Civics and citizenship

"e;Beautiful Rising offers insights and lessons for creative resistance from across the Global South, making it a crucial resource for change-makers.

A half-century into the conflict between Israel and Palestine, Israel's Occupation at Fifty brings together eminent political leaders, scholars, and activists for a wide-ranging, at times contentious, and remarkably fruitful discussion of the region's fate.

Street protests are one side of a worldwide citizens' movement.

Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the widespread use of strong cryptography (writing in code) as a route to progressive change.

The revelatory memoir of Lezley McSpaddenthe mother of Michael Brown, the African-American teenager killed by the police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014sheds light on one of the landmark events in recent history.

The year 1999 was a watershed in the history of Nigeria as it witnessed the peaceful transfer of power from the military to the political class.

Das Verhältnis von Religionen zur Moderne erscheint heute zumeist prekär.

Femicide and Global Accumulation brings us to the frontlines of an international movement of Black, Indigenous, popular, and mestiza women's organizations fighting against violenceinterpersonal, state sanctioned, and economicthat is both endemic to the global economy and the contemporary devalued status of racialized women, trans, and gender non-conforming communties in the Global South.

Winner of 2020 International Latino Book Awards in the category "e; Best Political/Current Affairs Book - English"e;2019 Finalist for INDIES Book of the YearThis book is an insider's history and memoir of the battle for The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986: its evolution, passage, impact, and its legacies for the future of immigration reform.

This set of timeless essays from the quintessential American shares his valuable philosophies on nature, solitude, slavery, religion, politics, fulfilling work, civil responsibilities, and more.

In the early months of 1965, the killings of two civil rights activists inspired the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, which became the driving force behind the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

Few African countries provide for an explicit right to a nationality.

The nation has unfinished business.

The post-2000 period in Zimbabwe saw the launch of a fast track land reform programme, resulting in a flurry of accounts from white Zimbabweans about how they saw the land, the land invasions, and their own sense of belonging and identity.

The post-2000 period in Zimbabwe saw the launch of a fast track land reform programme, resulting in a flurry of accounts from white Zimbabweans about how they saw the land, the land invasions, and their own sense of belonging and identity.

It's easy to blame the difficulties theatre now faces on the longest shutdown of stages since the mid-seventeenth century.

Has the battle for women's rights been won?

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Veteran political columnist Georgie Anne Geyer explores, through exhaustive research and interviews, the controversy over illegal immigration and bilingualism.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.

Palestinians in Israel considers a key issue ignored by the official 'peace process' and most mainstream commentators: that of the growing Palestinian minority within Israel itself.

A Lambda Literary Award finalist, Captive Genders is a powerful tool against the prison industrial complex and for queer liberation.

Let's begin with the basics: violence is an inherent part of policing.

In 1891, when coal companies in eastern Tennessee brought in cheap convict labor to take over their jobs, workers responded by storming the stockades, freeing the prisoners, and loading them onto freight trains.

"e;Together, the writers sound a sobering warning: the American government is an iron fist in a velvet glove whose purpose remains preserving the status quo and enriching the rich.

Read the media coverage of the increasingly heated debate around immigration reform in the United States: two dominant narratives emerge.

A wonderful collection of questions and reflections on the state of the movement today, where we came from, and where we might be going.

Women in Israel provides a fresh, gendered analysis of citizenship in Israel.

Women in Israel provides a fresh, gendered analysis of citizenship in Israel.

Mobilizing for Democracy is an in-depth study into how ordinary citizens and their organizations mobilize to deepen democracy.

Globalization has given rise to new meanings of citizenship.

Hundreds of thousands of people living in Africa find themselves non-persons in the only state they have ever known.

This book introduces the concept of 'act of citizenship' and in doing so, re-orients the study of what it means to be a citizen.

Globalization has given rise to new meanings of citizenship.

Mobilizing for Democracy is an in-depth study into how ordinary citizens and their organizations mobilize to deepen democracy.

Hundreds of thousands of people living in Africa find themselves non-persons in the only state they have ever known.

This book introduces the concept of 'act of citizenship' and in doing so, re-orients the study of what it means to be a citizen.

This book assesses the formation of Croatian national identity in the 1990s.

Widely-known as the world's most persecuted minority group, the Rohingya in Myanmar are now facing extinction.

Citizenship, both the subject and the practice, should be a bridge between the vocational aims of education and education for its own sake.

As the European Union faces the ongoing challenges of legitimacy, identity, and social cohesion, an understanding of the social purpose and direction of EU citizenship becomes increasingly vital.

This work represents the definitive account of the Jewish community in central Africa.

The emergence of cloud computing, internet of things, mobile technologies, and social networking have created better-connected members of the public who are digitally linked with each other in real time.

Turbulent times challenge democratic politics and governance in Western countries.

In recent years, the engagement of stakeholders has become imperative for the overall success of an organization.

Though governments play an important role in everyday life, citizen commitment to understanding government policy and procedures is lacking.

This book chronicles the 1968 sanitation strike in Memphis that led to the assassination of Dr.

In March 1987 a radical coalition of queer activists converged on Wall Street .