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Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers is groundbreaking edited collection which explores the contributions of Francophone African women to the field of documentary filmmaking. Rich in its scope and critical vision it constitutes a timely contribution to cutting-edge scholarly debates on African cinemas. Featuring 10 chapters from prominent film scholars, it explores the distinctive documentary work and contributions of Francophone African women filmmakers since the 1960s. It focuses documentaries by North African and Sub-Saharan women filmmakers, including the pioneering work of Safi Faye in Kaddu Beykat, Rama Thiaw's The Revolution Will Not be Televised, Katy Lena Ndiaye's Le Cercle des noyes and En attendant les hommes, Dalila Ennadre's Fama: Heroism Without Glory and Leila Kitani's Nos lieux interdits. Shunned from costly fictional- 35mm-filmmaking, Francophone African Women Documentary Filmmakers examines how these women engaged and experimented with documentary filmmaking in personal, evocative ways that countered the officially sanctioned, nationalist practice of show and teach/promote.
This book departs from familiar accounts of high-profile woman suffrage activists whose main concern was a federal constitutional amendment. It tells the story of woman suffrage as one involving the diverse politics of women across the country as well as the incentives of the men with the primary political authority to grant new voting rights - those in state legislatures. Through a mix of qualitative and quantitative evidence, the book explains the success and failures of efforts for woman suffrage provisions in five states and in the US Congress as the result of successful and failed coalitional politics between the suffrage movement and important constituencies of existing male voters, including farmers' organizations, labor unions, and the Populist and Progressive parties.
"This remarkable book does the unusual: it embeds its focus in a larger complex operational space. The migrant, the refugee, the citizen, all emerge from that larger context. The focus is not the usual detailed examination of the subject herself, but that larger world of wars, grabs, contestations, and, importantly, the claimers and resisters."- Saskia Sassen, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, USA This thought-provoking book begins by looking at the incredible complexities of "American identity" and ends with the threats to civil liberties with the vast expansion of state power through technology. A must-read for anyone interested in the future of the promise and realities of citizenship in the modern global landscape.- Kevin R. Johnson, Dean, UC Davis School of Law, USA Momen focuses on the basic paradox that has long marked national identity: the divide between liberal egalitarian self-conception and persistent practices of exclusion and subordination. The result is a thought-provoking text that is sure to be of interest to scholars and students of the American experience. - Aziz Rana, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, USA This book is an exploration of American citizenship, emphasizing the paradoxes that are contained, normalized, and strengthened by the gaps existing between proposed policies and real-life practices in multiple arenas of a citizen's life. The book considers the evolution of citizenship through the journey of the American nation and its identity, its complexities of racial exclusion, its transformations in response to domestic demands and geopolitical challenges, its changing values captured in immigration policies and practices, and finally its dynamics in terms of the shift in state power vis-a-vis citizens. While it aspires to analyze the meaning of citizenship in America from the multiple perspectives of history, politics, and policy, it pays special attention to the critical junctures where rhetoric and reality clash, allowing for the production of certain paradoxes that define citizenship rights and shape political discourse.
Most of the expansive literature on social citizenship follows its leading thinker, T. H. Marshall, and talks only about the British state, often referring only to England. But social citizenship rights require taxation, spending, effective public services and politics committed to them. They can only be as strong as politics makes them. That means that the distinctive territorial politics of the UK are reshaping citizenship rights as they reshape policies, obligations and finance across the UK. This timely book explores how changing territorial politics are impacting on social citizenship rights across the UK. The contributors contend that whilst territorial politics have always been major influences in the meaning and scope of social citizenship rights, devolved politics are now increasingly producing different social citizenship rights in different parts of the UK. Moreover, they are doing it in ways that few scholars or policymakers expect or can trace. Drawing on extensive research over the last 10 years, the book brings together leading scholars of devolution and citizenship to chart the connection between the politics of devolution and the meaning of social citizenship in the UK. The first part of the book connects the large, and largely distinct, literatures on citizenship, devolution and the welfare state. The empirical second part identifies the different issues that will shape the future territorial politics of citizenship in the UK: intergovernmental relations and finance; policy divergence; bureaucratic politics; public opinion; and the European Union. It will be welcomed by academics and students in social policy, public policy, citizenship studies, politics and political science.
View the Table of Contents. aIt addresses a powerful topic. It is a conceptually creative
piece of scholarship, forged from a sophisticated interdisciplinary
viewpoint.a "A rich and exceptionally clear account of the meaning-making
context and constitution of citizenship." "Mark Weiner provides a rare and radical insight into the racial
structures of American law. Reading this racial history through the
rhetoric of case law decisions--juridical racialism--provides a
dramatic sense of the anthropological scope of what law has done
and potentially continues to do." "An enthralling mixture of personages and cases that reveals
much about the intimate combining of law and 'American'
imperialism, including the complicities of scholarship." "Juridical racialism is legal rhetoric infused with Anglo-Saxon
racial superiority and Weiner shows how it operated from the Gilded
Age to the decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Reading the
news, one wonders if it is not still operating today." Americans Without Law shows how the racial boundaries of civic life are based on widespread perceptions about the relative capacity of minority groups for legal behavior, which Mark S. Weiner calls "juridical racialism." The book follows the history of this civic discourse by examining the legal status of four minority groups in four successive historical periods: American Indiansin the 1880s, Filipinos after the Spanish-American War, Japanese immigrants in the 1920s, and African Americans in the 1940s and 1950s. Weiner reveals the significance of juridical racialism for each group--and, in turn, Americans as a whole--by examining the work of anthropological social scientists who developed distinctive ways of understanding racial and legal identity, and through decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court that put these ethno-legal views into practice. Combining history, anthropology, and legal analysis, the book argues that the story of juridical racialism shows how race and citizenship served as a nexus for the professionalization of the social sciences, the growth of national state power, economic modernization, and modern practices of the self.
The book provides an overview of key issues in the debate concerning the emergence of active citizenship in Europe. The specific focus of enquiry is the promotion of patterns of civic and political engagement and civic and political participation by the EU and the relative responses drawn by organizations of the civil society operating at the supranational level and in Italy, Turkey and the UK. More specifically, it addresses key debates on the engagement and participation of organized civil society across the permanent state of euro-crisis, considering the production of policy discourses along the continuum that characterized three subsequent and interrelated emergency situations (democratic, financial and migration crises) that have hit Europe since 2005. Active Citizenship in Europe will be of interest to students and scholars in a range of fields, including sociology, politics, European studies and international studies.
View the Table of Contents aMumford explores the devastating effect of the riots and how
the city police, state police, and National Guard escalated the
violence. He raises the controversial possibility that female
looters stripping store mannequins may have been making a social
statement about economic inequality. He also discusses such
divisive personalities as Anthony Imperiale of the Citizens
Council, with his anti-black sentiments, and the poet Amiri Baraka,
who melded black nationalism with anti-white and, occasionally,
anti- Semitic rhetoric.a "Meticulously researched and engagingly written, Newark tells an
important story. Portraying a city that functions as an archetype
for Black Power in urban politics, Mumford writes with great
sympathy for an earlier liberal integrationist tradition,
periodizing and explaining its rise and fall carefully, eloquently,
and persuasively." aKevin Mumford's history of race relations in Newark is full of
arresting insight, fascinating detail, and memorable writing. With
interdisciplinary creativity, he offers an important contribution
to the understanding of modern America.a aWhile acknowledging--and vividly rendering--the explosive
moments in Newark's history, pioneering historian Kevin Mumford
shows that the quotidian political struggles of aeveryday folka
ultimately turned the city into one apeopled and run by African
Americans.a Yet the ravages of de-industrialization, white flight,
long-term corruption, and a draconian tax policy had hollowed out
the city, transforming blacksahard-won prize into a congeries of
social, economic, and political problems. Richly documented and
immensely readable, Newark is also a model of sophistication. In
Mumford's hands, concepts like the public sphere, citizenship, and
racial identity take on a gritty reality that will engage political
theorists, historians, and all those who care about the life and
death of American cities.a Newark's volatile past is infamous. The city has become synonymous with the Black Power movement and urban crisis. Its history reveals a vibrant and contentious political culture punctuated by traditional civic pride and an understudied tradition of protest in the black community. Newark charts this important city's place in the nation, from its founding in 1666 by a dissident Puritan as a refuge from intolerance, through the days of Jim Crow and World War II civil rights activism, to the height of postwar integration and the election of its first black mayor. In this broad and balanced history of Newark, Kevin Mumford applies the concept of the public sphere to the problem of race relations, demonstrating how political ideas and print culture were instrumental in shaping African American consciousness. He draws on both public and personal archives, interpreting official documents-such as newspapers, commission testimony, and government records-alongside interviews, political flyers, meeting minutes, and rare photos. From the migration out of the south to the rise of public housing and ethnic conflict, Newark explains the impact of African Americans on the reconstruction of American cities in the twentieth century.
Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Exploring the role of favors in social welfare systems in postwar, postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina, this volume provides a new theoretical angle on links between ambiguity and power. It demonstrates that favors were not an instrumental tactic of survival, nor a way to reproduce oneself as a moral person. Instead, favors enabled the insertion of personal compassion into the heart of the organization of welfare. Managing Ambiguity follows how neoliberal insistence on local community, flexibility, and self-responsibility was translated into clientelist modes of relating and back, and how this fostered a specific mode of power.
Contingent Citizens examines the ambiguous state of South Africa's public sector workers and the implications for contemporary understandings of citizenship. It takes us inside an ethnography of the professional ethic of nurses in a rural hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, shaped by a deep history of mission medicine and changing forms of new public management. Liberal democratic principles of 'transparency', 'decentralization' and 'rights', though promising freedom from control, often generate fear and insecurity instead. But despite the pressures they face, Elizabeth Hull shows that nurses draw on a range of practices from international migration to new religious movements, to assert new forms of citizenship. Focusing an anthropological lens on 'professionalism', Hull explores the major fault lines of South Africa's fragmented social landscape - class, gender, race, and religion - to make an important contribution to the study of class formation and citizenship. This prize-winning monograph will be of interest to scholars of anthropology, development studies, sociology and global public health.
aImpressive, provocative and smart.Immigrant Rights in the Shadows
of U.S. Citizenship is breathtaking in its timeliness and its broad
scope.a aAn urgent collection of essays by both activists and scholars
that puts legislative and judicial histories into dialogue with
activists' struggles to bring about social justice for immigrant
communities. Its ever-present focus on social justice connects the
specificity of individual historical struggles to broader political
aspirations.a Punctuated by marches across the United States in the spring of 2006, immigrant rights has re-emerged as a significant and highly visible political issue. Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of U.S. Citizenship brings prominent activists and scholars together to examine the emergence and significance of the contemporary immigrant rights movement. Contributors place the contemporary immigrant rights movement in historical and comparative contexts by looking at the ways immigrants and their allies have staked claims to rights in the past, and by examining movements based in different communities around the United States. Scholars explain the evolution of immigration policy, and analyze current conflicts around issues of immigrant rights; activists engaged in the current movement document the ways in which coalitions have been built among immigrants from different nations, and between immigrant and native- born peoples. The essays examine the ways in which questions of immigrant rights engage broader issues of identity, including gender, race, and sexuality.
The second volume of Sex Trafficking: International context and response Human trafficking and modern slavery have captured the imagination and attention of the international community. This book builds on the authors' first volume, Sex Trafficking: International context and response. Much has changed since the first volume was published, not least the shift away from sex trafficking to modern slavery as the dominant focus in policy and advocacy. Yet, as the authors argue, little has changed with regards to how nations respond. This volume re-examines the international counter-trafficking scholarship and policy response, to offer an analysis based on original and new data. This book lays the ground for specific forms of research and inquiry that are necessary to better understand and respond to the range of exploitative practices and conditions that give rise to human trafficking. This book offers a detailed analysis of the dominant response to human trafficking, which is framed by the criminal justice process. Examining the identification of victims, the investigation of cases, victim support, prosecutorial decisions and repatriation practices, the authors draw upon original research from Australia, Serbia and Thailand: three diverse nations that, like nations across the globe, have invested heavily in criminalisation as the dominant response to counter trafficking. They argue that exploitation sits at the nexus of global migration patterns and emphasise the importance of speaking to those directly affected by counter-trafficking policies and those directly involved in their implementation in order to produce empirical data to inform how we make sense of the numbers that are produced, the outcome of the policies and how we ought to determine success in this context. An empirical, criminologically informed opportunity to reconsider the dominant ways of understanding and strategies of responding to human trafficking, this multi-disciplinary book will be of interest to those engaged in criminology, sociology, law, political science, public policy and gender studies.
aIn this beautiful study, Schmidt Camacho demonstrates that Mexican
migrant imaginaries affirm in songs, manifestos, poetry, novels,
and testimonies visions of justice that exceed the limits of the
nation-form and the logics of capital accumulationa Migrant Imaginaries explores the transnational movements of Mexican migrants in pursuit of labor and civil rights in the United States from the 1920s onward. Working through key historical moments such as the 1930s, the Chicano Movement, and contemporary globalization and neoliberalism, Alicia Schmidt Camacho examines the relationship between ethnic Mexican expressive culture and the practices sustaining migrant social movements. Combining sustained historical engagement with theoretical inquiries, she addresses how struggles for racial and gender equity, cross-border unity, and economic justice have defined the Mexican presence in the United States since 1910. Schmidt Camacho covers a range of archives and sources, including migrant testimonials and songs, AmA(c)rico Paredesa last published novel, "The Shadow," the film "Salt of the Earth," the foundational manifestos of El Movimiento, Richard Rodrigueza memoirs, narratives by Marisela Norte and Rosario Sanmiguel, and "testimonios" of Mexican women workers and human rights activists, as well as significant ethnographic research. Throughout, she demonstrates how Mexicans and Mexican Americans imagined their communal ties across the border, and used those bonds to contest their noncitizen status. Migrant Imaginaries places migrants at the center of the hemisphereas most pressing concerns, contending thatborder crossers have long been vital to social change.
This book brings together the established field of political communication and the emerging field of critical event studies to develop new questions and approaches. Using this combined framework, it reflects upon how we should understand the expression of democratic participation in mainstream mass media during the 2015 UK General Election and the 2016 referendum on Britain's membership of the EU. Are we now living in an era where democratic participation is much more concerned with spectacle rather than substantive debate? The book addresses this conceptual journey and reflects on differing models of democratic participation, before applying that framework to the two identified case studies. Finally, the authors consider what it means to be living in a period of democratic spectacle, where political events have become evental politics. The book will be of use to students and scholars across the fields of political science and culture and media studies, as well as wide readers interested in the current issues facing British politics.
This book explores mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion involved in practices of community building through an ethnographic study of a neighborhood restaurant in Amsterdam. It presents important insights into the advantages and empowering effects of professional, top down community building in a disadvantaged neighborhood, as well as its tensions and contradictory outcomes. The core argument of the study is that, in spite of the abserved restaurant's well-intended and well-organized attempts to create an inclusive and heterogeneous local community, it instead established one both exclusive and homogeneous. Through a set of community building practices and discourses of "deprivation" and "ethnic and racial otherness," the construction of collective fear for ethnic and racial "others" was indirectly facilitated among the white, working class visitors. As a result, insurmountable barriers were erected for non-white and non-native Dutch residents to become part of the local community. This project speaks to social scientists as well as social workers, governments, and policy-makers concerned with issues of social cohesion, informal networks, and professional community building in disadvantaged urban settings.
Discerning the political import of complex current events requires
great urgency, clarity, and care. Nothing less than the future of
our nation is at stake. Wendell Berry's "Citizenship Papers,"
collecting nineteen essays, is a ringing alarm, a call for
resistance and responsibility, and a reminder of how fragile our
commonwealth has become at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
With nearly 2 million people locked up in the United States, Americans have become increasingly familiar with concepts like mass incarceration and the criminalization of blackness. But what are the ripple effects of these phenomena for families who have a loved one in prison? In The Shadow System, Sylvia A. Harvey details the emotional and financial effects of mass incarceration on families and communities around the country. She reveals a shadow system of laws and regulations enacted to dehumanize the incarcerated and profit off their families-from mandatory sentencing laws, to restrictions on prison visitation, to charges of up to $24.95 for a 15-minute phone call. Harvey follows the fears, challenges, and small victories of three families, illustrating how families navigate the different regulations, programs, and economic costs, learning to cope (or not) with impossible stakes. Herself the daughter of an incarcerated parent, Harvey is uniquely positioned to reveal the granular reality of these worlds, their injustices, and the people trapped within them. The Shadow System will transform our understanding of the lasting impact incarceration has on American families and communities and delivers a galvanizing clarion call -- filled with moving personal stories -- to fix our broken system.
View the Table of Contents. Read the Prologue. Foreword by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg "Exceptionally well-researcheda].Norgrenas contribution is to
situate Lockwood among a generation of female activistsa].Norgren
isa]successful in moving the woman who would be president to her
proper standing as a pioneering lawyer who would change
America." aNorgren has written an engrossing and insightful book about
Belva Lockwood, a woman who, through tenacity, drive and self
worth, accomplished more in the 19th century than many modern women
accomplish. Because Lockwood was known to few and most of her
personal papers were destroyed after her death, Norgren has done an
exemplary job of illuminating the life of this varied and
accomplished woman.a aAn engaging account of Belva Lockwoodas struggles and achievements as one of the first women to enter the legal profession in the United States in the late 19th century.a--"Canadian Journal of Law and Society" aNorgren describes a farmwife who became a fearless advocate for
womenas rights and the first woman lawyer to argue before the
Supreme Courta aNorgren eloquently and succinctly educates the reader on the
story of the first woman to ever be allowed to argue before the
United States Supreme Court, as well as the first woman to ever
launch two full scale bids for this countryas
presidency....Norgrenas writing is engaging and her narrative is
accessible yet rich with fact.a aJill Norgrenas study of Belva Lockwood (which comes with a
graceful preface by Ruth Bader Ginsburg) is a very unusual book. ..
. Norgren has the great discernment to see Lockwoodas life as large
and anticipatory rather than eccentric and half-realized. A legal
historian of considerable skill, she ploughed through reams of
records to construct an account of Lockwoodas legal career. . . .
The comparison [of Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi to] Belva
Lockwood is illuminating, because it was Lockwoodas instinct for
opportunity that took her out of womenas politics, with their
intact principles, into the thick of things. . . . The biographies
of these women will be composed of the workaday, disenchanted
materials of political lives--perseverance, competence, canniness,
and, yes, a facility for the quick grab--that Belva Lockwood
cultivated and prized.a aAstonishingly, this is the first scholarly biography of
19th-century activist Belva Lockwood. Lawyer, lobbyist, wife,
mother, and contemporary of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Lockwood was among the most formidable of equal rights
advocates. The first female lawyer admitted to practice before the
U.S. Supreme Court, the relentlessly ambitious Lockwood ran for the
U.S. presidency in 1884 and 1888 on the Equal Rights Party
ticketa].Later she concentrated on her work for the Universal Peace
Union and her Washington, DC, legal practice while maintaining a
demanding public-speaking schedule. Her life was never easy, as she
constantly fought to surmount political and legal barriers and to
support her family. Although few of Lockwoodas papers have
survived, Norgren has delivered an able and long overdue study of
Lockwoodas life, drawing on newspapers, magazines, organizational
records, and the papers ofLockwoodas contemporaries. Though the
book emphasizes Lockwoodas career, the inclusion of information on
her family and friends gives added dimension. Highly recommended
for both public and academic libraries; essential for womenas
history collections.a aMany biographers would balk at the paucity of archival sources,
but Norgren persisted. . . . In [Norgrenas] credible narrative,
Lockwood emerges as a shrewd self-promoter, never hesitating to
garner publicity for herself and her causes. . . . In eloquent
detail, Norgren shows how Lockwood loved the law.a aLong before Hillary Clinton, there was Belva Lockwood: two-time
presidential hopeful, Lockwood campaigned in 1884 and 1888 on a
platform of women's suffrage. In the first full-length biography of
this feminist pioneer, legal historian Norgren has meticulously
researched what little has remained of Lockwood's papers, most of
which were destroyed after her death.a aIn this thoroughly researched and beautifully written
biography, Jill Norgren traces Belva Lockwoodas dogged efforts to
earn a living as a lawyer in Washington while caring for her
daughter and becoming a leading advocate for womanas suffrage and
the peaceful arbitration of international disputes. Norgrenas
brilliant study makes clear why Lockwood--the first woman to argue
before the Supreme Court (1879) and run for President (1884 and
1888)--belongs in the ranks of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, and Frances Willard.a aJill Norgren beautifully weaves thepersonal and political
ordeals of Belva Lockwood's life into a compelling story that
illuminates Lockwood's enduring contributions. This is a dramatic
account of a pioneering woman whose life in the law still resonates
in contemporary times.a aJill Norgren's splendid biography of one of history's most
astonishing pioneers-first woman counsel before the Supreme Court,
visionary for equal rights, international peace activist, Indian
rights litigator, presidential candidate-is provocative,
challenging, galvanizing! Brilliantly researched, vividly written,
and profoundly discerning. Everybody concerned about justice, human
rights, the future of democracy, and women's power will rush to
read, and assign, this important book.a aBelva Lockwood lived a life of afirstsa as a practicing lawyer
at a time when women were rare in any profession. She was the first
woman admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court and twice ran for
President of the United States. Jill Norgren captures the story of
this forgotten heroine in a biography as fast paced and interesting
as the life Lockwood led.a aJill Norgren's biography of Belva Lockwood is a gem. Not only
does she describe the amazingly full life of an important woman now
practically forgotten, but she takes us into the politics of the
late-nineteenth century women's reform movement in a way few other
authors have done. This is a must-read book.a In Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would be President, prize-winning legal historian Jill Norgren recounts, for the first time, the life story of one of the nineteenth century's most surprising and accomplished advocates for women's rights. As Norgren shows, Lockwood was fearless in confronting the male establishment, commanding the attention of presidents, members of Congress, influential writers, and everyday Americans. Obscured for too long in the historical shadow of her longtime colleague, Susan B. Anthony, Lockwood steps into the limelight at last in this engaging new biography. Born on a farm in upstate New York in 1830, Lockwood married young and reluctantly became a farmer's wife. After her husband's premature death, however, she earned a college degree, became a teacher, and moved to Washington, DC with plans to become an attorney-an occupation all but closed to women. Not only did she become one of the first female attorneys in the U.S., but in 1879 became the first woman ever allowed to practice at the bar of the Supreme Court. In 1884 Lockwood continued her trailblazing ways as the first woman to run a full campaign for the U.S. Presidency. She ran for President again in 1888. Although her candidacies were unsuccessful (as she knew they would be), Lockwood demonstrated that women could compete with men in the political arena. After these campaigns she worked tirelessly on behalf of the Universal Peace Union, hoping, until her death in 1917, that she, or the organization, would win the Nobel Peace Prize. Belva Lockwood deserves to be far better known. As Norgren notes, it is likely that Lockwood would be widely recognized today as a feminist pioneer if most of her personal papers had not been destroyed after her death. Fortunately for readers, Norgren shares much of her subject's tenacity and she has ensured Lockwood's rightful place in history with this meticulously researched and beautifully written book.
Winner, 2021 Ray and Pat Browne Edited Collection Award, given by the Popular Culture Association How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change One cannot change the world unless one can imagine what a better world might look like. Civic imagination is the capacity to conceptualize alternatives to current cultural, social, political, or economic conditions; it also requires the ability to see oneself as a civic agent capable of making change, as a participant in a larger democratic culture. Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination represents a call for greater clarity about what we're fighting for-not just what we're fighting against. Across more than thirty examples from social movements around the world, this casebook proposes "civic imagination" as a framework that can help us identify, support, and practice new kinds of communal participation. As the contributors demonstrate, young people, in particular, are turning to popular culture-from Beyonce to Bollywood, from Smokey Bear to Hamilton, from comic books to VR-for the vernacular through which they can express their discontent with current conditions. A young activist uses YouTube to speak back against J. K. Rowling in the voice of Cho Chang in order to challenge the superficial representation of Asian Americans in children's literature. Murals in Los Angeles are employed to construct a mythic imagination of Chicano identity. Twitter users have turned to #BlackGirlMagic to highlight the black radical imagination and construct new visions of female empowerment. In each instance, activists demonstrate what happens when the creative energies of fans are infused with deep political commitment, mobilizing new visions of what a better democracy might look like.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This Open Access book investigates European citizenship after Brexit, in light of the functionalist theory of citizenship. No matter its shape, Brexit will impact significantly on what has been labelled as one of the major achievements of EU integration: Citizenship of the Union. For the first time an automatic and collective lapse of status is observed. It is a form of involuntary loss of citizenship en masse, imposed by the automatic workings of the law on EU citizens of exclusively British nationality. It does not however create statelessness and it is likely to be tolerated under international law. This loss of citizenship is connected to a reduction of rights, affecting not solely the former Union citizens but also second country nationals in the United Kingdom and their family members. The status of European citizenship and connected rights are first presented. Chapter Two focuses on the legal uncertainty that afflicts second country nationals in the United Kingdom as well as British citizens, turning from expats to post-European third country nationals. Chapter Three describes the functionalist theory and delineates three ways in which it applies to Brexit. These three directions of inquiry are developed in the following chapters. Chapter Four focuses on the intension of Union citizenship: Which rights can be frozen? Chapter Five determines the extension of Union citizenship: Who gets to withdraw the status? The key finding is that while Member states are in principle free to revoke the status of Union citizen, former Member states are not unbounded in stripping Union citizens of their acquired territorial rights. Conclusions are drawn and policy-suggestions summed up in the final chapter.
The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significant traditions, genres, and themes of civil rights literature. While civil rights scholarship has typically focused on documentary rather than creative writing, and political rather than cultural history, this Companion addresses the gap and provides university students with a vast introduction to an impressive range of authors, including Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, and Toni Morrison. Accessible to undergraduates and academics alike, this Companion surveys the critical landscape of a rapidly growing field and lays the foundation for future studies.
The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significant traditions, genres, and themes of civil rights literature. While civil rights scholarship has typically focused on documentary rather than creative writing, and political rather than cultural history, this Companion addresses the gap and provides university students with a vast introduction to an impressive range of authors, including Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, and Toni Morrison. Accessible to undergraduates and academics alike, this Companion surveys the critical landscape of a rapidly growing field and lays the foundation for future studies.
This volume looks at the construction of gendered citizenship in different rural contexts. These contexts represent different welfare state and gender regimes, and different rural/agricultural conditions as characterized in different countryside types. This is a study of gender, citizenship and gender regimes, in a rural context with an international list of contributors.
This book is one of the first to use citizenship as a lens through which to understand German history in the twentieth century. By considering how Germans defined themselves and others, the book explores how nationality and citizenship rights were constructed, and how Germans defined--and contested--their national community over the century. The volume presents new research informed by cultural, political, legal, and institutional history to obtain a fresh understanding of German history in a century marked by traumatic historical ruptures. By investigating a concept that has been widely discussed in the social sciences, "Citizenship and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Germany" engages with scholarly debates in sociology, anthropology, and political science.
Focusing on what can be referred to as the 'precarity-agency-migration nexus', this comprehensive volume leverages the political, economic, and social dynamics of migration to better understand both deepening inequality and popular resistance. Drawing on rich ethnographic and interview-based studies of the United States and Latin America, the authors show how migrants are navigating and challenging conditions of insecurity and structures of power. Detailed case studies illuminate collective survival strategies along the migrant trail, efforts by nannies and dairy workers in the northeast United States to assert dignity and avoid deportation, strategies of reintegration used by deportees in Guatemala and Mexico, and grassroots organizing and public protest in California. In doing so they reveal varied moments of agency without presenting an overly idyllic picture or presuming limitless potential for change. Anchoring the study of migration in the opposition between precarity and agency, the authors thus provide a new window into the continuously unfolding relationship between national borders, global capitalism, and human freedom. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Citizenship Studies. |
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