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  • We Make Our Own History

    Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism

    by Laurence Cox, Alf Gunvald Nilsen ...
    We live in the twilight of neoliberalism: the ruling classes can no longer rule as before, and ordinary people are no longer willing to be ruled in the old way. Pursued by global elites since the 1970s, neoliberalism is defined by dispossession and ever-increasing inequality. The refusal to continue to be ruled like this - 'ya basta!' - appears in an arc of resistance stretching from rural India ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Silence Would be Treason

    The Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa

    Edited by Íde Corely, Helen Fallon, Laurence Cox ...
    THESE LETTERS AND poems are invaluable fragments of a living conversation that portrays the indomitable power in humans to stay alive in the face of certain death. Reading through the treasure trove of the letters and poems compiled here as The Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa evoked such intense memories of his resolute struggles against an oil behemoth and a deaf autocratic government. His crusade ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Irish Buddhist

    The Forgotten Monk who Faced Down the British Empire

    by Alicia Turner, Laurence Cox, Brian Bocking ...
    The Irish Buddhist is the biography of an extraordinary Irish emigrant, sailor, and migrant worker who became a Buddhist monk and anti-colonial activist in early twentieth-century Asia. Born in Dublin in the 1850s, U Dhammaloka energetically challenged the values and power of the British Empire and scandalized the colonial establishment of the 1900s. He rallied Buddhists across Asia, set up ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Voices of 1968

    Documents from the Global North

    Edited by Salar Mohandesi, Bjarke Skærlund Risager, Laurence Cox ...
    The year 1968 witnessed one of the great upheavals of the twentieth century, as social movements shook every continent. Across the Global North, people rebelled against post-war conformity and patriarchy, authoritarian education and factory work, imperialism and the Cold War. They took over workplaces and universities, created their own media, art and humour, and imagined another world. The legacy ... Read more

    $25.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Environmental Justice, Popular Struggle and Community Development

    by Zayneb al-Shalalfeh, Sara Marsden, Shweta Narayan, Dharmesh Shah, Mahmoud Soliman Zwahre, Abeer al-Butmeh, Jeanne Prinsloo, Bobby Peek, Simon I Awad, Mark Butler, Jonathan Langdon, Jennifer Mackay, Daniel Skobla, Richard Filcak, Berenice Celeita, Patrick Kane, Laurence Cox, Hilary Darcy ...
    Series series Rethinking Community Development
    Struggles for environmental justice involve communities mobilising against powerful forces which advocate ‘development’, driven increasingly by neoliberal imperatives. In doing so, communities face questions about their alliances with other groups, working with outsiders and issues of class, race, ethnicity, gender, worker/community and settler/indigenous relationships.Written by a wide range of ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Why Social Movements Matter

    An Introduction

    by Laurence Cox ...
    Social movements and popular struggle are a central part of today’s world, but often neglected or misunderstood by media commentary as well as experts in other fields. In an age when struggles over climate change, women’s rights, austerity politics, racism, warfare and surveillance are central to the future of our societies, we urgently need to understand social movements. Accessible, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Understanding European Movements

    New Social Movements, Global Justice Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protest

    Edited by Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Laurence Cox ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact. Yet they have rarely been taken on their own terms in the English-language literature, considered rather as counterpoints to the US experience. This has been exacerbated by the failure of Anglophone social movement theorists to pay attention to the substantial ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • A Buddhist Crossroads

    Pioneer Western Buddhists and Asian Networks 1860-1960

    Edited by Brian Bocking, Phibul Choompolpaisal, Laurence Cox, Alicia M Turner ...
    In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Buddhism in Asia was transformed by the impact of colonial modernity and new technologies and began to spread in earnest to the West. Transnational networking among Asian Buddhists and early western converts engendered pioneering attempts to develop new kinds of Buddhism for a globalized world, in ways not controlled by any single sect or region. Drawing ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Place, Craft and Neurodiversity

    Re-imagining Potential through Education at Ruskin Mill

    by Aonghus Gordon, Laurence Cox ...
    For over four decades, Ruskin Mill Trust has worked with young people with special educational needs and behavioural issues who learn traditional crafts and organic farming as part of an integrated curriculum of therapeutic education, overcoming barriers to learning and re-engaging with the wider world. This accessible and inspiring book showcases how an appreciation of place, traditional crafts, ... Read more

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  • Globalization, Development and the Mass Media

    by Colin Sparks ...
    Globalization, Development and the Mass Media gives a comprehensive and critical account of the theoretical changes in communication studies from the early theories of development communication through to the contemporary critiques of globalization.It examines two main currents of thought. Firstly, the ways in which the media can be used to effect change and development. It traces the evolution of ... Read more

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  • The European Radical Left

    Movements and Parties since the 1960s

    by Giorgos Charalambous ...
    Is today’s left really new? How has the European radical left evolved?Giorgos Charalambous answers these questions by looking at three moments of rapid political change - the late 1960s to late 1970s; the turn of the millennium; and post-2008. He challenges the conventional understanding of a 'new left', drawing out continuities with earlier movements and parties.Charalambous examines the 'Long ... Read more

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  • Racism: A Very Short Introduction

    by Ali Rattansi ...
    From subtle discrimination in everyday life and scandals in politics, to incidents like lynchings in the American South, cultural imperialism, and 'ethnic cleansing', racism exists in many different forms, in almost every facet of society. But what actually is race? How has racism come to be so firmly established? Why do so few people actually admit to being racist? How are race, ethnicity, and ... Read more

    $8.95 USD