Search Results - "social movement"

Making modern Muslims the politics of Islamic education in Southeast Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Hefner -- Islamic schools, social movements, and democracy in Indonesia / Robert W. …”
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Toxic exposures contested illnesses and the environmental health movement / by Brown, Phil

Table of Contents: “…Citizen-science alliances and health social movements: contested illnesses and challenges to the dominant epidemiological paradigm -- Breast cancer: a powerful movement and a struggle for science -- Asthma, environmental factors, and environmental justice -- Gulf War-related illnesses and the hunt for causation: the "stress of war" vs. the "dirty battlefield" -- Similarities and differences among asthma, breast cancer, and Gulf War illnesses -- The new precautionary approach: a public paradigm in progress -- Implications of the contested illnesses perspective -- Conclusion: the growing environmental health movement.…”
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Global social change historical and comparative perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Jorgenson -- Globalization, hegemony, and global governance -- Spatial and other "fixes" of historical capitalism / Giovanni Arrighi -- Contemporary intracore relations and world systems theory / Peter Gowan -- Global social movements -- Gender and globalization : female labor and women's mobilization / Valentine M. …”
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Global social change historical and comparative perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Jorgenson -- Globalization, hegemony, and global governance -- Spatial and other "fixes" of historical capitalism / Giovanni Arrighi -- Contemporary intracore relations and world systems theory / Peter Gowan -- Global social movements -- Gender and globalization : female labor and women's mobilization / Valentine M. …”
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Captives and voyagers black migrants across the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world / by Byrd, Alexander X., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…The slave trade from the Biafran interior : violence, serial displacement, and the rudiments of Igbo society -- The slave ship and the beginnings of Igbo society in the African diaspora -- White power and the context of slave seasoning in eighteenth-century Jamaica -- Routines of disaster and revolution -- Social movement and imagining freedom in the British capital -- Migration and the impossible demands of leaving London -- From slaves to free subjects in British North America -- Black society and the limits of British freedom -- The effects of exodus : Afro-maritime society in motion -- Arriving in Sierra Leone : catastrophe and its aftermaths -- Conclusion: Migration and black society in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world.…”
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Captives and voyagers black migrants across the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world / by Byrd, Alexander X., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…The slave trade from the Biafran interior : violence, serial displacement, and the rudiments of Igbo society -- The slave ship and the beginnings of Igbo society in the African diaspora -- White power and the context of slave seasoning in eighteenth-century Jamaica -- Routines of disaster and revolution -- Social movement and imagining freedom in the British capital -- Migration and the impossible demands of leaving London -- From slaves to free subjects in British North America -- Black society and the limits of British freedom -- The effects of exodus : Afro-maritime society in motion -- Arriving in Sierra Leone : catastrophe and its aftermaths -- Conclusion: Migration and black society in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world.…”
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The yearning for relief a history of the Sawaba movement in Niger / by Walraven, Klaas van, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Fighting for deliverance -- Infiltrations, 1960-1964 -- Regime responses, 1962-1964 -- Guerrilla war, July-December 1964 -- Guerrilla war, 1965-1966 -- The road of honour: the destruction of a social movement, 1965-1974 -- Epilogue: Aftermath and memory.…”
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Culture, development and social theory : towards an integrated social development / by Clammer, J. R.

Table of Contents: “…Narratives of suffering: human existence and medical models in development ; Towards a sociology of trauma: remembering, forgetting and the negotiation of memories of social violence ; The aesthetics of development ; Emotions of culture, social movements and social transformation.…”
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The yearning for relief a history of the Sawaba movement in Niger / by Walraven, Klaas van, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Fighting for deliverance -- Infiltrations, 1960-1964 -- Regime responses, 1962-1964 -- Guerrilla war, July-December 1964 -- Guerrilla war, 1965-1966 -- The road of honour: the destruction of a social movement, 1965-1974 -- Epilogue: Aftermath and memory.…”
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Culture, development and social theory : towards an integrated social development / by Clammer, J. R.

Table of Contents: “…Narratives of suffering: human existence and medical models in development ; Towards a sociology of trauma: remembering, forgetting and the negotiation of memories of social violence ; The aesthetics of development ; Emotions of culture, social movements and social transformation.…”
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We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moverán / by Spener, David, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Southwest : "We shall not be moved" becomes "No nos moverâan" -- Across the Atlantic to Spain -- Social movement : a song's journey across time and space -- Translation and transcendence in the travels of a song -- Conclusion : an internationalist culture of the singing left in the twentieth century.…”
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We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moverán / by Spener, David, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Southwest : "We shall not be moved" becomes "No nos moverâan" -- Across the Atlantic to Spain -- Social movement : a song's journey across time and space -- Translation and transcendence in the travels of a song -- Conclusion : an internationalist culture of the singing left in the twentieth century.…”
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Neoliberalism's fractured showcase another Chile is possible /

Table of Contents: “…/ Manuel Riesco -- The world economic crisis, Chile and the free trade agreements / Orlando Caputo and Graciela Galarce -- Chilean social movements in confrontation with neoliberalism / Mario Garces.…”
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Neoliberalism's fractured showcase another Chile is possible /

Table of Contents: “…/ Manuel Riesco -- The world economic crisis, Chile and the free trade agreements / Orlando Caputo and Graciela Galarce -- Chilean social movements in confrontation with neoliberalism / Mario Garces.…”
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Bloody Lowndes civil rights and Black power in Alabama's Black Belt / by Jeffries, Hasan Kwame, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Conditions unfavorable to the rise of the Negro : the pursuit of freedom rights before the civil rights era -- I didn't come here to knock : the making of a grassroots social movement -- We ain't going to shed a tear for Jon : school desegregation, White resistance, and the African American response -- I'm going to try to take some of the freedom here back home : the federal government and the fight for freedom rights -- We gonna show Alabama just how bad we are : the birth of the original Black Panther Party and the development of freedom politics -- Tax the rich to feed the poor : Black power and the election of 1966 -- Now is the time for work to begin : Black politics in the post-civil rights era -- Epilogue: That black dirt gets in your soul : the fight for freedom rights in the days ahead.…”
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Bloody Lowndes civil rights and Black power in Alabama's Black Belt / by Jeffries, Hasan Kwame, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Conditions unfavorable to the rise of the Negro : the pursuit of freedom rights before the civil rights era -- I didn't come here to knock : the making of a grassroots social movement -- We ain't going to shed a tear for Jon : school desegregation, White resistance, and the African American response -- I'm going to try to take some of the freedom here back home : the federal government and the fight for freedom rights -- We gonna show Alabama just how bad we are : the birth of the original Black Panther Party and the development of freedom politics -- Tax the rich to feed the poor : Black power and the election of 1966 -- Now is the time for work to begin : Black politics in the post-civil rights era -- Epilogue: That black dirt gets in your soul : the fight for freedom rights in the days ahead.…”
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Activists, alliances, and anti-U.S. base protests by Yeo, Andrew, 1978-

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Activists, alliances, and anti-U.S. base protests by Yeo, Andrew, 1978-

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Hegemony in the digital age the Arab/Israeli conflict online / by Marmura, Stephen M. E., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction : identity and authority in the age of networks -- Aims and scope -- Key terms and concepts -- Political mobilization -- The Web as a mass medium -- War on the Web -- Ideology and civil society -- Net-based activism and American Mid-East policy -- Grassroots mobilization and political opportunity -- Activism and the Net : relevant precedents -- Contemporary peace camp activism -- Net-based activism and American Mid-East policy -- Public opinion -- Backdrop : the mainstream media as a legitimating identity -- The Web as an alternative mass medium -- The voice of legitimacy : CNN.com and the Arab/Israeli conflict -- Introduction -- CNN.com's "land of conflict" -- Dominant themes and validity claims -- Anchoring authority in a de-centered medium -- Closing remarks -- Hate and holy war on the WWW -- Confronting the other -- Stormfront.org : promoting the cause of "White nationalism" -- Kahane.org : fighting to eliminate Israel's "Arab cancer" -- Radioislam.org : defending Islam and the West from the "Jewish threat" -- Closing remarks -- Hate and holy war on the WWW -- The struggle for influence -- Social movement integration and growth -- Building alliances : virtual and real -- Discussion -- Hegemony reconsidered : the Internet, civil society, and social fragmentation.…”
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Crisis, politics and critical sociology

Table of Contents: “…Racism, color blindness, Obama, and the urgent need for social movement politics / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Victor Ray -- President Obama and political culture in the United States / Marco A. …”
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