Political activism / Political engagement

Ever since PlatosRepublic, the study of statecraft has been a staple of Western discourse, and so has the study of particular leaders.

Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (1950-53), this book shows the dynamic role art, specifically sculpture, played in constructing both Italian and American culture after World War II (WWII).

Enriching the existing scholarship on this important exhibition, Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today (1950-53), this book shows the dynamic role art, specifically sculpture, played in constructing both Italian and American culture after World War II (WWII).

The global trend of increasing violence against the press has spurred research interest into the questions of where, why, and how communicators are repressed.

This book, written in honor of Arno Tausch, presents cutting-edge research on globalization, development, and global values.

Interpretaciones tradicionales han planteado la idea de que Montoneros recurrió a la simbología peronista por simple oportunismo político.

As we move deeper into the twenty-first century, power, lethal force, and injustice continue to explode violently into war, and the prospects for lasting peace look even bleaker.

This reference work examines how sophisticated cyber-attacks and innovative use of social media have changed conflict in the digital realm, while new military technologies such as drones and robotic weaponry continue to have an impact on modern warfare.

Many anthropological accounts of warfare in indigenous societies have described the taking of heads or other body parts as trophies.

An all-in-one resource for understanding the issue of torture and enhanced interrogations, including their history as an instrument of state power and warfare, debates over the morality of their use in different contexts, and efforts by human rights organizations and nations to end torture and enhanced interrogation techniques worldwide.

The Protestant and Catholic Reformations thrust the nature of conversion into the center of debate and politicking over religion as authorities and subjects imbued religious confession with novel meanings during the early modern era.

The last decade has seen an unexpected return of the religious, and with it the creation of new kinds of social forms alongside new fusions of political and religious realms that high modernity kept distinct.

Examines voting trends and political representation in the United States today-with a special focus on debates over voting rights, voter fraud, and voter suppression-and election rules and regulations, including those related to gerrymandering, campaign fundraising, and other controversial subjects.

This multivolume encyclopedia surveys America's long and troubled history of political violence from the colonial era to the present, with a particular emphasis on factors driving political violence and intimidation in the United States in the 21st century.

This book provides a new interpretation of the life of W.

Humanity lives inside 4 unyielding constraints, the speed of light, conservation of mass-energy, inefficiency in conversion of heat to work, and the law of demand.

This cohesive set of case studies collects scholarly research, policy evaluation, and field experience to explain how terrorist groups have developed into criminal enterprises.

This illuminating work offers readers a comprehensive overview of ISIS, with more than 100 in-depth articles on a variety of topics related to the notorious terrorist group, and more than a dozen key primary source documents.

This book looks into four areas of our world's international security crisis: the growing threat of America's homegrown jihadists, the continuing rise of terrorism, the causes of gross violations of human rights, and the pervasiveness of civil war.

Provides an invaluable resource for scholars, students, and political observers who want a comprehensive picture of the past and present of the U.

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This book presents absorbing and critical expert perspectives on the post-truth phenomenon that has infiltrated the U.

Written for general readers and professionals alike, this succinct but comprehensive work examines the hybrid nature of the two violent extremist movements threatening the United States: Islamist extremism and white nationalism.

Through sections containing overview essays and reference entries related to particular religions, this resource explores the rise of religious violence, hate crime, and persecution around the world.

The German abandonment of nuclear power represents one of the most successful popular revolts against technocratic thinking in modern times the triumph of a dynamic social movement, encompassing a broad swath of West Germans as well as East German dissident circles, over political, economic, and scientific elites.

Putting Greece back on the cultural and political map of the Long 1960s, this book traces the dissent and activism of anti-regime students during the dictatorship of the Colonels (1967-74).

In the popular imagination, no issue has been more closely linked with the environmental group Greenpeace than whaling.

Tracing the boom of local NGOs since the 1990s in the context of the global political economy of aid, current trends of neoliberal state restructuring, and shifting post-Cold War hegemonies, this book explores the associational revolution in post-socialist, post-conflict Serbia.

After a landslide electoral victory in 2006, Evo Morales became the first indigenous President of Bolivia.

Notwithstanding its many successes since 1945, the project of European integration currently faces major difficulties, from financial crises and mass immigration to the departure of the UK from the European Union.

A powerful indictment of Pope Benedict and the Vatican, and a searing assessment of the future of the Catholic Church.

That Hitler s Gestapo harshly suppressed any signs of opposition inside the Third Reich is a common misconception.

For over half a century, the countless organizations and initiatives that comprise the Women s Liberation movement have helped to reshape many aspects of Western societies, from public institutions and cultural production to body politics and subsequent activist movements.

Following the convulsions of 1968, one element uniting many of the disparate social movements that arose across Europe was the pursuit of an elusive authenticity that could help activists to understand fundamental truths about themselves their feelings, aspirations, sexualities, and disappointments.

Los Angeles Times bestseller: A memoir by the M*A*S*H actor revealing his hardscrabble childhood, his life in Hollywood, and his passion for human rights.

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In much social scientific literature, Polish civil society has been portrayed as weak and passive.

The Mediterranean island of Cyprus is the site of enduring political, military, and economic conflict.

The smartphone and social media have transformed Africa, allowing people across the continent to share ideas, organise, and participate in politics like never before.

Across the West, the explosion of social movement activity since the late 1960s has constituted a participatory revolution that has posed profound challenges for formal political parties.

After over a decade of the austerity measures that followed the 2008 financial crisis entailing severe, unpopular policies that have galvanized opposition and frayed social ties what lies next for European societies?

Since the explosion of the indignados movement beginning in 2011, there has been a renewed interest in the concept of the public sphere in a Spanish context: how it relates to society and to political power, and how it has evolved over the centuries.

Bringing together over forty established and emerging scholars, this landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the evolution and current practice of social movement studies in a specifically European context.

Considered by many to be the greatest Irish song poet of her generation, Maire Bhui Ni Laeire (Yellow Mary O Leary; 1774 1848) was an illiterate woman unconnected to elite literary and philosophical circles who powerfully engaged the politics of her own society through song.

Informed by Eric Wolf s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin American countries during the last fifty years and suggests the continuing relevance of Wolf s approach.

Moshe Shokeid narrates his experiences as a member of AD KAN (NO MORE), a protest movement of Israeli academics at Tel Aviv University, who fought against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, founded during the first Palestinian Intifada (1987-1993).

Conflict, domination, violence in this wide-ranging, briskly narrated volume from acclaimed Mexican historian Carlos Illades, these three phenomena register the pulse of a diverse, but inequitable and discriminatory, social order.

Protest is a ubiquitous and richly varied social phenomenon, one that finds expression not only in modern social movements and political organizations but also in grassroots initiatives, individual action, and creative works.

With its rapid industrialization, modernization, and gradual democratization, Imperial Germany has typically been understood in secular terms.

While social scientists, beginning with Weber, envisioned a secularized world, religion today is forthrightly becoming a defining feature of life all around the globe.