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While explicitly set against a backdrop of sexism in social justice
activism more generally, this book exposes causes, pervasiveness,
harms, and possible directions for change with regard to sexism and
male privilege in the animal activist movement. Employing the work
of previous scholars, Dr. Lisa Kemmerer exposes the commonplace
nature and causes of sexism and male privilege in social justice
activism, then focuses on anymal activists, including new data that
has not previously been published. The book also explores the
crushing harms caused by sexism in the movement and an extensive
array of possible directions for change. In various places
throughout the text, Kemmerer refocuses on the interface of sexism
and speciesism, and one full chapter explores a philosophies of
interconnection from around the world and down through time.Â
Also included are six essays from contributing authors who offer
fresh angles on the topic, and who provide contextualized
experiences with intersectional oppressions. While the book focuses
specifically on animal activism, the end-goal of the book is total
liberation—an end to all forms of privilege and marginalization.
The law of occupation imposes two types of obligations on an army
that seizes control of enemy land during armed conflict:
obligations to respect and protect the inhabitants and their
rights, and an obligation to respect the sovereign rights of the
ousted government. In theory, the occupant is expected to establish
an effective and impartial administration, to carefully balance its
own interests against those of the inhabitants and their
government, and to negotiate the occupation's early termination in
a peace treaty. Although these expectations have been proven to be
too high for most occupants, they nevertheless serve as yardsticks
that measure the level of compliance of the occupants with
international law.
This thoroughly revised edition of the 1993 book traces the
evolution of the law of occupation from its inception during the
18th century until today. It offers an assessment of the law by
focusing on state practice of the various occupants and reactions
thereto, and on the governing legal texts and judicial decisions.
The underlying thought that informs and structures the book
suggests that this body of laws has been shaped by changing
conceptions about war and sovereignty, by the growing attention to
human rights and the right to self-determination, as well as by
changes in the balance of power among states. Because the law of
occupation indirectly protects the sovereign, occupation law can be
seen as the mirror-image of the law on sovereignty. Shifting
perceptions on sovereign authority are therefore bound to be
reflected also in the law of occupation, and vice-versa.
Charles De Gaulle's leadership of the French while in exile during
World War II cemented his place in history. In contemporary France,
he is the stuff of legend, consistently acclaimed as the nation's
pre-eminent historical figure. But paradoxes abound. For one thing,
his personal popularity sits oddly with his social origins and
professional background. Neither the Army nor the Catholic Church
is particularly well-regarded in France today, as they are seen to
represent antiquated traditions and values. So why, then, do the
French nonetheless identify with, celebrate, and even revere this
austere and devout Catholic, who remained closely wedded to
military values throughout his life? In The Shadow of the General
resolves this mystery and explains how de Gaulle has come to occupy
such a privileged position in the French imagination. Sudhir
Hazareesingh's story of how an individual life was transformed into
national myth also tells a great deal about the French collective
self in the twenty-first century: its fractured memory, its
aspirations to greatness, and its manifold anxieties. Indeed,
alongside the tale of de Gaulle's legacy, the author unfolds a much
broader narrative: the story of modern France.
Many have long suspected that when America takes up arms it is a
rich man's war, but a poor man's fight. Despite these concerns
about social inequality in military sacrifice, the hard data to
validate such claims has been kept out of public view. In The
Casualty Gap Douglas Kriner and Francis Shen renew the debate over
unequal sacrifice by bringing to light mountains of new evidence on
the inequality dimensions of American wartime casualties. They
demonstrate unequivocally that since the conclusion of World War II
communities at the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder have borne
a disproportionate share of the human costs of war. Moreover, they
show for the first time that when Americans are explicitly
confronted with evidence of this inequality, they become markedly
less supportive of the nation's war efforts.
The Casualty Gap also uncovers how wartime deaths affect entire
communities. Citizens who see the high price war exacts on friends
and neighbors become more likely to oppose war and to vote against
the political leaders waging it than residents of low-casualty
communities. Moreover, extensive empirical evidence connects higher
community casualty rates in Korea and Vietnam to lower levels of
trust in government, interest in politics, and electoral and
non-electoral participation. In this way, the casualty gap
threatens the very vibrancy of American democracy by depressing
civic engagement in high-casualty communities for years after the
last gun falls silent. The Casualty Gap should be read by all who
care about bringing to light inequalities in military sacrifice and
understanding the effects of war on society and democracy.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1972.
Explores how young people from communities targeted in the War on
Terror engage with the "political," even while they are under
constant scrutiny and surveillance Since the attacks of 9/11, the
banner of national security has led to intense monitoring of the
politics of Muslim and Arab Americans. Young people from these
communities have come of age in a time when the question of
political engagement is both urgent and fraught. In The 9/11
Generation, Sunaina Marr Maira uses extensive ethnography to
understand the meaning of political subjecthood and mobilization
for Arab, South Asian, and Afghan American youth. Maira explores
how young people from communities targeted in the War on Terror
engage with the "political," forging coalitions based on new racial
and ethnic categories, even while they are under constant scrutiny
and surveillance, and organizing around notions of civil rights and
human rights. The 9/11 Generation explores the possibilities and
pitfalls of rights-based organizing at a moment when the vocabulary
of rights and democracy has been used to justify imperial
interventions, such as the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Maira
further reconsiders political solidarity in cross-racial and
interfaith alliances at a time when U.S. nationalism is understood
as not just multicultural but also post-racial. Throughout, she
weaves stories of post-9/11 youth activism through key debates
about neoliberal democracy, the "radicalization" of Muslim youth,
gender, and humanitarianism.
Terrorism has returned to the streets of Northern Ireland. In the
years after the 1998 Real IRA bombing of Omagh, which killed 29
people, violent dissident Republican groups have re-emerged as a
major security threat to a region that has been denied peace,
stability, and prosperity for too long. Those responsible have many
names. They are breakaways, splinter factions, spoilers, and
"residual" terrorists. The Real IRA, Continuity IRA, and Oglaigh na
hEireann are only some of the groups now responsible for a growing
wave of bombings, shootings, threats, and intimidation across
Northern Ireland. Commonly known as "the dissidents," these are the
rejectionists for whom there seems to be no negotiated settlement,
no peace deal, no consensus solution that will convince them to
accept the will of the majority of the people on the island of
Ireland. Divided We Stand: The Strategy and Psychology of Ireland's
Dissident Terrorists presents the results of meticulous research
conducted by the International Center for the Study of Terrorism at
the Pennsylvania State University. Since 2007, John Horgan,
Director of the center, has led a research project to monitor the
activities of Ireland's new terrorists. Drawing on one of the
largest open-source militant databases ever assembled, Divided We
Stand describes the activities, histories, motivations, psychology,
and strategy of the small, dynamic, and rapidly evolving splinter
groups that continue to erode peace, stability, and normalization
in Northern Ireland.
"Weaving Transnational Solidarity from the Catskills to Chiapas and
Beyond" analyzes the grassroots, economic justice work (1998-2009)
of three groups-two Mexican organizations, Jolom Mayaetik, Mayan
women's weaving cooperative, and K inal Antzetik, NGO in the
highlands of Chiapas, and an informal, international solidarity
network. The book provides scholar-activist, ethnographic case
study data which contributes to understanding collective
organization, indigenous rights, and the solidarity process within
transnational social movements and critically reflects on Fair
Trade, health, and education solidarity efforts as well as the
class, ethnic, and gender dimensions of neoliberal globalization.
Central themes include solidarity, human rights, and social
justice. Indigenous women s voices are featured in the book as
powerful in transnational justice organizing-in the global south
and north. "Critical Global Studies," vol. 2
Why do states and international relations organizations
participate in the "global war on terrorism"? This book asks this
question within a broad framework, exploring the mechanisms and
causes for participation in global governance and taking
counterterrorism as a pertinent case. Challenging the assumption of
egalitarian structures of global governance, the author argues that
power relations and the use of power (influence, coercion and
force) play a more important role than previously suggested.
Providing a critical assessment of the counterterrorism policies of
EU, US and ASEAN, the book identifies a number of causes of
participation in hegemonic governance, including asymmetric
interdependence with the US, open and informal pressure in the case
of the EU, and the authority and legitimacy of the leading
actors.
In Sitting In and Speaking Out, Jeffrey A. Turner examines student
movements in the South to grasp the nature of activism in the
region during the turbulent 1960s. Turner argues that the story of
student activism is too often focused on national groups like
Students for a Democratic Society and events at schools like
Columbia University and the University of California at Berkeley.
Examining the activism of black and white students, he shows that
the South responded to national developments but that the response
had its own trajectory one that was rooted in race. Turner looks at
such events as the initial desegregation of campuses; integration's
long aftermath, as students learned to share institutions; the
Black Power movement; and the antiwar movement. Escalating protest
against the Vietnam War tested southern distinctiveness, says
Turner. The South's tendency toward hawkishness impeded antiwar
activism, but once that activism arrived, it was as in other parts
of the country oriented toward events at national and global
scales. Nevertheless, southern student activism retained some of
its core characteristics. Even in the late 1960s, southern
protesters' demands tended toward reform, often eschewing calls to
revolution increasingly heard elsewhere. Based on primary research
at more than twenty public and private institutions in the deep and
upper South, including historically black schools, Sitting In and
Speaking Out is a wide-ranging and sensitive portrait of southern
students navigating a remarkably dynamic era.
This rare 10th anniversary edition (published in 2007) contains a
new introduction by expert Soviet historian David M. Glantz. In
addition all maps and graphics have been enhanced from the 1996
edition. "When the Soviet Union decided to invade Afghanistan, they
evaluated their chances for success upon their experiences in East
Germany, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Unfortunately for their
soldiers, as well as the people of Afghanistan, they ignored not
only the experiences of the British in the same region, but also
their own experience with the Basmachi resistance fighters in
Central Asia from 1918-1933. Consequently, in Afghanistan the
Soviet army found its tactics inadequate to meet the challenges
posed by the difficult terrain and the highly motivated mujahideen
freedom fighters. To capture the lessons their tactical leaders
learned in Afghanistan and to explain the change in tactics that
followed, the Frunze Military Academy compiled this book for their
command and general staff combat arms officers. The lessons are
valuable not just for Russian officers, but for the tactical
training of platoon, company and battalion leaders of any nation
likely to engage in conflicts involving civil war, guerrilla forces
and rough terrain. This is a book dealing with the starkest
features of the unforgiving landscape of tactical combat:
casualties and death, adaptation, and survival." (From the original
foreword by Hans Binnendijk, 1996)
Contemporary protest, often presented in media forms as a dramatic
ritual played out in an iconic public space has provided a potent
symbol of the widespread economic and social discontent that is a
feature of European life under the rule of "austerity." Yet,
beneath this surface activity, which provides the headlines and
images familiar from mainstream news coverage, lies a whole array
of deeper structures, modes of behavior, and forms of human
affiliation. Contemporary Protest and the Legacy of Dissent offers
a vibrant and insightful overview of modern protest movements,
ideologies, and events. Written by academics and activists familiar
with the strategies, values, and arguments of those groups and
individuals responsible for shaping the modern landscape of
protest, it reveals the inside story of a number of campaigns and
events. It analyzes the various manifestations of dissent-on and
offline, visible and obscure, progressive and reactionary-through
the work of a number of commentators and dedicated "academic
activists," while reassessing the standard explanatory frameworks
supplied by contemporary theorists. In doing so, it offers a
coherent account of the range of academic and theoretical
approaches to the study of protest and social movements.
Contributions by: David Bates, Mark Bergfeld, Vincent Campbell,
Claire English, Ingrid M. Hoofd, Soeren Keil, Matthew Ogilvie,
Stuart Price, Anandi Ramamurthy, Ruth Sanz Sabido, Lee Salter,
Cassian Sparkes-Vian, and Thomas Swann.
Higher education has seen better days. Harsh budget cuts, the
precarious nature of employment in colleague teaching, and
political hostility to the entire enterprise of education have made
for an increasingly fraught landscape. Radical Hope is an ambitious
response to this state of affairs, at once political and practice -
the work of an activist, teacher, and public intellectual grappling
with some of the most pressing topics at the intersection of higher
education and social justice. Kevin Gannon asks that the
contemporary university's manifold problems be approached as
opportunities for critical engagement, arguing that, when done
effectively, teaching is by definition emancipatory and hopeful.
Considering individual pedagogical practice, the students who are
the primary audience and beneficiaries of teaching, and the
institutions and systems within which teaching occurs, Radical Hope
surveys the field, tackling everything from impostor syndrome to
cell phones in class to allegations of a campus 'free speech
crisis'. Throughout, Gannon translates ideals into tangible
strategies and practices (including key takeaways at the conclusion
of each chapter), with the goal of reclaiming teachers' essential
role in the discourse of higher education.
This book centers on one fundamental question: is it possible to
imagine a progressive sense of nation? Rooted in historic and
contemporary social struggles, the chapters in this collection
examine what a progressive sense of nation might look like, with
authors exploring the theory and practice of the nation beyond
nationalism. The book is written against the background of rising
authoritarian-nationalist movements globally over the last few
decades, where many countries have witnessed the dramatic
escalation of ethnic-nationalist parties impacting and changing
mainstream politics and normalizing anti-immigration,
anti-democratic and Islamophobic discourse. This volume discusses
viable alternatives for nationalism, which is inherently
exclusionary, exploring the possibility of a type of nation-based
politics which does not follow the principles of nationalism. With
its focus on nationalism, politics and social struggles, this book
will be of great interest to students and scholars of political and
social sciences.
Since the attacks of 11 September 2001, the topic of terrorism has
been almost continually front-page news in the United Kingdom. The
subsequent 'war on terror', including the invasion of Iraq, has
only heightened interest in the matter. With the London bombings of
7 July 2005, Britain became a frontline in international terrorism
and counter-terrorism. This reality has only been heightened by
failed attacks in London on 21 July 2005, and through a series of
high profile arrests in Forest Hill, in Birmingham in connection to
a beheading plot, the arrests of NHS staff in connection to failed
attacks in London and Glasgow, and the attempted arrest of Jean
Charles de Menezes, which had tragic consequences. In this
illuminating and fascinating look at an often misunderstood world
Steve Hewitt offers a balanced, measured, and informed examination
of recent events and offers a historical and contemporary context
to this new threat, and how we are dealing with it.
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