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  • Pride Parades and LGBT Movements

    Political Participation in an International Comparative Perspective

    by Abby Peterson, Mattias Wahlström, Magnus Wennerhag ...
    Series series
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315474052, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 licenseToday, Pride parades are staged in countries and localities across the globe, providing the most visible manifestations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex movements and ... Read more

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  • Neo-sectarianism and Rainbow Coalitions

    Youth and the Drama of Immigration in Contemporary Sweden

    by Abby Peterson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1997, this book examines the issue of racist and antiracist movements which are increasingly taking the stage in contemporary European societies in the face of a rapidly changing cultural landscape. The drama of immigration has been enacted by these movements with heightened intensity since the 1908s, and in particular the struggle is engaging the youth of Europe. In this book ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Contemporary Political Protest

    Essays on Political Militancy

    by Abby Peterson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2001. An investigation of the new wave of militant political activity emerging across Europe. The book examines the role of emotions in militant activity, the way in which the body is implicated in militant political actions, and the concept of media modernity as a precondition for the contemporary politics of militancy. ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The Ritual of May Day in Western Europe

    Past, Present and Future

    by Abby Peterson, Herbert Reiter ...
    Series series The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture
    Eric Hobsbawm claimed that the international May Day, which dates back to a proclamation in 1889 by the Second International, 'is perhaps the most ambitious of labour rituals'. The first international May Day demonstrations in 1890 were widely celebrated across Europe and became the one day each year when organized labour could present its goals to the public, an eight-hour workday being the first ... Read more

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  • The Policing of Transnational Protest

    by Abby Peterson ...
    Series series New Advances in Crime and Social Harm
    Having long been a neglected issue, the policing of protest began to attract considerable attention in the 1990s, climaxing in the events in Seattle of 1999. These protests and the changing political climate since September 11, 2001 mean that a new cycle of protest is challenging the concept of law and order and civil liberties. This book examines how new policing styles are developing using case ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Standing Tall

    A Giraffe's Journey to Self Love

    by Nicole Peterson ...
    Illustrated by Abby Davis ...
    In Standing Tall, we meet Ginny, a young giraffe, whose towering height often leaves her feeling out of place. As she gazes from the world from her elevated vantage point, Ginny dreams of being short, just like her friend Pip the Parakeet. It's not until she's faced with a daring rescue that her perspective shifts dramatically. Confronted with a blazing fire and a penguin trapped inside, Ginny's ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Edited by Magnus Wennerhag, Christian Fröhlich, Grzegorz Piotrowski ...
    Series series The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture
    When the Iron Curtain lifted in 1989, it was seen by some as proof of the final demise of the ideas and aspirations of the radical left. Not many years passed, however, before the critique of social inequalities and capitalism was once again a main protest theme of social movements. This book provides an account of radical left movements in today’s Europe and how they are trying to accomplish ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Mobilising the Racialised 'Others'

    Postethnic Activism, Neoliberalisation and Racial Politics

    by Suvi Keskinen ...
    This book provides an original approach to the connections of race, racism and neoliberalisation through a focus on ‘postethnic activism,’ in which mobilisation is based on racialisation as non-white or ‘other’ instead of ethnic group membership.Developing the theoretical understanding of political activism under the neoliberal turn in racial capitalism and the increasingly hostile political ... Read more

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  • Foucault - The Key Ideas

    Foucault on philosophy, power, and the sociology of knowledge: a concise introduction

    by Paul Oliver ...
    Foucault - The Key Ideas is a concise introduction to the life, works and ideas of this ground-breaking modern philosopher. This book will not only guide you through the events of Foucault's life and help you to understand his most complex ideas with ease; it will also demonstrate the practical impact of those ideas on life today. Covering everything from Foucault's views on the philosophy and ... Read more

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  • Socialism

    by Kristian Niemietz ...
    Socialism is strangely impervious to refutation by real-world experience. Over the past hundred years, there have been more than two dozen attempts to build a socialist society, from the Soviet Union to Maoist China to Venezuela. All of them have ended in varying degrees of failure. But, according to socialism’s adherents, that is only because none of these experiments were “real socialism”. This ... Read more

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  • The Idea of a Human Rights Museum

    by Angela Failler, Adam Muller, Clint Curle, Christopher Powell, Amanda Grzyb, Jodi Giesbrecht, Struan Sinclair, Helen Fallding, Stephen Jaeger, Mary Reid0, Ken Norman1, A. Dirk Moses2, Roger I. Simon3, Ruth B. Phillips4, David Petrasek5, Karen Busby7, Andrew Woolford8, Armando Perla0, Jennifer Carter1, Jorge A. Nállim2, George Jacob3 ...
    Series Book 1 - Human Rights and Social Justice Series
    The Idea of a Human Rights Museum is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural contexts within which the museum physically and conceptually evolved drawing comparisons between the CMHR and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The War for Children's Minds

    by Stephen Law ...
    Behind headlines on the conflict in Iraq and global terrorism, a much deeper battle is raging over children and the values they should adopt. Political and religious leaders including Blair and Bush have been joined by the popular press in Enlightenment-bashing and bitter attacks on `liberal parenting calling for a return to authority and religious tradition. How do we raise good children? How do ... Read more

    $28.99 USD