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Free Download The struggle for the world : liberation movements for the 21st century By Lindholm, Charles; Zúquete, José Pedro
2010 | 267 Pages | ISBN: 0804759375 | PDF | 4 MB
What do Mexico’s Zapatistas, the French National Front, Slow Food, rave subculture, and al-Qaeda all have in common? From right-wing to left-wing to no-wing, they all proudly proclaim their mission to defend their distinctive identities against modernity’s homogenizing processes. This controversial book establishes fundamental similarities between anti-globalization "aurora" movements that aim to destroy the modern world and bring a radiant new dawn to humankind.While these groups often despise one another, they nonetheless share many fundamental characteristics, goals, and attitudes. Drawing on the original writings and actions of various anti-globalist groups, the authors reveal a common tendency toward charismatic leadership, good versus evil worldviews, the quest for authentic identity, concern with ritual, and unbending demands for total commitment. These movements, however they pursue world transformation and personal transcendence, are a prominent and continuing aspect of our present condition. This book is a strong reminder that, no matter what the cause, revolution is not a thing of the past and the fervent search for another world continues.

Free Download Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, "Social Movements, Media and Civil Society in Contemporary India: Historical Trajectories of Public Protest and Political"
English | ISBN: 303094039X | 2022 | 216 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book examines instances of transformative dissent, turning points or shifts in popular mobilisation patterns in contemporary India, while adopting a historical approach and analysing past events. Exploring the different continuities and discontinuities in mobilising patterns and dissident agency in India, the authors present a heterogeneous insurrectional pattern that pivoted around issues of caste, class, religion, land reform, labour, taxation and territorial control, with anti-colonialism movements becoming prominent in the first half of the twentieth century. The authors move beyond this to explore more recent templates of mobilisation which surfaced towards the end of the twentieth century, during India’s liberalisation period. With growing marketisation and technological advancement, unprecedented changes in social relations, growing economic opportunities and cultural transfusion taking place, the country became a ‘New India’ – one which aspired to be a global player in the wider technological public sphere. Tracing the historical trajectories of social movements in India, this book examines recent trends in digitised dissidence and explores new frontiers of protests, providing fresh insights for those researching the history of social movements, South Asian and Indian history and postcolonial studies.

Free Download Haris Malamidis, "Social Movements and Solidarity Structures in Crisis-Ridden Greece "
English | ISBN: 9463722432 | 2020 | 362 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Social Movements and Solidarity Structures in Crisis-Ridden Greece explores the rich grassroots experience of social movements in Greece between 2008 and 2016. The harsh conditions of austerity triggered the rise of vibrant mobilizations that went hand-in-hand with the emergence of numerous solidarity structures, providing unofficial welfare services to the suffering population. Based on qualitative field research conducted in more than 50 social movement organizations in Greece’s two major cities, the book offers an in-depth analysis of the contentious mechanisms that led to the development of such solidarity initiatives. By analyzing the organizational structure, resources and identity of markets without middlemen, social and collective kitchens, organizations distributing food parcels, social clinics and self-managed cooperatives, this study explains the enlargement of boundaries of collective action in times of crisis.

Free Download Barry Rubin, "Revolutionaries and Reformers: Contemporary Islamist Movements in the Middle East"
English | 2003 | pages: 244 | ISBN: 079145617X, 0791456188 | PDF | 0,9 mb
Islamist movements seeking power today are faced with difficult choices regarding strategy, ranging from armed struggle to electoral efforts. An emerging alternative consists of a rethinking of Islamist politics, where the goal of a "totally Islamic" polity would be abandoned in favor of some form of Islamic-oriented society. In this reformulation, Islamist politics would function as a pressure group to make society more Islamic, reinforcing the walls of semi-separate internal communities and reinterpreting Islam in more liberal ways. The September 11, 2001 terror attack on the United States, however, demonstrates that the radical approach remains attractive to many Islamists. Addressing these issues, the contributors look at the countries where Islamist movements have been most important. Case studies of revolutionary and reformist groups are followed by chapters discussing future alternatives for Islamist politics, presenting arguments both advocating and critical of a potential liberal, reformist, interest-group Islamism.

Free Download Ram A. Cnaan, Carl Milofsky, "Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations"
English | 2006 | pages: 445 | ISBN: 0387329323, 0387757295 | PDF | 6,8 mb
Creating a Frame for Understanding Local Organizations RAM CNAAN, CARL MILOFSKY, AND ALBERT HUNTER In this book, scholars from anumber of disciplines present work focused on communities, with particular attention to community organizations. A few scholars have emphasized the imp- tance of the need to map this intellectual territory (Calhoun, 1992). In some ways community study seems to be well trodden ground; there has been influential work on social capital, for example (Coleman, 1987,1988; Putnam, 1995; Foley and Edwards, 1997; Edwards and Foley, 1998). Yet the rich diversity of communities and community organizations has rarely been studied from a perspective that is both conceptual and descriptive. The growing sense that – studied local organizations constitute a massive yet little understood portion of the nonprofit cosmos has led Smith (1997a,b) to call them the "darkmatter of the nonprofit universe. " An – terdisciplinary attempt to make community a unit ofstudy has not been previously undertaken, and thus we feel that this Handbook makes a unique contribution to scholarly understanding ofboth communities and nonprofit organizations that operate at the community level. A community is a group of people connected by the physical or virtual location (to some extent we can speak of "places" on the World Wide Web, e. g. ) in which they dwell or congregate, organizations they form, and cultural values and symbols they share. Communities are affected, and in a sense defined by, forces that affect community members and their space.

Free Download Barry M Rubin, "Guide to Islamist Movements (2 Volume Set)"
English | 2010 | pages: 734 | ISBN: 0765617471 | PDF | 23,5 mb

Free Download Casper Bruun Jensen, "Monitoring Movements in Development Aid: Recursive Partnerships and Infrastructures"
English | ISBN: 0262019655 | 2013 | 192 pages | EPUB | 741 KB
An examination of emerging information infrastructures that are intended to increase accountability and effectiveness in partnerships for development aid.

Free Download Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements: From Void to Hope (Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right) by Joan Braune
English | December 22nd, 2023 | ISBN: 0367696983 | 156 pages | True EPUB | 1.47 MB
This book is based on the premise that understanding fascism is crucial for defeating it.

Free Download Lateral Movements
Anja Beran | Duration: 4:49 h | Video: H264 1280×720 | Audio: AAC 48 kHz 2ch | 10 GB | Language: English
Welcome to our first online course “Lateral Movements” with Anja Beran in English Language
5 Chapters incl. Q&A Session
All videos (theory, riding and in hand videos duration at least 5 hours), audio files, the presentations in pdf-format, the script as well as any bonus materials will also be available. This makes it possible for you to download all the materials and study the individual chapters in your own time, even without an internet connection. Further everything is also available for another 6 months on the online platform. All materials are in English language. The course is not tied to specific dates and times, you can view individual sections depending on the timing.

Free Download Pascal Bianchini, "Revolutionary Movements in Africa: An Untold Story "
English | ISBN: 074534786X | 2023 | 344 pages | EPUB | 1224 KB
‘A remarkable volume on the vicissitudes of the revolutionary left in post-independence Africa’ Issa Shivji, Professor Emeritus at the University of Dar es Salaam