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Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics

Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-09-17
ISBN 13 : 9780521001557
Total Pages : 280 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (155 users downloads)

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Download or read book Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics written by Ronald R. Aminzade and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to highlight and begin to give 'voice' to some of the notable 'silences' evident in recent years in the study of contentious politics. The seven co-authors take up seven specific topics in the volume: the relationship between emotions and contention; temporality in the study of contention; the spatial dimensions of contention; leadership in contention; the role of threat in contention; religion and contention; and contention in the context of demographic and life-course processes. The seven spent three years involved in an ongoing project designed to take stock, and attempt a partial synthesis, of various literatures that have grown up around the study of non-routine or contentious politics. As such, it is likely to be viewed as a groundbreaking volume that not only undermines conventional disciplinary understanding of contentious politics, but also lays out a number of provocative new research agendas.

The Spaces of the Modern City

by Gyan Prakash

Publisher : Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2008-02-24
ISBN 13 : 9780691133430
Total Pages : 457 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (343 users downloads)

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Download or read book The Spaces of the Modern City written by Gyan Prakash and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-24 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It historicizes the contemporary discussion of urbanism, highlighting the local and global breadth of the city landscape. This interdisciplinary collection examines how the city develops in the interactions of space and imagination. The essays focus on issues such as street design in Vienna, the motion picture industry in Los Angeles, architecture in Marseilles and Algiers, and the kaleidoscopic paradox of post-apartheid Johannesburg. They explore the nature of spatial politics, examining the disparate worlds of eighteenth-century Baghdad, nineteenth-century Morelia. They also show the meaning of everyday spaces to urban life, illuminating issues such as crime in metropolitan London, youth culture in Dakar, "memory projects" in Tokyo, and Bombay cinema.

Ignoring Nature No More

by Marc Bekoff

Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-06-01
ISBN 13 : 0226925331
Total Pages : 456 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (692 users downloads)

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Download or read book Ignoring Nature No More written by Marc Bekoff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For far too long humans have been ignoring nature. As the most dominant, overproducing, overconsuming, big-brained, big-footed, arrogant, and invasive species ever known, we are wrecking the planet at an unprecedented rate. And while science is important to our understanding of the impact we have on our environment, it alone does not hold the answers to the current crisis, nor does it get people to act. In Ignoring Nature No More, Marc Bekoff and a host of renowned contributors argue that we need a new mind-set about nature, one that centers on empathy, compassion, and being proactive. This collection of diverse essays is the first book devoted to compassionate conservation, a growing global movement that translates discussions and concerns about the well-being of individuals, species, populations, and ecosystems into action. Written by leading scholars in a host of disciplines, including biology, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, political science, and philosophy, as well as by locals doing fieldwork in their own countries, the essays combine the most creative aspects of the current science of animal conservation with analyses of important psychological and sociocultural issues that encourage or vex stewardship. The contributors tackle topics including the costs and benefits of conservation, behavioral biology, media coverage of animal welfare, conservation psychology, and scales of conservation from the local to the global. Taken together, the essays make a strong case for why we must replace our habits of domination and exploitation with compassionate conservation if we are to make the world a better place for nonhuman and human animals alike.

Political Movements and Violence in Central America

by Charles D. Brockett

Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-03-14
ISBN 13 : 052184083X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (184 users downloads)

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Download or read book Political Movements and Violence in Central America written by Charles D. Brockett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-14 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an indepth analysis of the confrontation between popular movements and repressive regimes in Central America for the three decades beginning in 1960, particularly in El Salvador and Guatemala. It examines both urban and rural groups as well as both nonviolent social movements and revolutionary movements. It studies the impact of state violence on contentious political movements as well as defends the political process model for studying such movements.

Understanding Insurgency

by Francis O'Connor

Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-08-26
ISBN 13 : 1108838502
Total Pages : 340 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (883 users downloads)

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Download or read book Understanding Insurgency written by Francis O'Connor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an historical narrative to the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) and the relationship between it and its supporters in Turkey.

Democracy in the Making

by Kathleen M. Blee

Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-03-30
ISBN 13 : 0199842779
Total Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (984 users downloads)

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Download or read book Democracy in the Making written by Kathleen M. Blee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2012 ARNOVA Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research Award 2013 Charles Tilly Award for Best Book from the American Sociological Association Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements "Democracy in the Making offers a marvelous synthesis of sociological acumen and hope. Kathleen Blee finds that while social activists often narrow their visions of doable social change, they also can learn together and take surprising new directions with unpredictable results. A wide range of activists will recognize themselves in this book's wonderfully fine-grained portraits of politics at the grassroots."-Paul Lichterman, author of Elusive Togetherness: Church Groups Trying to Bridge America's Divisions "This book is an enormous breath of fresh air in an area that often recycles concepts and perspectives. Blee offers a strikingly original approach to grassroots activism that will substantially reorient research in collective action and social movements."-Marc W. Steinberg, Associate Professor of Sociology, Smith College With civic engagement commonly understood to be on the decline and traditional bases of community and means of engagement increasingly fractured, how do people become involved in collective civic action? How do activist groups form? What hampers the ability of these groups to invigorate political life, and what enables it? Kathleen Blee's groundbreaking new study provides a provocative answer: the early times matter. By following grassroots groups from their very beginnings, Blee traces how their sense of possibility shrinks over time as groups develop a shared sense of who they are that forecloses options that were once open. At the same time, she charts the turning points at which options re-open and groups become receptive to change and reinvention. Based on observing more than sixty grassroots groups in Pittsburgh for three years, Democracy in the Making is an unprecedented look at how ordinary people come together to change society. It gives a close-up look at the deliberations of activists on the left and right as they work for animal rights, an end to the drug trade in their neighbourhood, same-sex marriage, global peace, and more. It shows how grassroots activism can provide an alternative to civic disengagement and a forum for envisioning how the world can be transformed. At the same time, it documents how activist groups become mired in dysfunctional and undemocratic patterns that their members dislike, but cannot fix. By analyzing the possibilities and pitfalls that face nascent activist organizations, Blee reveals how critical early choices are to the success of grassroots activism. Vital for scholars and activists alike, this practical yet profound study shows us, through the examples of both groups that flourish and those that flounder, how grassroots activism can better live up to its democratic potential.

Methods of Social Movement Research

by Bert Klandermans

Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2002
ISBN 13 : 9780816635948
Total Pages : 382 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (594 users downloads)

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Download or read book Methods of Social Movement Research written by Bert Klandermans and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citing the critical importance of empirical work to social movement research, the editors of this volume have put together the first systematic overview of the major methods used by social movement theorists. Original chapters cover the range of techniques: surveys, formal models, discourse analysis, in-depth interviews, participant observation, case studies, network analysis, historical methods, protest event analysis, macro-organizational analysis, and comparative politics. Each chapter includes a methodological discussion, examples of studies employing the method, an examination of its strengths and weaknesses, and practical guidelines for its application.

Behind the Gate

by Fabio Lanza

Publisher : Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2010
ISBN 13 : 0231152388
Total Pages : 299 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (115 users downloads)

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Download or read book Behind the Gate written by Fabio Lanza and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an investigation of 20th-century Chinese student protest, Lanza considers the marriage of the cultural and the political, the intellectual and the quotidian, that occurred during the May Fourth movement, along with its rearticulation in subsequent protest.

Sandinista Narratives

by Jean-Pierre Reed

Publisher : Lexington Books
Release Date : 2020-10-21
ISBN 13 : 1498523501
Total Pages : 328 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (852 users downloads)

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Download or read book Sandinista Narratives written by Jean-Pierre Reed and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandinista Narratives is an analysis of the role of agency in the Nicaraguan Revolution and its aftermath. Jean-Pierre Reed argues that the insurrection in Nicaragua was shaped by political contingency, action-specific subjectivity, and popular culture. He also examines how Sandinista ideology contributed to state-building in Nicaragua while tracing the role of post-revolutionary Sandinismo as a political identity.

Africa in The Sixties

by Godfrey Mwakikagile

Publisher : New Africa Press
Release Date : 2014-06-19
ISBN 13 : 9987160344
Total Pages : 378 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (716 users downloads)

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Download or read book Africa in The Sixties written by Godfrey Mwakikagile and published by New Africa Press. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a general survey of Africa in the sixties. The work focuses on the major events which took place across the continent during those years. It was the euphoric sixties, a period when Africans celebrated the end of colonial rule. Most of the countries on the continent won independence in the sixties. But they were also turbulent years marked by conflict. Some of the most tragic events during those years include the Congo crisis – the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the secession of Katanga province, civil unrest across the country and intervention by external forces which turned Congo into the bleeding heart of Africa. Another tragedy was the Nigerian civil war. There was also the Zanzibar revolution. The sixties were also a decade of military coups, and much more. Its complementary volume, Remembering the Sixties: An African Experience, addresses other subjects on some of the major events which took place during those years. The sixties stand out as some of the most important years in the history of post-colonial Africa. It is a decade that will never be forgotten, especially by those, including the author, who were there during those days.

Africa 1960-1970

by Godfrey Mwakikagile

Publisher : New Africa Press
Release Date : 2009
ISBN 13 : 9987160077
Total Pages : 718 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (716 users downloads)

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Download or read book Africa 1960-1970 written by Godfrey Mwakikagile and published by New Africa Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author looks at Africa in the sixties and at the major events which have shaped the destiny of the continent for decades since the end of colonial rule. Most of the countries had won independence by 1968. It was the euphoric and turbulent sixties when African countries were confronted with the harsh realities of nationhood including nation building and state consolidation. They were also years of military coups and assassinations as well as conflicts: the ouster of Kwame Nkrumah who led Ghana to become the first black African country to win independence; the Congo crisis including the secession of Katanga province and the assassination of Patrice Lumumba; the Nigerian civil war triggered by the secession of the Eastern Region which declared independence as the Republic of Biafra; the Zanzibar Revolution followed by the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar which led to the creation of a new country, Tanzania, which is the only union of independent states ever formed on the continent; and liberation wars in the countries of southern Africa which were under white minority rule. There were many other events which took place across the continent during those years. Almost all the major events which have taken place on the continent through the decades can be traced back to the sixties in one way or another. That was when the foundations of the young African nations were laid. It was also during those years when African governments adopted and implemented policies, including imported -isms which had a profound impact on the continent for decades. It was probably the most important decade in the history of post-colonial Africa.

Strangers at the Gates

by Sidney Tarrow

Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-03-26
ISBN 13 : 1107009383
Total Pages : 260 pages
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Download or read book Strangers at the Gates written by Sidney Tarrow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the products of work carried out over four decades of research in Italy, France, and the United States, and in the intellectual territory between social movements, comparative politics, and historical sociology. Using a variety of methods ranging from statistical analysis to historical case studies to linguistic analysis, the book centers on historical catalogs of protest events and cycles of collective action. Sidney Tarrow places social movements in the broader arena of contentious politics, in relation to states, political parties, and other actors. From peasants and communists in 1960s Italy, to movements and politics in contemporary western polities, to the global justice movement in the new century, the book argues that contentious actors are neither outside of nor completely within politics, but rather they occupy the uncertain territory between total opposition and integration into policy.

Power in Movement

by Sidney G. Tarrow

Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-04
ISBN 13 : 1139496220
Total Pages : pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (949 users downloads)

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Download or read book Power in Movement written by Sidney G. Tarrow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social movements have an elusive power but one that is altogether real. From the French and American revolutions to the post-Soviet, ethnic and terrorist movements of today, contentious politics exercises a fleeting but powerful influence on politics, society and international relations. This study surveys the modern history of the modern social movements in the West and their diffusion to the global South through war, colonialism and diffusion, and it puts forward a theory to explain its cyclical surges and declines. It offers an interpretation of the power of movements that emphasizes effects on the lives of militants, policy reforms, political institutions and cultural change. The book focuses on the rise and fall of social movements as part of contentious politics in general and as the outcome of changes in political opportunities and constraints, state strategy, the new media of communication and transnational diffusion.

Russian Minority Politics in Post-Soviet Latvia and Kyrgyzstan

by Michele E. Commercio

Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2011-06-06
ISBN 13 : 0812204700
Total Pages : 248 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (22 users downloads)

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Download or read book Russian Minority Politics in Post-Soviet Latvia and Kyrgyzstan written by Michele E. Commercio and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of the Soviet Union suddenly rendered ethnic Russians living in non-Russian successor states like Latvia and Kyrgyzstan new minorities subject to dramatic political, economic, and social upheaval. As elites in these new states implemented formal policies and condoned informal practices that privileged non-Russians, ethnic Russians had to react. In Russian Minority Politics in Post-Soviet Latvia and Kyrgyzstan, Michele E. Commercio draws on extensive field research, including hundreds of personal interviews, to analyze the responses of minority Russians to such policies and practices. In particular, she focuses on the role played by formal and informal institutions in the crystallization of Russian attitudes, preferences, and behaviors in these states. Commercio asks why there is more out-migration and less political mobilization among Russians in Kyrgyzstan, a state that adopts policies that placate both Kyrgyz and Russians, and less out-migration and more political mobilization among Russians in Latvia, a state that adopts policies that favor Latvians at the expense of Russians. Challenging current thinking, she suggests that the answer to this question lies in the power of informal networks. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Communist party, Komsomol youth organization, and KGB networks were transformed into informal networks. Russians in Kyrgyzstan were for various reasons isolated from such networks, and this isolation restricted their access to the country's private sector, making it difficult for them to create effective associations capable of representing their interests. This resulted in a high level of Russian exit and the silencing of Russian voices. In contrast, Russians in Latvia were well connected to such networks, which provided them with access to the country's private sector and facilitated the establishment of political parties and nongovernmental organizations that represented their interests. This led to a low level of Russian exit and high level of Russian voice. Commercio concludes that informal networks have a stronger influence on minority politics than formal institutions.

Days of Awe

by Atalia Omer

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Release Date : 2019
ISBN 13 : 022661607X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (661 users downloads)

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Download or read book Days of Awe written by Atalia Omer and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many Jewish people in the mid-twentieth century, Zionism was an unquestionable tenet of what it meant to be Jewish. Seventy years later, a growing number of American Jews are instead expressing solidarity with Palestinians, questioning old allegiances to Israel. How did that transformation come about? What does it mean for the future of Judaism? In Days of Awe, Atalia Omer examines this shift through interviews with a new generation of Jewish activists, rigorous data analysis, and fieldwork within a progressive synagogue community. She highlights people politically inspired by social justice campaigns including the Black Lives Matter movement and protests against anti-immigration policies. These activists, she shows, discover that their ethical outrage at US policies extends to Israel's treatment of Palestinians. For these American Jews, the Jewish history of dispossession and diaspora compels a search for solidarity with liberation movements. This shift produces innovations within Jewish tradition, including multi-racial and intersectional conceptions of Jewishness and movements to reclaim prophetic Judaism. Charting the rise of such religious innovation, Omer points toward the possible futures of post-Zionist Judaism.

Popular Mobilization and Empowerment in Georgia's Rose Revolution

by Kelli Hash-Gonzalez

Publisher : Lexington Books
Release Date : 2012-10-18
ISBN 13 : 0739173553
Total Pages : 178 pages
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Download or read book Popular Mobilization and Empowerment in Georgia's Rose Revolution written by Kelli Hash-Gonzalez and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While other studies explain the Rose Revolution in terms of the contribution of the “power players,” Popular Mobilization and Empowerment in Georgia’s Rose Revolution, by Kelli Hash-Gonzalez, adds to our understanding by examining the revolution from the perspective of ordinary citizens. This in-depth study shows how the movement frames targeted people’s emotions, as well as their beliefs and values to more effectively mobilize a critical mass. This achievement was surprising, given the hopelessness, cynicism, and alienation in the region’s political culture.

The Israeli Peace Movement

by Tamar S. Hermann

Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-09-14
ISBN 13 : 1139483447
Total Pages : pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (948 users downloads)

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Download or read book The Israeli Peace Movement written by Tamar S. Hermann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the predicament of the Israeli peace movement, which, paradoxically, following the launching of the Oslo peace process between Israel and the Palestinians in 1993, experienced a prolonged, fatal decline in membership, activity, political significance, and media visibility. After presenting the regional and national background to the launching of the peace process and a short history of Israeli peace activism, the book focuses on external and internal processes and interactions experienced by the peace movement, after some basic postulates of its agenda were actually, although never explicitly, embraced by the Rabin government. The book concludes that, despite its organizational decline and the zero credit given to it by the policy makers, in retrospect it appears that the movement contributed significantly to the integration of new ideas for possible solutions to the Middle East conflict in the Israeli mainstream political discourse.