Pitching Democracy

Author : April Yoder
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477326787

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Pitching Democracy by April Yoder Pdf

How Dominicans contribute to Major League Baseball and what they receive in return. From Juan Marichal and Pedro Martínez to Albert Pujols and Juan Soto, Dominicans have long been among Major League Baseball’s best. How did this small Caribbean nation become a hothouse of baseball talent? To many fans, the answer is both obvious and disconcerting: pro teams use their riches to develop talent abroad, creating opportunities for superhuman athletes and corrupt officials, while the rest of the population sees little benefit. Yet this interpretation of history is incomplete. April Yoder traces how baseball has empowered Dominicans in their struggles for democracy and social justice. While the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo saw the sport as a means of cementing its power at home and abroad, the Dominican people fashioned an emancipated civic sphere by seeing their potential for democratic success in their compatriots’ baseball success. Later, Dominicans articulated demands for democracy, economic opportunity, and civil rights through successful calls for public support of amateur and professional baseball. Today, Dominicans continue to demand that incentives for the baseball industry foster human as well as economic development. A revelatory and innovative history, Pitching Democracy restores agency to the Dominican people and honors their true love of the game.

Author : Antonio Sotomayor,Cesar R. Torres
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781682261101

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Olimpismo by Antonio Sotomayor,Cesar R. Torres Pdf

The Olympic Games are a phenomenon of unparalleled global proportions. This book examines the rich and complex involvement of Latin America and the Caribbean peoples with the Olympic Movement, serving as an effective medium to explore the making of this region. The nine essays here investigate the influence, struggles, and contributions of Latin American and Caribbean societies to the Olympic Movement. By delving into nationalist political movements, post-revolutionary diplomacy, decolonization struggles, gender and disability discourses, and more, they define how the nations of this region have shaped and been shaped by the Olympic Movement.

Author : Mobo Gao,Justin O’Connor,Baohui Xie,Jack Butcher
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811991912

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Different Histories, Shared Futures by Mobo Gao,Justin O’Connor,Baohui Xie,Jack Butcher Pdf

This book delves into the Australia-China relationship, which is currently at its worst since 1972, when the two countries first established a diplomatic relationship. Australia is seen by the US as its front-line ally in its fight in containing China. Derived from an international symposium organized by the editorial team and held in Adelaide, South Australia in September 2021, these essays are an attempt to offer some understanding and explanations for the deterioration of Sino-Australian ties. It is also an attempt to explore the ways by which the two countries can reach some common ground for the future. Despite our very different pasts, can we seek out a shared future together, a future that avoids a war, hot or cold, between a rising power of China and the incumbent US hegemon?

Author : Aremu, Issa
Publisher : Malthouse Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789785332117

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Reflections on African and Global Affairs by Aremu, Issa Pdf

Vice president of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Issa Aremu, has been writing a column in the Daily Trust, Nigeria for several years and has been an occasional contributor to a number of other Nigerian publications. Covered in this volume: politics in Liberia, salutary effects of elections in Ghana, constitutional manipulations in Niger, canons of Kwame Nkrumah to sobering reflections on Nigeria, what he calls the rise and fall of Nigeria's diplomacy, and the import of Hilary Clinton's assessment of state of governance. In East Africa violent elections in Kenya, the complexities of the Zimbabwe situation, and the person of Robert Mugabe himself. South Africa, from the shocking wave of explosive manifestations of xenophobia to bilateral relations with Nigeria. For the African continent attention is given to a variety of events: developments in the European Union, American foreign policy and the dominance of CNN. Present throughout is a concern for proper governance and development that should encourage critical thinking and thus eliminate the poverty of ideas among the African political and bureaucratic policy makers.

Author : Charlton W. Yingling
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477326091

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Siblings of Soil by Charlton W. Yingling Pdf

This book explains largely forgotten collaborations by the Dominican and Haitian majorities of color to achieve independence together, an event that elite Dominicans have since maligned and misconstrued to justify anti-Haitian nationalism and policies.

Author : Gonzalo Bravo,Rosa Lopez de D'Amico,Charles Parrish
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317754152

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Sport in Latin America by Gonzalo Bravo,Rosa Lopez de D'Amico,Charles Parrish Pdf

The forthcoming Olympics in Rio in 2016, and the FIFA World Cup in Brazil in 2014, highlight the profound importance of sport in Latin America. This book is the first to offer a broad survey of the way that sport is managed, governed and organized across the Latin American region, drawing on cutting-edge contemporary scholarship in management, policy, sociology and history. The book explores key themes in Latin American sport, including the role of public institutions; the relationship between sport policy and political regimes; the structure and significance of national governing bodies and professional leagues; the impact of sporting mega-events (including the Olympics and World Cup), and the management and governance of football, the dominant sport in the region. Including contributions from Latin American scholars and practitioners, the book draws on important Spanish and Portuguese sources that are unknown to most English-speaking researchers, and therefore provides an unprecedented and authoritative insight into sport policy and management in the region. Including cases from sport in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Peru and examples from Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, this book is essential reading for all scholars, practitioners and policy-makers with an interest in Latin American sport, comparative sport policy, sport management, or Latin American history, culture and society.

Author : Jack Fong
Publisher : BrownWalker Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781599429946

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Revolution as Development by Jack Fong Pdf

The Karen Revolution for self-determination has the distinction of being one of the world's longest-running struggles for freedom, having begun in 1949 and continuing to this very moment. This sociological work makes visible how ethnopolitical, petropolitical, geopolitical, and ecosystemic issues affect the political economy of a people experiencing ethnic cleansing. From the inception of its self-determination struggle in 1949, readers will be taken on a historical journey with the Karen, finally "arriving" in the 21st century. Along the way, the author exposes readers to the anatomy of how Karen revolutionary dynamics attempt to shield the Karen people against internal colonization committed by the various military regimes of Burma, and how these complex dynamics engaged by Karen revolutionaries-in a novel reformulation and reading that transcends oversimplified economisitic indicators of progress-constitute development. A study of revolution that moves beyond the simplicity of a clashing dualism exemplified by Aung San Suu Kyi pitted against the military regime, this text is for readers desiring to examine how other significant players such as the Karen, a proud people living in systemic crisis, construct nation and aspire toward democracy in the labyrinthine ethnopolitical terrain of Burma.

Author : Bill Birnbauer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351051880

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The Rise of NonProfit Investigative Journalism in the United States by Bill Birnbauer Pdf

With a foreword from Michael Schudson, The Rise of Nonprofit Investigative Journalism in the United States examines the rapid growth, impact and sustainability of not-for-profit investigative reporting and its impact on US democracy and mainstream journalism. The book addresses key questions about the sustainability of foundation funding, the agendas of foundations, and the ethical issues that arise from philanthropically funded journalism. It provides a theoretical framework that enables readers to recognize connections and relationships that the nonprofit accountability journalism sector has with the economic, political and mainstream media fields in the United States. As battered news media struggled to survive the financial crisis of 2007-2009, dozens of investigative and public service reporting startups funded by foundations, billionaires and everyday citizens were launched to scrutinize local, state and national issues. Foundations, donors and many journalists believed there was a crisis for investigative journalism and democracy in the United States. This book challenges this and argues that legacy editors acted to quarantine their investigative teams from newsroom cuts. It also demonstrates how nonprofit journalism transformed aspects of journalistic practice. Through detailed research and practical discussion, it provides a comprehensive study of this increasingly important genre of journalism. The Rise of Nonprofit Investigative Journalism in the United States is an important text for academics and students of journalism, communications theory, media and democracy-related units, as well as journalists worldwide.

Author : Augustus B. Cochran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015050503948

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Democracy Heading South by Augustus B. Cochran Pdf

For Cochran, the sense of deja vu is overwhelming - and alarming."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Democratic Party. National Convention
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Campaign literature
ISBN : UOM:39015030799574

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Democracy at Work by Democratic Party. National Convention Pdf

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 1823 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551997995

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The Collected George Orwell by George Orwell Pdf

One of the great authors of the twentieth century, George Orwell is known for his incisive critiques of inequality in pre- and post-World War II England, as well as of totalitarianism. His most famous novels are the dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four and the modern political fable Animal Farm. This collection includes all of Orwell’s novels and non-fiction books, as well as the famous essay “Shooting an Elephant.” Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

Author : Ahmed Yerima,Ayo Akinwale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nigerian drama (English)
ISBN : IND:30000086797630

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Theatre and Democracy in Nigeria by Ahmed Yerima,Ayo Akinwale Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Documentary films
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121695055

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Dox by Anonim Pdf

Author : Krist Novoselic
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781617752230

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Of Grunge and Government by Krist Novoselic Pdf

The Nirvana bassist “offers specific platforms for electoral reform . . . as well as charming anecdotes about rock ‘n’ roll as a pursuit of happiness” (Sarah Vowell, The New York Times Book Review). A memoir of both music and politics, Of Grunge and Government tells Krist Novoselic’s story of how during his years with Kurt Cobain and Nirvana, the band made a point of playing benefits—the Rock for Choice show, a concert for gay rights, a fundraising gig for the Balkan Women’s Aid Fund—and how in the ensuing years he has dedicated himself to being a good citizen and participating in American democracy. In this book he shares stories about making music and making a statement—as well as inspiring ideas for anyone who wants to advance progressive causes, to become a more active part of the community, and to make sure our votes count and our voices are heard.

Author : Charles Taylor,Patrizia Nanz,Madeleine Beaubien Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674244627

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Reconstructing Democracy by Charles Taylor,Patrizia Nanz,Madeleine Beaubien Taylor Pdf

"An urgent manifesto for the reconstruction of democratic belonging in our troubled times." --Davide Panagia Across the world, democracies are suffering from a disconnect between the people and political elites. In communities where jobs and industry are scarce, many feel the government is incapable of understanding their needs or addressing their problems. The resulting frustration has fueled the success of destabilizing demagogues. To reverse this pattern and restore responsible government, we need to reinvigorate democracy at the local level. But what does that mean? Drawing on examples of successful community building in cities large and small, from a shrinking village in rural Austria to a neglected section of San Diego, Reconstructing Democracy makes a powerful case for re-engaging citizens. It highlights innovative grassroots projects and shows how local activists can form alliances and discover their own power to solve problems.