Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Educational institutions play an instrumental role in social and political change, and are responsible for the environmental and social ethics of their institutional practices. The essays in this volume critically examine scholarly research practices in the age of the Anthropocene, and ask what accountability educators and researchers have in ‘righting’ their relationship to the environment. The volume further calls attention to the geographical, financial, legal and political barriers that might limit scholarly dialogue by excluding researchers from participating in traditional modes of scholarly conversation. As such, Right Research is a bold invitation to the academic community to rigorous self-reflection on what their research looks like, how it is conducted, and how it might be developed so as to increase accessibility and sustainability, and decrease carbon footprint. The volume follows a three-part structure that bridges conceptual and practical concerns: the first section challenges our assumptions about how sustainability is defined, measured and practiced; the second section showcases artist-researchers whose work engages with the impact of humans on our environment; while the third section investigates how academic spaces can model eco-conscious behaviour. This timely volume responds to an increased demand for environmentally sustainable research, and is outstanding not only in its interdisciplinarity, but its embrace of non-traditional formats, spanning academic articles, creative acts, personal reflections and dialogues. Right Research will be a valuable resource for educators and researchers interested in developing and hybridizing their scholarly communication formats in the face of the current climate crisis.

Education --- age of the Anthropocene --- Educational institutions --- institutional practices --- political change --- relationship to the environment --- scholarly research practices

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Drawing on the global experience of Oxfam, one of the world's largest social justice INGOs, this work tests ideas on 'how change happens' and sets out the latest thinking on how citizens and others can drive progressive change.

Change. --- Social change. --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Ontology --- Catastrophical, The --- lobbyists --- officials --- social change --- political change --- ngos --- change agents --- campaigners --- activists --- public services --- Oxfam

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. It argues that the changes that took place in the years around 1800 were enabled by different types of continuities across Europe and in the Americas. With historians of modernity tending to emphasise the rise of the new, scholarship has leaned towards an assumption that existing modes of action, thought and practice simply became extinct, irrelevant or at least subordinate to new modes. In contrast, this collection examines continuities between early modern and modern political cultures and organization in Europe and the Americas. Shifting the focus from political modernization, the authors examine the continued relevance of older, often local, practices in (post)revolutionary politics. By doing so, they aim to highlight the role of local political traditions and practices in forging and enabling political change. The book argues that while political change was in fact at the centre of both the old and new polities that emerged in the Age of Revolutions, it coexisted with, and was indeed enabled by, continuities at other levels.

Political culture --- Political processes --- Age of Revolutions --- Early modern --- Modern Europe --- Modernity --- Local politics --- Political tradition --- Political change --- Transition --- Political activism --- Citizenship --- Continuity --- Revolutionary Era --- Europe and the Americas --- American history

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This is the first full-length, modern study of the Diggers or 'True Levellers', who were among the most remarkable of the radical groups to emerge during the English Revolution of 1640-60. It was in April 1649 that the Diggers, inspired by the teachings and writings of Gerrard Winstanley, began their occupation of waste land at St George's Hill in Surrey and called on all poor people to join them or follow their example. Acting at a time of unparalleled political change and heightened millenarian expectation, the Diggers believed that the establishment of an egalitarian, property-less society

Levellers. --- Winstanley, Gerrard, --- Cobham (Kent, England) --- England --- Great Britain --- History --- Social conditions --- Politics and government --- Cobham. --- Digger movement. --- Diggers. --- English Revolution. --- Gerrard Winstanley. --- Surrey. --- True Levellers. --- civil war. --- political change. --- property-less society. --- radical groups.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

When they go low, we learn: an examination of mudslinging in contemporary American politics—and how the left can find its footing to achieve structural reform in this mess. The rules of the public discourse game have changed, and The Public Insult Playbook argues that the political left needs to account for the power of vitriol in crafting their theories for social and political change. With this book, noted constitutional law expert and disability rights advocate Ruth Colker offers insights into how public insults have come to infect contemporary public discourse—a technique not invented by but certainly refined by Donald Trump—and, importantly, highlights lessons learned and tools for fighting back. Public insults act as a headwind and dead weight to structural reform. By showcasing the power of insults across a number of civil rights battlegrounds, The Public Insult Playbook uncovers the structural nature of personal attacks, and offers a blueprint for a legal and political strategy that anticipates the profound but poorly understood damage they can inflict to whole movements. Illustrating how completely the tactic has been adopted and embraced by the American right wing, the book catalogues how public insults have been used against people with disabilities, immigrants, pregnant women, women seeking abortions, women who are sexually harassed, members of the LGBTQ community, and, of course, Black Americans. These examples demonstrate both the pervasiveness of the deployment of insults by the political right and the ways in which the left has been caught flat-footed by this tactic. She then uses the Black Lives Matter movement as a case study to consider how to effectively counter these insults and maintain an emphasis on structural reform.

Invective --- Civil rights --- Political aspects --- ADA. --- Americans with Disabilities Act. --- activist. --- anti immigration. --- bullies. --- first amendment. --- hateful speech. --- language. --- me too movement. --- political communication. --- racism. --- rhetoric. --- social and political change. --- workplace.