Composed in 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft's seminal feminist tract A Vindication of the Rights of Woman broke new ground in its demand for women's education.
Here is one of the first books to assert that mass protest movements in disparate places such as Greece, Argentina, and the United States share an agenda-to raise the question of what democracy should mean.
The word 'anarchism' tends to conjure up images of aggressive protest against government, and - recently - of angry demonstrations against bodies such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Sus banderas están en las movilizaciones callejeras, sus militantes trabajan en los barrios, sus dirigentes obtienen cargos en intendencias, bancas en las legislaturas y en el Congreso.
The word 'anarchism' tends to conjure up images of aggressive protest against government, and - recently - of angry demonstrations against bodies such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Hoy, la violencia desatada en contra de lideres sociales y defensores de los derechos humanos en Colombia ha vuelto a encender las alarmas sobre la existencia de un proceso de persecucion sistematica en su contra.
Este libro analiza las tendencias de la protesta social en el pais, los momentos en donde la movilizacion ha sido mas fuerte, presenta los motivos de la protesta y, de esta manera, se configura como una contribucion desde el mundo academico compartida con los movimientos sociales, una lectura critica de su historia reciente.
What Women Want is a trenchant examination of the struggle for women's equality, and a prescription for what to focus on next in order to ensure maximum success.
From award-winning journalist Jack Shenker, The Egyptians is the essential book about Egypt and radical politicsIn early 2011, Cairo's Tahrir Square briefly commanded the attention of the world.
Protest Knits is the book for you: from pussy hats to protest scarfs and political pin cushions to shy anarchist socks, make your point with a crochet hook or pair of knitting needles.
La búsqueda de paralelismos y puntos comunes en los conflictos violentos que se producen en ciertos barrios de nuestras ciudades ha llevado al desarrollo de una corriente de estudio, que surgió la sociología urbana, la sociología del conflicto y la conflictología, conocida como TMR o Teoría de los Marcos de Ruptura.
Protest Knits is the book for you: from pussy hats to protest scarfs and political pin cushions to shy anarchist socks, make your point with a crochet hook or pair of knitting needles.
From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in a penal colony in the Urals for standing up for what she believed in.
When news breaks that a convicted murderer, released from prison, has killed again, or that an innocent person has escaped the death chamber in light of new DNA evidence, arguments about capital punishment inevitably heat up.
When news breaks that a convicted murderer, released from prison, has killed again, or that an innocent person has escaped the death chamber in light of new DNA evidence, arguments about capital punishment inevitably heat up.
Este libro tiene como propósito central analizar las relaciones establecidas entre los actores estatales y los procesos organizativos barriales populares.
Wir stecken momentan in der größten Krise seit dem zweiten Weltkrieg: Corona, Impfdesaster, Ukrainekrieg, Nahostkrieg, Inflation, Rezession – all das hängt miteinander zusammen.
A New York Times Notable BookBest Books of 2021: TIME, SmithsonianNew York Times Book Review * Editors' ChoiceA radical reckoning with the racial inequality of America's past and present, by one of the country's leading scholars of policing and mass incarcerationBetween 1964 and 1972, the United States endured domestic violence on a scale not seen since the Civil War.
From the co-author of Let This Radicalize You, a collection of letters to inspire activists to continue the fightOrganizers are well seasoned in defeat.
A sweeping overview of civil resistance movements around the world that explains what they are, how they work, why they are often effective, and why they can fail.
Este texto presenta a la comunidad académica nacional e internacional uno de los productos de trabajo de investigación del Observatorio de Redes y acción Colectiva (ORAC), línea de acción colectiva indígena, donde se plantean diversas tesis y preguntas sobre la (re)definición de las identidades políticas y culturales de las organizaciones indígenas, de mujeres y de afrocolombianos respecto a temáticas puntuales como el bloqueo del Estado, la instrumentalización del Derecho, los discursos políticos y su relación con los contextos de violencia, conflicto, desplazamiento forzado y marginalización.
A sweeping overview of civil resistance movements around the world that explains what they are, how they work, why they are often effective, and why they can fail.
Finalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismLonglisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book in the world on Foreign AffairsAn Economist Book of the Year, 2014A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice"e;One of the best analyses of the impact of Tiananmen throughout China in the years since 1989.
César Covo, comunista de origen judío sefardí y voluntario en las Brigadas Internacionales en el bando republicano, narra en primera persona su implicación en la Guerra Civil.
