Tag: Activism

Free Download Visual Activism in the 21st Century: Art, Protest and Resistance in an Uncertain World edited by Stephanie Hartle, Darcy White
English | August 25, 2022 | ISBN: 1350265071, 135026511X | True EPUB | 336 pages | 15.7 MB
The world is in crisis, bringing activists and protesters onto the streets and into the public eye. More than ever, activism relies on spectacle and visibility in order to be noticed in the era of globalized capitalism and networked media. At the same time, a growing number of artists employ creative strategies to critique the establishment, act in resistance, and demand change. Visual activism of this kind is not new, but it is rapidly evolving.

Free Download Leo Zeilig, "Revolt and Protest: Student Politics and Activism in Sub-Saharan Africa"
English | 2007 | pages: 360 | ISBN: 1845114760, 1780760434 | PDF | 2,4 mb
The evolution of student activism in sub-Saharan Africa is crucial to understanding the process of democratic struggle and change in Africa. Focusing on the recent period of ‘democratic transitions’ in the 1990s, Leo Zeilig discusses the widespread involvement of student activism in democratic struggles across contemporary Africa and focuses on two case studies, Senegal and Zimbabwe. He provides an historical examination of the student-intelligentsia on the continent that played a crucial role in the independence struggles across much of Africa, leading and organising nationalist movements and outlines the development of grass-root activism. Zeilig demonstrates how students shape and are shaped by national processes of political change and popular protest and reveals both the continuities and transformations in student activism in an era of austerity, crisis and poverty.

Free Download Jim Wallis, "Mobilizing Hope: Faith-Inspired Activism for a Post-Civil Rights Generation"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0830838376 | EPUB | pages: 238 | 0.3 mb
Martin Luther King Jr. read the words of the apostle Paul to the church in Rome-"Be transformed by the renewing of your mind"-as a call not to retreat from the world but to lead the world into the kingdom of God, where peace and justice reign. In King’s day the presenting problem was entrenched racism; the movement of God was a revolution in civil rights and human dignity. Now Adam Taylor draws insights from that movement to the present, where the burden of the world is different but the need is the same. Jim Wallis writes in the foreword, Mobilizing Hope "is a story of how Adam and many of his cohorts are shaping the next strategies for faith-based social change; a theology for social justice; a spirituality for young activists; a handbook for those who want to experiment with activism and search out their own vocation in the world; and a strategy manual that draws lessons from past movements for change." See what today’s transformed nonconformists are doing at home and abroad to keep in step with the God of justice and love, and find ways you can join the new nonconformists in an activism of hope.

Free Download Gandhi’s Ascetic Activism: Renunciation and Social Action By 068712030!; Gandhi, ; Howard, Veena R.; Gandhi
2013 | 289 Pages | ISBN: 1438445571 | EPUB | 6 MB
Discusses Gandhi’s creative use of ascetic practice, particularly his practice of celibacy, for nonviolent activism.More than six decades after his death, Mohandas Gandhi continues to inspire those who seek political and social liberation through nonviolent means. Uniquely, Gandhi placed celibacy and other renunciatory disciplines at the center of his nonviolent political strategy, conducting original experiments with their possibilities to gain practical, moral, and even miraculous powers for social change. Gandhi’s abstinence in marriage, eccentric views on sexuality, and odd ways of including his female associates in his practices continue to cause ambivalence among scholars and students. Through a comprehensive study of Gandhi’s own words, select Indian religious texts and myths that he used, and the historical and cultural context of his activism, Veena R. Howard shows how Gandhi’s ascetic disciplines helped him mobilize millions. She explores Gandhi’s creative use of renunciation in challenging established paradigms of confrontational politics, passive asceticism, and oppressive social customs. Howard’s book sheds new light on the creative possibilities Gandhi discovered in combining personal renunciation, sacrifice, ritual, and myth for modern day social action."Based on a detailed and close reading of Gandhi’s works, and considerable familiarity with Indian traditions, this book offers an informative and interesting account of the inner connections between his asceticism and nonviolent politics." – Bhikhu Parekh, University of Westminster and the House of Lords"Well grounded in the contemporary scholarship on Gandhi, Veena Howard wisely takes her primary clues from Gandhi’s own claims about himself, read in accord with concepts central to Indian tradition. She brings out the substance and wisdom of his positions, without avoiding challenging questions about those ideals and practices." – Francis X. Clooney, SJ, author of Comparative Theology: Deep Learning Across Religious Borders

Free Download Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement, 2nd Edition by Charlotte Cooper
English | July 28, 2021 | ISBN: 1910849308 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 6.3 MB
In this new edition of her accessible autoethnography of fat feminist activism in the West, Charlotte Cooper revisits and discusses her activism in the context of recent shifts in the movement. The new preface explores the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on fat people and fat activism and how Black Lives Matter is inspiring new forms of activism. Cooper issues a call to action in Fat Studies and offers alternatives to current public health approaches to Diabetes.

Free Download César Sánchez-Avella, "Cultural Activism around Gender and Sexualities in Colombia and Mexico: De un Mundo Raro "
English | ISBN: 3031478541 | 2024 | 254 pages | EPUB, PDF | 33 MB + 6 MB
This book focuses on an underestimated alternative to the mainstream liberal rights-based approach: cultural activism. This political strategy deploys art and other creative techniques to support the quest for social justice. This work explores this approach’s dynamics, strategies, and potential, presenting a qualitative case study of three cultural activists in Colombia and Mexico -Lia García, Felipe Osornio, and Manuel Parra-, including in-depth interviews and ethnographic observation of their artistic/activist work.

Free Download Brutality in an Age of Human Rights: Activism and Counterinsurgency at the End of the British Empire by Brian Drohan
English | January 15, 2018 | ISBN: 1501714651 | 256 pages | EPUB | 0.73 Mb
In Brutality in an Age of Human Rights, Brian Drohan demonstrates that British officials’ choices concerning counterinsurgency methods have long been deeply influenced or even redirected by the work of human rights activists. To reveal how that influence was manifested by military policies and practices, Drohan examines three British counterinsurgency campaigns―Cyprus (1955-1959), Aden (1963-1967), and the peak of the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland (1969-1976). This book is enriched by Drohan’s use of a newly available collection of 1.2 million colonial-era files, International Committee of the Red Cross files, the extensive Troubles collection at Linen Hall Library in Belfast, and many other sources.

Free Download Activism in Hard Times in Central and Eastern Europe: People Power
by Patrice C. McMahon, Paula M. Pickering
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032717599 | 197 Pages | PDF/ePUB (True) | 15.4/4.17 MB

Free Download [School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education (Audiobook)/b]
English | ASIN: B0C479744S | 2024 | 8 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 246 MB
Author: Laura Pappano
Narrator: Tracy Parsons
An on-the-ground look at the rise of parent activism in response to the far-right attacks on public school education. For well over a century, public schools have been a non-partisan gathering place and vital center of civic life in America-but something has changed. In School Moms, journalist Laura Pappano explores the on-the-ground story of how public schools across the country have become ground zero in a cultural and political war as the far-right have made efforts to seek power over school boards. Pappano argues that the rise of parent activism is actually the culmination of efforts that began in the 1990s after campaigns to stop sex education largely fizzled.

Free Download Patricia García, "Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism "
English | ISBN: 3031427971 | 2024 | 344 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 8 MB
Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism explores the entwinement of mobility and immobility in urban spaces by focusing on their representation in literary narratives but also in visual and performing arts. Across a range of geographical contexts, this volume builds on the new mobilities paradigm developed by literary scholars, sociologists and human geographers. The different chapters employ a cohesive framework that is sensitive to the intersecting dimensions of power and discrimination that shape urban kinetic features. The contributions are divided into three sections, each of which places the focus on a different aspect of urban mobility: Itinerant Subjects, Modes of Transport and Places of Transit, and Urban Liminalities.