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Essays in Anarchism and Religion: Volume 1
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ISBN: 9176350401 9176350436 Year: 2017 Publisher: Stockholm, Sweden Stockholm University Press

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"Anarchism and religion have historically had an uneasy relationship. Indeed, representatives of both sides have regularly insisted on the fundamental incompatibility of anarchist and religious ideas and practices. Yet, ever since the emergence of anarchism as an intellectual and political movement, a considerable number of religious anarchists have insisted that their religious tradition necessarily implies an anarchist political stance. Their stories are finally gaining increasing public and scholarly attention. Reflecting both a rise of interest in anarchist ideas and activism on the one hand, and the revival of religious ideas and movements in the political sphere on the other, this book examines a range of examples of overlaps and contestations between the two from a diverse range of academic perspectives.The first pioneering volume of Essays in Anarchism & Religion comprises eight essays from leading international scholars on topics ranging from the anarchism of the historical Jesus to Zen Buddhism and the philosophies of Max Stirner and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.In a world where political ideas increasingly matter once more, and religion is an increasingly visible aspect of global political life, these essays offer scholarly analysis of overlooked activists, ideas and movements, and as such reveal the possibility of a powerful critique of contemporary global society.This book series is being funded via a crowdfunding campaign. For more information, or to make a donation for the next volume, please visit the funding page. This scheme ensures that the content will remain fully open access. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/essays-in-anarchism-and-religion/#/"


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Marching Dykes, liberated sluts, and concerned mothers: women transforming public space
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Year: 2017 Publisher: Urbana University of Illinois Press

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Feminism --- Gender --- Public spance --- Participation --- Safety --- Book --- Activism --- Citizenship


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A life of its own : an assessment of the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence campaign
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Year: 2017 Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. Center for Womens Global Leadership

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Bad girls of the Arab world
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ISBN: 9781477313350 9781477313367 Year: 2017 Publisher: Austin University of Texas Press

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Gender roles --- Norms --- Book --- Activism --- Experiences --- Arab states


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Protest Politics in the Marketplace : Consumer Activism in the Corporate Age
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ISBN: 150170947X 9781501712111 150171211X 9781501709470 9781501709203 9781501715402 Year: 2017 Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press,

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Protest Politics in the Marketplace examines how social media has revolutionized the use and effectiveness of consumer activism. In her groundbreaking book, Caroline Heldman emphasizes that consumer activism is a democratizing force that improves political participation, self-governance, and the accountability of corporations and the government. She also investigates the use of these tactics by conservatives.Heldman analyzes the democratic implications of boycotting, socially responsible investing, social media campaigns, and direct consumer actions, highlighting the ways in which such consumer activism serves as a countervailing force against corporate power in politics. In Protest Politics in the Marketplace, she blends democratic theory with data, historical analysis, and coverage of consumer campaigns for civil rights, environmental conservation, animal rights, gender justice, LGBT rights, and other causes. Using an inter-disciplinary approach applicable to political theorists and sociologists, Americanists, and scholars of business, the environment, and social movements, Heldman considers activism in the marketplace from the Boston Tea Party to the present. In doing so, she provides readers with a clearer understanding of the new, permanent environment of consumer activism in which they operate.


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Periods gone public: taking a stand for menstrual equity
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Year: 2017 Publisher: New York Arcade Publishing

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From a whisper to a shout : abortion activism and social media
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ISBN: 9781912248025 9781912248087 Year: 2017 Publisher: London Repeater Books

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Online activism in the Middle East : political power and authoritarian governments from Egypt to Kuwait
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ISBN: 9781784537784 1784537780 Year: 2017 Publisher: London New York I.B. Tauris

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Does the internet facilitate social and political change, or even democratization, in the Middle East? Despite existing research on this subject, there is still no consensus on the importance of social media and online platforms, or on how we are to understand their influence. This book provides empirical analysis of the day-to-day use of online platforms by activists in Egypt and Kuwait. The research evaluates the importance of online platforms for effecting change and establishes a specific framework for doing so. Egypt and Kuwait were chosen because, since the mid-2000s, they have been the most prominent Arab countries in terms of online and offline activism. In the context of Kuwait, Jon Nordenson examines the oppositional youth groups who fought for a constitutional, democratic monarchy in the emirate. In Egypt, focus surrounds the groups and organizations working against sexual violence and sexual harassment. This book shows how and why online platforms are used by activists and identifies the crucial features of successful online campaigns. Egypt and Kuwait are revealed to be authoritarian contexts but where the challenges and possibilities faced by activists are quite different. The comparative nature of this research therefore exposes the context-specific usage of online platforms, separating this from the more general features of online activism. Nordenson demonstrates the power of online activism to create an essential 'counterpublic' that can challenge an authoritarian state and enable excluded groups to fight in ways that are far more difficult to suppress than a demonstration.


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Descent into night
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ISBN: 1988449413 9781988449210 1988449219 9781988449418 Year: 2017 Publisher: Mawenzi House Publishers

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"Ito Baraka is going to die. In Gatineau, far from the sun, in a dark, shabby flat he shares with his Native girlfriend, Kimi. But before he can die, he has a book to finish, in which he recounts events in a country where the suns burns, burns the skin, burns the brain, burns the retina of those forced to look at it without blinking. A country where another sun blazes: a dictator in the grips of fear. Is magic not the most dangerous form of subversion? Ito makes the acquaintance of blind Koli Lem. In the middle of the blackest night, in the words they share, in their very flesh, they become each other's sole source of light."--


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Sexual violence at Canadian universities: activism, institutional responses and strategies for change
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Year: 2017 Publisher: Waterloo Wilfrid Laurier University Press

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