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  • Mobilizing for Democracy

    Citizen Action and the Politics of Public Participation

    by Lisa Thompson, Naila Kabeer, Arilson Favareto, Doctor Celestine Nyamu-Musembi, Duncan Okello, Idaci Ferreira, Jibrin Ibrahim, Alex Shankland, Alexandre Ferraz, Fabiola Fanti, Meire Ribeiro, Ranjita Mohanty, Samuel Egwu, Simeen Mahmud, Steven Robins, Sandra Marina Roque, Frederico Menino ...
    Series series Claiming Citizenship
    Mobilizing for Democracy is an in-depth study into how ordinary citizens and their organizations mobilize to deepen democracy. Featuring a collection of new empirical case studies from Angola, Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, this important new book illustrates how forms of political mobilization, such as protests, social participation, activism, litigation and lobbying, ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • Malcolm X

    A Life of Reinvention (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Manning Marable ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History and a New York Times bestseller, the definitive biography of Malcolm XHailed as "a masterpiece" (San Francisco Chronicle), Manning Marable's acclaimed biography of Malcolm X finally does justice to one of the most influential and controversial figures of twentieth-century American history. Filled with startling new information and shocking revelations, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • The Tyranny of Good Intentions

    How Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice

    by Paul Craig Roberts, Lawrence M. Stratton ...
    A thousand years of legal protections against tyranny are being stolen right before our eyes. Under the guise of good intentions, personal liberties as old as the Magna Carta have become casualties in the wars being waged on pollution, drugs, white-collar crime, and all of the other real and imagined social ills. The result: innocent people caught up in a bureaucratic web that destroys lives and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Enough

    The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It

    by Juan Williams ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An impassioned clarion call to return to the traditional values that served generations of civil rights heroes in order to overcome the obstacles faced by black Americans today“Written in the tradition of DuBois and King, Enough is an impressively powerful and courageous book.”—David J. Garrow, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Bearing the CrossHalf a century after brave ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada, Second Edition

    Edited by Miriam Smith ...
    Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada, Second Edition updates and expands its exploration of a wide range of organized group and social movement activity in Canadian politics. Particularly distinctive is the inclusion of Quebec nationalism and Aboriginal politics. Many other areas of collective activity are also included: the Occupy movement and anti-poverty organizing, ethnocultural ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Posters for Peace

    Visual Rhetoric and Civic Action

    by Thomas W. Benson ...
    By the spring of 1970, Americans were frustrated by continuing war in Vietnam and turmoil in the inner cities. Students on American college campuses opposed the war in growing numbers and joined with other citizens in ever-larger public demonstrations against the war. Some politicians—including Ronald Reagan, Spiro Agnew, and Richard Nixon—exploited the situation to cultivate anger against ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • ABC's of Human Survival

    A Paradigm for Global Citizenship

    by Arthur Clark ...
    Series series Global Peace Studies
    The ABCs of Human Survival examines the effect of militant nationalism and the lawlessness of powerful states on the well-being of individuals and local communities?and the essential role of global citizenship within that dynamic. Based on the analysis of world events, Dr. Arthur Clark presents militant nationalism as a pathological pattern of thinking that threatens our security, while ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • De Colores Means All of Us

    Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century

    by Elizabeth Martínez ...
    Series series Feminist Classics
    A radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identityElizabeth Martínez’s unique Chicana voice has been formed through over thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s liberation, and Latina/o empowerment. In De Colores Means All of Us, Martínez presents a radical Latina perspective on race, liberation and identity. She describes the provocative ideas and new ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Unheavenly Chorus

    Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy

    by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, Henry E. Brady ...
    Why American democracy favors the affluent and educatedPolitically active individuals and organizations make huge investments of time, energy, and money to influence everything from election outcomes to congressional subcommittee hearings to local school politics, while other groups and individual citizens seem woefully underrepresented in our political system. The Unheavenly Chorus is the most ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Citizenship and Social Movements

    Perspectives from the Global South

    by Eghosa E. Osaghae, Arilson Favareto, Ranjita Mohanty, Laurence Edward Piper, Simeen Mahmud, Linda Waldman, Lyla Mehta, Angela Alonso, Carlos Cortez Ruiz ...
    Series series Claiming Citizenship
    Debates over social movements have suffered from a predominate focus on North America and western Europe, often neglecting the significance of collective action in the global South. Citizenship and Social Movements seeks to partially redress this imbalance with case studies from Brazil, India, Bangladesh, Mexico, South Africa and Nigeria.This volume points to the complex relationships that ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • CiviC Disobedience

    Taking Politics Seriously, A Democtratic Theory of Political Disobedience

    by Dr Claire Moulin-Doos ...
    The book offers a counter-model to the classical liberal theories of civil disobedience, as developed by authors such as John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin. Based on a strict opposition between liberalism and democracy it proposes a new perspective for the understanding of political disobedience. As an alternative to civil disobedience the author proposes the idea of civic disobedience. With reference ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Speaking Rights to Power

    Constructing Political Will

    by Alison Brysk ...
    This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. How can "Speaking Rights to Power" construct political will to respond to human rights abuse worldwide? Examining dozens of cases of human rights campaigns and using an innovative analysis of the politics ... Read more

    $34.19 USD