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Manifesto for New Social Movements - Equity, Access, & Empowerment (Hardcover): Cesar Augusto Rossatto Manifesto for New Social Movements - Equity, Access, & Empowerment (Hardcover)
Cesar Augusto Rossatto
R1,688 Discovery Miles 16 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The world is currently witnessing the emergence of a new context for education, labor, and transformative social movements. Global flows of people, capital, and energy increasingly define the world we live in. The multinational corporation, with its pursuit of ever-cheaper sources of labor and materials and its disregard for human life, is the dominant form of economic organization, where capital can cross borders, but people can't. Affirmative action, democracy, and human rights are moving in from the margins to challenge capitalist priorities of "efficiency", i.e. exploitation. In some places, the representatives of popular movements are actually taking the reins of state power. Across the globe new progressive movements are emerging to bridge national identities and boundaries, in solidarity with transnational class, gender, and ethnic struggles. At this juncture, educators have a key role to play. The ideology of market competition has become more entrenched in schools, even as opportunities for skilled employment diminish. We must rethink the relationship between schooling and labor, developing transnational pedagogies that draw upon the myriad social struggles shaping students' lives and communities. Critical educators need to connect with other social movements to put a radically democratic agenda, based on the principles of equity, access, and emancipation, at the center of educational praxis. Many countries in Latin America like in other continents are developing new alternatives for the reconstruction of social projects; these emerging sources of hope are the central focus of this book. Major historical change always starts with people's social movement. Democracy can be one of the best political and social systems in the world but for it to work entails the sustainable participation of citizens. Above all, it requires that people be informed and critically educated since the quality of democracy depends on quality of education. There are 2 kinds of power: money and people. If people exercise their agency, they can be more powerful than money. There are some organizing principles of social movements, as: "don't do for others what they should do for themselves." Saul Alinsky wrote: Rules for Radicals: A pragmatic primer for realistic radicals; Mary Rogers: Cold Anger: A story of faith and power politics; Michael Gecan: Going Public: An organizer's guide to citizen action; and Ernesto Cortez's, Industrial Area Foundation, are all great sources for organized activism that do work. I put some of these principles to the test and they produced positive results, I was a founder and president of a union at my university and I lived my whole life as an activist and learned that, we can do more together than alone. Now we also have a new digital war with the Cambridge Analitica and Breitbart's fake news manipulation; however, we also have social-justice hacktivism to counter act it, as well as other democratic social media venues that critical thinkers and activist use. The chapters in this book demonstrate the importance of widening and diversifying social movements, at the same time, emphasizes the need to build cohesive alliances among all the different fronts. What some people think is "impossible" can become a transformed reality, for those who dare attempt changing the world as global citizens.

A Feminist Reading of Debt (Hardcover): Luci Cavallero, Veronica Gago A Feminist Reading of Debt (Hardcover)
Luci Cavallero, Veronica Gago; Translated by Liz Mason-Deese
R2,651 Discovery Miles 26 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** In this sharp intervention, authors Luci Cavallero and Veronica Gago defiantly develop a feminist understanding of debt, showing its impact on women and members of the LGBTQ+ community and examining the relationship between debt and social reproduction. Exploring the link between financial activity and the rise of conservative forces in Latin America, the book demonstrates that debt is intimately linked to gendered violence and patriarchal notions of the family. Yet, rather than seeing these forces as insurmountable, the authors also show ways in which debt can be resisted, drawing on concrete experiences and practices from Latin America and around the world. Featuring interviews with women in Argentina and Brazil, the book reveals the real-life impact of debt and how it falls mainly on the shoulders of women, from the household to the wider effects of national debt and austerity. However, through discussions around experiences of work, prisons, domestic labour, agriculture, family, abortion and housing, a narrative of resistance emerges. Translated by Liz Mason-Deese.

Confluence - John Gottschalk's Life of Duty, Service, and the Business of News (Hardcover): George Ayoub Confluence - John Gottschalk's Life of Duty, Service, and the Business of News (Hardcover)
George Ayoub
R929 R812 Discovery Miles 8 120 Save R117 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ask a Suffragist - Stories and Wisdom from America's First Feminists (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print... Ask a Suffragist - Stories and Wisdom from America's First Feminists (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
April Young Bennett
R842 Discovery Miles 8 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars - The Politics of Sex (Hardcover): Finn Mackay Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars - The Politics of Sex (Hardcover)
Finn Mackay
R2,685 Discovery Miles 26 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Thoughtful and often moving." Gaby Hinsliff, The Guardian Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars provides important theoretical background and context to the 'gender wars' or 'TERF wars' - the fracture at the forefront of the LGBTQ international conversation. Using queer and female masculinities as a lens, Finn Mackay investigates the current generational shift that is refusing the previous assumed fixity of sex, gender and sexual identity. Transgender and trans rights movements are currently experiencing political backlash from within certain lesbian and lesbian feminist groups, resulting in a situation in which these two minority communities are frequently pitted against one another or perceived as diametrically opposed. Uniquely, Finn Mackay approaches this debate through the context of female masculinity, butch and transmasculine lesbian masculinities. There has been increasing interest in the study of masculinity, influenced by a popular discourse around so-called 'toxic masculinity', the rise of men's rights activism and theory and critical work on Trump's America and the MeToo movement. An increasingly important topic in political science and sociological academia, this book aims to break new ground in the discussion of the politics of gender and identity.

Oliver Tambo - Beyond the Engeni Mountains (Paperback, New ed): Luli Callinicos Oliver Tambo - Beyond the Engeni Mountains (Paperback, New ed)
Luli Callinicos
R450 R422 Discovery Miles 4 220 Save R28 (6%) In Stock

Born in 1917 in Bizana in the Eastern Cape, Oliver Reginald Tambo became Nelson Mandela's legal partner and a prominent member of the ANC's Youth League.

Following the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, Tambo left South Africa to set up the ANC's international mission. As President of the ANC in exile, he led the fight against apartheid on both the diplomatic and military fronts. He died in 1993 on the eve of liberation. Tambo had a profound influence on the ANC during the difficult years of uncertainty, loneliness and homesickness in exile. His simplicity, his nurturing style, his genuine respect for all people seemed to bring out the best in them.

This is the story of one of South Africa's great sons - 'the most loved leader', the Moses who led his people to the promised land but did not live to enter it.

Time Is Always Now - Poems (Hardcover): Rebecca Starks Time Is Always Now - Poems (Hardcover)
Rebecca Starks
R723 R639 Discovery Miles 6 390 Save R84 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Politics of the Many - Contemporary Radical Thought and the Crisis of Agency (Hardcover): Benjamin Halligan, Alexei Penzin,... Politics of the Many - Contemporary Radical Thought and the Crisis of Agency (Hardcover)
Benjamin Halligan, Alexei Penzin, Stefano Pippa, Rebecca Carson
R3,381 Discovery Miles 33 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Politics of the Many draws inspiration from Percy Bysshe Shelley's celebrated call to arms: 'Ye are many - they are few!' This idea of the Many, as a general form of emancipatory subjectivity that cannot be erased for the sake of the One, is the philosophical and political assumption shared by contributors to this book. They raise questions of collective agency, and its crisis in contemporary capitalism, via new engagements with Marxist philosophy, psychoanalysis, theories of social reproduction and value-form, and post-colonial critiques, and drawing on activist thought and strategies. This book interrogates both established and emergent formations of the Many (the people, classes, publics, crowds, masses, multitudes), tracing their genealogies, their recent failures and victories, and their potentials to change the world. The book proposes and explores an intense and provoking series of new or reinvented concepts, figures, and theoretical constellations, including dividuality, the centaur, unintentional vanguard, insomnia at work, always-on capitalism, multitude (from its 'voiding' to a '(non)emergence'), crowds, necropolitics, and the link between political subjectivity and value-form. The contributors to Politics of the Many are both acclaimed and emergent thinkers including Carina Brand, Rebecca Carson, Luhuna Carvalho, Lorenzo Chiesa, Jodi Dean, Dario Gentili, Benjamin Halligan, Marc James Leger, Paul Mazzocchi, Alexei Penzin, Stefano Pippa, Gerald Raunig, and Stevphen Shukaitis.

The Confessions of Nat Turner (Hardcover): Nat Turner The Confessions of Nat Turner (Hardcover)
Nat Turner
R622 Discovery Miles 6 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Raw Thought, Raw Nerve - Inside the Mind of Aaron Swartz: not-for-profit - revised fourth edition (Hardcover): Aaron Swartz Raw Thought, Raw Nerve - Inside the Mind of Aaron Swartz: not-for-profit - revised fourth edition (Hardcover)
Aaron Swartz
R953 Discovery Miles 9 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Woo! - Strange Happenings at the Windmill and Other Tangential Rants (Hardcover): Dave Thomson Woo! - Strange Happenings at the Windmill and Other Tangential Rants (Hardcover)
Dave Thomson
R740 Discovery Miles 7 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Building Bridges (Hardcover): Kendra Weddle, Jann Aldredge-Clanton Building Bridges (Hardcover)
Kendra Weddle, Jann Aldredge-Clanton
R1,145 R963 Discovery Miles 9 630 Save R182 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Rendezvous to Remember - A Memoir of Joy and Heartache at the Dawn of the Sixties (Hardcover): Terry Marshall, Ann Garretson... A Rendezvous to Remember - A Memoir of Joy and Heartache at the Dawn of the Sixties (Hardcover)
Terry Marshall, Ann Garretson Marshall
R793 R709 Discovery Miles 7 090 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
I Ran Into Some Trouble (Hardcover): Peggy Caserta, Maggie Falcon I Ran Into Some Trouble (Hardcover)
Peggy Caserta, Maggie Falcon
R761 Discovery Miles 7 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
New Media Discourses, Culture and Politics after the Arab Spring - Case Studies from Egypt and Beyond (Hardcover): Eid Mohamed,... New Media Discourses, Culture and Politics after the Arab Spring - Case Studies from Egypt and Beyond (Hardcover)
Eid Mohamed, Aziz Douai
R3,206 Discovery Miles 32 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book investigates the interplay between media, politics, religion, and culture in shaping Arabs' quest for more stable and democratic governance models in the aftermath of the "Arab Spring" uprisings. It focuses on online mediated public debates, specifically user comments on online Arab news sites, and their potential to re-engage citizens in politics. Contributors systematically explore and critique these online communities and spaces in the context of the Arab uprisings, with case studies, largely centered on Egypt, covering micro-bloggers, Islamic discourse online, Libyan nationalism on Facebook, and a computational assessment of online engagement, among other topics.

Authorship, Activism and Celebrity - Art and Action in Global Literature (Hardcover): Sandra Mayer, Ruth Scobie Authorship, Activism and Celebrity - Art and Action in Global Literature (Hardcover)
Sandra Mayer, Ruth Scobie
R3,200 Discovery Miles 32 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Since long before the age of celebrity activism, literary authors have used their public profiles and cultural capital to draw attention to a wide range of socio-political concerns. This book is the first to explore – through history, criticism and creative interventions – the relationship between authorship, political activism and celebrity culture across historical periods, cultures, literatures and media. It brings together scholars, industry stakeholders and prominent writer-activists to engage in a conversation on literary fame and public authority. These scholarly essays, interviews, conversations and opinion pieces interrogate the topos of the artist as prophet and acute critic of the zeitgeist; analyse the ideological dimension of literary celebrity; and highlight the fault lines between public and private authorial selves, ‘pure’ art, political commitment and marketplace imperatives. In case studies ranging from the 18th century to present-day controversies, authors illuminate the complex relationship between literature, politics, celebrity culture and market activism, bringing together vivid current debates on the function and responsibility of literature in increasingly fractured societies.

The 12 Disciples of Great Men - Divine Principles for Personal, Spiritual and Business Success Exposed (Hardcover): J U Passion The 12 Disciples of Great Men - Divine Principles for Personal, Spiritual and Business Success Exposed (Hardcover)
J U Passion
R564 Discovery Miles 5 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. By William Godwin. The Second Edition, Corrected (Hardcover):... Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. By William Godwin. The Second Edition, Corrected (Hardcover)
William Godwin
R894 Discovery Miles 8 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Navalny - Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? (Paperback): Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, Ben Noble Navalny - Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future? (Paperback)
Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, Ben Noble
R491 Discovery Miles 4 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022 A Financial Times Politics Book of the Year 2021 A fascinating account of Russia's famous dissident and the politics he embodies. Who is Alexei Navalny? Poisoned in August 2020 and transported to Germany for treatment, the politician returned to Russia in January 2021 in the full glare of the world media. His immediate detention at passport control set the stage for an explosive showdown with Vladimir Putin. But Navalny means very different things to different people. To some, he is a democratic hero. To others, he is betraying the Motherland. To others still, he is a dangerous nationalist. This book explores the many dimensions of Navalny's political life, from his pioneering anti-corruption investigations to his ideas and leadership of a political movement. It also looks at how his activities and the Kremlin's strategies have shaped one another. Navalny makes sense of this divisive character, revealing the contradictions of a man who is the second most important political figure in Russia-even when behind bars. In order to understand modern Russia, you need to understand Alexei Navalny. This updated version includes new material following Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Dogs Are Better Than People - Encountering Good and Evil in the Animal Rescue World (Hardcover): Lori Bradley-Millstein Dogs Are Better Than People - Encountering Good and Evil in the Animal Rescue World (Hardcover)
Lori Bradley-Millstein
R799 R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
For the Fallen - Honouring the Unsung Heroes and Heroines of the Liberation Struggle (Paperback): Mzwakhe Ndlela For the Fallen - Honouring the Unsung Heroes and Heroines of the Liberation Struggle (Paperback)
Mzwakhe Ndlela
R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While South Africa has many stories about the struggle years, yet many more remain untold. For the Fallen; honouring the unsung heroes and heroines of the liberation struggle was inspired by a radio interview with the late Govan Mbeki. In that interview Mbeki emphasised the need for South Africans to tell their stories and spread knowledge. It took a while for Ndlela to heed those words and tell his story in this book. This book is as much about the author’s concerns that a generation who have only known freedom will forget or never even understand the great price it took to gain that freedom, as it is about the often forgotten heroes and heroines who showed their ultimate commitment to their ideals. The book chronicles the author’s journey from Bedford in the Eastern Cape as a young boy, fearful and yet defiant of the police who harassed him and his friends, to the young militant who became an MK soldier whose exile took him to Lesotho, Zambia, Angola and Swaziland. He describes the inspiration he gained from the heroes and heroines he encountered on this journey. These heroes and heroines included the primary school teacher who encouraged parents to broaden their thinking and who stressed the importance of education; the radical high school teacher who defied the “system “and the school curriculum to teach real, “current” history and the man of God who was required to save souls in more ways than one. As the reader accompanies Ndlela on this retrospective journey, one will encounter individuals who would later play a pivotal role in the establishment and concretisation of the democratic South Africa, people such as Thenjiwe Mtintso, Chris Hani, Jeff Radebe, Rev Makhenkesi Stofile, Mvuyo Tom and many others. For the Fallen is above all, a reminder that our freedom was not lightly gained and that we should keep telling these stories, lest we forget.

The Comeback (Hardcover): Cam Armitage The Comeback (Hardcover)
Cam Armitage
R617 Discovery Miles 6 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wild and Precious Life (Paperback): Deborah Ziegler Wild and Precious Life (Paperback)
Deborah Ziegler
R413 R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Save R23 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Chacha Chaudhary Corona Warriors (Hardcover): Parn Chacha Chaudhary Corona Warriors (Hardcover)
Parn
R729 Discovery Miles 7 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Targeted - One Mom's fight for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. (Hardcover): Lindsey Graham Targeted - One Mom's fight for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. (Hardcover)
Lindsey Graham
R947 Discovery Miles 9 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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