Tag: Movements

Free Download Leverage of the Weak: Labor and Environmental Movements in Taiwan and South Korea By Hwa-Jen Liu
2015 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 0816689520 | PDF | 3 MB
Comparing Taiwan and South Korea strategically, Hwa-Jen Liu seeks an answer to a deceptively simple question: Why do social movements appear at different times in a nation’s development?Despite their apparent resemblance-a colonial heritage, authoritarian rule, rapid industrialization, and structural similarities-Taiwan and South Korea were opposites in their experiences with two key social movements. South Korea followed a conventional capitalist route: labor movements challenged the system long before environmental movements did. In Taiwan, pro-environment struggles gained strength before labor activism. Liu argues that part of the explanation lies in an analysis of how movements advance their causes by utilizing different types of power. Whereas labor movements have the power of economic leverage, environmental movements depend on the power of ideology. Therefore, examining material factors versus ideational factors is crucial to understanding the successes (or failures) of social movements.Leverage of the Weak is a significant contribution to the literature on social movements, to the study of East Asian political economies, and to the progress of the comparative-historical method. It enhances knowledge of movement emergence, investigates the possibilities and obstacles involved in forging labor-environment alliances, and offers the first systematic, multilayered comparisons across movements and nations in East Asia.

Free Download Mathijs van de Sande, "Prefigurative Democracy: Protest, Social Movements and the Political Institution of Society "
English | ISBN: 1474451853 | 2022 | 224 pages | PDF | 562 KB
In the wake of protest movements such as Occupy Wall Street and the Spanish 15-M movement, the past decade has seen an increased interest in prefigurative politics: the attempt of activists to already realise or embody their ideal of a future society within their own movements and practices. Engaging with the concept and its history, this book establishes a radical-democratic theory of prefiguration. Van de Sande builds on the work of political theorists as diverse as Hannah Arendt, Ernesto Laclau, Claude Lefort, Rosa Luxemburg, and Judith Butler to reveal the radical and representative role of protest and social movements today. He gives various accounts of how prefigurative practices and movements may continue to have political relevance long after they have ended.

Free Download Håvard Haarstad, Mark Amen, Asuncion Lera St Clair, "Social Movements, the Poor and the New Politics of the Americas"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0415826675 | EPUB | pages: 164 | 1.6 mb
Håvard Haarstad is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Geography, University of Bergen. He has worked extensively on the political economy of natural resource extraction, and the role of social movements, civil society and labor unions in politicizing extraction.

Free Download Andrew Gordon, Mikiso Hane, Mark Selden, "Portraits Of The Japanese Workplace: Labor Movements, Workers, And Managers (Social Change in Global Perspective"
English | 1996 | ISBN: 0813317088 | EPUB | pages: 360 | 1.6 mb
In this groundbreaking volume, one of Japan’s most insightful contemporary labor analysts assesses the ?light and shadow? of Japanese-style management, explaining why Japanese employees have stood apart from workers in other industrialized countries. Kumazawa brings to life the intense combination of competition and community within Japanese workplaces. He highlights dilemmas facing Japanese labor on the shop floor and in the labor movement. His discussion ranges from the role of women to issues of quality control and self-management. Highly critical of the hierarchical and undemocratic nature of Japanese industry, he offers a sympathetic view from the inside of the difficulties of surviving in the workplaces of contemporary Japan.

Free Download Tyler Feder, "Together We March: 25 Protest Movements That Marched into History"
English | 2021 | pages: 64 | ISBN: 1534442707 | EPUB | 5,9 mb
March through history and discover twenty-five groundbreaking protest movements that have shaped the way we fight for equality and justice today in this stunningly illustrated and sweeping book!

Free Download The Cultural Production of Social Movements
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031333128 | 261 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
The Cultural Production of Social Movements offers a theory of cultural practices, protest tactics, strategic planning and deliberation, and movement organizational structures: "ideological contention." It is a theory of ideology "from below." The Cultural Production of Social Movements shows how conflicts-both with external political forces and disagreements, dissensus, and the decision-making process internal to social movements-produce knowledge and meanings that, in turn, impact upon and change the practices that contribute to how social movements are structured and organized. The Cultural Production of Social Movements theorizes the relationship between consciously held superordinate ideas, the changing composition of progressive and oppositional social struggles, and the social worlds they hope to inhabit. Analyzing the Black Panther Party, specifically Kathleen Cleaver’s break with the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee and her contributions to the Party, Operaismo (or Workerism) in Italy and the relationship between shifting organizational strategies, inventive tactics, and novel and expansive ways to theorize class struggles, and the communal composition of "Worker-Recovered Enterprise Movements" in contemporary Argentina, this book shows how movement ideologies change and how meanings structure organizations, mobilizations, and futures. In The Cultural Production of Social Movements ideology is neither a static set of principles, nor is an unconscious orientation towards power and governance. Rather, it is the contentious, democratizing, and deliberative processes-which become realized as tactics in protests, struggles, defeats, and victories-that makes the relationship between movements, and what they "mean" conscious to its participants.

Free Download Jackie Smith, "Globalization, Social Movements, and Peacebuilding (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution"
English | 2013 | pages: 312 | ISBN: 0815633211 | PDF | 25,7 mb
Each year, governments spend billions of dollars on peacekeeping efforts around the world, and much more is spent on humanitarian aid to refugees and other victims of armed struggle. Yet research shows that nearly half of all countries experiencing civil war see renewed violent conflict within five years of a peace agreement. How do we account for such a poor track record? The authors in this volume consider how global capitalism affects fragile peace processes, arguing that the international economic system itself is a major contributor to violent conflict. By including the work of anthropologists, economists, religious studies experts, sociologists, and political scientists, this book presents a broad yet thorough exploration of the complexities of peacebuilding in a global market economy. Included in the volume are specific studies of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, as well as considerations of conflicts on the global scale.

Free Download Movements of the Mind
by Wu, Wayne;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0192866893 | 264 pages | True PDF EPUB | 8.81 MB