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At a particularly urgent world-historical moment, this volume
brings together some of the leading researchers of social movements
and global social change and other emerging scholars and
practitioners to advance new thinking about social movements and
global transformation. Social movements around the world today are
responding to crisis by defying both political and epistemological
borders, offering alternatives to the global capitalist order that
are imperceptible through the modernist lens. Informed by a
world-historical perspective, contributors explain today's
struggles as building upon the experiences of the past while also
coming together globally in ways that are inspiring innovation and
consolidating new thinking about what a fundamentally different,
more equitable, just, and sustainable world order might look like.
This collection offers new insights into contemporary movements for
global justice, challenging readers to appreciate how modernist
thinking both colors our own observations and complicates the work
of activists seeking to resolve inequities and contradictions that
are deeply embedded in Western cultural traditions and
institutions. Contributors consider today's movements in the longue
duree-that is, they ask how Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring,
and other contemporary struggles for liberation reflect, build
upon, or diverge from anti-colonial and other emancipatory
struggles of the past. Critical to this volume is its exploration
of how divisions over gender equity and diversity of national
cultures and class have impacted what are increasingly
intersectional global movements. The contributions of feminist and
indigenous movements come to the fore in this collective
exploration of what the movements of yesterday and today can
contribute to our ongoing effort to understand the dynamics of
global transformation in order to help advance a more equitable,
just, and ecologically sustainable world.
The second edition of this classic text covers contemporary
democracy movements including the Arab Spring and its aftermath,
Occupy, and new nations as well as old issues from the Balkans to
Africa, from Latin America to Ukraine. The author has traveled
widely around the world to take the pulse of transition and to
profile journeys toward democracy and journeys away from democracy,
too. At the same time, the book addresses important challenges that
have emerged in even well-established democracies. These show up in
declining voting rates, diminished membership in political parties,
and, in some countries including the United States, negative views
of central democratic institutions (like the US Congress).
The second edition of this classic text covers contemporary
democracy movements including the Arab Spring and its aftermath,
Occupy, and new nations as well as old issues from the Balkans to
Africa, from Latin America to Ukraine. The author has traveled
widely around the world to take the pulse of transition and to
profile journeys toward democracy and journeys away from democracy,
too. At the same time, the book addresses important challenges that
have emerged in even well-established democracies. These show up in
declining voting rates, diminished membership in political parties,
and, in some countries including the United States, negative views
of central democratic institutions (like the US Congress).
At a particularly urgent world-historical moment, this volume
brings together some of the leading researchers of social movements
and global social change and other emerging scholars and
practitioners to advance new thinking about social movements and
global transformation. Social movements around the world today are
responding to crisis by defying both political and epistemological
borders, offering alternatives to the global capitalist order that
are imperceptible through the modernist lens. Informed by a
world-historical perspective, contributors explain today's
struggles as building upon the experiences of the past while also
coming together globally in ways that are inspiring innovation and
consolidating new thinking about what a fundamentally different,
more equitable, just, and sustainable world order might look like.
This collection offers new insights into contemporary movements for
global justice, challenging readers to appreciate how modernist
thinking both colors our own observations and complicates the work
of activists seeking to resolve inequities and contradictions that
are deeply embedded in Western cultural traditions and
institutions. Contributors consider today's movements in the longue
duree-that is, they ask how Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring,
and other contemporary struggles for liberation reflect, build
upon, or diverge from anti-colonial and other emancipatory
struggles of the past. Critical to this volume is its exploration
of how divisions over gender equity and diversity of national
cultures and class have impacted what are increasingly
intersectional global movements. The contributions of feminist and
indigenous movements come to the fore in this collective
exploration of what the movements of yesterday and today can
contribute to our ongoing effort to understand the dynamics of
global transformation in order to help advance a more equitable,
just, and ecologically sustainable world.
Probably no region's economists have had greater public visibility
or greater impact on regional and national public policy than Latin
America's and no region has been more directly affected by the
spread of US economics. Economists in the Americas joins a small
but important comparative literature on economics as a profession
and is the first comparative treatment of professional economists
in the United States and Latin America. A multidisciplinary group
of scholars discusses the last sixty years of shifting trends in
economics in seven countries in the Western Hemisphere - Argentina,
Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay and the United States. The
chapters address the history of economics in the Americas, the role
of economists in politics and policy-making, economics education
and competing paradigms in the field. This collection points to the
interconnections among the national cases, the forging and
breakdown of consensus around state and market dominance, the
transnational diffusion of economic ideas and professional norms,
as well as the embrace and rejection of an increasingly
Americanized professional identity among Latin American economists.
The book will be of interest to policymakers and scholars
interested in the comparative history and sociology of economics,
development, public policy, international affairs, political
science and Latin American studies.
Citizenship has come under intense discussion recently because of
threats to welfare and shifting immigration policies. The European
Union has opened transnational citizenship rights and fledgling
democracies throughout the world are struggling to establish their
own versions of citizenship. Extending Citizenship, Reconfiguring
States connects all these current discussions and places them in
historical perspective. The book presents a thematically unified
analysis of changing citizenship practices over two centuries_from
the eve of the French Revolution to contemporary China. Showing how
rights emerge with the appearance of new social groups and the
reconfiguration of states, the authors identify conditions under
which rights and citizenship expand as new groups develop within
consolidated states as well as how rights and citizenship emerge
within fragmented states with cross-cutting legal jurisdictions.
One of the most important results of the French Revolution was
the destruction of the old feudal order, which for centuries had
kept the common people of the countryside subject to the lords. In
this book, John Markoff addresses the ways in which insurrectionary
peasants and revolutionary legislators joined in bringing "the time
of the lords" to an end and how, in that ending, seigneurial rights
came to be central to the very sense of the Revolution. He traces
the interaction of peasants and legislators, showing how they
confronted, challenged, and implicitly negotiated with one another
during the course of events.
Contrary to many historians who see the source of revolutionary
change in elite culture, Markoff argues that peasant insurrection
was a crucial element of the transformation of France. Of
particular importance to the study is Markoff's analysis of the
unique cahiers de doleances, the lists of grievances drawn up in
1789 by rural communities, urban notables, and nobles alike. These
documents are invaluable for understanding the Revolution, but
until the pioneering work of Markoff and Gilbert Shapiro, they had
not been studied systematically at the national level. In addition
to an unprecedented quantitative analysis of the cahiers, Markoff
traces the ebb and flow of peasant insurrection across half a
decade of revolutionary turbulence. He also offers qualitative
analysis through his use of the records of the legislative debates
as well as the memoirs and journals of the legislators.
The Abolition of Feudalism breaks new ground in charting
patterns of grievance and revolt in one of the most important
social and political upheavals in history.
Instead of presenting democracy as an ideal political system that humans only imperfectly realize, John Markoff conceptualizes democracy as something continually being reinvented. Instead of reducing democracy to well-defined and routine practices and institutions such as elections and parliaments, Markoff shows how political movements have repeatedly challenged and remade existing institutions. After reviewing two centuries of political conflict, he concludes with a thoughtful and exciting discussion on what democracy means today and what its future might be.
Using the exploits of three international hackers, Cyberpunk provides a fascinating tour of a bizarre subculture populated by outlaws who penetrate even the most sensitive computer networks and wreak havoc on the information they find -- everything from bank accounts to military secrets. In a book filled with as much adventure as any Ludlum novel, the authors show what motivates these young hackers to access systems, how they learn to break in, and how little can be done to stop them.
"This makes entertaining reading. Many accounts of the birth of
personal computing have been written, but this is the first close
look at the drug habits of the earliest pioneers." -New York Times
Most histories of the personal computer industry focus on
technology or business. John Markoff's landmark book is about the
culture and consciousness behind the first PCs-the culture being
counter- and the consciousness expanded, sometimes chemically. It's
a brilliant evocation of Stanford, California, in the 1960s and
'70s, where a group of visionaries set out to turn computers into a
means for freeing minds and information. In these pages one
encounters Ken Kesey and the phone hacker Cap'n Crunch, est and
LSD, The Whole Earth Catalog and the Homebrew Computer Lab. What
the Dormouse Said is a poignant, funny, and inspiring book by one
of the smartest technology writers around.
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