Intellectuals And Social Movements

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:315190317

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Intellectuals and Social Movements by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michiel Baud,Rosanne Rutten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521613485

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Popular Intellectuals and Social Movements by Michiel Baud,Rosanne Rutten Pdf

All forms of popular protest include a category of 'popular intellectuals', who reflect on social reality, speak in the name of popular classes and who articulate ideas that inspire collective action. This volume focuses on these individuals from an original angle: it looks at the experiences of popular intellectuals in non-western societies, who operate within social-movement networks that link local, regional, and international arenas, and connect to a global flow of ideas. Eight case studies on different societies in twentieth-century Asia, Africa, and Latin America highlight specific activist intellectuals.

Author : Aziz Choudry
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442607934

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Learning Activism by Aziz Choudry Pdf

What do activists know? Learning Activism is designed to encourage a deeper engagement with the intellectual life of activists who organize for social, political, and ecological justice. Combining experiential knowledge from his own activism and a variety of social movements, Choudry suggests that such organizations are best understood if we engage with the learning, knowledge, debates, and theorizing that goes on within them. Drawing on Marxist, feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial perspectives on knowledge and power, the book highlights how activists and organizers learn through doing, and fills the gap between social movement practice as it occurs on the ground, critical adult education scholarship, and social movement theorizing. Examples include anti-colonial currents within global justice organizing in the Asia-Pacific, activist research and education in social movements and people's organizations in the Philippines, Migrant and immigrant worker struggles in Canada, and the Quebec student strike. The result is a book that carves out a new space for intellectual life in activist practice.

Author : Tani E. Barlow,Wang Hui,Celia Lowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0822366010

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Intellectuals and Social Movements by Tani E. Barlow,Wang Hui,Celia Lowe Pdf

A special edition of positions: asia critique

Author : Carmel Borg,Peter Mayo
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820470767

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Public Intellectuals, Radical Democracy and Social Movements by Carmel Borg,Peter Mayo Pdf

Against a backdrop of a hegemonic, global economic arrangement that has spawned astounding disparities in wealth, this book foregrounds seventeen intellectuals who are engaged in resisting corporate values and in promoting social justice and human dignity. Ranging from socially engaged professors with a track record in grassroots involvement to popular educators, the interviewees challenge the manufactured consent produced by armies of intellectuals organic to dominant ideologies. Public Intellectuals, Radical Democracy and Social Movements reminds us that strategic silence and/or indifference reproduces a common sense arrangement where critical «reading of the world» (Freire, 1987) is relegated to the periphery.

Author : Laurence Cox
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,9 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.

Author : Abdul Aziz Choudry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political activists
ISBN : 1442607920

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Learning Activism by Abdul Aziz Choudry Pdf

Learning Activism is designed to encourage a deeper engagement with the intellectual life of activists who organize for social, political, and ecological justice.

Author : Robert Brym
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136921414

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Intellectuals and Politics (Routledge Revivals) by Robert Brym Pdf

This essay, first published in 1980, analyses the relationship between intellectuals’ social locations and their political orientations. Dr Brym provides a critical discussion of the various sociological views of intellectuals and specifies some of the social conditions which encourage intellectuals to follow various directions on the political compass. He also demonstrates that intellectuals are neither socially rootless nor tied to one particular class or group within society, concluding that it is only by an analysis of intellectuals’ mobility patterns that we can hope to arrive at an adequate understanding of their politics. Clearly written, and assuming only a basic grounding in sociological theory, this book will thus be of special interest to students of political sociology, social movements, the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of culture and the sociology of intellectuals.

Author : Duncan Matthews
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780857931245

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Intellectual Property, Human Rights and Development by Duncan Matthews Pdf

'Each chapter analyses both policy areas, access to medicines and agriculture/genetic resources. These three exceptionally rich, fieldwork-based case studies constitute the meat – and the principal contribution – of this book. . . The book marks a major contribution for the empirical material alone.' – Ken Shadlen, Journal of Development Studies 'Duncan Matthews has produced a first-rate, in-depth analysis of the role of NGOs in international and national intellectual property policy. Based on extensive primary research, this book provides a smart, thoughtful perspective on the role of key developing country NGOs, NGOs' relationships with national policymakers, and with multilateral institutions. Everyone interested in the interface of intellectual property policy and human rights, development, access to medicines, farmers' rights, and biodiversity should read this compelling account. I highly recommend this excellent contribution to our understanding.' – Susan K. Sell, George Washington University, US 'One of the features of international negotiations has been the increasing participation of non-governmental organizations. In this important book, Duncan Matthews shows the nature and extent of NGO influence in the negotiations over intellectual property. Written with great clarity and drawing on interview data and case studies, the book will be valuable to both scholars and practitioners working in international negotiation.' – Peter Drahos, Australian National University 'This book reveals how non-governmental organizations helped developing countries to better understand and mitigate the impact of the new standards of intellectual property protection that those countries were forced to adopt in the context of trade negotiations. Based on comprehensive and rigorous research, the author offers an outstanding piece that will not only be important for academics, policy-makers and students working in the area of intellectual property, but also for those more broadly interested in the implementation of human rights, coalition-building scenarios and framing strategies.' – Carlos Correa, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina 'This is a valuable corrective to a debate that is too often premised on the perspective of rich and developed countries. Focussing on the network of NGOs that supports developing countries, Duncan Matthews fills a major gap in the analysis of international disputes about intellectual property. His analysis rightly demolishes the position that developing countries have remained helpless in the face of developments in the global governance of IPRs, and helps explain how the global politics of IPRs is shifting.' – Christopher May, Lancaster University, UK This insightful and important new book explores the role played by non-governmental-organizations (NGOs) in articulating concerns at the TRIPS Council, the WIPO, the WHO, the CBD-COP and the FAO that intellectual property rights can have negative consequences for developing countries. Duncan Matthews describes how coalitions of international NGOs have influenced the way that the relationship between intellectual property rights and development is understood, often framing the message as a human rights issue to emphasize these concerns and ensure that access to medicines, food security and the rights of indigenous peoples over their traditional knowledge are protected. Based on extensive research undertaken in Geneva and in developing countries, the book also reveals how NGOs and broader social movements in Brazil, India and South Africa have played a crucial role in addressing the negative impacts of intellectual property rights by using human rights law as a practical tool before national courts and when seeking to influence national legislation and government policy. Intellectual Property, Human Rights and Development will appeal to academics, practitioners, activists, international negotiators and postgraduate students in intellectual property law, human rights law, the international political economy of intellectual property rights and development studies.

Author : Budd L. Hall,Darlene E. Clover,Jim Crowther,Eurig Scandrett
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460919794

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Learning and Education for a Better World by Budd L. Hall,Darlene E. Clover,Jim Crowther,Eurig Scandrett Pdf

This is a book for activists, students, scholars of social movements and adult education and for the public interested in the contemporary movements of our times. From the streets of Barcelona and Athens, the public squares in Cairo, Tunis and Tripoli, the flash mobs and virtual learning of the #Occupy movement, and the shack dwellers of South Africa people around the world are organising themselves to take action against the ravages of a capitalism that serves the greedy while impoverishing the rest. Social movements have arisen or re-arisen in virtually every sector of human activity from concerns about the fate of our planet earth, to dignity for those living with HIV/AIDS, to feeding ourselves in healthier ways and survival in places of violent conflict. At the heart of each of these movements are activists and ordinary people learning how to change their lives and how to change the world. This book offers contemporary theoretical and practical insights into the learning that happens both within and outside of social movements. Social movement scholars present work linked to the arts, to organic farming, to environmental action, to grassroots activists in the Global South, to the Arab Spring, the Occupy movement, the shackdwellers movements, school reform and the role of Marx, Gramscii and Williams in understanding social movement learning. The greatest contribution of this inspiring book is to remind us that learning and education in social movements help to make a difference. Not only does this collection enable us to understand how we might theorise and historicise learning in diverse contemporary social movements, but its contributors do so with outspoken and passionate commitment to ‘Learning and Education for a Better World.’ - Professor Miriam Zukas, Executive Dean, Birkbeck, University of London The burning demand for such a text comes from our contemporary moment that is witness to a world where nearly everything is commercialised, marketised or commodified. This text shuns an essentialist discourse while simultaneously and masterfully offering unprecedented insights into social movement learning and education. The book is numinous. - Professor Robert Hill, University of Georgia, USA This is a book we have all been waiting for. The editors have brought together an amazing cadre of international adult educators to probe the intersection of social movements and learning, and to build theory around the many social actions that are taking place globally. A must read for students and professors everywhere. - Leona English, PhD, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, Canada Accessible, engaging, often inspirational, the essays that comprise Learning and Education for a Better World offer deep insights on the role of social movements as agencies of learning, struggle and transformation. From case studies that include the occupy movement, popular education in Latin America, political cinema and the Egyptian Revolution to reflections on resistance, aesthetics and the role of organic intellectuals, this collection will be of interest to educators, social scientists, humanists and activists alike. An interdisciplinary tour-de-force. - Professor William Carroll, University of Victoria, Canada This is such a timely collection of essays, bringing together critical reflections on experiences of social action from across the globe. This book is to be commended to the widest possible readership. - (From the Preface by) Emeritus Professor Marjorie Mayo, Goldsmith’s College

Author : Laikwan Pang,Hiroko Sakamoto,L. H. M. Ling,Tani Barlow,Ashley Carruthers,Chris Berry,Kun Jong Lee,Celia Lowe,Suk-Jung Han,Wang Hui
Publisher : Positions: East Asia Cultures
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0822366258

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Intellectuals and Social Movements by Laikwan Pang,Hiroko Sakamoto,L. H. M. Ling,Tani Barlow,Ashley Carruthers,Chris Berry,Kun Jong Lee,Celia Lowe,Suk-Jung Han,Wang Hui Pdf

A special edition of positions: asia critique

Author : Carl Boggs
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791415430

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Intellectuals and the Crisis of Modernity by Carl Boggs Pdf

This book explores the role of intellectuals in politics and social change from traditional society to the present. Its theoretical structure is based upon six distinct types of intellectual activity. The rise and decline of specific types is analyzed in the historical context of industrialization, technological change, shifting social forces, and the emergence of popular movements.

Author : Jackie Smith
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0801887445

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Social Movements for Global Democracy by Jackie Smith Pdf

Contested globalizations -- Rival transnational networks -- Politics in a global system -- Globalizing capitalism : the transnational neoliberal network in action -- Promoting multilateralism : social movements and the UN system -- Mobilizing a transnational network for democratic globalization -- Agenda-setting in a global polity -- Domesticating international human rights norms -- Confronting contradictions between multilateral economic institutions and the UN system -- Alternative political spaces : the world social forum process and "globalization from below"--Conclusions: Network politics and global democracy.

Author : Ron Eyerman,Andrew Jamison
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271007567

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Social Movements by Ron Eyerman,Andrew Jamison Pdf

This book offers a new approach to the study of social movements. Integrating American and European approaches, Eyerman and Jamison argue that social movements are forms of activity whereby individuals create new kinds of social identities not only for themselves but for the societies of which they form a part. They examine the success and failure of social movements in comparative terms, both between historical periods and political cultures, giving special attention to the American civil rights movement, environmental movements, and recent form of collective protest in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The result is a study which develops major theoretical innovations as well as integrating a wide range of empirical material.

Author : Ronald Aminzade
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0521001552

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Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics by Ronald Aminzade Pdf

This book gives 'voice' to some of the notable 'silences' in the study of contentious politics.