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Who is meant when people talk about the citizens or the activists? Often, they are implied to mean the most privileged positionalities. Simultaneously, refugees and migrants tend to be seen through their (supposed) legal status. Thus, they are neither practically nor conceptually regarded as activists. The variety of intersecting positionings in migrant rights activism results in complex inequalities and power dynamics within activist groups. Solidarities are continually challenged, negotiated, and built. Lea Rzadtki develops a conceptual view on claims, challenges, and processes that activists experience and deal with. She moves beyond dichotomies and engages in transversal dialogue.

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Vancouver prides itself on being a green city, and the west coast is known for its active environmental protest culture. But the roots of this mentality reach far beyond the founding of organizations such as Greenpeace. Small campaigns led by local community groups from the 1960s onward left a lasting impact on the region. At the Wilderness Edge examines five antidevelopment campaigns in and around Vancouver that reflected a dramatic decline in public support for large-scale commercial and industrial projects. J.I. Little describes the highly effective protests that were instrumental in preserving threatened green spaces on Coal Harbour, Hollyburn Ridge, Bowen Island, Gambier Island, and the Squamish estuary, keeping these important British Columbia landmarks from becoming a high-rise development project, a downhill ski resort, a suburban housing tract, an open-pit copper mine, and a major coal port, respectively. Through detailed analysis of development proposals and protests, government studies, and community responses, Little argues that it was not the usual suspects – 1960s radicalism and anti-establishment youth culture – that initiated and carried out these protests, but rather middle-aged, middle-class, politically engaged citizens, many of whom were women. An engaging study of grassroots politics in action, At the Wilderness Edge sheds new light on the rise of environmental consciousness, a pivotal era in the history of British Columbia, the Pacific Northwest, and Canada.

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Les soulèvements qui se sont succédé dans le monde arabe en 2010 et 2011 n'ont pas épuisé leurs potentialités. Occupation des places, slogans dégagistes et anti-système, nouvelles mobilisations de la fin 2019 : l'expérience révolutionnaire arabe s'est étendue et déborde les limites qui étaient les siennes il y a dix ans. Elle a ébranlé les sociétés au point que, malgré les contre-révolutions, rien ne sera plus comme avant. L'Esprit de la révolte propose de lire la puissance politique des printemps arabes, leurs répertoires d'actions, les circulations de formes protestataires depuis leurs archives. Traces du temps révolutionnaire, ces documents sont autant de balises pour le futur si l'on prend le temps de les regarder, de les lire, de les écouter. Et nous espérons que nos lectrices et lecteurs pourront voir ce qui se raconte ici en creux des places européennes, des rues sud-américaines et d'une aspiration globale à « changer de système ». Sous la direction de Leyla Dakhli, dix chercheuses et chercheurs ont engagé une grande collecte : photos, tracts, vidéos, fresques murales, banderoles, chansons, affiches, etc. Chacun de ces objets, témoin d'un moment, d'une figure, d'un type d'action politique, constitue l'ancrage d'une réflexion et d'un récit. Ce cheminement par l'archive permet aussi de relier les expériences et d'en comprendre la persistance ou la disparition.

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Which voices, bodies and practices have expressed critical powerlessness in the face of institutional power, and who is expressing this today? What is at play, and what is the root of this powerlessness? These questions are at the core of this book. With Michel Foucault's theory of power and powerlessness as a point of departure, the contributing authors analyze and discuss the many conflicts and tension that arise when service users and patients take (or relinquish) a particular position. Institutions and professional practitioners have used and still use traditions, theories and methods that often weaken more than strengthen service users', patients' and clients' own volition and subjectivity. The chapters are by researchers in a variety of disciplines including theology, nursing, ethics, child welfare, disability research, history, diakonia, and social work. In the context of these fields, recognizing and emphasizing people's dignity and promoting equity are explored. But both historically and at present, research and experience show that the opposite also occurs. The ethical takes place between power, powerlessness and practice.

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