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Produced by the North American Anarchist Studies Network (NAASN), and edited by Jeff Shantz and P. J. Lilley, this volume comprises papers from NAASN's 5th Conference [La Red Norteamericana de Estudios Anarquistas / Le Réseau Nord-Américain d'études Anarchistes]. Anarchism is experiencing a remarkable resurgence in the new millennium. Not only active in the streets across Turtle Island, growing interest in anarchist scholarship is perhaps unprecedented. This is reflected in the development of the North American Anarchist Studies Network (NAASN). Drawn from papers presented at the fifth NAASN conference in Surrey (on Coast Salish Territories), this collection shows the vitality of contemporary anarchist research and writing.

Anarchism --- North America. --- anarchism --- political philosophy --- social activism --- Canada

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Brooklyn has all the features of a "global borough": It is a base of immigrant labor and ethnically diverse communities, of social and cultural capital, of global transportation, cultural production, and policy innovation. At once a model of sustainable urbanization and overdevelopment, the question is now: What will become of Global Brooklyn? Tracing the emergence of Brooklyn from village outpost to global borough, Brooklyn Tides investigates the nature and consequences of global forces that have crossed the East River and identifies alternative models for urban development in global capitalism. Benjamin Shepard and Mark Noonan provide a unique ethnographic reading of the literature, social activism, and changing tides impacting this ever-transforming space. Cover and interior images of a rapidly transforming global borough by photographer Caroline Shepard.

Globalization. --- Social change. --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Urban Ethnography; Brooklyn; Global Brooklyn; Cultural History; Capitalism; Social Activism; City; Globalization; Urban Studies; America; Sociology --- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) --- History. --- America. --- Brooklyn. --- Capitalism. --- City. --- Cultural History. --- Global Brooklyn. --- Social Activism. --- Sociology. --- Urban Studies.

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A celebration of Sinatra's enduring impact on American entertainment and cultural life.

Sinatra, Frank --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts. --- 1950s. --- 1960s. --- Beatles. --- British Invasion. --- Frank Sinatra. --- analysis. --- biography. --- culture. --- entertainment. --- history. --- influence. --- jazz. --- memoir. --- music. --- musicology. --- pop culture. --- pop music. --- rock. --- social activism. --- study. --- Sinatra, Frank,

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What motivates people to become involved in issues and struggles beyond their own borders? How are activists changed and movements transformed when they reach out to others a world away? This adept study addresses these questions by tying together local, national, regional, and global historical narratives surrounding the contemporary Japanese environmental movement. Spanning the era of Japanese industrial pollution in the 1960s and the more recent rise of movements addressing global environmental problems, it shows how Japanese activists influenced approaches to environmentalism and industrial pollution in the Asia-Pacific region, North America, and Europe, as well as landmark United Nations conferences in 1972 and 1992. Japan's experiences with diseases caused by industrial pollution produced a potent "environmental injustice paradigm" that fueled domestic protest and became the motivation for Japanese groups' activism abroad. From the late 1960s onward Japanese activists organized transnational movements addressing mercury contamination in Europe and North America, industrial pollution throughout East Asia, radioactive waste disposal in the Pacific, and global climate change. In all cases, they advocated strongly for the rights of pollution victims and people living in marginalized communities and nations-a position that often put them at odds with those advocating for the global environment over local or national rights. Transnational involvement profoundly challenged Japanese groups' understanding of and approach to activism. Numerous case studies demonstrate how border-crossing efforts undermined deeply engrained notions of victimhood in the domestic movement and nurtured a more self-reflexive and multidimensional approach to environmental problems and social activism.Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement will appeal to scholars and students interested in the development of civil society, social movements, and environmentalism in contemporary Japan; grassroots inter-Asian connections in the postwar period; and the ways Asian countries and their citizens have shaped and been influenced by global issues like environmentalism.

Green movement --- Environmentalism --- Environmental protection --- History. --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Environmental sciences --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental policy --- Environmental quality --- Environmental movement --- Social movements --- Anti-environmentalism --- Sustainable living --- Ecologism --- Environmental action groups --- Environmental groups --- Political ecology --- Japan. --- environmental injustice. --- environmentalism. --- human rights. --- industrial pollution. --- social activism. --- Greenwashing

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Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales's disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational corporations. His investigation of conditions in Mauritania, Brazil, Thailand, Pakistan, and India reveals the tragic emergence of a "new slavery," one intricately linked to the global economy. The new slaves are not a long-term investment as was true with older forms of slavery, explains Bales. Instead, they are cheap, require little care, and are disposable.Three interrelated factors have helped create the new slavery. The enormous population explosion over the past three decades has flooded the world's labor markets with millions of impoverished, desperate people. The revolution of economic globalization and modernized agriculture has dispossessed poor farmers, making them and their families ready targets for enslavement. And rapid economic change in developing countries has bred corruption and violence, destroying social rules that might once have protected the most vulnerable individuals.Bales's vivid case studies present actual slaves, slaveholders, and public officials in well-drawn historical, geographical, and cultural contexts. He observes the complex economic relationships of modern slavery and is aware that liberation is a bitter victory for a child prostitute or a bondaged miner if the result is starvation.Bales offers suggestions for combating the new slavery and provides examples of very positive results from organizations such as Anti-Slavery International, the Pastoral Land Commission in Brazil, and the Human Rights Commission in Pakistan. He also calls for researchers to follow the flow of raw materials and products from slave to marketplace in order to effectively target campaigns of "naming and shaming" corporations linked to slavery. Disposable People is the first book to point the way to abolishing slavery in today's global economy.All of the author's royalties from this book go to fund anti-slavery projects around the world.

Slavery. --- Slave labor. --- Poor --- Prostitution. --- Employment. --- case studies. --- cheap slaves. --- dispossession. --- economic globalization. --- human trafficking. --- illegal. --- india. --- labor market. --- legalized slavery. --- mauritania brazil. --- modern slavery. --- modernized agriculture. --- new slavery. --- overpopulation. --- pakistan. --- political awareness. --- population. --- sex trafficking. --- short term investment. --- slaveowners. --- social activism. --- thailand. --- unexpected slaves. --- white slavery.