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Localizing and Transnationalizing Contentious Politics High quality books Localizing and Transnationalizing Contentious Politics By: Published on 2009-08-16 by Lexington Books A country facing serious economic challenges, the Philippines is also a democratic polity with a vibrant civil society sector. This collection is the first of its kind to focus on five global civil society movements in the Philippines-Freedom from Debt Coalition, Stop-the-New-Round Coalition, Tobin tax advocacy, Transparency and Accountability Network, and the Philippine Fair Trade Forum-and their responses to the inequities of neoliberal globalization. This Book was ranked at 31 by Google Books for keyword Horizontalism. Book ID of Localizing and Transnationalizing Contentious Politics's Books is Ub0zAAAAQBAJ, Book which was written by have ETAG "weMQWnjhK4c" Book which was published by Lexington Books since 2009-08-16 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780739133088 and ISBN 10 Code is 073913308X Read...

Play Money High quality books Play Money By:Julian Dibbell Published on 2007-03-09 by Hachette UK Play Money explores the remarkable new phenomenon of MMORPGs, or Massively MultiPlayer Online Role-Playing Games, in which hundreds of thousands of players operate fantasy characters in virtual environments. With city-sized populations, these games generate their own cultures, governments, and social systems and, inevitably, their own economies, which spill over into the real world. The desire for virtual goods-magic swords, enchanted breastplates, and special, hard-to-get elixirs-has spawned a cottage industry of “virtual loot farmers”: people who play the games just to obtain fantasy goods that they can sell in the real world. The best loot farmers can make between six figures a year and six figures a month. Play Money is an extended walk on the weird side: a vivid snapshot of a subculture whose denizens were once the stuff of mere sociological spectacle but now-with computer gaming pois...

Surviving State Terror High quality books Surviving State Terror By:Barbara Sutton Published on 2018-05-15 by NYU Press A profound reflection on state violence and women’s survival In the 1970s and early 80s, military and security forces in Argentina hunted down, tortured, imprisoned, and in many cases, murdered political activists, student organizers, labor unionists, leftist guerrillas, and other people branded “subversives.” This period was characterized by massive human rights violations, including forced disappearances committed in the name of national security. State terror left a deep scar on contemporary Argentina, but for many survivors and even the nation itself, talking about this dark period in recent history has been difficult, and at times taboo. For women who endured countless forms of physical, sexual, and emotional violence in clandestine detention centers, the impetus to keep quiet about certain aspects of captivity has been particularly strong. In Surviving State Ter...

The Kids Are in Charge High quality books The Kids Are in Charge By:Jessica K. Taft Published on 2019-09-10 by NYU Press Details the possibilities and challenges of intergenerational activism and social movements Since 1976, the Peruvian movement of working children has fought to redefine age-based roles in society, including defending children’s right to work. In The Kids Are in Charge, Jessica K. Taft gives us an inside look at this groundbreaking, intergenerational social movement, showing that kids can—and should be—respected as equal partners in economic, social, and political life. Through participant observation, Taft explores how the movement has redefined relationships between kids and adults; how they put these ideas into practice within their organizations; and how they advocate for them in larger society. Ultimately, she encourages us to question the widely accepted beliefs that children should not work or participate in politics. The Kids Are in Charge is a provocative inv...

Surviving State Terror High quality books Surviving State Terror By:Barbara Sutton Published on 2018-05-15 by NYU Press A profound reflection on state violence and women’s survival In the 1970s and early 80s, military and security forces in Argentina hunted down, tortured, imprisoned, and in many cases, murdered political activists, student organizers, labor unionists, leftist guerrillas, and other people branded “subversives.” This period was characterized by massive human rights violations, including forced disappearances committed in the name of national security. State terror left a deep scar on contemporary Argentina, but for many survivors and even the nation itself, talking about this dark period in recent history has been difficult, and at times taboo. For women who endured countless forms of physical, sexual, and emotional violence in clandestine detention centers, the impetus to keep quiet about certain aspects of captivity has been particularly strong. In Surviving State Ter...

An Essay on Liberation High quality books An Essay on Liberation By:Herbert Marcuse Published on 1971-06-01 by Beacon Press In this concise and startling book, the author of One-Dimensional Man argues that the time for utopian speculation has come. Marcuse argues that the traditional conceptions of human freedom have been rendered obsolete by the development of advanced industrial society. Social theory can no longer content itself with repeating the formula, |from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs,| but must now investigate the nature of human needs themselves. Marcuse's claim is that even if production were controlled and determined by the workers, society would still be repressive—unless the workers themselves had the needs and aspirations of free men. Ranging from philosophical anthropology to aesthetics An Essay on Liberation attempts to outline—in a highly speculative and tentative fashion—the new possibilities for human liberation. TheEssay contai...

Pressure Cooker High quality books Pressure Cooker By:Sarah Bowen,Joslyn Brenton,Sinikka Elliott Published on 2019-01-07 by Oxford University Press Food is at the center of national debates about how Americans live and the future of the planet. Not everyone agrees about how to reform our relationship to food, but one suggestion rises above the din: We need to get back in the kitchen. Amid concerns about rising rates of obesity and diabetes, unpronounceable ingredients, and the environmental footprint of industrial agriculture, food reformers implore parents to slow down, cook from scratch, and gather around the dinner table. Making food a priority, they argue, will lead to happier and healthier families. But is it really that simple? In this riveting and beautifully-written book, Sarah Bowen, Joslyn Brenton, and Sinikka Elliott take us into the kitchens of nine women to tell the complicated story of what it takes to feed a family today. All of these mothers love their children and want...

Austerity and Revolt High quality books Austerity and Revolt By:Werner Bonefeld,John Holloway Published on 2014-06-30 by In recent years we have witnessed massive demonstrations of denial, refusal, and rejection exploding in one country after another. The squares of the world have become organizational focal points for rebellion and repression. What does such collective negation mean, and what comes afterward? This issue explores the forms of a reinvigorated, experimental communism: councils, assemblies, communes, squares, occupys, horizontalism, recovered factories, and cooperative farms and community gardens. Practitioners of this new model of “communism as communizing” attempt to change fundamental social relations from the bottom up. By combining insider knowledge with sophisticated theoretical scrutiny, the contributors to this issue approach eruptions of rebellion from a variety of historical, economic, and methodological perspectives. Writing not only about but also within such ...

Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, Second Edition High quality books Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, Second Edition By:John Bratton,David Denham Published on 2014-01-24 by University of Toronto Press Most texts on classical social theory offer exhaustive coverage of every possible theorist, making it difficult to use the book in one semester. Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, Second Edition represents a departure from this approach by offering solid coverage of the classical triumvirate (Marx, Durkheim, and Weber), but also extending the canon strategically to include Simmel, four early female theorists, and the writings of Du Bois. The result is a manageable, but thorough, examination of the key classical theorists. The second edition has been updated throughout and includes two new chapters: one on Weber and rationalization, and one on Du Bois and his writings on race. A new concluding chapter links classical theory to current developments in capitalism during an a...

A War on People High quality books A War on People By:Jarrett Zigon Published on 2018-11-20 by Univ of California Press If we see that our contemporary condition is one of war and widely diffused complexity, how do we understand our most basic ethical motivations? What might be the aims of our political activity? A War on People takes up these questions and offers a glimpse of a possible alternative future in this ethnographically and theoretically rich examination of the activity of some unlikely political actors: users of heroin and crack cocaine, both active and former. The result is a groundbreaking book on how anti–drug war political activity offers transformative processes that are termed worldbuilding and enacts nonnormative, open, and relationally inclusive alternatives to such key concepts as community, freedom, and care. Read the author's article about the opiod crisis on Open Democracy. This Book was ranked at 10 by Google Books for keyword Horizontalism. Book ID of A ...

A Paradise Built in Hell High quality books A Paradise Built in Hell By:Rebecca Solnit Published on 2010-08-31 by Penguin The author of Men Explain Things to Me explores the moments of altruism and generosity that arise in the aftermath of disaster Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal about ordinarily unmet social desires and possibilities? In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-winning author Rebecca Solnit explores these phenomena, looking at major calamities from the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco through the 1917 explosion that tore up Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. She examines how disaster throws people into a temporary utopia of changed states of mind and social possibilities, as well...

The End of the City of Gold? Industry and Economic Crisis in an Italian Jewellery Town High quality books The End of the City of Gold? Industry and Economic Crisis in an Italian Jewellery Town By:Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco Published on 2013-09-17 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing How does Europe’s economic crisis affect the ways in which industry and entrepreneurship are experienced on a grassroots level? The book offers an answer to this question by exploring the Italian jewellery town of Valenza and the downturn of its principal industry. Through the experiences of its inhabitants, the study investigates the social role that jewellery production had in Valenza and provides an ethnographic account of the crisis the city endures. This analysis delves into the relationship between a community and its industry in order to understand the social and cultural challenges Italy and Europe will face in the future. This Book was ranked at 24 by Google Books for keyword Gold points. Book ID...

Proposals That Work High quality books Proposals That Work By:Lawrence F. Locke,Waneen Wyrick Spirduso,Stephen J. Silverman Published on 2013-04-18 by SAGE Covering all aspects of the proposal process, from the most basic questions about form and style to the task of seeking funding, this Sixth Edition has been completely updated and revised to offer clear advice backed up with excellent examples. This Book was ranked at 4 by Google Books for keyword Ideal money. Book ID of Proposals That Work's Books is 1MiHZonW1SIC, Book which was written byLawrence F. Locke,Waneen Wyrick Spirduso,Stephen J. Silvermanhave ETAG "140CskZNyCY" Book which was published by SAGE since 2013-04-18 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9781452216850 and ISBN 10 Code is 1452216851 Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true Book which have "383 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategorySocial Science This Book was rated by Raters and have average rate at "...