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From the birth of the Gay Liberation through the rise of the
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in 1987, the global
justice movement in 1994, the largest day of antiwar protest in
world history in February 2003, the Republican National Convention
protests in August 2004, and the massive immigrant rights rallies
in the spring of 2006, the streets of cities around the world have
been filled with a new theatrical model of protest. Elements of
fun, creativity, pleasure, and play are cornerstones of this new
approach toward protest and community building. No movement has had
a larger influence on the emergence of play in social movement
activity than the gay liberation and queer activism of the past
thirty years. This book examines the role of play in gay liberation
and queer activism, and the ways in which queer notions of play
have influenced a broad range of social movements.
Rebel Friendships considers the interplay between individuals and
their friendships with social movements. The intersections between
individual and community, the ways we experiment with social
change, explore, create, and reduce the harms of modern living are
the work of social movements. Yet, the process is rarely simple.
Through auto-ethnographic reflections of experiences with the
Beats, ACT-UP, Occupy Wall Street, anti-consumer, queer rights, and
non-polluting transportation movements Shepard explores the way
friendship infuses social movements with the social capital
necessary to move bodies of ideas forward. Such innovation is
rarely seen in more institutionalized social arrangements. Rebel
Friendships offers a new take on the ties between friends who are
connected through affinity and efforts aimed at social change.
In Narrating Practice with Children and Adolescents, social
workers, sociologists, researchers, and helping professionals share
engaging and evocative stories of practice that aim to center the
young client's story. Drawing on work with a variety of
disadvantaged populations in New York City and around the world,
they seek to raise awareness of the diversity of the individual
experiences of youth. They make use of a variety of narrative
approaches to offer new perspectives on a range of critical health
care, mental health, and social issues that shape the lives of
children and adolescents. The book considers the narratives we tell
about the lives and experiences of children and adolescents and
proposes counternarratives that challenge dominant ideas about
childhood. Contributors examine the environments and structures
that shape the lives of children and youth from an ecological lens.
From their stories emerge questions about how those working with
young clients might respond to a changing landscape: How do we
define and construct childhood? How do poverty and inequality
impact children's health and welfare? How is childhood lived at the
intersection of race, class, and gender? How can practitioners
engage children and adolescents through culturally responsive and
democratic processes? Offering new frameworks for reflecting on
social work practice, the essays in Narrating Practice with
Children and Adolescents also serve as a vehicle for exploration of
children's agency and voice.
In March 1987 a radical coalition of queer activists converged on
Wall Street ... their target, 'Business, Big Business, Business as
Usual ' It was ACT UP's first demonstration. In November 1999 a
radical coalition of environmental, labor, anarchist, queer, and
human rights activists converged in Seattle--their target was
similar, a system of global capitalism. Between 1987 and 1999 a new
project in activism had emerged unshackled from past ghosts.
Through innovative use of civil rights' era non-violent
disobedience, guerrilla theatre, and sophisticated media work, ACT
UP has helped transform the world of activism.
This anthology offers a history of ACT UP for a new generation of
activists and students. It is divided into five sections which
address the new social movements, the use of street theater to
reclaim public space, queer and sexual politics, new
media/electronic civil disobedience, and race and community
building. Contributions range across a diverse spectrum: The
Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, Jubilee 2000,
Students for an Undemocratic Society, Fed Up Queers, Gender
Identity Center of Colorado, Triangle Foundation, Jacks of Color,
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, Lower East Side Collective,
Community Labor Coalition, Church of Stop-Shopping, Indy Media
Collective, Black Radical Congress, The Theater of the Oppressed
Laboratory, Adelante Street Theater; HealthGAP, Housing Works,
SexPanic and, of course, ACT UP itself.
In Narrating Practice with Children and Adolescents, social
workers, sociologists, researchers, and helping professionals share
engaging and evocative stories of practice that aim to center the
young client's story. Drawing on work with a variety of
disadvantaged populations in New York City and around the world,
they seek to raise awareness of the diversity of the individual
experiences of youth. They make use of a variety of narrative
approaches to offer new perspectives on a range of critical health
care, mental health, and social issues that shape the lives of
children and adolescents. The book considers the narratives we tell
about the lives and experiences of children and adolescents and
proposes counternarratives that challenge dominant ideas about
childhood. Contributors examine the environments and structures
that shape the lives of children and youth from an ecological lens.
From their stories emerge questions about how those working with
young clients might respond to a changing landscape: How do we
define and construct childhood? How do poverty and inequality
impact children's health and welfare? How is childhood lived at the
intersection of race, class, and gender? How can practitioners
engage children and adolescents through culturally responsive and
democratic processes? Offering new frameworks for reflecting on
social work practice, the essays in Narrating Practice with
Children and Adolescents also serve as a vehicle for exploration of
children's agency and voice.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Brooklyn has all the features of a "global borough": It is a base
of immigrant labor and ethnically diverse communities, of social
and cultural capital, of global transportation, cultural
production, and policy innovation. At once a model of sustainable
urbanization and overdevelopment, the question is now: What will
become of Global Brooklyn? Tracing the emergence of Brooklyn from
village outpost to global borough, Brooklyn Tides investigates the
nature and consequences of global forces that have crossed the East
River and identifies alternative models for urban development in
global capitalism. Benjamin Shepard and Mark Noonan provide a
unique ethnographic reading of the literature, social activism, and
changing tides impacting this ever-transforming space. Cover and
interior images of a rapidly transforming global borough by
photographer Caroline Shepard.
From the birth of the Gay Liberation through the rise of the
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in 1987, the global
justice movement in 1994, the largest day of antiwar protest in
world history in February 2003, the Republican National Convention
protests in August 2004, and the massive immigrant rights rallies
in the spring of 2006, the streets of cities around the world have
been filled with a new theatrical model of protest. Elements of
fun, creativity, pleasure, and play are cornerstones of this new
approach toward protest and community building. No movement has had
a larger influence on the emergence of play in social movement
activity than the gay liberation and queer activism of the past
thirty years. This book examines the role of play in gay liberation
and queer activism, and the ways in which queer notions of play
have influenced a broad range of social movements.
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