The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) is world's largest civil society movement fighting against poverty and inequality, incorporating over 100 affiliated country-level coalitions.
Against the background of the global economic crisis since 2007/2008 and increasing inequality across the world, the Global South has experienced widespread, large-scale industrial action, including in countries such as China, Brazil, India and South Africa, which had been hailed as the new growth engines of the global political economy as part of the so-called BRICS.
Through fieldwork centering Syrian voices, this book explores wartime governing authority and the possibilities and limits of Western intervention therein.
This book introduces and critically explores walking as an innovative method for doing social research, showing how its sensate and kinaesthetic attributes facilitate connections with lived experiences, journeys and memories, communities and identities.
This book, first published in 1979, examines the little-studied forerunners of the Russian revolutionary movement - the Russian section of the First International.
Drawing interview material, together with extensive data from the authors' original social movement database, this book examines the development of social movements in resistance to perceived political "e;regression"e; and a growing right-wing backlash.
This book, first published in 1976, re-examines many aspects of the German Peasant War of 1525, important as the first national peasant revolt in Germany and because of the influence of Engels' work on the subject.
By the late 1960s, in a Europe divided by the Cold War and challenged by global revolution in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, thousands of young people threw themselves into activism to change both the world and themselves.
This cutting-edge new casebook challenges the dominant White-centric narrative of public administration, offering a fresh array of perspectives, with the lofty aim of ending the marginalization of communities in public policy implementation.
A Nation of Change and Novelty (1990) ranges broadly over the political and literary terrain of the seventeenth century, examining the importance of the English Revolution as a decisive event in English and European history.
Alongside the Arab Spring, the 'Occupy' anti-capitalist movements in the West, and the events on the Maidan in Kiev, Russia has had its own protest movements, notably the political protests of 2011-12.
This volume examines and contributes to debates surrounding social capital, social movements and the role of civil society in emerging forms of governance.
Erich Kästner – politisch wie nieObgleich Erich Kästner als Satiriker und selbsternannter Schulmeister auftrat, bezog der Dichter der Neuen Sachlichkeit in seinen Werken selten politisch Stellung und ist weniger für sein Engagement bekannt als für seine Rolle des genauen Beobachters.
This book, first published in 1984, brings together three essays written by specialists in German history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries whose important work is little known to English-speaking historians.
Faith, Hope and Mischief tells funny, prophetic and powerful stories of tiny acts of rebellion Andrew has carried out, with arresting reflections on what it means to live in faith and hope.
The smartphone and social media have transformed Africa, allowing people across the continent to share ideas, organise, and participate in politics like never before.
Aus Anlass des 10-jährigen Bestehens des Senats der Wirtschaft beschreiben die Autoren die Geschichte und Entwicklung der politischen, wissenschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Schlüsselbegriffe "Gemeinwohl" und "Nachhaltigkeit", die im Mittelpunkt des Selbstverständnisses, des Gründungszwecks und der Arbeit des Senats der Wirtschaft stehen, und betrachten sie ausführlich aus integrativ-wissenschaftlicher Sicht.
Examining the restitution of cultural property to Indigenous Peoples in human rights law, this book offers a detailed analysis of the opportunities and constraints of international law as a tool of resistance and social transformation for marginalized groups.
In light of the recent rise of right-wing populism in numerous political contexts and in the face of resurgent nationalism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, and demagoguery, this book investigates how historical and contemporary cultural producers have sought to resist, confront, confound, mock, or call out situations of political oppression in Germany, a country which has seen a dramatic range of political extremes during the past century.
During the chaos of the eurozone crisis, few mainstream commentators have stopped to question the purpose of the European Union itself, and whose interests it serves.
This book explores the roles of civil society organisations (CSOs) when engaging in public diplomacy activities and their impact on community development and change.
This book demonstrates synergies and distils hard-earned lessons of human and forest rights struggles to inform the ongoing debates on environmental human rights.
From the upheavals of recent national elections to the success of the #MyDressMyChoice feminist movement, digital platforms have already had a dramatic impact on political life in Kenya one of the most electronically advanced countries in Africa.
Transformative Feminist Mobilization in the Arab Region aims to identify how intersectional feminist civil society groups in selected countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)/ Southwest Asia and North Africa SWANA region advocate for change and how they interact with governments and the strategies, tools, and skills they utilize.
Organized around single country studies embedded in key historical moments, this book introduces students to the shifting and varied guerrilla history of Latin America from the late 1950s to the present.
