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  • The Spirit of Marikana

    The Rise of Insurgent Trade Unionism in South Africa

    by Luke Sinwell, Siphiwe Mbatha ...
    Series series Wildcat
    On 16th August 2012, thirty-four black mineworkers were gunned down by the police under the auspices of South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) in what has become known as the Marikana massacre. This attempt to drown independent working-class power in blood backfired and is now recognised as a turning point in the country's history.The Spirit of Marikana tells the story of the uncelebrated ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contesting Transformation

    Popular Resistance in Twenty-First Century South Africa

    Edited by Marcelle C. Dawson, Luke Sinwell ...
    Contesting Transformation is a sober and critical reflection on the wave of social movement struggles which have taken place in post-Apartheid South Africa.Moving beyond a social movement scholarship that has tended to romanticise emergent movements, this collection takes stock of the contradiction and complexity that is necessarily entangled in all forms of popular resistance. Through an ... Read more

    $33.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Marikana

    Voices from South Africa’s Mining Massacre

    by Peter Alexander, Thapelo Lekgowa, Botsang Mmope, Luke Sinwell, Bongani Xezwi ...
    The Marikana Massacre of August 16, 2012, was the single most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since the end of apartheid. Those killed were mineworkers in support of a pay raise. Through a series of interviews conducted with workers who survived the attack, this account documents and examines the controversial shootings in great detail, beginning with a ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Urban Revolt

    State Power and the Rise of People's Movements in the Global South

    Edited by Trevor Ngwane, Immanuel Ness, Luke Sinwell ...
    How do individuals and organizations move beyond the boundaries of constitutional or legal constructs to challenge neoliberalism and capitalism? As major urban areas have become the principal sites of poor and working-class social upheaval in the early twenty-first century, the chapters in this book explore key cities in the Global South. Through detailed cases studies, Urban Revolt unravels the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Southern Resistance in Critical Perspective

    The Politics of Protest in South Africa's Contentious Democracy

    Edited by Marcel Paret, Carin Runciman, Luke Sinwell ...
    Series series The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture
    From the Arab Uprising, to anti-austerity protests in Europe and the US Occupy Movement, to uprisings in Brazil and Turkey, resistance from below is flourishing. Whereas analysts have tended to look North in their analysis of the recent global protest wave, this volume develops a Southern perspective through a deep engagement with the case of South Africa, which has experienced widespread popular ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Participation Paradox

    Between Bottom-Up and Top-Down Development in South Africa

    by Luke Sinwell ...
    Series Book 5 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Protest, Power, and Resistance
    The last two decades have ushered in what has become known as a participatory revolution, with consultants, advisors, and non-profits called into communities, classrooms, and corporations alike to listen to ordinary people. With exclusively bureaucratic approaches no longer en vogue, authorities now opt for “open” forums for engagement.In The Participation Paradox Luke Sinwell argues that ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

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  • The Political Origins of Inequality

    Why a More Equal World Is Better for Us All

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    This far-reaching study examines how political policies and paradigms have deepened global inequality, and how to reframe the debate to address it.Inequality is the defining issue of our time—one in which the global 1% now owns half the world's wealth. In this magisterial study, Simon Reid-Henry rewrites the story of globalization as one about the management of inequality. Reaching back to the ... Read more

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  • An Independent Foreign Policy for Canada?

    Challenges and Choices for the Future

    by Brian Bow, Patrick Lennox ...
    Forty years ago, as the United States became increasingly involved in Vietnam, questions were raised in Canada about the relationship between its foreign policy agenda and that of its southern neighbour. Now, with the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is time to raise the same questions: does Canada need an independent foreign policy? Does Canada have the capacity and will to chart its own ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • European Union: The Basics

    by Alex Warleigh-Lack ...
    Series series The Basics
    Fully updated to include the new Treaty of Lisbon, this is the best short and accessible introduction to the politics of the European Union, written by one of the world's most well-known authorities in the area. Ideal starting reading for students and the general reader, it explains in clear jargon-free language:the EU's development to datehow the EU works, and why it works this waythe EU's major ... Read more

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  • The End of European Integration

    Anti-Europeanism Examined

    by Paul Taylor ...
    Series series Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies
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  • African Agency in International Politics

    Edited by William Brown, Sophie Harman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in African Politics and International Relations
    This book analyses the rapidly increasing role of African states, leaders and other political actors in international politics in the 21st Century.In contrast to the conventional approach of studying how external actors impacted on Africa’s international relations, this book seeks to open up a new approach, focusing on the impact of African political actors on international politics. It does this ... Read more

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