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The Radical Imagination

Author : Doctor Alex Khasnabish,Max Haiven
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781780329031

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The Radical Imagination by Doctor Alex Khasnabish,Max Haiven Pdf

The idea of the imagination is as evocative as it is elusive. Not only does the imagination allow us to project ourselves beyond our own immediate space and time, it also allows us to envision the future, as individuals and as collectives. The radical imagination, then, is that spark of difference, desire and discontent that can be fanned into the flames of social change. Yet what precisely is the imagination and what might make it 'radical'? How can it be fostered and cultivated? How can it be studied and what are the possibilities and risks of doing so? This book seeks to answer these questions at a crucial time. As we enter into a new cycle of struggles marked by a worldwide crisis of social reproduction, scholar-activists Max Haiven and Alex Khasnabish explore the processes and possibilities for cultivating the radical imagination in dark times. A lively and crucial intervention in radical politics, social research and social change, and the collective visions and cultures that inspire them.

How Social Movements Imagine

Author : BOBBY. SINHA LUTHRA
Publisher : Routledge Chapman & Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1032514779

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How Social Movements Imagine by BOBBY. SINHA LUTHRA Pdf

This book examines how micro, contextual issues inspire collective social action forms against everday situations of crises and crimes through an inter-disciplinary, ethnograhic and comparative research conducted among Bishnois and Indian South Africans. Exploring the role of the publics that practice and mobilise their social movement imaginations, the work delves into peoples' ability to move beyond their immediate contexts and politicize multiple social spaces and discursive spheres around them to project their causes. Mapping an anti-poaching movement spearheaded by the Bishnois of western Rajasthan in India and, an anti-substance abuse movement led by the historical Indian diaspora of South Africa, the author argues that such contemporray forms of organised social action replete with alternative frames, symbols and repertoires possess key requisites to be understood as the, 'Newer Social Movements' of the Global South. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of social and protest movements, migration and diaspora studies, political science, social anthropology, and ethnography.

What Democracy Looks Like

Author : Christina R. Foust,Amy Pason,Kate Zittlow Rogness
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780817358938

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What Democracy Looks Like by Christina R. Foust,Amy Pason,Kate Zittlow Rogness Pdf

A compelling and timely collection that combines two distinct but related theories in rhetoric and communication studies

Community, Solidarity and Multilingualism in a Transnational Social Movement

Author : Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429631849

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Community, Solidarity and Multilingualism in a Transnational Social Movement by Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà Pdf

*RUNNER UP FOR 2022 BAAL BOOK PRIZE* Community, solidarity and multilingualism in a transnational social movement presents a critical sociolinguistic ethnography of the Emmaus movement that analyses linguistic and discursive practices in two local communities in order to provide insight into solidarity discourses and transnational communication more broadly. Integrating perspectives from a range of disciplines, the monograph seeks to understand the ways in which social movements are maintained across disparate communities grounded in shared cultural referents and communicative practices but not necessarily a shared language. The book focuses on Emmaus, the solidarity movement that emerged in post-war France which brings formerly marginalised people together with others looking for an alternative lifestyle into live-in communities dedicated to recycling work and social projects. The book first offers a historical overview of the Emmaus movement more generally, moving into an account of its development and spread across national and linguistic borders. The volume draws on data from two Emmaus communities in Barcelona and London to analyse the everyday communicative and discursive practices that appropriate and resignify the shared transnational movement ideas in different socio-political, economic, historical and linguistic contexts. Community, solidarity and multilingualism in a transnational social movement considers the social implications of local practices on the situated (re)production and evolution of transnational social movements more generally and will be of particular interest to students and researchers in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse studies, cultural studies, and sociology.

Why Social Movements Matter

Author : Laurence Cox
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786607836

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Why Social Movements Matter by Laurence Cox Pdf

Social movements and popular struggle are a central part of today’s world, but often neglected or misunderstood by media commentary as well as experts in other fields. In an age when struggles over climate change, women’s rights, austerity politics, racism, warfare and surveillance are central to the future of our societies, we urgently need to understand social movements. Accessible, comprehensive and grounded in deep scholarship, Why Social Movements Matter explains social movements for a general educated readership, those interested in progressive politics and scholars and students in other fields. It shows how much social movements are part of our everyday lives, and how in many ways they have shaped the world we live in over centuries. It explores the relationship between social movements and the left, how movements develop and change, the complex relationship between movements and intellectual life, and delivers a powerful argument for rethinking how the social world is constructed. Drawing on three decades of experience, Why Social Movements Matter shows the real space for hope in a contested world.

Supporting a Movement for Health and Health Equity

Author : Alison Mack,Alina Baciu,Roundtable on Population Health Improvement,Nirupa Goel,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities,Institute of Medicine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309303311

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Supporting a Movement for Health and Health Equity by Alison Mack,Alina Baciu,Roundtable on Population Health Improvement,Nirupa Goel,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities,Institute of Medicine Pdf

"Supporting a Movement for Health and Health Equity" is the summary of a workshop convened in December 2013 by the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities and the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement to explore the lessons that may be gleaned from social movements, both those that are health-related and those that are not primarily focused on health. Participants and presenters focused on elements identified from the history and sociology of social change movements and how such elements can be applied to present-day efforts nationally and across communities to improve the chances for long, healthy lives for all. The idea of movements and movement building is inextricably linked with the history of public health. Historically, most movements - including, for example, those for safer working conditions, for clean water, and for safe food - have emerged from the sustained efforts of many different groups of individuals, which were often organized in order to protest and advocate for changes in the name of such values as fairness and human rights. The purpose of the workshop was to have a conversation about how to support the fragments of health movements that roundtable members believed they could see occurring in society and in the health field. Recent reports from the National Academies have highlighted evidence that the United States gets poor value on its extraordinary investments in health - in particular, on its investments in health care - as American life expectancy lags behind that of other wealthy nations. As a result, many individuals and organizations, including the Healthy People 2020 initiative, have called for better health and longer lives.

Mental health social work re-imagined

Author : Cummins, Ian
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447335610

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Mental health social work re-imagined by Cummins, Ian Pdf

Taking a critical and radical approach, this book calls for a return to mental health social work that has personal relationships and an emotional connection between workers and those experiencing distress at its core. The optimism that underpinned the development of community care policies has dissipated to be replaced by a form of bleak managerialism. Neoliberalism has added stress to services already under great pressure and created a danger that we could revert to institutional forms of care. This much-needed book argues that the original progressive values of community care policies need to be rediscovered, updated and reinvigorated to provide a basis for a mental health social work that returns to fundamental notions of dignity and citizenship.

Poetry And Imagined Worlds

Author : Olga V. Lehmann,Nandita Chaudhary,Ana Cecilia Bastos,Emily Abbey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319648583

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Poetry And Imagined Worlds by Olga V. Lehmann,Nandita Chaudhary,Ana Cecilia Bastos,Emily Abbey Pdf

This book explores the deep, imaginative, and creative power of poetry as part of the human experience. How poetry provides insight into human psychology is a question at the beginning of its theoretical development, and is a constant challenge for cultural psychologists and the humanities alike. Poetry functions, in all ages and cultures, as a rite that merges the beauty, truth and the unbearable conditions of existence. Both the general and the particular can be found in its expression. Collectively the authors aim to evoke a holistic understanding of what poetry conveys about decision making and the human search for meaning. This ground-breaking collection will be indispensable to scholars of clinical and theoretical psychology, philosophy, anthropology, literature, aesthetics and sociology.

Methodological Advances in Research on Social Movements, Conflict, and Change

Author : Thomas V. Maher,Eric W. Schoon
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781801178884

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Methodological Advances in Research on Social Movements, Conflict, and Change by Thomas V. Maher,Eric W. Schoon Pdf

Now that we are almost a quarter of the way into the 21st century, the field of sociology is in need of research like this which explores methods for studying contentious politics in the context of broader social changes to peacebuilding, armed conflicts, and social movements.

Social Movements And Culture

Author : Hank Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134224029

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Social Movements And Culture by Hank Johnston Pdf

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

What Democracy Looks Like

Author : Christina R. Foust,Amy Pason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 0817391185

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What Democracy Looks Like is a compelling and timely collection which combines two distinct but related theories in rhetoric and communication studies, while also exploring theories and ideas espoused by those in sociology, political science, and cultural studies. Recent protests around the world (such as the Arab Spring uprisings and Occupy Wall Street movements) have drawn renewed interest to the study of social change and, especially, to the manner in which words, images, events, and ideas associated with protestors can "move the social." What Democracy Looks Like is an attempt to foster a more coherent understanding of social change among scholars of rhetoric and communication studies by juxtaposing the ideas of social movements and counterpublics--historically two key factors significant in the study of social change. Foust, Pason, and Zittlow Rogness's volume compiles the voices of leading and new scholars who are contributing to the history, application, and new directions of these two concepts, all in conversation with a number of acts of resistance or social change. The theories of social movements and counterpublics are related, but distinct. Social movement theories tend to be concerned with enacting policy and legislative changes. Scholars flying this flag have concentrated on the organization and language (for example, rallies and speeches) that are meant to enact social change. Counterpublic theory, on the other hand, focuses less on policy changes and more on the unequal distribution of power and resources among different protest groups, which is sometimes synonymous with subordinated identity groups such as race, gender, sexuality, and class. Nonetheless, contributors argue that in recent years the distinctions between these two methods have become less evident. By putting the literatures of the two theories in conversation with one another, these scholars seek to promote and imagine social change outside the typical binaries.--

Schools as Imagined Communities

Author : S. Dorn,B. Shircliffe,D. Cobb-Roberts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781403982933

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Schools as Imagined Communities by S. Dorn,B. Shircliffe,D. Cobb-Roberts Pdf

Government forces mean the notion of a 'community' school has become less defined by decisions on core curriculum. This collection explores the extent to which collective notions of school-community relations have prevented citizens from speaking openly about the tensions created where schools are imagined as communities.

Social Movements, 1768-2004

Author : Charles Tilly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317251903

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Social Movements, 1768-2004 by Charles Tilly Pdf

Westerners invented social movements during the 18th century, but after that social movements became vehicles of popular politics across the world. By locating social movements in history, prize-winning social scientist Charles Tilly provides rich and often surprising insights into the origins of contemporary social movement practices, relations of social movements to democratization, and likely futures for social movements.

Imagined Histories

Author : Anthony Molho,Gordon S. Wood
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691187341

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Imagined Histories by Anthony Molho,Gordon S. Wood Pdf

This collection of essays by twenty-one distinguished American historians reflects on a peculiarly American way of imagining the past. At a time when history-writing has changed dramatically, the authors discuss the birth and evolution of historiography in this country, from its origins in the late nineteenth century through its present, more cosmopolitan character. In the book's first part, concerning recent historiography, are chapters on exceptionalism, gender, economic history, social theory, race, and immigration and multiculturalism. Authors are Daniel Rodgers, Linda Kerber, Naomi Lamoreaux, Dorothy Ross, Thomas Holt, and Philip Gleason. The three American centuries are discussed in the second part, with chapters by Gordon Wood, George Fredrickson, and James Patterson. The third part is a chronological survey of non-American histories, including that of Western civilization, ancient history, the middle ages, early modern and modern Europe, Russia, and Asia. Contributors are Eugen Weber, Richard Saller, Gabrielle Spiegel, Anthony Molho, Philip Benedict, Richard Kagan, Keith Baker, Joseph Zizak, Volker Berghahn, Charles Maier, Martin Malia, and Carol Gluck. Together, these scholars reveal the unique perspective American historians have brought to the past of their own nation as well as that of the world. Formerly writing from a conviction that America had a singular destiny, American historians have gradually come to share viewpoints of historians in other countries about which they write. The result is the virtual disappearance of what was a distinctive American voice. That voice is the subject of this book.

Handbook of Social Movements Across Disciplines

Author : Bert Klandermans,Conny Roggeband
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780387765808

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Handbook of Social Movements Across Disciplines by Bert Klandermans,Conny Roggeband Pdf

This book aims to revisit the interdisciplinary roots of social movement studies. Each discipline raises its own questions and approaches the subject from a different angle or perspective. The chapters of this handbook are written by internationally renowned scholars representing the various disciplines involved. They each review the approach their sector has developed and discuss their disciplines’ contributions and insights to the knowledge of social movements. Furthermore, each chapter addresses the "unanswered questions" and discusses the overlaps with other fields as well as reviewing the interdisciplinary advances so far.