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Staat van vertrouwen
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ISBN: 9789464750270 9789464750416 Year: 2023 Publisher: Aalter Ertsberg

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De meeste mensen deugen, maar de spelregels niet, vindt Kristof Calvo. In de politiek regeert een negatief mensbeeld en vijanddenken, de verzorgingsstaat wordt steeds repressiever en bureaucratischer. Onze belangrijkste instellingen zijn vandaag kweekvijvers van wantrouwen. Na 15 jaar in de Wetstraat is zijn oordeel hard: dit politieke systeem is oud, moe en versleten.Er zit iets goed in elke mens, maar politieke keuzes bepalen of dat goede ook kan zegevieren. Ondanks verontwaardiging en soms ook teleurstelling, blijft Calvo een possibilist: een politicus die met kleine stappen radicale verandering wil waarmaken. Dromen doet de Mechelaar van een basisinkomen, vrije volksvertegenwoordigers, een erfenis voor iedereen en het einde van extreme rijkdom.Zulke verandering is alleen mogelijk als we afscheid nemen van de spektakelparticratie en de huidige partijgrenzen durven overstijgen. Deze tijd smeekt volgens Calvo om een sterke progressieve volkspartij, die mensen en ideeën met elkaar weet te verbinden.De Mechelaar zoekt, twijfelt en reflecteert. Hij laat zich inspireren door generatiegenoten als Rutger Bregman en Alicja Gescinska, maar evengoed door Hans van Mierlo en Rocco Granata. Hun verhalen smelten samen met Calvo's persoonlijke zoektocht tot vergezichten voor een andere politiek.Het resultaat is niet het zoveelste verkiezingspamflet. Met dit boek wil Calvo vooral een gesprek op gang brengen over de toekomst van progressieve politiek. Door zijn periode in Nederland eisen onze noorderburen een hoofdrol op. Het boek is dus zeker een aanrader voor alle Nederland-liefhebbers.https://www.standaardboekhandel.be/p/staat-van-vertrouwen-9789464750270


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On Fire : the Burning Case for a Green New Deal
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ISBN: 9780241410738 Year: 2019 Publisher: London Allen Lane

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For more than twenty years Naomi Klein's books have defined our era, chronicling the exploitation of people and the planet and demanding justice. On Fire gathers for the first time more than a decade of her impassioned writing from the frontline of climate breakdown, and pairs it with new material on the staggeringly high stakes of what we choose to do next.Here is Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but also as a spiritual and imaginative one. Delving into topics ranging from the clash between ecological time and our culture of 'perpetual now,' to rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of 'climate barbarism,' this is a rousing call to action for a planet on the brink.With dispatches from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef, the smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest, post-hurricane Puerto Rico and a Vatican attempting an unprecedented 'ecological conversion,' Klein makes the case that we will rise to the existential challenge of climate change only if we are willing to transform the systems that produced this crisis.This is the fight for our lives. On Fire captures the burning urgency of the climate crisis, as well as the energy of a rising political movement demanding change now.Bron : http://www.acco.be


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The net delusion : the dark side of internet freedom
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ISBN: 9781610391061 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York Public Affairs

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The revolution will be Twittered! declared journalist Andrew Sullivan after protests erupted in Iran. But as journalist and social commentator Evgeny Morozov argues in The Net Delusion, the Internet is a tool that both revolutionaries and authoritarian governments can use. For all of the talk in the West about the power of the Internet to democratize societies, regimes in Iran and China are as stable and repressive as ever. Social media sites have been used there to entrench dictators and threaten dissidents, making it harder - not easier - to promote democracy.Marshalling a compelling set of case studies, The Net Delusion shows why the cyber-utopian stance that the Internet is inherently liberating is wrong, and how ambitious and seemingly noble initiatives like the promotion of Internet freedom are misguided and, on occasion, harmful.Bron : http://www.amazon.com


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Rules for revolutionaries : how big organizing can change everything
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ISBN: 9781603587273 Year: 2016 Publisher: White River Junction (Vermont) Chelsea Green Publishing Co

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Rules for Revolutionaries is a bold challenge to the political establishment and the 'rules' that govern campaign strategy.It tells the story of a breakthrough experiment conducted on the fringes of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign: A technology-driven team empowered volunteers to build and manage the infrastructure to make seventy-five million calls, launch eight million text messages, and hold more than one-hundred thousand public meetings in an effort to put Bernie Sanders's insurgent campaign over the top.Bond and Exley, digital iconoclasts who have been reshaping the way politics is practiced in America for two decades, have identified twenty-two rules of 'Big Organizing' that can be used to drive social change movements of any kind. And they tell the inside story of one of the most amazing grassroots political campaigns ever run.Fast-paced, provocative, and profound, Rules for Revolutionaries stands as a liberating challenge to the low expectations and small thinking that dominates too many advocacy, non-profit, and campaigning organizations and points the way forward to a future where political revolution is truly possible. Bron: https://www.bol.com/nl/p/rules-for-revolutionaries/9200000067186510/?referrer=socialshare_pdp_iphoneapp

Contemporary Russia
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ISBN: 9780230223714 9780230223707 0230223710 0230223702 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York Palgrave MacMillan

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Contemporary Russia provides a readable and accessible introduction to Russia's politics, economics, and society focusing especially on the Putin legacy and Medvedev's presidency. Present developments are set in the historical context of the events and trends of Russia's first post-Soviet decade and of the country's changing place in the world.Bron : http://www.bol.com


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Van burger tot onderdaan : het failliet van de democratie
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ISBN: 9789057181474 Year: 2012 Publisher: Brussel ASP

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De natie wordt afgebouwd. De burger staat buitenspel. De term democratie is een vlag die de lading niet langer dekt. De particratie ontbladerde de minst slechte van alle staatsvormen. Een oligarchie van toppolitici en bureaucraten legt de bijl aan de wortel. De soevereiniteit op financieel, economisch en juridisch gebied werd het volk en zijn gekozen vertegenwoordigers ontfutseld. Onder druk van de financiële wereld en van een imperiale onderneming zoals de Europese Unie, worden de politieke rechten van de burgers uitgehold. Aan de drie basisprincipes van de representatieve democratie, te weten de inperking van de macht, het burgerschap en de vertegenwoordiging, wordt nog slechts lippendienst bewezen. De scheidingslijnen van de trias politica de uitvoerende, wetgevende en rechterlijke macht vervaagden.De Europese nomenklatura kent zich superieure bekwaamheden en exclusieve macht toe. In de EU is het burgerschap vandaag niet veel meer dan een fictie die het gezag van de gezagsdragers rechtvaardigt. De degradatie van burger tot schatplichtige onderdaan is voltrokken.


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Het andere gelaat van Europa.
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ISBN: 9070276879 9789070276874 Year: 1990 Publisher: Antwerpen,

Postcommunisme en pan-Europa : enkele kanttekeningen bij de transitie in Centraal- en Oost-Europa
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ISBN: 9044112244 Year: 2001 Publisher: Leuven Garant


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The technology of nonviolence : social media and violence prevention
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ISBN: 1282133799 9786613806376 0262305550 9781282133792 9780262305556 9780262017626 0262017628 6613806374 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge (USA) The MIT Press

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Tunisian and Egyptian protestors famously made use of social media to rally supporters and disseminate information as the "Arab Spring" began to unfold in 2010. Less well known, but with just as much potential to bring about social change, are ongoing local efforts to use social media and other forms of technology to prevent deadly outbreaks of violence. In The Technology of Nonviolence, Joseph Bock describes and documents technology-enhanced efforts to stop violence before it happens in Africa, Asia, and the United States. Once peacekeeping was the purview of international observers, but today local citizens take violence prevention into their own hands. These local approaches often involve technology--including the use of digital mapping, crowdsourcing, and mathematical pattern recognition to identify likely locations of violence--but, as Bock shows, technological advances are of little value unless they are used by a trained cadre of community organizers. After covering general concepts in violence prevention and describing technological approaches to tracking conflict and cooperation, Bock offers five case studies that range from "low-tech" interventions to prevent ethnic and religious violence in Ahmedebad, India, to an anti-gang initiative in Chicago that uses Second Life to train its "violence interrupters." There is solid evidence of success, Bock concludes, but there is much to be discovered, developed, and, most important, implemented.Bron : http://www.amazon.com

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