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Sustaining Activism

Author : Jeffrey W. Rubin
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822399318
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Sustaining Activism written by Jeffrey W. Rubin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1986, a group of young Brazilian women started a movement to secure economic rights for rural women and transform women's roles in their homes and communities. Together with activists across the country, they built a new democracy in the wake of a military dictatorship. In Sustaining Activism, Jeffrey W. Rubin and Emma Sokoloff-Rubin tell the behind-the-scenes story of this remarkable movement. As a father-daughter team, they describe the challenges of ethnographic research and the way their collaboration gave them a unique window into a fiery struggle for equality. Starting in 2002, Rubin and Sokoloff-Rubin traveled together to southern Brazil, where they interviewed activists over the course of ten years. Their vivid descriptions of women’s lives reveal the hard work of sustaining a social movement in the years after initial victories, when the political way forward was no longer clear and the goal of remaking gender roles proved more difficult than activists had ever imagined. Highlighting the tensions within the movement about how best to effect change, Sustaining Activism ultimately shows that democracies need social movements in order to improve people’s lives and create a more just society.

Design Activism

Author : Alastair Fuad-Luke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136568476
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Design Activism written by Alastair Fuad-Luke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design academics and practitioners are facing a multiplicity of challenges in a dynamic, complex, world moving faster than the current design paradigm which is largely tied to the values and imperatives of commercial enterprise. Current education and practice need to evolve to ensure that the discipline of design meets sustainability drivers and equips students, teachers and professionals for the near-future. New approaches, methods and tools are urgently required as sustainability expands the context for design and what it means to be a 'designer'. Design activists, who comprise a diverse range of designers, teachers and other actors, are setting new ambitions for design. They seek to fundamentally challenge how, where and when design can catalyse positive impacts to address sustainability. They are also challenging who can utilise the power of the design process. To date, examination of contemporary and emergent design activism is poorly represented in the literature. This book will provide a rigorous exploration of design activism that will re-vitalise the design debate and provide a solid platform for students, teachers, design professionals and other disciplines interested in transformative (design) activism. Design Activism provides a comprehensive study of contemporary and emergent design activism. This activism has a dual aim - to make positive impacts towards more sustainable ways of living and working; and to challenge and reinvigorate design praxis,. It will collate, synthesise and analyse design activist approaches, processes, methods, tools and inspirational examples/outcomes from disparate sources and, in doing so, will create a specific canon of work to illuminate contemporary design discourse. Design Activism reveals the power of design for positive social and environmental change, design with a central activist role in the sustainability challenge. Inspired by past design activists and set against the context of global-local tensions, expressions of design activism are mapped. The nature of contemporary design activism is explored, from individual/collective action to the infrastructure that supports it generating powerful participatory design approaches, a diverse toolbox and inspirational outcomes. This is design as a political and social act, design to enable adaptive societal capacity for co-futuring.

Sustaining Activism

Author : Jeffrey W. Rubin
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822354217
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Digital Activism, Community Media, and Sustainable Communication in Latin America

Author : Cheryl Martens
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030453944
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Digital Activism, Community Media, and Sustainable Communication in Latin America written by Cheryl Martens and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together academic and activist work on community media, feminist, decolonial, and Indigenous perspectives to digital activism, including Free and Open Communication in Latin America. The essays in this collection speak to major changes over the past decade that are reshaping digital media uses and practices. The case studies presented here question many commonly held assumptions around global media ownership, sustainability, and access relevant to countries beyond Latin American contexts.

The Next American Revolution

Author : Grace Lee Boggs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520272595
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Next American Revolution written by Grace Lee Boggs and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reading Grace Lee Boggs helps you glimpse a United States that is better and more beautiful than you thought it was. As she analyzes some of the inspiring theories and practices that have emerged from the struggles for equality and freedom in Detroit and beyond, she also shows us that in this country, a future revolution is not only necessary but possible." —Michael Hardt, co-author of Commonwealth "This groundbreaking book not only represents the best of Grace Lee Boggs, but the best of any radical, visionary thinking in the United States. She reminds us why revolution is not only possible and necessary, but in some places already in the making. The conditions we face under neoliberalism and war do, indeed, mark the end of an era in which the old ideological positions of protest are not really relevant or effective—and this book offers a new way forward."—Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination “Grace Boggs has long been a major voice of hope and action for transformation of the United States and the world. Here is her testimony of hope and program for action. It must be taken seriously.” —Immanuel Wallerstein, author of Utopistics: or, Historical Choices of the Twenty-first Century "One of the most accomplished radicals of our time, the Detroit-based visionary Grace Lee Boggs has become one of our most influential and inspiring public intellectuals. The Next American Revolution is her powerful reflection on a lifetime of urban revolutionary work, an ode to the courage and brilliance of her late partner James Boggs, and a plain-spoken call for us to address the troubled times we face with a sense of history, a strong set of values, and an unwavering faith in our own creative, restorative powers." —Jeff Chang, author of Can't Stop Won't Stop

Green Inside Activism for Sustainable Development

Author : Erik Hysing
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319567233
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Green Inside Activism for Sustainable Development written by Erik Hysing and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers how public sector institutions can be transformed to better support sustainable development by exploring the concept of green inside activism and its importance for institutional change. The phenomenon of inside activism has been shown to be crucial for green policy change and this book focuses on public officials as green inside activists, committed to green values and engaged in social movement, acting strategically from inside public administration to change public policy and institutions in line with such value commitment. The book theorizes how green inside activism can contribute to a more sustainable development through institutional change. This theorizing builds on and relates to highly relevant theoretical arguments in the existing literature. The authors also consider the legitimacy of inside activism and how it can be reconciled with democratic ideals. This innovative work will appeal to students and scholars of public policy, political science and environmental politics.

Sustaining Life

Author : Theodore Powers
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812252004
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Sustaining Life written by Theodore Powers and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the historical roots of AIDS activism in the struggle for African liberation to the everyday work of community education in Khayelitsha, Sustaining Life tells the story of how the rights-based South African AIDS movement successfully transformed public health institutions, enabled access to HIV/AIDS treatment, and sustained the lives of people living with the disease. Typical accounts of the South African epidemic have focused on the political conflict surrounding it, Theodore Powers observes, but have yet to examine the process by which the national HIV/AIDS treatment program achieved near-universal access. In Sustaining Life, Powers demonstrates the ways in which non-state actors, from caregivers to activists, worked within the state to transform policy and state-based institutions in order to improve health-based outcomes. He shows how advocates in the South African AIDS movement channeled the everyday experiences of poor and working-class people living with HIV/AIDS into tangible policy changes at varying institutional levels, revealing the primacy of local action for expanding treatment access. In his analysis of the transformation of the state health system, Powers addresses three key questions: How were the activists of the movement able to overcome an AIDS-dissident faction that was backed by government power? How were state health institutions and HIV/AIDS policy transformed to increase public sector access to treatment? Finally, how should the South African campaign for treatment access inform academic debates on social movements, transnationalism, and the state? Based on extended participant observation and in-depth interviews with members of the South African AIDS movement, Sustaining Life traces how the political principles of the anti-apartheid movement were leveraged to build a broad coalition that changed national HIV/AIDS policy norms and highlights how changes in state-society relations can be produced by local activism.

The Next American Revolution

Author : Grace Lee Boggs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520953398
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Next American Revolution written by Grace Lee Boggs and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Strategist's Best Books About Asian American Identity, New York Magazine The pioneering Asian American labor organizer and writer’s vision for intersectional and anti-racist activism. In this powerful, deeply humanistic book, Grace Lee Boggs, a legendary figure in the struggle for justice in America, shrewdly assesses the current crisis—political, economical, and environmental—and shows how to create the radical social change we need to confront new realities. A vibrant, inspirational force, Boggs has participated in all of the twentieth century’s major social movements—for civil rights, women’s rights, workers’ rights, and more. She draws from seven decades of activist experience, and a rigorous commitment to critical thinking, to redefine “revolution” for our times. From her home in Detroit, she reveals how hope and creativity are overcoming despair and decay within the most devastated urban communities. Her book is a manifesto for creating alternative modes of work, politics, and human interaction that will collectively constitute the next American Revolution—which is unraveling before our eyes.

Cancer Activism

Author : Karen M. Kedrowski
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252031989
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Cancer Activism written by Karen M. Kedrowski and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of the breast cancer and the prostate cancer movements

Beautiful Trouble

Author : Andrew Boyd
Publisher : OR Books
ISBN 13 : 1939293162
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Trouble written by Andrew Boyd and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banksy, the Yes Men, Gandhi, Starhawk: the accumulated wisdom of decades of creative protest is now in the hands of the next generation of change-makers, thanks to Beautiful Trouble. Sophisticated enough for veteran activists, accessible enough for newbies, this compact pocket edition of the bestselling Beautiful Trouble is a book that’s both handy and inexpensive. Showcasing the synergies between artistic imagination and shrewd political strategy, this generously illustrated volume can easily be slipped into your pocket as you head out to the streets. This is for everyone who longs for a more beautiful, more just, more livable world – and wants to know how to get there. Includes a new introduction by the editors. Contributors include: Celia Alario • Andy Bichlbaum • Nadine Bloch • L. M. Bogad • Mike Bonnano • Andrew Boyd • Kevin Buckland • Doyle Canning • Samantha Corbin • Stephen Duncombe • Simon Enoch • Janice Fine • Lisa Fithian • Arun Gupta • Sarah Jaffe • John Jordan • Stephen Lerner • Zack Malitz • Nancy L. Mancias • Dave Oswald Mitchell • Tracey Mitchell • Mark Read • Patrick Reinsborough • Joshua Kahn Russell • Nathan Schneider • John Sellers • Matthew Skomarovsky • Jonathan Matthew Smucker • Starhawk • Eric Stoner • Harsha Walia

Contentious Minds

Author : Florence Passy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190078014
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Contentious Minds written by Florence Passy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY NC ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Why does the mind matter for collective action? In Contentious Minds, Florence Passy and Gian-Andrea Monsch explain how cognitive and relational processes allow activists participate in and sustain their commitment to activism. Based on a wide array of survey and interview data with activists engaged in protest, volunteering and unions, they highlight how a commitment community develop shared values, identities, and meanings through interaction. The interplay of talk and ties enables stories and meanings to be constructed and exchanged, conveys worldviews and intentions that are modified through ongoing conversations, and reinforces and maintains commitment over time. Passy and Monsch's ambitious work brings the mind and culture back into the study of social movements and highlights the crucial role social networks play in constructing the communities and shared values that sustain commitment.

Climate Activism

Author : Annika Skoglund
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108482643
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Climate Activism written by Annika Skoglund and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is activism? The answer is, typically, that it is a form of opposition, often expressed on the streets. Skoglund and Böhm argue differently. They identify forms of 'insider activism' within corporations, state agencies and villages, showing how people seek to transform society by working within the system, rather than outright opposing it. Using extensive empirical data, Skoglund and Böhm analyze the transformation of climate activism in a rapidly changing political landscape, arguing that it is time to think beyond the tensions between activism and enterprise. They trace the everyday renewable energy actions of a growing 'epistemic community' of climate activists who are dispersed across organizational boundaries and domains. This book is testament to a new way of understanding activism as an organizational force that brings about the transition towards sustainability across business and society and is of interest to social science scholars of business, renewable energy and sustainable development.

Grassroots Gardening

Author : Donna Schaper
Publisher : Nation Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grassroots Gardening written by Donna Schaper and published by Nation Books. This book was released on 2007-05-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2003, Minister Donna Schaper wrote an op-ed for The New York Times detailing her rejection from the Coral Gables Garden Club. It seems that the ladies of the club thought she'd bring inappropriate people into the club (meaning gays and blacks). Because of this piece, Minister Schaper was invited to join other clubs around the country. Minister Schaper argues that gardening is a way to sustain activism. It's a ritual for radicals — urbans, nomads, and for anybody who is sufficiently angry.

The Activists' Handbook

Author : Aidan Ricketts
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1780324138
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Activists' Handbook written by Aidan Ricketts and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A priceless resource for everyone ready to make a difference, environmental activist Aidan Ricketts offers a step-by-step handbook for citizens eager to start or get involved in grass-roots movements and beyond. Providing all essential practical tools, methods and strategies needed for a successful campaign and extensively discussing legal and ethical issues, this book empowers its readers to effectively promote their cause. Lots of ready-to-use documents and comprehensive information on digital activism and group strategy make this book an essential companion for any campaign. Including case studies from the US, UK, Canada and Australia, this is the ultimate guidebook to participatory democracy.

Sustainable Urbanism and Direct Action

Author : Benjamin Heim Shepard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783483172
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Urbanism and Direct Action written by Benjamin Heim Shepard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban activism can manifest in many guises, from community gardening to mass naked bike rides. But how might we theorize the evidence of the collisions between social forces that take place in our streets and public commons? Cities are formed through these collective collisions in time. This book draws on the author’s own vast experience as an activist to make links between a theory of practice with rich discussion of the histories of conflicts over public space. Each chapter examines activist responses to a range of issues that have confronted New Yorkers, from the struggle for green space and non-polluting transportation, to housing and the fight for sexual civil liberties. The cases are shaped through interplay between multiple data sources, including the author’s own voice as an observing participant, as well as interviews with other participant activists, historic accounts and theoretical discussion. Taken together, these highlight a story of urban public space movements and the ways they shape cities and are shaped by history.

Uncivil Youth

Author : Soo Ah Kwon
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822354233
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Uncivil Youth written by Soo Ah Kwon and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Uncivil Youth, Soo Ah Kwon explores youth of color activism as linked to the making of democratic citizen-subjects. Focusing attention on the relations of power that inform the social and political practices of youth of color, Kwon examines how after-school and community-based programs are often mobilized to prevent potentially "at-risk" youth from turning to "juvenile delinquency" and crime. These sorts of strategic interventions seek to mold young people to become self-empowered and responsible citizens. Theorizing this mode of youth governance as "affirmative governmentality," Kwon investigates the political conditions that both enable youth of color to achieve meaningful change and limit their ability to do so given the entrenchment of nonprofits in the logic of a neoliberal state. She draws on several years of ethnographic research with an Oakland-based, panethnic youth organization that promotes grassroots activism among its second-generation Asian and Pacific Islander members (ages fourteen to eighteen). While analyzing the contradictions of the youth organizing movement, Kwon documents the genuine contributions to social change made by the young people with whom she worked in an era of increased youth criminalization and anti-immigrant legislation.

A is for Activist

Author : Innosanto Nagara
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609805402
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book A is for Activist written by Innosanto Nagara and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of NPR's Top 100 Book for Young Readers “Reading it is almost like reading Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, but for two-year olds—full of pictures and rhymes and a little cat to find on every page that will delight the curious toddler and parents alike.”—Occupy Wall Street A is for Activist is an ABC board book written and illustrated for the next generation of progressives: families who want their kids to grow up in a space that is unapologetic about activism, environmental justice, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, and everything else that activists believe in and fight for. The alliteration, rhyming, and vibrant illustrations make the book exciting for children, while the issues it brings up resonate with their parents' values of community, equality, and justice. This engaging little book carries huge messages as it inspires hope for the future, and calls children to action while teaching them a love for books.