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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “christopher rootes”
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  • Environmental Movements

    Local, National and Global

    by Christopher Rootes ...
    Series series Environmental Politics
    Despite growing evidence of the universality of environmental problems and of economic and cultural globalization, the development of a truly global environmental movement is at best tentative. The dilemmas which confront environmental organizations are no less apparent at the global than at national levels. This volume is a collection of 1990s research on environmental movements in western and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Acting Locally

    Local Environmental Mobilizations and Campaigns

    Edited by Christopher Rootes ...
    Series series Environmental Politics
    Local campaigns are the most persistent and ubiquitous forms of environmental contention. National and transnational mobilisations come and go and the attention they receive from mass media ebbs and flows, but local campaigns persist. The persistence or re-emergence of local campaigns is also a reminder that it remain possible to mobilise people around environmental issues, and they have often ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Environmental Movements and Waste Infrastructure

    Edited by Christopher Rootes, Liam Leonard ...
    As rates of consumption grow, the problem of waste management has increased significantly. National and local waste authorities seek to manage such problems through the implementation of state regulation and construction of waste infrastructure, including landfills and incinerators. These, however, are undertaken in a context of increasing supra-state regulatory frameworks and directives on waste ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Transnational Protest and Global Activism

    by Donatella Della Porta, Mario Diani, Erik Johnson, Felix Kolb, W Lance Bennett, Doug McAdam, John D. McCarthy, Christopher Rootes, Kathryn Sikkink ...
    Series series People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P
    In this book, two titans of social movement scholarship bring together the best current research on the nexus between the local and the global in translating the global justice movement into action at the grass roots, and vice versa. Using recent cases of transnational contention_from the European Social Forum in Florence to the Argentinean human rights movement and British environmentalists, from ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

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    A Reader

    Edited by Ash Amin ...
    Series series IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
    Part analysis of contemporary change and part vision of the future, post-Fordism lends its name to a set of challenging, essential and controversial debates over the nature of capitalism's newest age. This book provides a superb introduction to these debates and their far-reaching implications, and includes key texts by post-Fordism's major theorists and commentators. ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Handbook of Neoliberalism

    Edited by Simon Springer, Kean Birch, Julie MacLeavy ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Neoliberalism is easily one of the most powerful discourses toemerge within the social sciences in the last two decades, and the number of scholars who write about this dynamic and unfolding process of socio-spatial transformation is astonishing. Even more surprising though is that there has, until now, not been an attempt to provide a wide-ranging volume that engages with the multiple registers ... Read more

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  • Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration

    by Bastiaan van Apeldoorn ...
    Series series RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
    This book presents an analysis of the transnational social forces in the making of a new European socio-economic order that emerged out of the European integration process during the 1980s and 1990s. Arguing that the political economy of European integration must be put within the context of a changing global capitalism, Van Apeldoorn examines how European change is linked to global change and how ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Spaces of Contention

    Spatialities and Social Movements

    by Byron Miller ...
    As social movements have become more complex, geographers are increasingly studying the spatial dynamics of collective resistance and sociologists and political scientists increasingly analyzing the role of space, place and scale in contentious political activity. Occupying a position at the intersection of these disciplinary developments, this book brings together leading scholars to examine how ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Feminist Strategies in International Governance

    Edited by Gülay Caglar, Elisabeth Prügl, Susanne Zwingel ...
    Series series Global Institutions
    The struggle for women’s rights and to overcome gender oppression has long engaged the efforts of inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations. Feminist Strategies in International Governance provides a new introduction to the contemporary forms of this struggle. It brings together the voices of academics and practitioners to reflect in particular on the effectiveness of human rights ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Handbook of Local and Regional Development

    Edited by Andy Pike, Andres Rodriguez-Pose, John Tomaney ...
    The Handbook of Local and Regional Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for local and regional development. The scope of this Handbook’s coverage and contributions engages with and reflects upon the politics and policy of how we think about and practise local and regional development, encouraging dialogue across the disciplinary barriers between notions of ‘local and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Universities and the Public Sphere

    Knowledge Creation and State Building in the Era of Globalization

    Edited by Brian Pusser, Ken Kempner, Simon Marginson, Imanol Ordorika ...
    Series series International Studies in Higher Education
    Universities have been propelled into the center of the global political economy of knowledge production by a number of factors: mass education, academic capitalism, the globalization of knowledge, the democratization of communication in the era of the Internet, and the emergence of the knowledge and innovation economy. The latest book in the International Studies in Higher Education series, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Labour and Transnational Action in Times of Crisis

    Edited by Andreas Bieler, Darragh Golden, Knut Kjeldstadli, Roland Erne, Idar Helle, Tiago Matos, Sabina Stan ...
    Series series Studies in Social and Global Justice
    Processes of neoliberal globalization have put national trade unions under pressure as the transnational organization of production puts these labour movements in competition with each other. The global economic crisis has intensified these pressures further. And yet, economic and political integration processes have also provided workers with new possibilities to organize resistance.Emphasizing ... Read more

    $55.99 USD