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Women Activists between War and Peace employs a comparative
approach in exploring women's political and social activism across
the European continent in the years that followed the First World
War. It brings together leading scholars in the field to discuss
the contribution of women's movements in, and individual female
activists from, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Great
Britain, Hungary, Russia and the United States. The book contains
an introduction that helpfully outlines key concepts and broader,
European-wide issues and concerns, such as peace, democracy and the
role of the national and international in constructing the new,
post-war political order. It then proceeds to examine the nature of
women's activism through the prism of five pivotal topics: *
Suffrage and nationalism * Pacifism and internationalism *
Revolution and socialism * Journalism and print media * War and the
body A timeline and illustrations are also included in the book,
along with a useful guide to further reading. This is a vitally
important text for all students of women's history,
twentieth-century Europe and the legacy of the First World War.
Does the internet facilitate social and political change, or even
democratization, in the Middle East? Despite existing research on
this subject, there is still no consensus on the importance of
social media and online platforms, or on how we are to understand
their influence. This book provides empirical analysis of the
day-to-day use of online platforms by activists in Egypt and
Kuwait. The research evaluates the importance of online platforms
for effecting change and establishes a specific framework for doing
so. Egypt and Kuwait were chosen because, since the mid-2000s, they
have been the most prominent Arab countries in terms of online and
offline activism. In the context of Kuwait, Jon Nordenson examines
the oppositional youth groups who fought for a constitutional,
democratic monarchy in the emirate. In Egypt, focus surrounds the
groups and organizations working against sexual violence and sexual
harassment. Online Activism in the Middle East shows how and why
online platforms are used by activists and identifies the crucial
features of successful online campaigns. Egypt and Kuwait are
revealed to be authoritarian contexts but where the challenges and
possibilities faced by activists are quite different. The
comparative nature of this research therefore exposes the
context-specific usage of online platforms, separating this from
the more general features of online activism. Nordenson
demonstrates the power of online activism to create an essential
'counterpublic' that can challenge an authoritarian state and
enable excluded groups to fight in ways that are far more difficult
to suppress than a demonstration.
Revolutionary feminism is resurging across the world. But what were
its origins? In the early 1970s, the International Feminist
Collective began to organise around the call for recognition of the
different forms of labour performed by women. They paved the way
for the influential and controversial feminist campaign 'Wages for
Housework' which made great strides towards driving debates in
social reproduction and the gendered aspects of labour. Drawing on
extensive archival research, Louise Toupin looks at the history of
this movement between 1972 and 1977, featuring unpublished
conversations with some of its founders including Silvia Federici
and Mariarosa Dalla Costa, as well as activists from Italy,
Germany, Switzerland, the United States and Canada. Encompassing
rich theoretical traditions, including autonomism, anti-colonialism
and feminism, whilst challenging both classical Marxism and the
mainstream women's movement, the book highlights the power and
originality of the campaign. Among their many innovations, these
pathbreaking activists approached gender, sexuality, race and class
together in a way that anticipated intersectionality and had a
radical new understanding of sex work.
Politics constructs gender and gender constructs politics: this is
a central theme in this collection of essays which seek not only to
write a history that focus on women's experiences but seeks also to
analyse those dynamic forces that have shaped that history.It
examines the 'making' of the other half of the working class -
women - as workers, trade unionists and political activists, and
seeks to weave together intricate relationship between class and
gender, particular within the process of industrialization. It is
because the class/gender relationship has often been either ignored
or misunderstood that it has been possible to write general
histories of the labour movement in which women are hardly
mentioned. Featuring contributions from leading and up-and-coming
women labour historians, essays are in three sections: the labour
market/work (typical and atypical); trade unions; and politics
 Chicago is home to the second-largest Mexican immigrant
population in the United States, yet the activities of this
community have gone relatively unexamined by both the media and
academia. In this groundbreaking new book, Xóchitl Bada
takes us inside one of the most vital parts of Chicago’s Mexican
immigrant community—its many hometown associations. Hometown
associations (HTAs) consist of immigrants from the same town in
Mexico and often begin quite informally, as soccer clubs or prayer
groups. As Bada’s work shows, however, HTAs have become a
powerful force for change, advocating for Mexican immigrants in the
United States while also working to improve living conditions in
their communities of origin. Focusing on a group of HTAs founded by
immigrants from the state of Michoacán, the book shows how their
activism has bridged public and private spheres, mobilizing social
reforms in both inner-city Chicago and rural Mexico. Bringing
together ethnography, political theory, and archival research, Bada
excavates the surprisingly long history of Chicago’s HTAs, dating
back to the 1920s, then traces the emergence of new models of
community activism in the twenty-first century. Filled with vivid
observations and original interviews, Mexican Hometown Associations
in Chicagoacán gives voice to an underrepresented community and
sheds light on an underexplored form of global activism.
While Brian Fitzpatrick has today fallen into relative obscurity,
efforts persist in discrediting Manning Clark's name. ""Against the
Grain"" examines the dual careers of Fitzpatrick and Clark as
activists and historians during the Cold War, and shows the
political and personal difficulties that beset both men throughout
their careers. Contributors Stuart Macintyre, James Waghorne, Ann
Curthoys, Mark McKenna, Roger Douglas, Sheila Fitzpatrick, Mark
Finnane, John Myrtle, Carolyn Rasmussen, Jill Roe and others
critically observe the men's legacy and the value of their work to
future generations. The collection also includes memoirs of
Fitzpatrick and Clark by their daughters Sheila and Katerina, and
Beverley Kingston and Nicholas Brown.
Part memoir, nutritional primer, and political manifesto, this
controversial examination exposes the destructive history of
agriculture--causing the devastation of prairies and forests,
driving countless species extinct, altering the climate, and
destroying the topsoil--and asserts that, in order to save the
planet, food must come from within living communities. In order for
this to happen, the argument champions eating locally and
sustainably and encourages those with the resources to grow their
own food. Further examining the question of what to eat from the
perspective of both human and environmental health, the account
goes beyond health choices and discusses potential moral issues
from eating--or not eating--animals. Through the deeply personal
narrative of someone who practiced veganism for 20 years, this
unique exploration also discusses alternatives to industrial
farming, reveals the risks of a vegan diet, and explains why
animals belong on ecologically sound farms.
In this book, Mireya Loza sheds new light on the private lives of
migrantmen who participated in the Bracero Program (1942-1964), a
binationalagreement between the United States and Mexico that
allowed hundredsof thousands of Mexican workers to enter this
country on temporary workpermits. While this program and the issue
of temporary workers has longbeen politicized on both sides of the
border, Loza argues that the prevailingromanticized image of
braceros as a family-oriented, productive, legal workforcehas
obscured the real, diverse experiences of the workers
themselves.Focusing on underexplored aspects of workers' lives-such
as their transnationalunion-organizing efforts, the sexual
economies of both hetero andqueer workers, and the ethno-racial
boundaries among Mexican indigenousbraceros-Loza reveals how these
men defied perceived political, sexual, andracial norms. Basing her
work on an archive of more than 800 oral histories from theUnited
States and Mexico, Loza is the first scholar to carefully
differentiatebetween the experiences of mestizo guest workers and
the many Mixtec,Zapotec, Purhepecha, and Mayan laborers. In doing
so, she captures themyriad ways these defiant workers responded to
the intense discriminationand exploitation of an unjust system that
still persists today.
Recently, a wall was built in eastern Germany. Made of steel and
cement blocks, topped with razor barbed wire, and reinforced with
video monitors and movement sensors, this wall was not put up to
protect a prison or a military base, but rather to guard a
three-day meeting of the finance ministers of the Group of Eight
(G8). The wall manifested a level of security that is increasingly
commonplace at meetings regarding the global economy. The authors
of Shutting Down the Streets have directly observed and
participated in more than 20 mass actions against global in North
America and Europe, beginning with the watershed 1999 WTO meetings
in Seattle and including the 2007 G8 protests in Heiligendamm.
Shutting Down the Streets is the first book to conceptualize the
social control of dissent in the era of alterglobalization. Based
on direct observation of more than 20 global summits, the book
demonstrates that social control is not only global, but also
preemptive, and that it relegates dissent to the realm of
criminality. The charge is insurrection, but the accused have no
weapons. The authors document in detail how social control
forecloses the spaces through which social movements nurture the
development of dissent and effect disruptive challenges.
Around the globe, contemporary protest movements are contesting the
oligarchic appropriation of natural resources, public services, and
shared networks of knowledge and communication. These struggles
raise the same fundamental demand and rest on the same irreducible
principle: the common. In this exhaustive account, Pierre Dardot
and Christian Laval show how the common has become the defining
principle of alternative political movements in the 21st century.
In societies deeply shaped by neoliberal rationality, the common is
increasingly invoked as the operative concept of practical
struggles creating new forms of democratic governance. In a feat of
analytic clarity, Dardot and Laval dissect and synthesize a vast
repository on the concept of the commons, from the fields of
philosophy, political theory, economics, legal theory, history,
theology, and sociology. Instead of conceptualizing the common as
an essence of man or as inherent in nature, the thread developed by
Dardot and Laval traces the active lives of human beings: only a
practical activity of commoning can decide what will be shared in
common and what rules will govern the common's citizen-subjects.
This re-articulation of the common calls for nothing less than the
institutional transformation of society by society: it calls for a
revolution.
Augusto Boal saw theatre as a mirror to the world, one that we can
reach into to change our reality. This book, The Theatre of the
Oppressed, is the foundation to 'Forum Theatre', a popular radical
form practised across the world. Boal's techniques allowed the
people to reclaim theatre, providing forums through which they
could imagine and enact social and political change. Rejecting the
Aristotelian ethic, which he believed allowed the State to remain
unchallenged, he broke down the wall between actors and audience,
the two sides coming together, the audience becoming the
'spect-actors'. Written in 1973, while in exile from the Brazilian
government after the military coup-d'etat, this is a work of
subversion and liberation, which shows that only the oppressed are
able to free themselves.
Providing an unbiased analysis of the past, present, and future of
the hostile relationship between Iran, Israel, and the United
States, this book presents an up-to-date discussion of the security
implications for each of the two states as well as the entire
region. Ongoing tensions between Iran and Israel are highly
dangerous for the Middle East and have the potential to spark
another major war in the region, perhaps on a much larger scale
than prior conflicts. Such a confrontation between the two nations
would jeopardize regional and international security, and is of
immediate concern for the United States. In this new book noted
scholar Jalil Roshandel provides an in-depth look at topics such as
Iranian state support for terrorism, its pursuit of nuclear
capability and weapons, the implications of this activity for
Israel, and their relations with the Iraqi Kurdish region. The
United States' role in this conflict is also detailed, including a
history if its relations with Iran, policy with Israel, and
position as potential mediator. This book offers valuable context
that explains the evolution of these relationships rather than
simply summarizing the past and present situations, and concludes
with thought-provoking policy alternatives for decision makers.
Illustrates the complex relationship between Iran and Israel though
an examination of historic events Provides a comprehensive
bibliography of significant materials from the fields of history,
politics, and international relations Includes an index of
subjects, names, places, events, and related issues
Written from the perspective of a practising artist, this book
proposes that, against a groundswell of historians, museums and
commentators claiming to speak on behalf of art, it is artists
alone who may define what art really is. Jelinek contends that
while there are objects called 'art' in museums from deep into
human history and from around the globe - from Hans Sloane's
collection, which became the foundation of the British Museum, to
Alfred Barr's inclusion of 'primitive art' within the walls of
MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art - only those that have been made
with the knowledge and discipline of art should rightly be termed
as such. Policing the definition of art in this way is not to
entrench it as an elitist occupation, but in order to focus on its
liberal democratic potential. Between Discipline and a Hard Place
describes the value of art outside the current preoccupation with
economic considerations yet without resorting to a range of
stereotypical and ultimately instrumentalist political or social
goods, such as social inclusion or education. A wider argument is
also made for disciplinarity, as Jelinek discusses the great
potential as well as the pitfalls of interdisciplinary and
multidisciplinary working, particularly with the so-called
'creative' arts. A passionate treatise arguing for a new way of
understanding art that forefronts the role of the artist and the
importance of inclusion within both the concept of art and the art
world.
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