Search Results - "collective action"

The state of play law, games, and virtual worlds /

Table of Contents: “…Johnson -- Democracy-- the video game : virtual worlds and the future of collective action / Beth Simone Noveck.…”
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Movers and shakers social movements in Africa /

Table of Contents: “…/ Stephen Ellis & Ineke van Kessel -- Social movement theory : past, presence & prospects / Jacquelien van Stekelenburg & Bert Klandermans -- Speaking to global debates through a national and continental lens : South African and African social movements in comparative perspective / Adam Habib & Paul Opoku-Mensah -- African civil society, 'blood diamonds' and the Kimberley process / Lansana Gberie -- The Islamic courts union : the ebb and flow of a Somali Islamist movement / Jon Abbink -- Liberia's women acting for peace : collective action in a war-affected country / Veronika Fuest -- Nurtured from the pulpit : the emergence and growth of Malawi's democracy movement / Boniface Dulani -- Bare-foot activists : transformations in the haratine movement in Mauritania / Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem -- An Islamic social movement in contemporary West Africa : NASFAT of Nigeria / Benjamin Soares -- The United Democratic Front's legacy in South Africa : mission accomplished or vision betrayed? …”
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Movers and shakers social movements in Africa /

Table of Contents: “…/ Stephen Ellis & Ineke van Kessel -- Social movement theory : past, presence & prospects / Jacquelien van Stekelenburg & Bert Klandermans -- Speaking to global debates through a national and continental lens : South African and African social movements in comparative perspective / Adam Habib & Paul Opoku-Mensah -- African civil society, 'blood diamonds' and the Kimberley process / Lansana Gberie -- The Islamic courts union : the ebb and flow of a Somali Islamist movement / Jon Abbink -- Liberia's women acting for peace : collective action in a war-affected country / Veronika Fuest -- Nurtured from the pulpit : the emergence and growth of Malawi's democracy movement / Boniface Dulani -- Bare-foot activists : transformations in the haratine movement in Mauritania / Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem -- An Islamic social movement in contemporary West Africa : NASFAT of Nigeria / Benjamin Soares -- The United Democratic Front's legacy in South Africa : mission accomplished or vision betrayed? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The state of play law, games, and virtual worlds /

Table of Contents: “…Johnson -- Democracy-- the video game : virtual worlds and the future of collective action / Beth Simone Noveck.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Rural gender relations issues and case studies /

Table of Contents: “…Bock and P. Derkzen -- Collective action among rural women in India / Jo-Anne Everingham -- CAP regulations and farm household relations / Constantina Safilios-Rothschildt -- Rurality and gender identity : an overview / Bettina B. …”
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Sixties radicalism and social movement activism retreat or resurgence? /

Table of Contents: “…/ Riaz Ahmed Shaikh -- Nineteen sixties radicalism in the United States : its rise, decline and legacy / Mike O'Donnell -- Students, artists and the ICA : the revolution within / Ben Cranfield -- The situationist legacy : revolution as celebration / Eloise Harding -- Habermas on sixties student protests : reflections on collective action and communicative potential / James Driver -- Sixties movements, educational expansion and cognitive mobilisation : postmaterialist values and unconventional political participation in West Germany / Andreas Hadjar and Florian Schlapbach -- Carrying the flame forward : activist legacies of 1968 in life story reflections / Barbara Körner and Rosemary McKechnie -- When the personal become political : a reappraisal of the women's liberation movement's radical idea / Maureen Freely -- Resurgence? …”
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Sixties radicalism and social movement activism retreat or resurgence? /

Table of Contents: “…/ Riaz Ahmed Shaikh -- Nineteen sixties radicalism in the United States : its rise, decline and legacy / Mike O'Donnell -- Students, artists and the ICA : the revolution within / Ben Cranfield -- The situationist legacy : revolution as celebration / Eloise Harding -- Habermas on sixties student protests : reflections on collective action and communicative potential / James Driver -- Sixties movements, educational expansion and cognitive mobilisation : postmaterialist values and unconventional political participation in West Germany / Andreas Hadjar and Florian Schlapbach -- Carrying the flame forward : activist legacies of 1968 in life story reflections / Barbara Körner and Rosemary McKechnie -- When the personal become political : a reappraisal of the women's liberation movement's radical idea / Maureen Freely -- Resurgence? …”
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Queer Festivals : Challenging Collective Identities in a Transnational Europe / by Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos

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Rural gender relations issues and case studies /

Table of Contents: “…Bock and P. Derkzen -- Collective action among rural women in India / Jo-Anne Everingham -- CAP regulations and farm household relations / Constantina Safilios-Rothschildt -- Rurality and gender identity : an overview / Bettina B. …”
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Queer Festivals : Challenging Collective Identities in a Transnational Europe / by Eleftheriadis, Konstantinos

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Social Movements and Solidarity Structures in Crisis-Ridden Greece / by Malamidēs, Charēs

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Social Movements and Solidarity Structures in Crisis-Ridden Greece / by Malamidēs, Charēs

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Forging urban solidarities Ottoman Aleppo, 1640-1700 / by Wilkins, Charles L.

Table of Contents: “…Extraordinary taxes ('avariz) and local administration -- The 'avariz tax regime and the conduct of tax surveys -- The mechanics of local tax administration : land use, personal liability, and apportionment -- The responsibilities and compensation of quarter tax officials -- A fiscal demography of Aleppo -- Urban responses to the Imposition of extraordinary taxes -- The frequency and level of extraordinary tax levies -- Popular strategies for tax relief : tax exemption -- Other individual strategies for tax relief -- Collective action and mutual assistance -- Residential quarters and the question of "positive loyalties" -- pt. 2. …”
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Forging urban solidarities Ottoman Aleppo, 1640-1700 / by Wilkins, Charles L.

Table of Contents: “…Extraordinary taxes ('avariz) and local administration -- The 'avariz tax regime and the conduct of tax surveys -- The mechanics of local tax administration : land use, personal liability, and apportionment -- The responsibilities and compensation of quarter tax officials -- A fiscal demography of Aleppo -- Urban responses to the Imposition of extraordinary taxes -- The frequency and level of extraordinary tax levies -- Popular strategies for tax relief : tax exemption -- Other individual strategies for tax relief -- Collective action and mutual assistance -- Residential quarters and the question of "positive loyalties" -- pt. 2. …”
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Microfoundations of the Arab Uprisings : Mapping Interactions between Regimes and Protesters /

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Microfoundations of the Arab Uprisings : Mapping Interactions between Regimes and Protesters /

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Fire and Snow : Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones / by Di Paolo, Marc

Table of Contents: “…Francis, and the Ecofeminist Storytelling Model -- MaddAddam and The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood and Dystopian Science Fiction as Current Events -- Ur-Fascism and Populist Rebellions in Snowpiercer and Mad Max: Fury Road -- Tolkien's Kind of Catholic: Suzanne Collins, Empathy, and The Hunger Games -- The Cowboy and Indian Alliance: Collective Action Against Climate Change in A Song of Ice and Fire and Star Trek -- What Next? …”
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Fire and Snow : Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones / by Di Paolo, Marc

Table of Contents: “…Francis, and the Ecofeminist Storytelling Model -- MaddAddam and The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood and Dystopian Science Fiction as Current Events -- Ur-Fascism and Populist Rebellions in Snowpiercer and Mad Max: Fury Road -- Tolkien's Kind of Catholic: Suzanne Collins, Empathy, and The Hunger Games -- The Cowboy and Indian Alliance: Collective Action Against Climate Change in A Song of Ice and Fire and Star Trek -- What Next? …”
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Strategic uses of social technology an interactive perspective of social psychology /

Table of Contents: “…Opinion-based groups: (racist) talk and (collective) action on the Internet Craig McGarty, Girish Lala and Karen Douglas; 9. …”
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