Roots Of Resistance

Author : Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477322185

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Roots of Resistance by Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda Pdf

On May 1, 1954, striking banana workers on the North Coast of Honduras brought the regional economy to a standstill, invigorating the Honduran labor movement and placing a series of demands on the US-controlled banana industry. Their actions ultimately galvanized a broader working-class struggle and reawakened long-suppressed leftist ideals. The first account of its kind in English, Roots of Resistance explores contemporary Honduran labor history through the story of the great banana strike of 1954 and centers the role of women in the narrative of the labor movement. Drawing on extensive firsthand oral history and archival research, Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda examines the radical organizing that challenged US capital and foreign intervention in Honduras at the onset of the Cold War. She reveals the everyday acts of resistance that laid the groundwork for the 1954 strike and argues that these often-overlooked forms of resistance should inform analyses of present-day labor and community organizing. Roots of Resistance highlights the complexities of transnational company hierarchies, gender and race relations, and labor organizing that led to the banana workers strike and how these dynamics continue to reverberate in Honduras today.

Author : Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0806138335

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Roots of Resistance by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Pdf

In New Mexico—once a Spanish colony, then part of Mexico—Pueblo Indians and descendants of Spanish- and Mexican-era settlers still think of themselves as distinct peoples, each with a dynamic history. At the core of these persistent cultural identities is each group's historical relationship to the others and to the land, a connection that changed dramatically when the United States wrested control of the region from Mexico in 1848.

Author : Christine Caldwell,Lucia Bennett Leighton
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781623172022

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Oppression and the Body by Christine Caldwell,Lucia Bennett Leighton Pdf

A timely anthology that explores power, privilege, and oppression and their relationship to marginalized bodies Asserting that the body is the main site of oppression in Western society, the contributors to this pioneering volume explore the complex issue of embodiment and how it relates to social inclusion and marginalization. In a culture where bodies of people who are brown, black, female, transgender, disabled, fat, or queer are often shamed, sexualized, ignored, and oppressed, what does it mean to live in a marginalized body? Through theory, personal narrative, and artistic expression, this anthology explores how power, privilege, oppression, and attempted disembodiment play out on the bodies of disparaged individuals and what happens when the body’s expression is stereotyped and stunted. Bringing together a range of voices, this book offers strategies and practices for embodiment and activism and considers what it means to be an embodied ally to anyone experiencing bodily oppression.

Author : William D. Watley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : African American clergy
ISBN : WISC:89058614959

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Roots of Resistance by William D. Watley Pdf

This study paints a personal portrait of King's life, his dream, and his lifelong search for nonviolent ways to combat injustice.

Author : Rivera Sun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1948016117

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The Roots of Resistance by Rivera Sun Pdf

In a style as magical as Tolkien and as authentic as Twain, you are in for an exciting ride as the outraged corporate oligarchy scrambles to take back power after the Dandelion Insurrection's successful nonviolent revolution.

Author : Erica S. Simmons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107124851

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Meaningful Resistance by Erica S. Simmons Pdf

Exploring marketization, local practices, and protests, this book shows how market-driven subsistence threats can be powerful loci for resistance movements.

Author : Ervin Staub
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199700417

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The Roots of Goodness and Resistance to Evil by Ervin Staub Pdf

In The Roots of Goodness and Resistance to Evil, Ervin Staub draws on his extensive experience in scholarship and intervention in real-world settings to illuminate the socializing experiences, education, and training that lead children and adults to become caring people and active bystanders who help others, and act to prevent violence and create caring societies. The book offers an excellent balance of Staub's important and influential recent articles and essays in the field and newly written chapters. It explores why we should help and not harm others. It offers wide-ranging examples and research about the roots of everyday helping and heroism, rescue in the Holocaust and elsewhere, overcoming trauma to become altruists, reconciliation in Rwanda and other ways of resisting evil, and more. Staub engages with ways to promote active bystandership in the service of preventing violence, helping people to heal from violence, and building caring societies. He explores the range of experiences that lead to active bystandership, including socialization by parents, teachers (and peers) in childhood, education, experiential learning, and public education through media. He examines what personal characteristics or dispositions result from such experiences, which in turn lead to caring and helping. Staub also considers how circumstances influence people--both individuals and whole groups--and how they join with personal dispositions to determine whether people remain passive in the face of others' need or instead help others and behave in morally courageous or even heroic ways. He considers how moral and caring values can be subverted by circumstances, and outlines ways to resist that possiblity. He also considers how past victimization and the resulting psychological woundedness, which can lead to "defensive violence" or hostility toward people and the world, may be transformed by other experiences, leading to "altruism born of suffering." The book draws on research and theory as well as work in applied settings. Ultimately this book will help readers explore how we can turn ourselves into active, helpful people and what we need to do to create peaceful and caring societies.

Author : Simone Weil
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000082791

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The Need for Roots by Simone Weil Pdf

Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1942 she fled France along with her family, going firstly to America. She then moved back to London in order to work with de Gaulle. Published posthumously The Need for Roots was a direct result of this collaboration. Its purpose was to help rebuild France after the war. In this, her most famous book, Weil reflects on the importance of religious and political social structures in the life of the individual. She wrote that one of the basic obligations we have as human beings is to not let another suffer from hunger. Equally as important, however, is our duty towards our community: we may have declared various human rights, but we have overlooked the obligations and this has left us self-righteous and rootless. She could easily have been issuing a direct warning to us today, the citizens of Century 21.

Author : Roxanne D. Ortiz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1980-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0895510529

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Roots of Resistance by Roxanne D. Ortiz Pdf

Author : Ches Thurber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108844062

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Between Mao and Gandhi by Ches Thurber Pdf

Asks why some dissident movements adopt nonviolent strategies of resistance, while others choose to take up arms.

Author : Angela Joya
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108478366

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The Roots of Revolt by Angela Joya Pdf

A conceptually rich, historically informed study of the contested politics emerging out of decades of authoritarian neoliberalism in Egypt.

Author : Daniel Hillel
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0080544150

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Environmental Soil Physics by Daniel Hillel Pdf

Environmental Soil Physics is a completely updated and modified edition of the Daniel Hillels previous, successful books, Introduction to Soil Physics and Fundamentals of Soil Physics. Hillel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, one of the true leaders in the field of environmental sciences. The new version includes a chapter and problems on computational techniques, addresses current environmental concerns and trends. Updates and expands the scope of Hillel's prior works, Fundamentals of Soil Physics (1980)and Applications of Soil Physics (1980) Explores the wide range of interactions among the phases in the soil and the dynamic interconnections of the soil with the subterranean and atmospheric domains Draws attention to historical and contemporary issues concerning the human management of soil and water resources Directs readers toward solution of practical problems in terrestrial ecology, field-scale hydrology, agronomy, and civil engineering Incorporates contributions by leading scientists in the areas of spatial variability, soil remediation, and the inclusion of land-surface processes in global climate models

Author : James C. Scott
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300153569

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Domination and the Arts of Resistance by James C. Scott Pdf

"Play fool, to catch wise."--proverb of Jamaican slaves Confrontations between the powerless and powerful are laden with deception--the powerless feign deference and the powerful subtly assert their mastery. Peasants, serfs, untouchables, slaves, laborers, and prisoners are not free to speak their minds in the presence of power. These subordinate groups instead create a secret discourse that represents a critique of power spoken behind the backs of the dominant. At the same time, the powerful also develop a private dialogue about practices and goals of their rule that cannot be openly avowed. In this book, renowned social scientist James C. Scott offers a penetrating discussion both of the public roles played by the powerful and powerless and the mocking, vengeful tone they display off stage--what he terms their public and hidden transcripts. Using examples from the literature, history, and politics of cultures around the world, Scott examines the many guises this interaction has taken throughout history and the tensions and contradictions it reflects. Scott describes the ideological resistance of subordinate groups--their gossip, folktales, songs, jokes, and theater--their use of anonymity and ambiguity. He also analyzes how ruling elites attempt to convey an impression of hegemony through such devices as parades, state ceremony, and rituals of subordination and apology. Finally, he identifies--with quotations that range from the recollections of American slaves to those of Russian citizens during the beginnings of Gorbachev's glasnost campaign--the political electricity generated among oppressed groups when, for the first time, the hidden transcript is spoken directly and publicly in the face of power. His landmark work will revise our understanding of subordination, resistance, hegemony, folk culture, and the ideas behind revolt.

Author : E. G. Lappala,R. W. Healy,Edwin P. Weeks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fluid dynamics
ISBN : UOM:39015049324497

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Documentation of Computer Program VS2D to Solve the Equations of Fluid Flow in Variably Saturated Porous Media by E. G. Lappala,R. W. Healy,Edwin P. Weeks Pdf

Author : Matthew F. Delmont
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520291324

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Making Roots by Matthew F. Delmont Pdf

When Alex HaleyÕs book Roots was published by Doubleday in 1976 it became an immediate bestseller. The television series, broadcast by ABC in 1977, became the most popular miniseries of all time, captivating over a hundred million Americans. For the first time, Americans saw slavery as an integral part of the nationÕs history. With a remake of the series in 2016 by A&E Networks, Roots has again entered the national conversation. In Making ÒRoots,Ó Matthew F. Delmont looks at the importance, contradictions, and limitations of mass culture and examines how Roots pushed the boundaries of history. Delmont investigates the decisions that led Alex Haley, Doubleday, and ABC to invest in the story of Kunta Kinte, uncovering how HaleyÕs original, modest book proposal developed into an unprecedented cultural phenomenon.