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Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism
Occupy Wall Street did not come from nowhere. It was part of a long
history of riot, revolt, uprising, and sometimes even revolution
that has shaped New York City. From the earliest European
colonization to the present, New Yorkers have been revolting. Hard
hitting, revealing, and insightful, Revolting New York tells the
story of New York's evolution through revolution, a story of
near-continuous popular (and sometimes not-so-popular) uprising.
Richly illustrated with more than ninety historical and
contemporary images, historical maps, and maps drawn especially for
the book, Revolting New York provides the first comprehensive
account of the historical geography of revolt in New York, from the
earliest uprisings of the Munsee against the Dutch occupation of
Manhattan in the seventeenth century to the Black Lives Matter
movement and the unrest of the Trump era. Through this rich
narrative, editors Neil Smith and Don Mitchell reveal a continuous,
if varied and punctuated, history of rebellion in New York that is
as vital as the more standard histories of formal politics,
planning, economic growth, and restructuring that largely define
our consciousness of New York's story.
The New York Times bestselling author of My Grandmother's Hands
surveys the deteriorating political climate and presents an urgent
call for action to save ourselves and our countries. In The Quaking
of America, therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem takes
readers through a step-by-step program of somatic practices
addressing the growing threat of white-supremacist political
violence. Through the coordinated repetition of lies,
anti-democratic elements in American society are inciting mass
radicalization, violent insurrection, and voter suppression, with a
goal of toppling American democracy. Currently, most pro-democracy
American bodies are utterly unprepared for this uprising. This book
can help prepare us--and, if possible, prevent more
destructiveness. This preparation focuses not on strategy or
politics, but on mental and emotional practices that can help us:
Build presence and discernment Settle our bodies during the heat of
conflict Maintain our safety, sanity, and stability under dangerous
circumstances Heal our personal and collective racialized trauma
Practice body-centered social action Turn toward instead of on one
another The Quaking of America is a unique, perfectly timed,
body-centered guide to each of these processes.
Are artistic engagements evolving, or attracting more attention?
The range of artistic protest actions shows how the globalisation
of art is also the globalisation of art politics. Here, based on
multi-site field research, we follow artists from the MENA
countries, Latin America, and Africa along their committed
transnational trajectories, whether these are voluntary or the
result of exile. With this global and decentred approach, the
different repertoires of engagement appear, in all their
dimensions, including professional ones. In the face of political
disillusionment, these aesthetic interventions take on new
meanings, as artivists seek alternative modes of social
transformation and production of shared values. Contributors are:
Alice Aterianus-Owanga, Sebastien Boulay, Sarah Dornhof, Simon
Dubois, Shyam Iskander, Sabrina Melenotte, Franck Mermier, Rayane
Al Rammal, Kirsten Scheid, Pinar Selek, and Marion Slitine.
Inherent Safety at Chemical Sites: Reducing Vulnerability to
Accidents and Terrorism Through Green Chemistry highlights the use
of green chemistry principles to identify and address serious
threats and potential consequences caused by accidental and
deliberate industrial chemical releases. Through valuable case
studies, the book suggests wholesale replacements of hazardous
chemicals with benign and inherently safer, or "greener,"
materials. More than physical security barriers and plans, such
preventative measures better guarantee the safety of industrial
employees and nearby residents. This valuable primer begins with an
introduction to the concepts of green chemistry and outlines the
various ways that a green approach to chemical design, production,
and management is not only good for the planet, but also serves to
protect people and infrastructure from terrorist acts. Specific
examples and case studies are cited to illustrate what has been
done to advance this cause, and offer guidance to those
decision-makers who similarly aspire to greater safety and security
for the people and resources they manage.
It has been the home to priests and prostitutes, poets and spies.
It has been the stage for an improbable flirtation between an
Israeli girl and a Palestinian boy living on opposite sides of the
barbed wire that separated enemy nations. It has even been the
scene of an unsolved international murder. This one-time shepherd's
path between Jerusalem and Bethlehem has been a dividing line for
decades. Arab families called it "al Mantiqa Haram." Jewish
residents knew it as "shetach hefker." In both languages it meant
the same thing: "the Forbidden Area." Peacekeepers that monitored
the steep fault line dubbed it "Barbed Wire Alley." To folks on
either side of the border, it was the same thing: A dangerous
no-man's land separating warring nations and feuding cultures. The
barbed wire came down in 1967. But it was soon supplanted by
evermore formidable cultural, emotional and political barriers
separating Arab and Jew. For nearly two decades, coils of barbed
wire ran right down the middle of what became Assael Street,
marking the fissure between Israeli-controlled West Jerusalem and
Jordanian-controlled East Jerusalem. In a beautiful narrative, A
Street Divided offers a more intimate look at one road at the heart
of the conflict, where inches really do matter.
This edited translation of Katutugu Yoshida's Jiyuno Nigaiaji
analyses the gradual process of reform in Taiwan over the past 100
years. It pays particular attention to the dilemmas, compromises
and pitfalls that have faced reformists as they have strived to
bring democratic change under a series of brutal dictatorships. The
author discusses the historical background to Taiwan's current
constitutional issues and its difficult relationship with the
People's Republic of China. It explores in detail the way in which
local political activism has transformed national politics,
providing original analysis of democratic political thought in East
Asia and a rich explanation of the social, historical and political
context of democratization in Taiwan. The book makes a significant
theoretical contribution to the literature on political reform by
using the Taiwanese context to explore debates between reformists
and revolutionaries and to consider the development of the concept
of the right to self-determination. This challenging and
stimulating book will strongly appeal to scholars and students with
an interest in Asian studies, politics, public policy and public
choice.
As the confluence of networks that is the modern Internet grows to
encompass everything from nuclear reactors to home appliances, the
affordances offered to the average citizen grow as well-but so,
too, do the resources made available to those with malicious
intent. Through the rise of Big Data and the Internet of Things,
terrorist organizations today have been freed from geographic and
logistical confines and now have more power than ever before to
strike the average citizen directly at home. This, coupled with the
inherently asymmetrical nature of cyberwarfare-which grants great
advantage to the attacker-has created an unprecedented national
security risk that both governments and their citizens are woefully
ill-prepared to face. The Handbook of Research on Civil Society and
National Security in the Era of Cyber Warfare addresses the problem
of cyber terrorism head-on, first through a review of current
literature, and then through a series of progressive proposals
aimed at researchers, professionals, and policymakers. Touching on
such subjects as cyber-profiling, hacktivism, and digital
counterterrorism, this collection offers the tools to begin
formulating a ground-up resiliency to cybersecurity threats that
starts at the civilian level.
The riots that broke out in various British port cities in 1919
were a dramatic manifestation of a wave of global unrest that
affected Britain, parts of its empire, continental Europe and North
America during and in the wake of the First World War. During the
riots, crowds of white working-class people targeted black workers,
their families and black-owned businesses and property. One of the
chief sources of violent confrontation in the run-down port areas
was the 'colour' bar implemented by the sailors' trades unions
campaigning to keep black, Arab and Asian sailors off British ships
in a time of increasing job competition. Black 1919 sets out the
economic and social causes of the riots and their impact on
Britain's relationship with its empire and its colonial subjects.
The riots are also considered within the wider context of rioting
elsewhere on the fringes of the Atlantic world as black people came
in increased numbers into urban and metropolitan settings where
they competed with working-class white people for jobs and housing
during and after the First World War. The book details the events
of the port riots in Britain, with chapters devoted to assessing
the motivations and make-up of the rioting crowds, examining police
procedures during the riots, considering the court cases that
followed, and looking at the longer-term consequences for the black
British workers and their families. Black 1919 is a stark and
timely reminder of the violent racist conflict that emerged after
the First World War and the shockwaves that reverberated around the
Empire.
This combination A-Z encyclopedia and primary document collection
provides an authoritative and enlightening overview of U.S. anti-
and counterterrorism politics, policies, attitudes, and actions
related to both foreign and domestic threats, with a special
emphasis on post-9/11 events. This book provides a compelling
overview of U.S. laws, policies, programs, and actions in the
realms of anti- and counterterrorism, as well as comprehensive
coverage of the various domestic and foreign terrorist
organizations threatening America, including their leaders,
ideologies, and practices. These entries are supplemented with a
carefully selected collection of primary sources that track the
evolution of U.S. anti- and counterterrorism policies and political
debate. These documents will not only illuminate major events and
turning points in America's fight against terror-both foreign and
homegrown-but also help readers understand debates about the
effectiveness, morality, and constitutionality of controversial
policies that have either been implemented or proposed, from
waterboarding to targeted assassination to indefinite incarceration
at Guantanamo Bay. In addition, this resource shows how political
controversies over anti- and counterterrorism strategies are
spilling over into other areas of American life, from debates about
privacy rights, government surveillance, and anti-Muslim actions
and beliefs to arguments about whether U.S. firearms policies are a
boon to terrorists. Wide-ranging encyclopedia section featuring
contributions from counterterrorism scholars Primary Document
collection that provides additional illumination on major events,
laws, policies, and trends Authoritative and evenhanded coverage of
counterterrorism threats, issues, events, laws, policies, and
organizations Reader's Guide to entries by subject category
The EU is at a crossroads. Should it choose the path towards
protectionism or the path towards free trade? This book
convincingly argues that lobbying regulation will be a decisive
first step towards fulfilling the European dream of free trade, in
accordance with the original purpose of the Treaty of Rome. Without
the regulation of lobbyists to try and prevent undue political
persuasion, there is a greater risk of abuse in the form of
corruption, subsidies and trade barriers, which will come at the
expense of consumers, tax payers and competitiveness. This
interdisciplinary approach - both theoretical and methodological -
offers a wealth of knowledge concerning the effect of lobbying on
political decision-making and will appeal to academics across the
social sciences, practitioners and policy-makers.
Peru is classified as one of the deadliest countries in the world
for environmental defenders, where activists face many forms of
violence. Through an ethnographic and systematic comparison of four
gold mining conflicts in Peru, Resisting Extractivism presents a
vivid account of subtle and routine forms of violence, analyzing
how meaning making practices render certain types of damage and
suffering noticeable while occluding others. The book thus builds a
ground-up theory of violence—how it is framed, how it impacts
people's lived experiences, and how it can be confronted. By
excavating how the everyday interactions that underlie conflicts
are discursively concealed and highlighted, this study assists in
the prevention and transformation of violence over resource
extraction in Latin America. The book draws on a controlled,
qualitative comparison of four case studies, extensive ethnographic
research conducted over fourteen months of fieldwork, analysis of
over 900 archives and documents, and unprecedented access to more
than 250 semi structured interviews with key actors across
industry, the state, civil society, and the media. Michael Wilson
Becerril identifies, traces, and compares these dynamics to explain
how similar cases can lead to contrasting outcomes-insights that
may be usefully applied in other contexts to save lives and build
better futures.
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