVID-19 pandemic has deeply shaken societies and lives around the world. This powerful book reveals how the pandemic has intensified socio-economic problems and inequalities across the world whilst offering visions for a better future informed by social movements and public sociology. Bringing together experts from 27 countries, the authors explore the global echoes of the pandemic and the different responses adopted by governments, policy makers and activists. The new expressions of social action, and forms of solidarity and protest, are discussed in detail, from the Black Lives Matter protests to the French Strike Movement and the Lebanese Uprising. This is a unique global analysis on the current crisis and the contemporary world and its outcomes.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Breno Bringel & Geoffrey Pleyers Part 1: COVID-19 Governance, Politics and the Ambivalence of States Chapter 1. Corona Governance: State Expansion, Capitalist Resilience, and Democracy - Pauli Huotari and Teivo Teivainen Chapter 2. Three Political Regimes, Three Responses to the Coronavirus Crisis - Jean De Munck Chapter 3. Universal Social Protection Floors: a Joint Responsibility - Michelle Bachelet, Olivier de Schutter and Guy Ryder Chapter 4. From Government’s Policies to Labour Activism in Indonesia - Michelle Ford Chapter 5. Harmoniously Denied: China’s Censorship on COVID-19 - Joy Y. Zhang Chapter 6. State Repression in the Philippines During COVID-19 and Beyond - Leanne Sajor Chapter 7. Normality Was the Problem - Ilan Bizberg Part 2: Crisis, Inequalities and Solidarities Chapter 8. Divided We Stand: What the Pandemic Tell us About Contemporary U.S. - Bandana Purkayastha Chapter 9. The Data Gaps of the Pandemic: Data Poverty and Forms of Invisibility - Stefania Milan and Emiliano Treré Chapter 10. Necropolitics and Biopower in the Pandemic: Death, Social Control or Well-being - Montserrat Sagot Chapter 11. COVID-19 in the Urban Peripheries: Perspectives from the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro - FASE Team Rio de Janeiro Chapter 12. Generational Inequalities in Argentina’s Working-class Neighbourhoods - Pablo Vommaro Chapter 13. Pandemic Pedagogical Lessons and Educational Inequalities - Nicolás Arata Chapter 14. Social Work with Homeless People in Belgium - Stéphanie Cassilde Chapter 15. Community Spaces in India: Constructing Solidarity During the Pandemic? - Supurna Bannerjee Part 3: Social Movements, Mutual Aid and Self-Reliance in a Global Pandemic Chapter 16. Social Movements in the Emergence of a Global Pandemic - Donatella della Porta Chapter 17. COVID-19 and the Re-configuration of the Social Movements Landscape - Sabrina Zajak Chapter 18. Social Movements as Essential Services in Toronto - Lesley Wood Chapter 19. Creating a Hyperlocal Infrastructure of Care: COVID-19 Mutual Aid Groups in the UK - Anastasia Kavada Chapter 20. ‘Solidarity, Not Charity’: Emotions as Cultural Challenge of Grassroots Activism - Tommaso Gravante and Alice Poma Chapter 21. Self-reliance as an Answer to the Pandemic: hopes from India’s margins - Ashish Kothari Chapter 22. Social Movements and Self-reliance: Community Mobilisation in South Africa - Kate Alexander Chapter 23. Resilience, Reworking, and Resistance in New York City - John Krinsky and Hillary Caldwell Part 4: “The COVID Will Not Kill the Revolution”: Protest Movements in the Pandemic Chapter 24. “Defund the Police:” Strategy and Struggle for Racial Justice in the U.S. - Nara Roberta Silva Chapter 25. A Matter of Survival: The Lebanese Uprising in Times of Pandemic - Alexandra Kassir Chapter 26. Hong Kong: From Democratic Protests to Medical Workers' Strike in a Pandemic - Chris Chan and Ana Tsui Chapter 27. Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia: a Return to Authoritarianism After the Revolutions? - Kamal Lahbib Chapter 28. The French Strike Movement: Keeping up the Struggle in Times of Covid-19 - Clément Petitjean Part 5: Critical Thinking and Emerging Theoretical Challenges Chapter 29. Coronavirus, Risk and Social Change - José Maurício Domingues Chapter 30. Challenges to Critical Thinking: Social Life and the Pandemic - Kathya Araujo Chapter 31. A Sociology for a Post-COVID-19 Society - Sari Hanafi Chapter 32. The Paradox of Disturbance: Africa and the Coronavirus - Elísio Macamo Chapter 33. We Are All mortal: From the Empty Signifier to the Open Nature of History - Rita Laura Segato Chapter 34. The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Crisis of Care - Karina Batthyány Part VI. Post-Pandemic Transitions and Futures in Contention Chapter 35. Global Chaos and the New Geopolitics of Power and of Resistances - Breno Bringel Chapter 36. Denialism, ‘Gattopardism’ and Transitionism - Boaventura de Sousa Santos Chapter 37. Coronavirus, the Gift and Post-neoliberal Scenarios - Paulo Henrique Martins Chapter 38. Post-Pandemic Transitions in a Civilizational Perspective - Arturo Escobar Chapter 39. The World That is Coming: Pandemic, Movements and Change - Geoffrey Pleyers

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Book SynopsisIn Narrating Humanity, Cynthia G. Franklin makes a critical intervention into practices of life writing and contemporary crises in the United States about who counts as human. To enable this intervention, she proposes a powerful new analytical language centered on “narrative humanity,” “narrated humanity,” and “grounded narrative humanity” and foregrounds concepts of the human that emerge from movement politics. While stories of “narrative humanity” propagate the status quo, Franklin argues, those of “narrated humanity” and “grounded narrative humanity” are ones that articulate ways of being human necessary for not only surviving but also thriving during a time of accelerating crises brought on by the intersecting effects of racial capitalism, imperialism, heteropatriarchy, and climate change. Through chapters focused on Hurricane Katrina; Black Lives Matter; the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement; and the Native Hawaiian movement to protect Mauna a Wākea, Franklin reveals how life writing can be mobilized to do more than perpetuate dominant forms of dehumanization that underwrite violence. She contends that life narratives can help materialize ways of being human inspired by these contemporary political movements that are based on queer kinship, inter/national solidarity, abolitionist care, and decolonial connectivity among humans, more-than-humans, land, and waters. Engaging writers, artists, and activists who inspire radical forms of relationality, she comes to write side-by-side with them in her own acts of narrated humanity by refusing the boundaries between autobiography, community-based activism, and literary and cultural criticism.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments | ix Introduction: The Human in Crisis | 1 PART I: NARRATIVE HUMANITY 1 Love and Terror: Formulas of Citizenship in Zeitoun and Trouble the Water | 33 2 Criminals and Kinship: Fruitvale Station, Between the World and Me, and Black Selfhood in the Age of BLM | 68 PART II: NARRATED HUMANITY 3 From Movement to Memoir: When They Call You a Terrorist and the Power of Queer Black Kinship | 109 4 “Nursing Visions of the Unimagined”: BDS and Steven Salaita’s World-Making Narratives of Fatherhood, Affiliation, and Freedom | 144 PART III: NARRATED HUMANITY AND GROUNDED NARRATIVE HUMANITY 5 “E Hū ē” (Rising Like a Mighty Wave): Mauna Kea and the Movement beyond the Human | 187 Postscript: Hope, Joy, and “The Struggle for Ea” | 231 Notes | 237 Works Cited | 255 Index | 283

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Book SynopsisIn Narrating Humanity, Cynthia G. Franklin makes a critical intervention into practices of life writing and contemporary crises in the United States about who counts as human. To enable this intervention, she proposes a powerful new analytical language centered on “narrative humanity,” “narrated humanity,” and “grounded narrative humanity” and foregrounds concepts of the human that emerge from movement politics. While stories of “narrative humanity” propagate the status quo, Franklin argues, those of “narrated humanity” and “grounded narrative humanity” are ones that articulate ways of being human necessary for not only surviving but also thriving during a time of accelerating crises brought on by the intersecting effects of racial capitalism, imperialism, heteropatriarchy, and climate change. Through chapters focused on Hurricane Katrina; Black Lives Matter; the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement; and the Native Hawaiian movement to protect Mauna a Wākea, Franklin reveals how life writing can be mobilized to do more than perpetuate dominant forms of dehumanization that underwrite violence. She contends that life narratives can help materialize ways of being human inspired by these contemporary political movements that are based on queer kinship, inter/national solidarity, abolitionist care, and decolonial connectivity among humans, more-than-humans, land, and waters. Engaging writers, artists, and activists who inspire radical forms of relationality, she comes to write side-by-side with them in her own acts of narrated humanity by refusing the boundaries between autobiography, community-based activism, and literary and cultural criticism.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments | ix Introduction: The Human in Crisis | 1 PART I: NARRATIVE HUMANITY 1 Love and Terror: Formulas of Citizenship in Zeitoun and Trouble the Water | 33 2 Criminals and Kinship: Fruitvale Station, Between the World and Me, and Black Selfhood in the Age of BLM | 68 PART II: NARRATED HUMANITY 3 From Movement to Memoir: When They Call You a Terrorist and the Power of Queer Black Kinship | 109 4 “Nursing Visions of the Unimagined”: BDS and Steven Salaita’s World-Making Narratives of Fatherhood, Affiliation, and Freedom | 144 PART III: NARRATED HUMANITY AND GROUNDED NARRATIVE HUMANITY 5 “E Hū ē” (Rising Like a Mighty Wave): Mauna Kea and the Movement beyond the Human | 187 Postscript: Hope, Joy, and “The Struggle for Ea” | 231 Notes | 237 Works Cited | 255 Index | 283

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Book SynopsisHow to Win in Washington describes how to lobby government successfully using case histories of winning campaigns and interviews with members and effective lobbyists.Table of ContentsOpening moves; organizing a lobbying campaign; orchestrating the theme.

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Book SynopsisNonviolent Social Movements is the first book to offer a truly global overview of the dramatic growth of popular nonviolent struggles in recent years.Trade Review"At the end of the bloodiest century in human history it is vital that we learn how to solve problems and generate effective social and political change non-violently. This book demonstrates that many brave people in diverse political situations are effective because they have decided that the means are as important as the ends, that one does not defeat evil with more evil, repression with repression, violence with violence. Scholars and activists alike will find much to ponder in this collection. I commend it to everyone with an interest in the future of the human species." Kevin Clements, George Mason University "This is an excellent collection of case studies knitted together by the editors' presentation of a sound set of theoretical issues. Both help us understand the dynamics of nonviolent social movements." Paul Joseph, Tufts University "A timely book." Pacifica ReviewTable of ContentsSources and Acknowledgments. Notes on Editors and Contributors. Introduction. PART I. PERSPECTIVES ON NONVIOLENT MOVEMENTS. 1. Nonviolence and Power in the Twentieth Century (Kenneth E. Boulding). 2. You Can’t Kill the Spirit: Women and Nonviolent Action (Pam McAllister). PART II. THE MIDDLE EAST. Introduction. 3. Unarmed Resistance in the Middle East and North Africa (Stephen Zunes). 4. Nonviolent Resistance in the Occupied Territories: A Critical Reevaluation (Souad Dajani). PART III. EUROPE. Introduction. 5. The Grassroots Movement in Germany, 1972-1985 (Matthew Lyons). 6. "We Have Bare Hands": Nonviolent Social Movements in the Soviet Bloc (Lee Smithey and Lester R. Kurtz). PART IV. ASIA. Introduction. 7. The Origins of People Power in the Philippines (Stephen Zunes). 8. Imagery in the 1992 Nonviolent Uprising in Thailand (Chaiwat Satha-Anand). 9. Violent and Nonviolent Struggle in Burma: Is a Unified Strategy Workable (Michael A. Beer). PART V. AFRICA. Introduction. 10. The Ogoni Struggle for Human Rights and a Civil Society in Nigeria (Joshua Cooper). 11. The Role of Nonviolence in the Downfall of Apartheid (Stephen Zunes). PART VI. LATIN AMERICA. Introduction. 12. Advocating Nonviolent Direct Action In Latin America: The Antecedents and Emergence of SERPAJ (Ronald Pagnucco and John D. McCarthy). 13. The Brazilian Church-State Crisis of 1980: Effective Nonviolent Action in a Military Dictatorship (Daniel Zirker). PART VII. NORTH AMERICA. Introduction. 14. Nonviolent Social Movements in the United States: A Historical Overview (Charles Chatfield). Conclusion (Stephen Zunes and Lester R. Kurtz). Index.

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Book SynopsisNonviolent Social Movements is the first book to offer a truly global overview of the dramatic growth of popular nonviolent struggles in recent years.Trade Review"At the end of the bloodiest century in human history it is vital that we learn how to solve problems and generate effective social and political change non-violently. This book demonstrates that many brave people in diverse political situations are effective because they have decided that the means are as important as the ends, that one does not defeat evil with more evil, repression with repression, violence with violence. Scholars and activists alike will find much to ponder in this collection. I commend it to everyone with an interest in the future of the human species." Kevin Clements, George Mason University "This is an excellent collection of case studies knitted together by the editors' presentation of a sound set of theoretical issues. Both help us understand the dynamics of nonviolent social movements." Paul Joseph, Tufts University "A timely book." Pacifica ReviewTable of ContentsSources and Acknowledgments. Notes on Editors and Contributors. Introduction. PART I. PERSPECTIVES ON NONVIOLENT MOVEMENTS. 1. Nonviolence and Power in the Twentieth Century (Kenneth E. Boulding). 2. You Can’t Kill the Spirit: Women and Nonviolent Action (Pam McAllister). PART II. THE MIDDLE EAST. Introduction. 3. Unarmed Resistance in the Middle East and North Africa (Stephen Zunes). 4. Nonviolent Resistance in the Occupied Territories: A Critical Reevaluation (Souad Dajani). PART III. EUROPE. Introduction. 5. The Grassroots Movement in Germany, 1972-1985 (Matthew Lyons). 6. "We Have Bare Hands": Nonviolent Social Movements in the Soviet Bloc (Lee Smithey and Lester R. Kurtz). PART IV. ASIA. Introduction. 7. The Origins of People Power in the Philippines (Stephen Zunes). 8. Imagery in the 1992 Nonviolent Uprising in Thailand (Chaiwat Satha-Anand). 9. Violent and Nonviolent Struggle in Burma: Is a Unified Strategy Workable (Michael A. Beer). PART V. AFRICA. Introduction. 10. The Ogoni Struggle for Human Rights and a Civil Society in Nigeria (Joshua Cooper). 11. The Role of Nonviolence in the Downfall of Apartheid (Stephen Zunes). PART VI. LATIN AMERICA. Introduction. 12. Advocating Nonviolent Direct Action In Latin America: The Antecedents and Emergence of SERPAJ (Ronald Pagnucco and John D. McCarthy). 13. The Brazilian Church-State Crisis of 1980: Effective Nonviolent Action in a Military Dictatorship (Daniel Zirker). PART VII. NORTH AMERICA. Introduction. 14. Nonviolent Social Movements in the United States: A Historical Overview (Charles Chatfield). Conclusion (Stephen Zunes and Lester R. Kurtz). Index.

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Book SynopsisIn the vast literature on the Vietnam War, much has been written about the antiwar movement and its influence on U.S. policy and politics. In this book, Sandra Scanlon shifts attention to those Americans who supported the war and explores the war s impact on the burgeoning conservative political movement of the 1960s and early 1970s. Believing the Vietnam War to be a just and necessary cause, the pro-war movement pushed for more direct American military intervention in Southeast Asia throughout the Kennedy administration, lobbied for intensified bombing during the Johnson years, and offered coherent, if divided, endorsements of Nixon s policies of phased withdrawal. Although its political wing was dominated by individuals and organisations associated with Barry Goldwater s presidential bids, the movement incorporated a broad range of interests and groups united by a shared antipathy to the New Deal order and liberal Cold War ideology. Appealing to patriotism, conservative leaders initially rallied popular support in favour of total victory and later endorsed Nixon s call for peace with honour. Yet as the war dragged on with no clear end in sight, internal divisions eroded the confidence of pro-war conservatives in achieving their aims and forced them to reevaluate the political viability of their hardline Cold War rhetoric. Conservatives still managed to make use of grassroots patriotic campaigns to marshal support for the war, particularly among white ethnic workers opposed to the antiwar movement. Yet in so doing, Scanlon concludes, they altered the nature and direction of the conservative agenda in both foreign and domestic policy for years to come.

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Book SynopsisThe EU is at a crossroads. Should it choose the path towards protectionism or the path towards free trade? This book convincingly argues that lobbying regulation will be a decisive first step towards fulfilling the European dream of free trade, in accordance with the original purpose of the Treaty of Rome. Without the regulation of lobbyists to try and prevent undue political persuasion, there is a greater risk of abuse in the form of corruption, subsidies and trade barriers, which will come at the expense of consumers, tax payers and competitiveness.This interdisciplinary approach - both theoretical and methodological - offers a wealth of knowledge concerning the effect of lobbying on political decision-making and will appeal to academics across the social sciences, practitioners and policy-makers.Trade Review'Brandt's and Svendsen's study of EU lobbying activity is just that and more. The book focuses tightly on the EU Commission, where lobbying is not regulated in any way. In doing so, the two authors provide a thorough and convincing theory-based analysis of special interest demand for political favors. The book is a must-read for academics, policy makers, politicians, and yes, even for lobbyists who want to know more about how the EU's Commission operates and how special interest demand has led to potentially troublesome policy outcomes. The book will be especially appreciated by academics and policy analysts who prize creative use of price theory. In presenting their well-honed arguments, Brandt and Svendsen also provide strong analysis of the EU carbon permit trading and fisheries policy. They conclude with eight recommendations for making EU lobbying activity transparent and accountable.' --Bruce Yandle, Clemson University and George Mason University, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Power Centralization 3. Bureaucracy 4. The EU Emission Trading System (ETS) 5. Green Industries, Switch Point and First-movers 6. Countervailing Lobbying 7. Alignment of Incentives 8 Should Lobbying be Regulated in the EU? Index

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Book SynopsisPower, Policy and Profit investigates the many ways in which corporate actors attempt to influence political activities. Through the intensified globalization of markets, the restructuring of welfare services and the accumulation of private capital, opportunities for corporate influence in politics affairs are shown to have multiplied. Bringing together different fields of global governance studies, this book addresses the rising political influence of corporate actors both nationally and internationally. Corporate influence on policy is now commonplace through lobbying, advocacy and campaign contributions; funding analysis and research; creating or adopting standards for social responsibility and shaping transparency guidelines. Key chapters show how corporations can now have leverage in broad political affairs: an activity central to the organization of markets.Power, Policy and Profit will be of great interest to students and academics of business and management, politics and governance studies. Policy professionals will find this a timely read on the complexities of corporate engagement in politics and governance.Contributors include: F. Aggeri, E. Boxenbaum, J.-Y. Caneill, M. Cartel, M.L. Djelic, H. Dumez, M. Flyverbom, C. Garsten, A. Jeunemaitre, A. Nyqvist, M. Perezts, X. Philippe, S. Picard, B. Rothstein, A. Sörbom, V. Steyer, R. Thedvall, A. Tyllström, D.A. WestbrookTrade Review'An expansive, incisive analysis documenting the sprawling and fast-evolving growth of corporate power in policymaking venues across the globe. Pushing the narrative far beyond a simple money-in-politics storyline, the authors illustrate how corporations exert increasing influence in the public sphere and often gain the upper hand vis-à-vis nation-states. Anyone concerned about democratic standards and accountable governance will find this book a must-read.' --Janine R. Wedel, George Mason University, US'This challenging book revisits the relationships between state and market by accounting for the unexpected development of corporations as policymakers, an emergent, global phenomenon. The authors address this fascinating issue in its multiple dimensions. They describe, examine and analyze the way corporations craftily ''bricole'' political and economic interests; the ambiguous status and roles of international non-state organizations; the permanent duality between doing-good and making money that corporations embrace. They uncover a rather discrete but central transformation of today's definition of public intervention.' --Christine Musselin, SciencesPo, Paris, France'Power, Policy and Profit tackles the important and understudied problem of how firms attempt to shape their environment, especially their political and institutional environments. The essays go well beyond examining well-known activities to shed light on venues, strategies and events to which researchers have previously given scant attention. As such, the volume makes an important contribution and promises to stimulate important new lines of research on corporate power.' --Stephen R. Barley, University of California, Santa Barbara, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Political affairs in the global domain Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom. 1. Building an architecture for political influence: Atlas and the transnational institutionalization of the neoliberal think tank Marie-Laure Salles-Djelic 2. Global policy bricolage: The role of business in the World Economic Forum Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom 3. Policy making as collective bricolage: The role of the electricity sector in the Making of the European carbon market Mélodie Cartel, Eva Boxenbaum, Franck Aggeri and Jean-Yves Caneill 4. Lobbying in Practice: An ethnographic field study of public affairs consultancy Anna Tyllström 5. Firms’ political strategies in a new public/private environment: The Boeing case Hervé Dumez and Alain Jeunemaître 6. Corporate advocacy in the internet domain: Shaping policy through data visualizations Mikkel Flyverbom 7. Talking like an institutional investor: On the gentle voices of financial giants Anette Nyqvist 8. Leading the war on epidemics: exploring corporations’ predatory modus operandi and their effects on institutional field dynamics Sébastien Picard, Véronique Steyer, Xavier Philippe and Mar Pérezts 9. Political chocolate: Branding it fairtrade Renita Thedvall 10. Preventing markets from self-destruction Bo Rothstein Reflections: Leaving Flatland? Planar discourses and the search for the G-axis. David A. Westbrook Index

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Book SynopsisThe Gay Liberation Front founded in 1970 urged gay men and gay women to unite around a simple set of demands among which were calls for an end to discrimination against homosexuals in employment, in sex education, in the age of consent and in being treated as sick by the medical establishment. GLF saw itself as a people's movement for gays, socialist by virtue of its demand for social change, and revolutionary in recognizing the rights of other oppressed minorities to determine the fight for their own demands. All history is personal. The author of this political memoir is the first participant of the Front to write a history of the lesbians and gay men who joined Gay Liberation and through a process of Coming Out and radicalization initiated an anarchic campaign that permanently changed the face of this country.

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Book SynopsisChinese citizens are far from docile, and regularly and vociferously rise up in collective protest. In some cases they have successfully applied pressure, forcing political and economic elites to satisfy their demands. In others, they have been brutally suppressed. More often than not, however, the results have been mixed. This Handbook explores individual and collective acts of protest and resistance in China since 1989, examining their key unifying underlying themes and their effect on relations between the government and society. Featuring twenty-nine chapters of original research from top scholars, this Handbook spans the broad range of protest and resistance in contemporary China. Its coverage of popular contention related to labour, land, the environment, nationalism, home ownership, information and communication technologies, the law, religion, Hong Kong and ethnic minority groups illuminates the complexity and diversity of citizen actions. The Handbook of Protest and Resistance in China suggests that while these protests and acts of resistance might threaten the ruling Chinese Communist Party, in order to strengthen and legitimise the Party's rule governing authorities best course of action may be to allow space for citizens to air their grievances, and to prioritise the resolution of complaints. This Handbook will be an invaluable resource for scholars and graduate students of Chinese and comparative politics, as well as for policy makers and interested readers seeking up to date data on protest and resistance in China, and to better understand the problems and perspectives of Chinese citizens.Trade Review'This collection is the most comprehensive study on various forms of popular contention by different groups in contemporary China. By analysing group-specific action, varied government response and the effect of contention, this book coherently and convincingly explains the political rationale for the coexistence of popular contention and regime stability in an authoritarian state that has been undergoing significant political and socio-economic changes. This collection makes important contributions to the understanding of contentious politics, political participation, and state-society relations in contemporary China.' --Yongshun Cai , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology'Made up of chapters by an appealing mix of well established and more junior scholars, this volume brings together in one place illuminating work on the widely varied forms that protest and resistance have been taking across the People's Republic of China and continue to take even in a time of ratcheted up controls. As different as the sources of discontent and styles of agitation are in disparate parts of the country and among disparate groups, something is lost when varied struggles are considered only in isolation. Wright's carefully put together and very effectively introduced Handbook show how much we can learn from placing side-by-side actions as varied as petition drives and marches occurring in settings as dissimilar as Hong Kong and Hunan.' --Jeffrey Wasserstrom, University of California, Irvine, US'No book on popular contention in China covers this much territory. All the important social groups are here as well as every conceivable type of resistance. This Handbook will provide a ''one-stop shopping'' for students of Chinese protest and repression for years to come.' --Kevin J. O'Brien, University of California, Berkeley, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Teresa Wright Part I Overviews 1. Unrest and regime survival Andrew Wedeman 2. Social unrest in China: a bird’s eye view Christian Göbel Part II Protest, dissent, and the law 3. Governing political expression: legitimacy and legal culture Pitman B. Potter 4. Legal advocacy as liberal resistance: the experience of China’s human rights lawyers Eva Pils 5. Mass disputes and China’s legal system Hualing Fu 6. Dissent below the radar: contention in the daily politics of grassroots organizations Sophia Woodman Part III Urban labor 7. Labor legislation, workers, and the Chinese state Jenny Chan and Mark Selden 8. Worker protests and state response in present-day China: trends, characteristics, and new developments, 2011-2016 Lu Zhang 9. China’s contentious cab drivers Manfred Elfstrom 10. Thinking like a state: doing labor activism in South China Darcy Pan Part IV Rural residents 11. Collective petitions and local state responses in rural China Lei Guang and Yang Su 12. Land protests in rural China Christopher Heurlin Part V Urban homeowners 13. Homeowners’ rights protection actions in China: why some succeed and others fail Zhiming Sheng 14. Homeowners' activism in urban China: old goals, new strategies Dragan Pavlićević, Long Sun, and Zhengxu Wang Part VI Environmental protest 15. Environmental public interest campaigns: a new phenomenon in China’s contentious politics H. Christoph Steinhardt 16. Networked contention against waste incinerators in China: brokers, linkages and dynamics of diffusion Björn Alpermann and Maria Bondes 17. Possibilities for environmental governance in China? Anti-incinerator activists turned participants in municipal waste management in Guangzhou Natalie W.M. Wong 18. Anti-nuclear protest in China Simona A. Grano and Yuheng Zhang Part VII Religion 19. Religious charity, repurposing, and “claim-staking” resistance: the case of Gospel Rehab Susan K. McCarthy 20. Informality as Resistance among Catholics and Protestants in China Marie-Eve Reny 21. Protestant resistance and activism in China’s official churches Carsten Vala Part VIII Information and communications technologies 22. From mobilization to legitimation: Digital media and the evolving repertoire of contention in contemporary China Jun Liu 23. Patriotism without state blessing: Chinese cyber nationalists in a predicament Rongbin Han 24. Microblog dissent and censorship during the 2012 Bo Xilai scandal Christopher Cairns Part IX Hong Kong 25. Hong Kong’s struggle to define its political future Suzanne Pepper 26. Dissenting media: post-1997 Hong Kong Joyce Y.M. Nip Part X Ethnic minorities 27. The environmental protest movement in Inner Mongolia Uchralt Otede 28. Ethnic unrest and China’s multiple problematic others Tom Cliff 29. More creative, more international: shifts in Uyghur-related violence Justin V. Hastings Index

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Book SynopsisIf you think you are living in an era of post-truth, you likely are. If something sounds like magical thinking, it is. Nationalism makes no country great; it often leads to war, genocide, terror, destroyed economies and the turning of cities into rubble. Technology will not get us to paradise. It has made us more unequal than ever, polluted democracy, heightened job risk (displacement), created ever more billionaires, continued the rapid pace of the destruction of the planet, and transformed us from citizens into consumers, often with our active support. The free market is not free; too often it isn’t even a market (because we live in an age of monopoly). The road to serfdom is paved by demagogues, not the state; the state and its institutions are all we have. Trust expertise. Truth does not come from he who shouts the loudest. You are approaching a one-party-state when facts are relativized, science is denied, experts are mocked and threatened, alternative facts are embraced, minorities are criminalized, and lying is normalized. Farewell to Democracy? reminds us that we have been here before. It tells us that we can avoid a repetition of the past, but we must first know what that past was (and is). Farewell to Democracy? insists that nothing is inevitable. That we are not powerless. That we have institutions to help protect us, which we must protect in turn. It shows us what happens when we speak truth to power. It details the strength of mass protest. It pulls back the veil on Post-Truth. It urges all of us to bear witness and to "show up."

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Book SynopsisAcross the world, millions of people are taking to the streets demanding urgent action on climate breakdown and other environmental emergencies. Extinction Rebellion, Fridays for Future and Climate Strikes are part of a new lexicon of environmental protest advocating civil disobedience to leverage change. This groundbreaking book -- also a Special Issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment -- critically unveils the legal and political context of this new wave of eco-activisms. It illustrates how the practise of dissent builds on a long tradition of grassroots activism, such as the Anti-Nuclear movement, but brings into focus new participants, such as school children, and new distinctive aesthetic tactics, such as the mass ‘die-ins’ and ‘discobedience’ theatrics in public spaces.Expert international authors offer fresh insights into the strategies and goals of these protest movements, the changing vocabulary of environmental activism, such as the ‘climate emergency’, and the contribution of specific protest actors, particularly youth and Indigenous peoples. They also consider how some governments have responded to these actions with draconian anti-protest legislation, and by using the Covid-19 pandemic as cover to keep protesters off the streets. The scholarly analyses are complemented with first-hand interviews of some leading protagonists, including Extinction Rebellion leaders and Green Party politicians. The result is an unrivalled analysis of the role of new environmental protest movements seeking to drive a new generation of policies and laws for climate action and social justice.This impressive book will prove an important and insightful read for students and scholars interested in environmental law, climate law, and grass roots activism specifically.Trade Review’Extinction Rebellion, children’s climate strikes, Indigenous anti-pipeline protests and proliferating citizen science brigades have lent new urgency to the perennial question of the role of direct action and civil disobedience in struggles for environmental and racial justice. This timely, eclectic, interdisciplinary volume provides invaluable insight into the sources, goals, tactics, prospects and impacts of -- and often draconian governmental reactions to -- these exciting contemporary movements that employ non-violent mass mobilisation to spur action on ecological and social emergencies. It makes a landmark contribution to empirical and theoretical knowledge in this rapidly evolving field.’ -- Stepan Wood, Canada Research Chair in Law, Society & Sustainability, University of British Columbia, CanadaTable of ContentsVolume 11, Special Issue, 2020 Contents: Editorial Introduction Benjamin J. Richardson Articles Can climate activism deliver transformative change: Extinction Rebellion, business & people power Neil Gunningham Cultivating ethics of decolonizing allyship in climate organizing: reflections on Extinction Rebellion Vancouver Dana James and Trevor Mack Moral education in the face of orthodoxy – environmental crisis and dissent Francine Rochford Exploring legitimization strategies for contested uses of citizen-generated data for policy? Anna Berti Suman, Sven Schade and Yasuhito Abe Victim, litigant, activist, messiah: the child in a time of climate change Nicole Rogers A colonized COP: Indigenous exclusion and youth climate justice activism at the United Nations climate change negotiations Corrie Grosse and Brigid Mark Pipelines in the time of Indigenous resurgence Tyler McCreary Interviews XR representatives Claire Burgess and Rupert Reed Green politicians Jonathan Bartley, Paul Manley and Chloe Swarbrick

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Book SynopsisThis cutting-edge book explores and advances contemporary geographical understandings of resistance. Calling for geographers to focus on the emergence of resistance and to avoid making assumptions on the forms it takes, chapters critically interrogate concepts of resistance and illustrate the political potential of re-thinking them.Engaging with anarchist, feminist and postcolonial scholarship, this book traces existing debates on resistance in geography and suggests how they can be productively reanimated. Contributors explore multiple and everyday spaces, subjects, and temporalities of resistance, reconsidering the study of resistance in light of recent ontological developments, including in non-representational theory, the non-human, post-politics and more-than-human geographies. Using detailed case studies, the book examines what critical geographies of resistance might look like in practice, providing insight on how geography can respond to and engage with the contemporary world.Featuring a Foreword by Professor Cindi Katz, this book will be a fascinating read for scholars and students of human, social and cultural geography, geopolitics, sociology, and those studying resistance across the social sciences. It will also be of interest to activists looking to formulate alternative resistant claims and practices.Trade Review‘Sarah Hughes and contributors challenge geographers to think of resistance as emergent, often quotidian, and diffuse. Arguing against intentionality as necessary for resistance, Hughes et al. offer a thought-provoking argument and range of cases to illustrate that geographical attention to resistance may identify nascent political claims and alternative spaces.’ -- Deborah G Martin, Clark University, US‘Critical Geographies of Resistance revisits the discipline’s engagement with resistance from the perspective of contemporary feminist materialism. Addressing many pressing political issues through practices of cross-species friendship, solidarity and posthumanism, the book offers timely reinterpretations of which acts, and which agents, create resistance.’ -- Jo Sharp, University of St Andrews, UK‘Critical Geographies of Resistance reanimates and rethinks the problematic of resistance that has gone fallow in geography for the last twenty years. It collects together new voices who passionately engage with a wide variety of different situations of inequality and injustice, using new approaches to unsettle familiar domination/resistance binaries. The authors take us beyond a purely oppositional imagination, offering instead emergent, relational and always-in-process accounts of resistance. They attend to bodies and places often seen as “outside” the political or simply targets of the political. New maps of resistance are offered, creating expanded possibilities for political paths not yet taken.’ -- Steve Pile, The Open University, UK‘In a turbulent world, how is it possible to recognise the plural politics of resistance? Critical Geographies of Resistance is a landmark collection for the human geography of our times. Tracing the pathways of resistances across multiple spaces and forms, the authors refigure what resistance could mean in human geography.’ -- Louise Amoore, Durham University, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xiv 1 Introduction to Critical Geographies of Resistance 1 Sarah M. Hughes PART I RETHINKING RESISTANCE, REFRAMING DEBATES 2 Feminism, resistance and the archive 26 Maria Fannin and Julie MacLeavy 3 Resisting beyond the human: animals and their advocates 41 Catherine Oliver 4 Resistance without subjects: friction and the non-representational geography of everyday resistance 59 Sage Brice 5 Towards a more-than-human theory of resistance: reflections on intentionality, political collectives and opposition 76 Carlotta Molfese 6 Activism and resistance: activist dispositions and the hidden hierarchies of action 92 Charlotte Lee 7 Making space: relational ethnography and emergent resistance 107 Sarah Zell and Amelia Curran PART II EMERGENT RESISTANCE: REFLECTIONS FROM THE FIELD 8 ‘My existence is resistance’: an analysis of disabled people’s everyday lives as an enduring form of resistance 124 Angharad Butler-Rees 9 ‘Bollocks to Brexit’: the geographies of Brexit protest stickers, 2015‒21 138 Hannah Awcock 10 Struggles around housing: La Plaza De La Hoja in Colombia 153 Karen Schouw Iversen 11 ‘What size is the room?’: using the law to resist the UK’s bedroom tax 168 Mel Nowicki 12 Bearing witness at a Home Office reporting centre 182 Amanda Schmid-Scott 13 ‘Unleashing the beast’: emergent resistance in White charity 199 Kahina Meziant 14 Around, despite, and without reference to domination: crafting oppositional human geographies in migrant detention 217 Leah Montange Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. This Advanced Introduction is an accessible and critical review of the most important theories and concepts in the field of social movements and political protests. Karl-Dieter Opp precisely outlines the strengths and weaknesses of the different approaches and investigates how they can be unified into a structural-cognitive model. Key Features: Application of general action theory Investigation of the conditions for deterrence and concessions by autocracies Analysis of the influence of social networks and social media on protests and protesters Precise definitions of central concepts and clear formulation of explanatory hypotheses. This timely Advanced Introduction will be crucial reading for scholars interested in political participation, political protest, and social movements as well as those looking for an excellent introduction to this fascinating ever evolving area of study.Trade Review‘This truly impressive book offers an integrated theoretical approach to social movements and political protests. Opp applies his approach to help our understanding of major events, past and present, like the spread of the Protestant Reformation, and protests against the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. A must-read for social scientists.’ -- Sascha O. Becker, Monash University, Australia and University of Warwick, UK‘Opp—one of our most insightful analysts of social protest—has produced a remarkably sophisticated and theoretically rich account of how protests work, focusing as much on how targets and publics react as on the mechanisms of protest participation. This multi-sided approach opens new avenues for understanding social protests and their impact on diverse societies.’ -- Jack A. Goldstone, George Mason University, US‘This is a careful book on an important topic. It is well worth reading as it offers many new insights into a complex phenomenon with applications for current social issues, including wars.’ -- Bruno Frey, University of Basel, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction to Social Movements and Political Protests 2. Social movements and political protests as collective action 3. Extending the context of protest: political opportunities and societal resources 4. Extending the motivational basis of protest I: framing, cognitive balance, and the goals-beliefs theory 5. Extending the motivational basis of protest II: the identity perspective 6. When protests change politics: explaining the behavior of the protest targets 7. When protests change protesters and bystanders 8. How to put all this together: the structural-cognitive model, the Protestant Reformation, the protests against the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, and some guidelines for explaining social movement phenomena References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. This Advanced Introduction is an accessible and critical review of the most important theories and concepts in the field of social movements and political protests. Karl-Dieter Opp precisely outlines the strengths and weaknesses of the different approaches and investigates how they can be unified into a structural-cognitive model. Key Features: Application of general action theory Investigation of the conditions for deterrence and concessions by autocracies Analysis of the influence of social networks and social media on protests and protesters Precise definitions of central concepts and clear formulation of explanatory hypotheses. This timely Advanced Introduction will be crucial reading for scholars interested in political participation, political protest, and social movements as well as those looking for an excellent introduction to this fascinating ever evolving area of study.Trade Review‘This truly impressive book offers an integrated theoretical approach to social movements and political protests. Opp applies his approach to help our understanding of major events, past and present, like the spread of the Protestant Reformation, and protests against the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. A must-read for social scientists.’ -- Sascha O. Becker, Monash University, Australia and University of Warwick, UK‘Opp—one of our most insightful analysts of social protest—has produced a remarkably sophisticated and theoretically rich account of how protests work, focusing as much on how targets and publics react as on the mechanisms of protest participation. This multi-sided approach opens new avenues for understanding social protests and their impact on diverse societies.’ -- Jack A. Goldstone, George Mason University, US‘This is a careful book on an important topic. It is well worth reading as it offers many new insights into a complex phenomenon with applications for current social issues, including wars.’ -- Bruno Frey, University of Basel, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction to Social Movements and Political Protests 2. Social movements and political protests as collective action 3. Extending the context of protest: political opportunities and societal resources 4. Extending the motivational basis of protest I: framing, cognitive balance, and the goals-beliefs theory 5. Extending the motivational basis of protest II: the identity perspective 6. When protests change politics: explaining the behavior of the protest targets 7. When protests change protesters and bystanders 8. How to put all this together: the structural-cognitive model, the Protestant Reformation, the protests against the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, and some guidelines for explaining social movement phenomena References Index

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Book SynopsisThis cutting-edge and authoritative Handbook covers a broad spectrum of social movement research methodologies, offering expert analysis and detailed accounts of the ways in which research can effectively be carried out on social movements and popular protests. Addressing practice-oriented questions, this Handbook engages with both theoretical and political dimensions, unpacking the multidimensional nature of social movement research for new and established scholars alike and for movement-based as well as academic researchers across many disciplines.Divided into three thematic sections, this stimulating Handbook dives deep into discussions relating to the methodological challenges raised by researching social movements, the technical questions of how such research is conducted, and then to more practical considerations about the uses and applications of movement research. Expert contributors and established researchers utilise real-world examples to explore the methodological challenges from a range of perspectives including classical, engaged, feminist, Black, Indigenous and global Southern viewpoints. The Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Social Movements will not only appeal to experienced researchers, but also to activists who have started to think about researching their own movements and to politically engaged students. It speaks to new and established scholars in relevant disciplines such as sociology, political science, anthropology, geography, development studies, gender studies, and race and ethnic studies, and particularly those looking to better appreciate the different research methods for understanding social movements.Trade Review‘The editors have assembled a powerful toolbox for students and scholars of global social movements. The chapters include data rich analyses that illustrate innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to participatory, collaborative and community-based research. The contributors make a strong case for the urgency of research that can produce ethical dialogues, movement strategies, and principled actions.’ -- Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, University of Pennsylvania, US and author of Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil‘A copious compilation for social movement research, attentive to movement-relevant knowledge and conscious of western ventriloquism and the political diminishment of southern movements as empirical fodder for northern theorizing. For academic and activist alike, a politically productive resource that will travel across forests, fields, shantytowns, factories, university classrooms and libraries.’ -- Dip Kapoor, University of Alberta, Canada and author of Research, Political Engagement and Dispossession: Indigenous, Peasant and Urban Poor Activisms in the Americas and Asia (2019)Table of ContentsContents: 1 How can we research social movements? An introduction 1 Alberto Arribas Lozano, Anna Szolucha, Sutapa Chattopadhyay and Laurence Cox PART I APPROACHES TO RESEARCHING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS 2 Researching global movements: practices, dialogues and ethics 24 Geoffrey Pleyers 3 Feminist methodologies in social movement studies: gender, positionality and research in practice 36 Özge Yaka and Sevil Çakır Kılınçoğlu 4 Research from, with and for indigenous social movements 50 Xochitl Leyva Solano and Axel Köhler 5 Social movements as learning communities, researchers and knowledge producers 63 Alberto Arribas Lozano 6 A Marxist approach to researching social movements 77 John Krinsky 7 Researching social movements in authoritarian states: preparing and conducting fieldwork in Iran and Turkey 91 Paola Rivetti 8 Cross-sectoral dialogues with social movements in Southeast Asia: translating values, affects, and practices in a polymorphic region 102 Gabriel Facal, Catherine Scheer, Sarah Anaïs Andrieu, Joel Mark Baysa-Barredo, Giuseppe Bolotta, Gloria Truly Estrelita, Rosalia Sciortino, Saskia Wieringa, and Wijayanto 9 Methodological pluralism in social movement studies: why and how 115 Donatella della Porta PART II DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS IN SOCIAL MOVEMENT RESEARCH 10 Learning within freedom movements: using critical oral history methodology 128 Geri Augusto, Danita Mason-Hogans, and Wesley Hogan 11 Doing digital ethnography: a comparison of two social movement studies 144 John Postill 12 Media and communication activism: doing ethnography with ultra-right and progressive social movements 159 Cinzia Padovani 13 Visual research with Mayan social movements in Guatemala: a critical approach 168 Carlos Y. Flores 14 Back and forth: militant ethnography in the ‘crowded fields’ 182 Magdalena Sztandara 15 Making sense of the Narmada movements through Adivasi narratives 197 Sutapa Chattopadhyay 16 The art of talks and conversations in Indigenous research: decolonising interview methods 214 Keneilwe Phatshwane 17 Researching social movement participation in the Global South: what to do after discovering and recording plural and ambiguous narratives in the field? 230 Minati Dash 18 Using surveys to study demonstrators 243 Emily Rainsford and Clare Saunders 19 Analysing protest events: a quantitative and systematic approach 257 Tiago Carvalho 20 How do grievances become manifestos? Developing frame analysis in social movement research 271 Aurora Perego and Stefania Vicari 21 Researching identity and culture in place-based struggles 290 Ayse Sargin 22 Researching ideologies and social movements: why and how? 306 Susann Pham 23 ‘Repertoires of contention’: examining concept, method, context and practice 321 Arnab Roy Chowdhury 24 Searching for mechanisms of social movement success: research on political and cultural underpinnings of protestors’ impact 336 David W. Everson and Robert M. Fishman 25 Historical approaches to researching social movements 349 Stefan Berger PART III APPLICATIONS OF SOCIAL MOVEMENT RESEARCH 26 A story of three activists: the value of activist action research in social movement learning 365 Jane Burt, Tokelo Mahlakoane, Eustine Matsepane and Mmathapelo Thobejane 27 Community-based research: approaches, principles and challenges 377 Anna Szolucha 28 Participatory research as activism: Orlando Fals Borda and the Latin American tradition of engaged research 387 Joanne Rappaport 29 Participatory action research in social movements 399 Laurence Cox 30 Using research in movement strategy 409 Natasha Adams 31 Research methods for studying collective action outcomes 420 Katrin Uba 32 Civil resistance research: how can we make our work more useful to activists and organizers? 432 Steve Chase Index

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Book SynopsisThis dynamic Handbook offers state-of-the-art analysis of the new generation of youth activists who are demanding change. Bringing together eminent scholars, rising academic stars and youth activists, this Handbook provides a unique and essential insight into the power of youth activism today.Jerusha Conner deftly brings together contributors from the global north and south who explore youth activism through a range of multidisciplinary methods including systematic literature reviews, ethnographic studies, photo-voice exhibits and first-hand narrative accounts. Chapters cover the nature of youth activism in different geopolitical contexts, the invisible labour of youth activism, and the effects of youth activism on youth, their institutions, and societies. Presenting findings from cutting-edge research, this Handbook highlights how youth activists are sparking important conversations about what is right and what must change in their institutions, nation-states, and the world in order to secure a just and viable future for themselves and others.An authoritative analysis of the field, this Handbook will be an invaluable resource for academics, students and researchers specialising in politics and public policy, sociology and social policy, education policy and the sociology of youth and childhood. It will also be of interest to youth activists and their allies to better understand, assess, and improve their movements’ efficacy.Trade Review‘This Handbook provides a remarkable compendium of the essential work young people are doing to demand change at the local, national, and transnational levels. Although warned by the editors not to romanticize youth activists, it is impossible to walk away from this book without a deep sense of hope for the future.’ -- Amy J. Binder, Johns Hopkins University, US‘Jerusha Conner has pulled together a remarkable collection that reflects the diversity of the burgeoning field of research on youth activism. Like the field itself, these chapters are interdisciplinary, international, multi-method, and engaged with a wide range of theoretical traditions, but united in their commitment to taking youth activists seriously as a source of both social transformation and academic insight. This Handbook will be invaluable to anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the cultural, social, and political dynamics of contemporary youth activism.’ -- Jessica Taft, University of California, Santa Cruz, US‘This important book takes a much-needed global and environmental perspective to key issues of our time, providing new insights about how activism impacts young people, society, and their communities. Its deep description of local contexts and new methodologies honors the complexity of how young people challenge intersecting systems of power.’ -- Matthew Diemer, University of Michigan, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: youth activism in a context of global uncertainty and biographical precarity xix Jerusha Conner, Uyiosa Elegon and Alison K. Cohen PART I THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF YOUTH ACTIVISM 1 The political participation of young people in times of crisis: a framework for analysis 2 Daniela Chironi, Donatella della Porta and Chiara Milan 2 Developmental foundations of environmental activism 16 Alisa A. Pykett, Erin Gallay and Constance Flanagan 3 The disruptive power of recognition and young environmental activists 31 Judith Bessant and Sarah Pickard 4 Using a human rights lens: learning from children’s activism 46 E. Kay M. Tisdall and Patricio Cuevas-Parra PART II YOUTH ACTIVISM IN SPECIFIC GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXTS 5 Youth activism in Ukraine before and during the Russia–Ukraine war 61 Olena Nikolayenko 6 Why and how South Asian youth are involved in politics: a systematic review of literature 75 Yog Raj Lamichhane and Bharat Raj Dhakal 7 Charting youth activism in Chile: contemporary areas and trends 91 Juan Pablo Rodríguez, Lucía Miranda Leibe, Rodrigo Torres, Nicolás Ortiz and Nicolás Angelcos PART III METHODOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN THE STUDY OF YOUTH ACTIVISM 8 Methods for a multimodal, collaborative, and engaged research practice: mapping youth activism and cultural production across time and space 107 Maurice Rafael Magaña, Anthony Gerard Wright and Jurhamuti José Velázquez Morales 9 By us, for us: a women of color student activist photo-narrative exhibit for sociopolitical wellbeing 123 Jesica Siham Fernández and Danielle N. Aguilar 10 Visual politicization and youth challenges to an unequal public sphere: conceptual and methodological perspectives 140 Eeva Luhtakallio, Taina Meriluoto and Carla Malafaia 11 Ambivalent narratives of the political self: notes on the coproduction of audio-visual stories in Cape Town and Luanda 154 Chloé Buire PART IV THE NATURE OF YOUTH ACTIVISTS’ LABOR 12 Keeping the store in order: an ethnography of youth activism’s everyday work 169 Ilaria Pitti 13 Coming out in solidarity: the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy as a space of support and experimentation for queer youth 183 Gavin Brown 14 Racism and youth climate activism: what can we learn from racism allegations about the image exclusions of black women activists? 196 Brendon Barnes 15 Enabling conditions and challenges of youth sexual and reproductive rights activism in Indonesia 210 Rinaldi Ridwan and Putri Widi Saraswati 16 An ideal activist in a privileged society: studying the internal negotiations and practices of being a young Danish activist 226 Maria Bruselius-Jensen PART V EFFECTS OF YOUTH ACTIVISM ON YOUTH 17 Reframing school engagement: relationships to school among youth organizing participants working for educational justice 241 Sara McAlister 18 Movements forward: finding healing through activism 257 Marlene Palomar, Abraham Jones and Ben Kirshner 19 Black youth, digital activism, and racial battle fatigue: how Black youth enact hope, humor, and healing online 272 Tiera Tanksley and Alexis E. Hunter 20 Political context and Russian youth: the political socialization of young activists under authoritarianism 289 Svetlana Erpyleva PART VI EFFECTS OF YOUTH ACTIVISM ON THEIR INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETY 21 “These are my greatest accomplishments”: how US youth activists frame their biggest wins 304 Oladimeji Fatoki, Amanda Galczyk, Christopher M. Wegemer, Laura Wray-Lake and Jerusha Conner 22 “Real change takes time”: building multi-dimensional youth community power in a participatory design collective 319 Kathryn Y. Morgan, Kayla Anderson, Joseph KaiKai, Lema Shaltaf and Brian D. Christens 23 On and off: representations and omissions of youth activism in political campaign ads (Brazil and Argentina, 1980s and 2010s) 336 Dolores Rocca Rivarola 24 #WeAreRemovingADictator: the 2021 Uganda election crisis, the possibilities and limits of youth digital activism 351 M. Ainomugisha and Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire 25 The White Ribbon movement and its achievement in uprooting the conservative Thai state 365 Kanokrat Lertchoosakul

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Book SynopsisRevealing the politics underlying the rapid globalization of facial recognition technology (FRT), this topical book provides a cutting-edge, critical analysis of the expanding global market for FRT, and the rise of the transnational social movement that opposes it.With the use of FRT for policing, surveillance, and business steadily increasing, this book provides a timely examination of both the benefits of FRT, and the threats it poses to privacy rights, human rights, and civil liberties. Interviews with analysts and activists with expertise in FRT find that the anti-FRT movement is highly uneven, with disproportionate influence in Western democracies and relatively little influence in authoritarian states and low-income countries in the developing world. Through a global analysis of the uptake and regulation of FRT, chapters create a holistic understanding of the politics behind this technology. Concluding with a look towards the future prospects of FRT in the face of the growing size, reach, and power of its opposition, the book reflects more broadly on the power of transnational social movements and civil society activism to prevent the globalization and normalization of new technologies.A visionary exploration of FRT, this book will be invaluable to students and scholars of politics and policy, alongside activists, stakeholders, and policy makers interested in the growing power of social movements to resist new technology.Trade Review‘Facial recognition technologies (FRT) are spreading rapidly worldwide, and have become embedded in numerous everyday government and corporate practices. This widespread adoption has prompted extensive criticism, particularly from civil society groups concerned about human rights abuses and discriminatory impacts for marginalized and vulnerable communities. In Identified, Tracked, and Profiled, Peter Dauvergne provides a much-needed and thoroughly comprehensive overview of the regulatory issues and policy disputes around FRT. This book is essential reading for those interested in political contests over our changing digital landscape.’ -- Ron Deibert, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Introducing facial recognition technology 2. Resisting the normalization of facial recognition PART II REINING IN FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY 3. The movement to oppose facial recognition 4. The politics of facial recognition bans in the United States 5. Regulating facial recognition in the United States 6. Rising global opposition to face surveillance PART III THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FACIAL RECOGNITION 7. The corporate politics of facial recognition 8. The everyday politics of facial recognition in China 9. The globalization of facial recognition technology PART IV CONCLUSIONS 10. The future of facial recognition technology Appendix: interviews Index

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Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking Handbook provides a theoretical overview of the wide variety of anti-environmentalisms and offers an integrative research agenda for future research on the topic. Probing the ways in which groups have organized to oppose environmental movements and pro-environmental policies in recent decades, it examines those involved in these countermovements and studies their motivations and support systems.International contributors investigate the ways in which anti-environmentalism differs across regions and by the nature of the issue, alongside unique coverage of the critiques of environmental movements coming from sources that are not anti-environmental. This Handbook explores core topics in the field, including contestation over climate change, wind power, mining, forestry, food sovereignty, oil and gas pipelines and population issues. Chapters also analyse our understanding of countermovements, the effect of public opinion on environmental policy, and original empirical case studies from North America, Oceania, Europe and Asia.Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the Handbook of Anti-Environmentalism will be a key resource for scholars and students of environmental politics and policy, environmental sociology, environmental governance and social movements.Trade Review‘Over the last decades, many systematic accounts have been provided of the main social and political movements currently active on the globe. Far less attention has been paid to their opponents and critics. Focusing on reactions to environmental movements, and edited by three foremost analysts of environmental politics, this Handbook is likely to have an impact which goes well beyond that particular field. It will appeal to all those interested in the study of “counter-movements” at large.’ -- Mario Diani, University of Trento, Italy‘In an era where scientific misinformation and disinformation are proliferating globally, there is a clear and pressing need for this state-of-the-art overview of anti-environmental actors, messages and campaigns. The editors of the Handbook have assembled a stellar roster of international contributors who interrogate every aspect of the problem from media framing, to climate denial networks, to neoliberal governance. Highly recommended to university libraries and to environmental activists and scholars.’ -- John Hannigan, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: foreign-funded radicals x James Hoggan PART I INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW 1 The contours of anti-environmentalism: an introduction to the Handbook of Anti-Environmentalism 2 Mark C.J. Stoddart, David Tindall and Riley E. Dunlap PART II THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 2 Understanding countermovements 23 Suzanne Staggenborg and David S. Meyer 3 Against environmentalism for the common good: a theoretical model 43 Nicholas Scott PART III ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALISM DISCOURSE AND FRAMING 4 ‘Total preservation is just as bad as total logging’: forests and environmental attitudes and behaviours in an anti-environmentalist countermovement 63 David Tindall, Mark C.J. Stoddart and Valerie Berseth 5 Climate change scepticism in front-page Czech newspaper coverage: a one man show 84 Petr Ocelík PART IV VALUES, ATTITUDES AND PUBLIC OPINION 6 Understanding opposition to the environmental movement: the importance of dominant American values 108 Riley E. Dunlap 7 The effect of public opinion on environmental policy in the face of the environmental countermovement 133 Kerry Ard, Tiffany Williams and Paige Kelly 8 Anti-environment, or pro-livelihood? 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Harris Ali 14 Fashioning anti-environmentalism in Turkey: the campaign against the Bergama movement 268 Hayriye Özen PART VII AGRICULTURE AND ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALISM 15 Food sovereignty and anti-regulation from the left 284 James S. Krueger 16 Agrarian reform movement in the Betung Kerihun National Park: mobilisation of hunter–gatherer communities against nature protection in Kalimantan 304 Martin C. Lukas 17 Wind energy development and anti-environmentalism in Alberta, Canada 329 Aleksandra Afanasyeva, Debra J. Davidson and John Parkins PART VIII ETHNICITY AND RACE 18 The end of population-environmentalism: dissonance over human rights and societal goals 345 Pamela McMullin-Messier 19 The environmental state and the racial state in tension: does racism impede environmentalism? 365 Ian R. Carrillo PART IX OTHER SPHERES OF ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALISM 20 Skin in the game: the struggle over climate protection within the US labor movement 381 Todd E. 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