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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 Museums, Archives and Protest Memory
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031444779 | 171 Pages | PDF (True) | 4 MB
This book addresses the emergence of ‘protest memory’ as a powerful contemporary shaper of ideas and practices in culture, media and heritage domains. Directly focused on the role of museum and archive practitioners in protest memory curation, it makes a compelling contribution to our understanding of how social movements and activist experiences are publicly remembered and activated for social and environmental justice.

Free Download From Protest to Parties: Party-Building and Democratization in Africa By Adrienne LeBas
2011 | 270 Pages | ISBN: 019954686X | PDF | 2 MB
Why do strong opposition party organizations emerge in some democratizing countries, while those in others remain weak or quickly fragment on ethnic lines? From Protest to Parties provides an explanation for differences in opposition party strength in democratizing regimes in Africa that remain far from democratic. The book argues that strong parties benefit from pre-existing mobilizing structures that transcend ethnic and other cleavages. These mobilizing structures are a legacy of authoritarian rule. Where authoritarian states relied on alliances with corporate actors, notably organized labor, they unintentionally armed their allies, providing them with structures and resources that could later be used to effectively challenge the state. Secondly, opposition parties are more likely to maintain their organizational cohesion and the commitment of activists when they use strategies and appeals that escalate conflict and reorient social boundaries around the lines of partisan affiliation. Polarization forges stronger parties, but it also increases the likelihood of violence and authoritarian retrenchment.From Protest to Parties draws upon an in-depth analysis of three countries in Anglophone Africa: Zimbabwe, Zambia and Kenya. Though these countries share similar institutional frameworks, including electoral rules, opposition party development takes a different route in each. In addition to providing a unique window into the politics of mobilization and protest in closed political regimes, the book sheds light on how the choices of political elites affect organizational development.

Free Download Civil disobedience : protest, justification and the law By Milligan, Tony
2013 | 179 Pages | ISBN: 1441119442 | EPUB | 1 MB
"Civil disobedience is a form of protest with a special standing with regards to the law that sets it apart from political violence. Such principled law-breaking has been witnessed in recent years over climate change, economic strife, and the treatment of animals. Civil disobedience is examined here in the context of contemporary political activism, in the light of classic accounts by Thoreau, Tolstoy, and Gandhi to call for a broader attitude towards what civil disobedience involves. The question of violence is discussed, arguing that civil disobedience need only be aspirationally non-violent and that although some protests do not clearly constitute law-breaking they may render people liable to arrest. For example, while there may not be violence against persons, there may be property damage, as seen in raids upon animal laboratories. Such forms of militancy raise ethical and legal questions. Arguing for a less restrictive theory of civil disobedience, the book will be a valuable resource for anyone studying social movements and issues of political philosophy, social justice, and global ethics."–✅Publisher‘s website.

Free Download Timothy Patrick McCarthy, "Protest Nation: Words That Inspired A Century of American Radicalism"
English | 2010 | pages: 239 | ISBN: 1595585044 | PDF | 3,5 mb
Historic writings by socialists, LGBT activists, environmentalists, and more: "An extraordinary collection of the voices of American dissidents." ―Howard Zinn

Free Download Media and Feminist Protest in Iran: My Camera Is My Weapon
English | 2024 | ISBN: 303144860X | 255 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 30 MB
This book provides an analysis of social media and women’s resistance in Iran with relevance to similar polities. The author examines how Iranian women continue to fight against the regime’s gender discriminatory laws and protest the government in public squares and in virtual spaces. The book presents a critical approach to technology’s role in politics and society and an in-depth analysis of authoritarianism and its relationship to social media harms and state violence. With a particular focus on images, hashtags, and other digital content, it calls for a rethinking of the concepts of crime, culture, and control in the technosocial world. The author draws on conceptual contributions from the fields of criminology, philosophy, psychology, technology and media studies.

Free Download Miguel de Baca, "Conflict, Identity, and Protest in American Art"
English | ISBN: 1443883751 | 2015 | 240 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Conflict, Identity, and Protest in American Art explores the powerful relationship between artistic production and cultures of conflict in the United States. Such a theme continues to provoke practitioners and scholars across a range of media and disciplines, especially as definitions of war and protest evolve and change in the twenty-first century. This anthology presents vital discussions of visual works in relationship to national identity, the politics and contexts of artistic production and reception, and the expressive and political function of art within historical periods defined by wars, rebellions, and revolutions. It sheds new light on the shifting nature of identity, and specifically how conflict armed conflict as well as rhetorical conflict inspires new identities to emerge. Conflict, Identity, and Protest in American Art will appeal to historians of American art and architecture, American studies, cultural studies, and material culture. Its vibrant discussions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality represent the urgency of these topics in modern and contemporary art history. This book is suitable for academics at all levels, from undergraduates through to graduate students and faculty researchers, as well as artists and non-specialised readers.

Free Download Protest und Engagement: Wohin steuert unsere Protestkultur? By Sabine Ursula Nover (auth.)
2009 | 302 Pages | ISBN: 3531163132 | PDF | 2 MB
Um Aussagen über Veränderungen des gesellschaftlichen Klimas treffen zu können, wird hier am Beispiel einer Bürgerinitiative gegen den Bau einer forensischen Klinik der Frage nachgegangen, ob die Mitarbeit in einer solchen BI nachhaltige Wirkungen für die Beteiligten, insbesondere für die Demokratisierung, bedeutet. Was bewirken lokal agierende BIs des hier vorgestellten Typs auf gesellschaftlicher Ebene? Lassen sich die in der Erforschung sozialer Bewegungen gewonnenen Erkenntnisse auch für diese BIs gewinnbringend anwenden? Die Arbeit ist auch für methodisch interessierte Leser/innen aufschlussreich, weil die Analyseergebnisse Schritt für Schritt erklärt und transparent gemacht werden.

Free Download Government by Dissent: Protest, Resistance, and Radical Democratic Thought in the Early American Republic By Robert W.T. Martin
2013 | 273 Pages | ISBN: 0814738249 | PDF | 3 MB
"The most thorough examination we have of how early Americans wrestled with what types of political dissent should be permitted, even promoted, in the new republic they were forming.Martin shows the modern relevance of their debates in ways that all will find valuable-even those who dissent from his views!"-Rogers M. Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of PennsylvaniaDemocracy is the rule of the people.But what exactly does it mean for a people to rule? Which practices and behaviors are legitimate, and which are democratically suspect? We generally think of democracy as government by consent; a government of, by, and for the people.This has been true from Locke through Lincoln to the present day. Yet in understandably stressing the importance-indeed, the monumental achievement-of popular consent, we commonly downplay or even denigrate the role of dissent in democratic governments. But in Government by Dissent, Robert W.T. Martin explores the idea that the people most important in a flourishing democracy are those who challenge the status quo.The American political radicals of the 1790s understood, articulated, and defended the crucial necessity of dissent to democracy. By returning to their struggles, successes, and setbacks, and analyzing their imaginative arguments, Martin recovers a more robust approach to popular politics, one centered on the ever-present need to challenge the status quo and the powerful institutions that both support it and profit from it. Dissent has rarely been the mainstream of democratic politics. But the figures explored here-forgotten farmers as well as revered framers-understood that dissent is always the essential undercurrent of democracy and is often the critical crosscurrent. Only by returning to their political insights can we hope to reinvigorate our own popular politics.

Free Download Elizabeth Turner, "The Discourse of Protest, Resistance and Social Commentary in Reggae Music: A Bakhtinian Analysis of Pacific Reggae "
English | ISBN: 036742326X | 2021 | 142 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 15 MB
A comprehensive, engaging and timely Bakhtinian examination of the ways in which the music and lyrics of Pacific reggae, aspects of performance, a record album cover and the social and political context construct social commentary, resistance and protest.