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  • 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

  • The Democratic Developmental State: North-South Perspectives

    by Tor Halvorsen, Teresita Cruz-del Rosario, Chris Tapscott, Eyob Balcha Gebremariam, Sharon Penderis, Jeremy Seekings, Einar Braathen, Olle Törnquist0, John Harriss1, Ole Johnny Olsen2, Thomas Pogge3 ...
    Series Book 4 - CROP International Poverty Studies
    The idea of a democratic developmental state forms part of the current development discourse advocated by international aid agencies, deliberated on by academics, and embraced by policy makers in many emerging economies in the global South. What is noticeable in this discourse is how little attention has been paid to a discussion of the essence of a democratic developmental state, and much of what ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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  • The Leaderless Revolution

    How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century

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    The Leaderless Revolution explains why our government institutions are inadequate to the task of solving major problems and offers a set of steps we can take to create lasting and workable solutions ourselves. In taking these steps, we can not only reclaim the control we have lost, but also a sense of meaning and community so elusive in the current circumstance. In a day and age when things feel ... Read more

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  • Rebuild the Dream

    by Van Jones ...
    In Rebuild the Dream, green economy pioneer Van Jones reflects on his journey from grassroots outsider to White House insider. For the first time, he shares intimate details of his time in government -- and reveals why he chose to resign his post as a special advisor to the Obama White House.Jones puts his hard-won lessons to good use, proposing a powerful game plan to restore hope, fix our ... Read more

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  • You're More Powerful Than You Think

    A Citizen's Guide to Making Change Happen

    by Eric Liu ...
    **A handbook for how political power really works, and what it takes to make change happen“[Liu] addresses a central question of this age: what, exactly, citizens who are unhappy with national politics can do, other than write a check or await the next chance to vote.” —The Atlantic**In this age of epic political turbulence, citizens everywhere are organizing to claim their power. Do you ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • 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

  • The Citizen Solution

    How You Can Make A Difference

    by Harry C. Boyte ...
    Nationally known community organizer and activist Harry C. Boyte incites readers to join today's "citizen movement," offering practical tools for how we can change the face of America by focusing on issues close to home.Targeting useful techniques for individuals to raise public consciousness and effectively motivate community-based groups, Boyte grounds his arguments in the country's tradition of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Breaking Through Gridlock

    The Power of Conversation in a Polarized World

    by Jason J. Jay, Gabriel Grant ...
    "A field manual for change agents on how to build bridges across differences and move from talk to action." —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times-bestselling authorThink about the last time you tried to talk with someone who didn't already agree with you about issues that matter most. How well did it go?These conversations are vital, but too often get stuck. They become contentious or we avoid them ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics

    Edited by Georgina Waylen, Karen Celis, Johanna Kantola, S. Laurel Weldon ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    As a field of scholarship, gender and politics has exploded over the last fifty years and is now global, institutionalized, and ever expanding. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics brings to political science an accessible and comprehensive overview of the key contributions of gender scholars to the study of politics and shows how these contributions produce a richer understanding of ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Stand Up!

    The Story of Minnesota’s Protest Tradition

    by Rhoda Gilman ...
    When the senatorial election of 2008 between Democrat Al Franken and Republican Norm Coleman stretched on for a contentious six months, people throughout the country wondered about Minnesota's offbeat politics. But Minnesota has been and is now a seedbed for cultural and political movements that have changed the country, and its history weaves a pattern of wide opposition between left and right.In ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Everyday Politics

    Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life

    by Harry C. Boyte ...
    Increasingly a spectator sport, electoral politics have become bitterly polarized by professional consultants and lobbyists and have been boiled down to the distributive mantra of "who gets what." In Everyday Politics, Harry Boyte transcends partisan politics to offer an alternative. He demonstrates how community-rooted activities reconnect citizens to engaged, responsible public life, and not ... Read more

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  • Cold Anger

    A Story of Faith and Power Politics

    by Mary Beth Rogers ...
    "Cold Anger is an important book about the empowerment of working-class communities through church-based social activism. Such activism is certainly not new, but the conscious merger of community organizing tactics with religious beliefs may be. The organizing approach comes from Aul Alinsky and his Industrial Areas Foundations (IAF). . . . The book is structured around the political life of ... Read more

    $9.89 USD