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Trials for Treason and Sedition, 1792-1794, Part I (Hardcover): John Barrell Trials for Treason and Sedition, 1792-1794, Part I (Hardcover)
John Barrell
R22,236 Discovery Miles 222 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The period 1792-94 witnessed the emergence of the first genuinely popular radical movement in Britain. After the phenomenal success of Thomas Paine's Rights of Man (1791-92), the government moved swiftly to prevent French republican ideas taking hold in Britain, beginning with the prosecution of Paine himself in absentia. There followed a spate of trials for seditious libel, often against booksellers in London who were selling cheap copies of Paine's book. Finally, in May 1794, the government took the step of accusing the movement of treason, arresting its leaders, among them Thomas Hardy, Secretary of the London Corresponding Society, John Horne Tooke, the veteran gentleman radical, and the lecturer and poet John Thelwall. These eight volumes contain the key trials of London radicalism from 1792-94.

Decriminalizing Abortion in Northern Ireland - Legislation and Protest (Hardcover): Fiona Bloomer, Emma Campbell Decriminalizing Abortion in Northern Ireland - Legislation and Protest (Hardcover)
Fiona Bloomer, Emma Campbell
R3,094 Discovery Miles 30 940 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Northern Ireland stands out as having enacted historical positive change in abortion law, from an almost complete ban in the 20th century to the decriminalization achieved in 2019. This book documents and analyzes how this historical change was achieved. Each chapter is written by those directly involved in the long-fought battle to change abortion law - including those with personal experience of seeking abortions, activists, academics, legal experts, political actors, NGOs, and volunteers. In this, the first of two volumes, contributions focus on the legislative landscape of the process with particular emphasis on the importance of 'feminist legal work' - law-making influenced by the women most likely to be impacted by it.

Social Movements and Their Technologies - Wiring Social Change (Hardcover, New): Stefania Milan Social Movements and Their Technologies - Wiring Social Change (Hardcover, New)
Stefania Milan; Foreword by DeeDee Halleck
R1,945 Discovery Miles 19 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Now in paperback for the first time, Social Movements and their Technologies explores the interplay between social movements and their 'liberated technologies'. It analyzes the rise of low-power radio stations and radical internet projects ('emancipatory communication practices') as a political subject, focusing on the sociological and cultural processes at play. It provides an overview of the relationship between social movements and technology, and investigates what is behind the communication infrastructure that made possible the main protest events of the past fifteen years. In doing so, Stefania Milan illustrates how contemporary social movements organize in order to create autonomous alternatives to communication systems and networks, and how they contribute to change the way people communicate in daily life, as well as try to change communication policy from the grassroots. She situates these efforts in a historical context in order to show the origins of contemporary communication activism, and its linkages to media reform campaigns and policy advocacy.

Critical Theories, International Relations and 'the Anti-Globalisation Movement' - The Politics of Global Resistance... Critical Theories, International Relations and 'the Anti-Globalisation Movement' - The Politics of Global Resistance (Hardcover)
Catherine Eschle, Bice Maiguashca
R4,487 Discovery Miles 44 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From the Zapatistas to Seattle and beyond, the "anti-globalization movement" has been grabbing headlines and capturing political imaginations worldwide. This book explores the interface between diverse resistances to neo-liberal globalization and a range of critical theories within international relations.
"Critical Theories, International Relations and 'the Anti-Globalization Movement' "provides a comprehensive and nuanced analysis of the "anti-globalization" struggles taking place in many different parts of the world. It shows the complexity and diversity of these movements and illustrates this with a number of detailed empirical studies of local, national and transnational resistance in the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa. The authors introduce a variety of competing theoretical perspectives from international political economy, social movement theory, globalization studies feminism and postmodernism, explaining how activism has influenced theory and how theory can help activists to modify their tactics.
The global protest movement has made a huge impact on world politics and this book is essential reading for students, scholars and activists with an interest in this area.

The Power of Morality in Movements - Civic Engagement in Climate Justice, Human Rights, and Democracy (Hardcover, 1st ed.... The Power of Morality in Movements - Civic Engagement in Climate Justice, Human Rights, and Democracy (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Anders Sevelsted, Jonas Toubol
R1,677 Discovery Miles 16 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This Open Access book explores the role of morality in social movements. Morality has always been central to social movements whether it be in the form of the moral foundations of movement claims, politics and ideologies, the values motivating participation, the new moral principles envisioned and practiced among movement participants, or the overall struggle over society's moral values that movements engage in. This is evident in movements emerging from recent interlinked crises: the crisis of human rights, the climate crisis, and the developing crisis of democracy. In analyzing these current events through a variety of theoretical, methodological, and empirical lenses, this book brings morality to the forefront of the discussion, allowing for a rethinking of its role. The book is divided into five parts. The first part introduces and explores the central concept of the book, outlining the dominant existing approaches to morality and ethics in the extant movement and civil society literature. The following three parts investigate morality in relation to topics and movements that are either prominent to contemporary politics or salient to the question of morality. In these empirically informed parts, the authors apply a diverse selection of methods spanning fieldwork, historiography, traditional and novel statistical analytical methods, and big data analysis to a diverse selection of data. Topics discussed include refugee solidarity movements, male privilege and anti-feminism movement, environmental and climate justice movements, and religious activism. The fifth and closing part of the book focuses on the more abstract theoretical question of the relationship between morality and ethics and activist practices and points to future research agendas. This book will be of general interest to students, scholars and academics within the disciplines of political sociology, -science and -anthropology and of particular interest to academics in the subfields of social movement and civil society studies.

Rush! - The Making of an Activist (Paperback): Tamsin Omond, Catheryn Kilgarriff Rush! - The Making of an Activist (Paperback)
Tamsin Omond, Catheryn Kilgarriff
R245 Discovery Miles 2 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Global Injustice Symbols and Social Movements (Hardcover): T. Olesen Global Injustice Symbols and Social Movements (Hardcover)
T. Olesen
R1,508 Discovery Miles 15 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Global Injustice Symbols and Social Movements examines our collective moral and political maps, dotted with symbols shaped by political dynamics beyond their local or national origin and offers the first systematic sociological treatment of this important phenomenon.

Biz-War and the Out-of-Power Elite - The Progressive-Left Attack on the Corporation (Hardcover): Jarol B Manheim Biz-War and the Out-of-Power Elite - The Progressive-Left Attack on the Corporation (Hardcover)
Jarol B Manheim
R1,327 Discovery Miles 13 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book tells the fascinating story of the reemergence of the American political left over the last quarter century in the form of the new Progressive Movement. Born out of Liberalism's crushing defeats at the hands of conservative strategists of the Reagan/Bush era, this new movement has cleverly reverse engineered the conservative's institutional networking strategy to plan and finance its resurgence. Progressive strategists have constructed an elaborate network of foundations, advocacy groups, and other institutions to advance their agenda. But where the conservatives relied on affirmative corporate support to help power their movement, the Progressive Left has used an anti-corporate strategy whose purpose is three-fold: 1. To reclaim the moral high ground of politics by challenging corporate power and influence. 2. To gain effective control over "other people's money" (e.g., pension funds, mutual funds) and use it to press for changes in corporate social policies. 3. To leverage this influence over corporate decision-making to change the direction of American politics and public policy. Biz War extends the argument of Manheim's 2001 book, The Death of A Thousand Cuts, by showing how anti-corporate campaigns have evolved from economically-oriented labor actions to ideological and programmatic political struggles. It details how the strategies and tactics crafted by organized labor are being employed with increasing effect by the political left. The book will be of interest to students of contemporary American politics, strategic communication, political movements, and business management. Likewise it will help corporate executives and financial analysts understand more fully the proxy wars and other attacks against their companies.

Electrified Democracy - The Internet and the United Kingdom Parliament in History (Hardcover): Andrew Blick Electrified Democracy - The Internet and the United Kingdom Parliament in History (Hardcover)
Andrew Blick
R3,134 Discovery Miles 31 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The story of how the UK Parliament came to use the Internet from the 1960s onwards has never been told. Electrified Democracy places the impact of technology on parliamentary workings in its longer term historical context. The author identifies repeating patterns of perception and analysis, and cultural tendencies in the perception of inventions dating back over centuries that have reasserted themselves in connection with the parliamentary response to networked computers. He uncovers evidence and makes new connections, while situating all this within the wider global debates on connections between communication and democracy in the age of the Internet, constitutional law and history, and 'law and technology'. This book will be of interest to a wide readership including policy makers, researchers, and all those interested in contemporary controversies about the role of the Internet in modern societies.

Order and Rebellion in Tribal Africa (Hardcover, Revised edition): Max Gluckman Order and Rebellion in Tribal Africa (Hardcover, Revised edition)
Max Gluckman
R6,739 Discovery Miles 67 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

These essays are mainly concerned with the development of some of Max Gluckman's ideas about African politics. He regarded frequent rebellions to replace incumbents of political offices (as against revolutions to alter the structure of offices) as inherent in these politics. Later he connected this situation with modes of husbandry, problems of the devolution of power, types of weapons and the law of treason. He advanced to a general theory of ritual, as well as to general propositions about the position of officials representing conflicting interests within a hierarchy, typified by the African chief under colonial rule. Originally published in 1963.

Fantasy and Social Movements (Hardcover): J. Ormrod Fantasy and Social Movements (Hardcover)
J. Ormrod
R2,978 R2,014 Discovery Miles 20 140 Save R964 (32%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

It is sometimes assumed that fantasizing stands in contrast to activism. This book, however, argues that fantasy plays a central role in social movements. Drawing on psychoanalysis and psychosocial theories, Fantasy and Social Movements examines the relationships between fantasy, reality, action, the unconscious and the collective.

Germans Against Nazism - Nonconformity, Opposition and Resistance in the Third Reich: Essays in Honour of Peter Hoffmann... Germans Against Nazism - Nonconformity, Opposition and Resistance in the Third Reich: Essays in Honour of Peter Hoffmann (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Francis R. Nicosia, Lawrence D. Stokes
R1,126 Discovery Miles 11 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Rather than being accepted by all of German society, the Nazi regime was resisted in both passive and active forms. This re-issued volume examines opposition to National Socialism by Germans during the Third Reich in its broadest sense. It considers individual and organized nonconformity, opposition, and resistance ranging from symbolic acts of disobedience to organized assassination attempts, and looks at how disparate groups such as the Jewish community, churches, conservatives, communists, socialists, and the military all defied the regime in their own ways.

Irish Political Prisoners 1848-1922 - Theatres of War (Hardcover): Professor Sean McConville Irish Political Prisoners 1848-1922 - Theatres of War (Hardcover)
Professor Sean McConville
R5,617 Discovery Miles 56 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


This is the most wide-ranging study ever published of political violence and the punishment of Irish political offenders from 1848 to the founding of the Irish Free State in 1922. Those who chose violence to advance their Irish nationalist beliefs ranged from gentlemen revolutionaries to those who openly embraced terrorism or even full-scale guerilla war.
Seán McConville provides a comprehensive survey of Irish revolutionary struggle, matching chapters on punishment of offenders with descriptions and analysis of their campaigns. Government's response to political violence was determined by a number of factors, including not only the nature of the offences but also interest and support from the United States and Australia, as well as current objectives of Irish policy.

Wits - A University In The Apartheid Era (Paperback, New Edition): Mervyn Shear Wits - A University In The Apartheid Era (Paperback, New Edition)
Mervyn Shear; Foreword by Firoz Cachalia
R395 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R30 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

When the National Government assumed power in 1948, one of the earliest moves was to introduce segregated education. Its threats to restrict the admission of black students into the four ‘open universities’ galvanised the staff and students of those institutions to oppose any attempt to interfere with their autonomy and freedom to decide who should be admitted.

In subsequent years, as the regime adopted increasingly oppressive measures to prop up the apartheid state, opposition on the campuses, and in the country, increased and burgeoned into a Mass Democratic Movement intent on making the country ungovernable.

Protest escalated through successive states of emergency and clashes with police on campus became regular events. Residences were raided, student leaders were harassed by security police and many students and some staff were detained for lengthy periods without recourse to the courts.

First published in 1996, Wits: A University in the Apartheid Era by Mervyn Shear tells the story of how the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) adapted to the political and social developments in South Africa under apartheid. This new edition is published in the University’s centenary year with a preface by Firoz Cachalia, one of Wits’ student leaders in the 1980s. It serves as an invaluable historical resource on questions about the relationship between the University and the state, and on understanding the University’s place and identity in a constitutional democracy.

French Intellectuals Against the Left - The Antitotalitarian Moment of the 1970s (Paperback, New): Michael Scott Christofferson French Intellectuals Against the Left - The Antitotalitarian Moment of the 1970s (Paperback, New)
Michael Scott Christofferson
R892 Discovery Miles 8 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

" . . . an exceptionally fine text - one that could only have been written by an author mercifully free, for whatever reason of the phobias and philias about French intellectual life of previous generations." - New Left Review "This book is clearly an indispensable resource for historians of twentieth-century France and French intellectual life, and a fine resource for anyone interested in a political sociology of the intellectual. Its fundamental thesis concerning the political sources of the antitotalitarian moment in the discourse of direct democracy and the electoral opposition to the PCF is largely persuasive-and a welcome antidote to the many distortions that obscure this key reactive shift." - Radical Philosophy "I learned an enormous amount from your first-rate contribution. It is a very exciting and intelligent piece of work . . . very impressive." - Michael Seidman In the latter half of the 1970s, the French intellectual Left denounced communism, Marxism, and revolutionary politics through a critique of left-wing totalitarianism that paved the way for today's postmodern, liberal, and moderate republican political options. Contrary to the dominant understanding of the critique of totalitarianism as an abrupt rupture induced by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Christofferson argues that French anti-totalitarianism was the culmination of direct-democratic critiques of communism and revisions of the revolutionary project after 1956. The author's focus on the direct-democratic politics of French intellectuals offers an important alternative to recent histories that seek to explain the course of French intellectual politics by France's apparent lack of a liberal tradition. Michael Scott Christofferson was educated at Carleton College and Columbia University. He currently is Assistant Professor of History at the Pennsylvania State University, Erie and lives in the Cleveland, Ohio.

Protest Beyond Borders - Contentious Politics in Europe since 1945 (Paperback): Hara Kouki, Eduardo Romanos Protest Beyond Borders - Contentious Politics in Europe since 1945 (Paperback)
Hara Kouki, Eduardo Romanos
R888 Discovery Miles 8 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The protest movements that followed the Second World War have recently become the object of study for various disciplines; however, the exchange of ideas between research fields, and comparative research in general, is lacking. An international and interdisciplinary dialogue is vital to not only describe the similarities and differences between the single national movements but also to evaluate how they contributed to the formation and evolution of a transnational civil society in Europe. This volume undertakes this challenge as well as questions some major assumptions of post-1945 protest and social mobilization both in Western and Eastern Europe. Historians, political scientists, sociologists and media studies scholars come together and offer insights into social movement research beyond conventional repertoires of protest and strictly defined periods, borders and paradigms, offering new perspectives on past and present processes of social change of the contemporary world.

The Radical Women's Press of the 1850's - Radical Women's Press of the 1850s (Hardcover): Ann Russo, Cherise... The Radical Women's Press of the 1850's - Radical Women's Press of the 1850s (Hardcover)
Ann Russo, Cherise Kramarae
R6,728 Discovery Miles 67 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


First published in 1991. The volume reprints excerpts from six radical feminist journals of this crucial decade:The Lily, the Genius of Liberty, the Pioneer and Women's Advocate, the Una, The Woman's advocate and The Sybil

The Revolution in Words (Hardcover): Cheris Kramarae, Lana F. Rakow The Revolution in Words (Hardcover)
Cheris Kramarae, Lana F. Rakow
R4,344 Discovery Miles 43 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Series Information:
Women's Source Library

Suffrage and the Pankhursts (Hardcover): Jane Marcus Suffrage and the Pankhursts (Hardcover)
Jane Marcus
R5,846 Discovery Miles 58 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Series Information:
Women's Source Library

Meegook - Dry Bones (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Jeanhee Kang Meegook - Dry Bones (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Jeanhee Kang
R761 R680 Discovery Miles 6 800 Save R81 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Non-Violent Militant - Selected Writings of Teresa Billington-Greig (Hardcover): Ann Fitzgerald, Carol McPhee The Non-Violent Militant - Selected Writings of Teresa Billington-Greig (Hardcover)
Ann Fitzgerald, Carol McPhee
R9,896 Discovery Miles 98 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume collects together writings of Teresa Billington-Greig, suffragette, activist and political theorist. One of the first organizers for the Women's Social and Political Union, she was a founder-member of the Women's Freedom League. She was also the first suffragette to be sent to Holloway Gaol. This volume provides insights into this exceptional woman's lifelong efforts in the women's movement.

Government Leaders, Military Rulers and Political Activists (Hardcover): David W.Del Testa Government Leaders, Military Rulers and Political Activists (Hardcover)
David W.Del Testa
R4,483 Discovery Miles 44 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Mao Tse-tung and Genghis Khan are among the 200 well-known historical figures included in this volume. Examples of other lesser-known, yet important, individuals covered in this work are: Adolphus Gustavas, Swedish empire creator; Hatshepsut, queen of ancient Egyptian dynasty; and Jean Jaures, French socialist leader and pacifist. Each synopsis provides information on each individual's enduring impact on the common understanding of fundamental themes of human existence.

Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance - Acts of Rebellion, Activism, and Solidarity (Hardcover): DeRon S. Williams, Khalid... Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance - Acts of Rebellion, Activism, and Solidarity (Hardcover)
DeRon S. Williams, Khalid Y. Long, Martine Kei Green-Rogers; Series edited by William C. Boles, Anja Hartl
R2,336 Discovery Miles 23 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How are Black artists, activists, and pedagogues wielding acts of rebellion, activism, and solidarity to precipitate change? How have contemporary performances impacted Black cultural, social, and political struggles? What are the ways in which these acts and artists engage varied Black identities and explore shared histories? Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance investigates these questions to illuminate the relationship between performance, identity, intersectionality, and activism in North America and beyond. It features contributions from scholars, artists, and activists from across disciplines who explore the nuances and varied forms of Black performance in the 21st century while incorporating performance-based methodologies and queer and black feminist theories. Among the many topics addressed by contributors are antiracist pedagogy, Black queer identity formation in Black playwriting, digital blackface, and Black women's subversive practices within contemporary popular culture. It encompasses dramatic analysis of Lynn Nottage's Sweat, Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy, and acts of resistance during the Black Lives Matter summer 2020 highway protests. A series of conversations with artists and scholars are woven throughout the book’s three sections, including with playwrights Christina Anderson and Donja R. Love, and Willa Taylor, Director of Education and Community Engagement at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago.

Irena's Children - A True Story of Courage (Paperback): Tilar J. Mazzeo Irena's Children - A True Story of Courage (Paperback)
Tilar J. Mazzeo
R517 R488 Discovery Miles 4 880 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Environmental Movements - Local, National and Global (Hardcover): Christopher Rootes Environmental Movements - Local, National and Global (Hardcover)
Christopher Rootes
R2,977 Discovery Miles 29 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Environmental movements are at a crossroads. Increasingly institutionalized almost everywhere in the industrially developed societies, established environmental organizations are confronted by new radical groups and uninstitutionalized local protesters. Despite growing evidence of the universality of environmental problems and of economic and cultural globalization, the development of a truly global environmental movement is at best tentative. The dilemmas which confront environmental organizations are no less apparent at the global than at national levels. This volume is a collection of 1990s research on environmental movements in western and southern Europe, the US and the global arena.

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