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Crackdowns on local democracy are accelerating, as corporate and state interests continue efforts to repress social movements. In this well-timed book, Ben Price presciently reveals structures of power and law that facilitate blatant corporate supremacy in the United States. Price uses his years of experience as a community organizer and a careful reading of history to show how a legal paradigm that facilitated slavery and the fossil fuel economy has endured and adapted over time – today barricading our communities and squelching dissent. Many books have been written about wealth, power and politics in the United States. Most of them make intuitive sense. Wealthy people use their power to influence and control politics. But Ben Price's new book is often counterintuitive as he explores how wealth itself is imbued with power. He answers questions such as: How is the American Legislative Exchange Council – a modern states' rights, free market capitalist group – the intellectual and political descendant of George Washington's Federalist Party? How was the Fourteenth Amendment that emancipated African American slaves from their status as property used by a reactionary Supreme Court to grant legal “personhood” to private corporations? How are cities seen under our legal doctrine as “public corporations,” devoid of real governing authority? Further, Price identifies key counterrevolutions in U.S. history that squelched the transformative potential of the Civil War and American Revolution, and traces the roots of colonial and imperial systems of control. He links them to modern “free trade” agreements and other antidemocratic structures used to supersede democracy to this day. For some, this will come as no surprise. For others, it will be a rude, though necessary, awakening. “The white man's municipalities are just reservations, like ours,” said a resident of Pine Ridge Reservation, who Price spoke with. "The difference is, we know we live on reservations. The white man doesn't.” Crucially, Price shares insight into how social movements can plant seeds of a new legal system that makes the liberty, civil rights and dignity of humans and ecosystems its ultimate purpose. In fact, he introduces the reader to people who are doing just that.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions. --- LAW / Housing & Urban Development. --- Wealth --- Right of property --- Economic liberties (U.S. Constitution) --- United States.

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This book explores the potential of the Internet for enabling new and flexible political participation modes. It meticulously illustrates how the Internet is responsible for citizens' participation practices from being general, high-threshold, temporally constricted, and dependent on physical presence to being topic-centered, low-threshold, temporally discontinuous, and independent from physical presence. With its ethnographic focus on Icelandic and German online participation tools Betri Reykjavík and LiquidFriesland, the book offers plentiful advice for citizens, programmers, politicians, and administrations alike on how to get the most out of online participation formats.

Political Science / Political Process / Political Advocacy --- Political science --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The

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Wasserkonflikte sind insbesondere in Zeiten von Klimawandel, Ressourcenübernutzung und sozialen Verwerfungen mitunter folgenschwer. Johannes Euler begibt sich auf die Suche nach den ökonomischen und sozialen Ursachen von Wasserkonflikten sowie nach Möglichkeiten, diesen Ursachen entgegenzuwirken und gleichzeitig konstruktiv mit vorhandenen Konflikten umzugehen. Dabei zeigt er theoretisch und empirisch die Potenziale und Probleme von Commoning als Form der Wasserbewirtschaftung jenseits von Markt und Staat auf. Durch die Verknüpfung von Wirtschafts-, Nachhaltigkeits- und Konfliktforschung liefert er hoffnungsvolle Erkenntnisse für die Wasserwirtschaft und alternativökonomische Praxis.

Political Science / Political Process / Political Advocacy --- Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy --- Political Science / History & Theory --- Political science --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The

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"From sites like Hollaback! and The Everyday Sexism Project, which document instances of street harassment and misogyny against girls and women, to social media-organized movements and communities like SlutWalk and #BeenRapedNeverReported, girls and women are using participatory digital media as activist tools to speak, network and organize in order to challenge contemporary sexism, misogyny and rape culture. This will be the first academic book to examine how girls and women negotiate rape culture through the use of digital platforms, including blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and mobile apps. Based on a 21-month study, this book explores four primary questions: What experiences of harassment, misogyny and rape culture are girls and women responding to? How are girls and women using digital media technologies to document experiences of sexual violence, harassment, and sexism? Why are girls and women choosing to mobilize digital media technologies in such a way? And finally, what are their experiences in using digital technologies to engage in activism? In order to capture the experience of doing digital feminist activism, the authors augment their analysis of this media (blog posts, tweets, and selfies) with in-depth interviews and close-observations of online communities in nine countries (Canada, India, Ireland, Kenya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, US, UK, and Venezuela)."-- "From sites like Hollaback! and Everyday Sexism, which document instances of street harassment and misogyny, to social media-organized movements and communities like #MeToo and #BeenRapedNeverReported, feminists are using participatory digital media as activist tools to speak, network, and organize against sexism, misogyny, and rape culture. As the first book-length study to examine how girls, women, and some men negotiate rape culture through the use of digital platforms, including blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and mobile apps, the authors explore four primary questions: What experiences of harassment, misogyny, and rape culture are being responded to? How are participants using digital media technologies to document experiences of sexual violence, harassment, and sexism? Why are girls, women and some men choosing to mobilize digital media technologies in this way? And finally, what are the various experiences of using digital technologies to engage in activism? In order to capture these diverse experiences of doing digital feminist activism, the authors augment their analysis of this media (blog posts, tweets, and selfies) with in-depth interviews and close-observations of several online communities that operate globally. Ultimately, the book demonstrates the nuances within and between digital feminist activism and highlight that, although it may be technologically easy for many groups to engage in digital feminist activism, there remain emotional, mental, or practical barriers which create different experiences, and legitimate some feminist voices, perspectives, and experiences over others."--

Rape --- Men --- Sexism --- Prevention --- Social aspects --- Social problems --- Sexism. --- Prevention. --- Social aspects. --- Rape - Prevention --- Men - Social aspects --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Community organization --- Mass communications --- Feminism --- Social media --- Misogyny --- Technology --- Internet --- Book --- Activism --- Movimientos sociales --- Abuso sexual --- Feminismo --- Hombres --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy. --- Prevención --- Aspectos sociales

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Political activist ethnography is a research strategy that reveals how ruling regimes are organized so activists and social movements can fight them. This volume adopts an approach to inquiry that produces knowledge for activists and is a must-read for humanities and social sciences scholars keen on assisting activists and advancing social change.

Action research. --- Ethnology --- Political activists --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy. --- Political aspects --- Research. --- Sociological aspects --- political activism, political science, social justice, social movements, social science, ethnographic studies, political activist, non-governmental partnerships, humanities, social change, NGOs, Aotearoa, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Canada, Poland, South Africa, United States, global politics, globalization, poverty, anti-poverty organizing, fracking, anti-fracking campaigns, leftist organizing, think-tank development, knowledge for activists.