Author : Phillip O. Foss
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015005094258
Politics and Grass
Phillip O. Foss
Politics And Grass
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From Outrage to Action
Laura R. Woliver
Author : Laura R. Woliver
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252019628
From Outrage to Action by Laura R. Woliver Pdf
From Outrage to Action examines the rise and fall of grass-roots interest groups through in-depth analyses of four incidents that mobilized citizens around local injustices. In one case, a local judge declared a five-year-old sexual assault victim a "particularly promiscuous young lady". In another, an innocent black man died in police custody. In the third, a man with a criminal record was charged with murdering a ten-year-old girl, and in the last a judge commented during a juvenile sentencing that rape is a normal reaction to the way women dress. Through in-depth interviews with activists, Laura Woliver examines these community actions, studying the groups involved and linking her conclusions to larger questions of political power and the impact of social movements. Group successes and failures are explained through analysis of fluid social movements and the role of religion, class, gender, and race. Woliver found that activists unprepared for the ostracism and conflict resulting from their dissent retreated from public life, while those who identified with alternative communities avoided self-blame and maintained their political commitments. She relates the community responses in these cases to those in the case of confessed mass murderer Jeffrey Dahmer and in the beating by Los Angeles police officers of Rodney King. Her findings will make fascinating reading for those interested in the rise and fall of grass-roots interest groups, the nature of dissent, and the reasons why people volunteer countless hours, sometimes in the face of community opposition and isolation, to dedicate themselves to a cause. The four ad hoc interest groups studied are the Committee to Recall Judge ArchieSimonson (Madison), the Coalition for Justice for Ernest Lacy (Milwaukee), Concerned Citizens for Children (Grant County, Wisconsin), and Citizens Taking Action (Madison).
On This Patch of Grass
Matt Hern,Selena Couture,Daisy Couture,Sadie Couture
Author : Matt Hern,Selena Couture,Daisy Couture,Sadie Couture
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773630717
On This Patch of Grass by Matt Hern,Selena Couture,Daisy Couture,Sadie Couture Pdf
Exclusive online content, photos, and more, available here Parks are importantly fertile places to talk about land. Whether its big national parks, provincial campgrounds, isolated conservation areas, destination parks, or humble urban patches of grass, we tend to speak of parks as unqualified goods. People think of parks as public or common land, and it is a common belief that parks are the best uses of land and are good for everyone. But no park is innocent. Parks are lionized as “natural oases,” and urban parks as “pure nature” in the midst of the city — but that’s absurd. Parks are as “natural” as the roads or buildings around them, and just as political. Every park in North America is performing modernity and settler colonialism everyday. Furthermore, parks are not private property, but while they are called ‘public’, they are highly regulated spaces that normatively demand and closely control behaviours. Parks are a certain kind of property, and thus creations of law, and they are subject to all kinds of presumptions about what parks are for, and what kinds of people should be doing what kinds of things in them. Parks — as they are currently constituted — are colonial enterprises. On This Patch of Grass is an investigation into one small urban park — Vancouver’s Victoria Park, or Bocce Ball Park — as a way to interrogate the politics of land. The authors grapple with the fact that they are uninvited guests on the occupied and traditional territories of the Musqueam (xwməθkwəy̓əm), Squamish (Skwxwú7mesh), and Tsleil-Waututh (səliľwətaʔɬ) nations. But Bocce Ball Park is also a wonderful place in many ways, with a startling plurality of users and sovereignties, and all kinds of overlapping activities and all kinds of overlapping people co-existing more-or-less peaceably. It is a living exhibition of the possibilities of sharing land and perhaps offers some clues to a decolonial horizon. The book is a collaborative exercise between one white family and some friends looking at the park from a variety of perspectives, asking what we might say about this patch of grass, and what kinds of occupation might this place imply.
The Politics of Remembrance in the Novels of Günter Grass
Alex Donovan Cole
Author : Alex Donovan Cole
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000797640
The Politics of Remembrance in the Novels of Günter Grass by Alex Donovan Cole Pdf
This manuscript argues for the importance of Günter Grass as a political thinker in addition to his status as a novelist and public intellectual, capable of forming ethical responses to contemporary issues like neoliberalism and place of the petit bourgeoisie in social life. I define Grass’s trajectory as a thinker through his novels and speeches. Primarily, I draw attention to the role memory plays in Grass’s thought: that his work represented an intellectual and aesthetic response to the role Nazism continued to play in West German politics in the post war era. To Grass, Nazism represented a resurgent threat unaddressed following the end of World War II. Later, Grass amended his concept of memory politics to address neoliberal capitalism, reiterating his radicalism and affirming the need for German society to resist the rise of extreme ideologies.
On Writing and Politics, 1967-1983
Günter Grass
Author : Günter Grass
Publisher : HarperVia
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0156687933
On Writing and Politics, 1967-1983 by Günter Grass Pdf
Grass-novelist, poet, and graphic artist-is also a committed political activist. In this collection of essays, he takes on writing and politics with his accustomed verve and insight. Introduction by Salman Rushdie. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Labour's Grass Roots
Patrick Seyd,Paul Whiteley
Author : Patrick Seyd,Paul Whiteley
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0198273584
Labour's Grass Roots by Patrick Seyd,Paul Whiteley Pdf
Political parties are the driving force behind liberal democracy, yet knowledge of who belongs to them and why is almost nonexistent. This work attempts to provide the first national profile of the social background, characteristics, attitudes and values, as well as the political experiences and activities of Labour Party members in Great Britain.
Upending American Politics
Theda Skocpol,Caroline Tervo
Author : Theda Skocpol,Caroline Tervo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190083526
Upending American Politics by Theda Skocpol,Caroline Tervo Pdf
The election of Barack Obama in 2008 was startling, as was the victory of Donald Trump eight years later. Because both presidents were unusual and gained office backed by Congresses controlled by their own parties, their elections kick-started massive counter-movements. The Tea Party starting in 2009 and the "resistance" after November 2016 transformed America's political landscape. Upending American Politics offers a fresh perspective on recent upheavals, tracking the emergence and spread of local voluntary citizens' groups, the ongoing activities of elite advocacy organizations and consortia of wealthy donors, and the impact of popular and elite efforts on the two major political parties and candidate-led political campaigns. Going well beyond national surveys, Theda Skocpol, Caroline Tervo, and their contributors use organizational documents, interviews, and local visits to probe changing organizational configurations at the national level and in swing states. This volume analyzes conservative politics in the first section and progressive responses in the second to provide a clear overview of US politics as a whole. By highlighting evidence from the state level, it also reveals the important interplay of local and national trends.
Green Parties in Transition
Paul Lucardie
Author : Paul Lucardie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351932110
Green Parties in Transition by Paul Lucardie Pdf
When green parties emerged in the 1980s, not only did they question established ideas about nature and economic growth, they also challenged the 'iron law' of Roberto Michels that all parties inevitably follow a similar path towards informal concentration of power and oligarchy. Grass-roots democracy was both an ideological tenet and an organizational project for practically all green parties. These days the greens have lost their glamour and innocence. They have grown up and even joined governing coalitions in several countries. Did they leave grass-roots democracy by the roadside on the way to power? This book investigates to what extent green parties have remained true to their identity or have been transformed. Country specialists analyze the development of green parties in 14 countries across the world - not only Western Europe but also Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. These analyses also offer clues on broader questions about party types and party change in contemporary democracies.
Grass Without Roots
L C Jain,B. V. Krishnamurthy,P. M. Tripathi
Author : L C Jain,B. V. Krishnamurthy,P. M. Tripathi
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015050598757
Grass Without Roots by L C Jain,B. V. Krishnamurthy,P. M. Tripathi Pdf
Grass Without Roots, the first comprehensive review of the Indian government's development programme, examines the impact of policies at the grass-roots level. On the basis of detailed field studies, the authors conclude that it is essential to involve the people in the design and operation of rural development schemes. They argue that without democratic decentralization, efforts to alleviate poverty and hunger in India's villages will remain an exercise in futility.
Blade Of Grass
Lewis DeSoto
Author : Lewis DeSoto
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443402958
Blade Of Grass by Lewis DeSoto Pdf
Set on the border between South Africa and an unnamed country, A Blade of Grass is the taut story of two women, one white and one black, who struggle to save their farm and, ultimately, their lives. Marit, a young woman of British descent, recently orphaned and newly wed, comes to live with her husband, Ben, on their new farm. Despite its Edenic setting, the land explodes in violence and tragedy, and Marit finds herself caught in a tug of war between the local Afrikaner community and the black workers who live on her farm. Frightened, she turns to the only person who can help her, a young woman who is now also alone in the world -- her maid, Tembi. As the novel builds to its devastating climax, it unfolds a tale both terrifying and hopeful, moving beyond its own time and place to become a universal story of the price of freedom.
TVA and the Grass Roots
Philip Selznick
Author : Philip Selznick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:473821613
TVA and the Grass Roots by Philip Selznick Pdf
Grass Roots
Stuart Woods
Author : Stuart Woods
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476709536
Grass Roots by Stuart Woods Pdf
From bestselling author Stuart Woods, a legal thriller featuring attorney Will Lee who travels South to return to his Georgia roots—and gets involved in a political firestorm that could make or break his career. Will Lee has returned to his roots to kick off his campaign for the Senate. A prominent lawyer, he has come back to his hometown of Delano, Georgia, to plan his strategies...and to argue an explosively controversial case that could seriously damage his political career. For Delano is a town with a dark secret—a smoldering hotbed of racial hatred and moral outrage, held in the thrall of a sinister white-supremacist group called The Elect...a breeding ground for violent, evil forces that will stop at nothing to keep the candidate out of office. At first, Will Lee was running for the Senate. But now he is running for his life.
Responsible Parties
Frances McCall Rosenbluth,Ian Shapiro
Author : Frances McCall Rosenbluth,Ian Shapiro
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300232752
Responsible Parties by Frances McCall Rosenbluth,Ian Shapiro Pdf
How popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politics Democracies across the world are adopting reforms to bring politics closer to the people. Parties have turned to primaries and local caucuses to select candidates. Ballot initiatives and referenda allow citizens to enact laws directly. Many democracies now use proportional representation, encouraging smaller, more specific parties rather than two dominant ones. Yet voters keep getting angrier. There is a steady erosion of trust in politicians, parties, and democratic institutions, culminating most recently in major populist victories in the United States, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. Frances Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro argue that devolving power to the grass roots is part of the problem, not the solution. Efforts to decentralize political decision-making make governments and especially political parties less effective and less able to address constituents' long-term interests. To revive confidence in governance, we must restructure our political systems to restore power to the core institution of representative democracy: the political party.
TVA and the Grass Roots
Philip Selznick
Author : Philip Selznick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Corporate culture
ISBN : UOM:39015060554261
TVA and the Grass Roots by Philip Selznick Pdf
"The famous and influential study of politics in action at all levels in the creation and expansion of the Tennessee Valley Authority -- with all its land use, agricultural, political and human effects. Landmark application of political and social theory coupled with prodigious research and insightful analysis made this a legendary work." - Amazon.com
How Does A Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?
Doretta Lau
Author : Doretta Lau
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780889712997
How Does A Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? by Doretta Lau Pdf
Building on the success of the Journey Prize-shortlisted title story, the stories of How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? present an updated and whimsical new take on what it means to be Canadian. Lau alludes to the personal and political histories of a number of young Asian Canadian characters to explain their unique perspectives of the world, artfully fusing pure delusion and abstract perception with heartbreaking reality. Correspondingly, the book’s title refers to an interview with Chinese basketball star Yao Ming, who when asked about the Shanghai Sharks, the team that shaped his formative sporting years, responded, “How does a single blade of grass thank the sun?” Lau’s stories feature the children and grandchildren of immigrants, transnational adoptees and multiracial adults who came of age in the 1990s—all struggling to find a place in the Western world and using the only language they know to express their hopes, fears and expectations.