Tag: Protest

Free Download If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWKDM2BL | 2023 | 12 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 372 MB
Author: Vincent Bevins
Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world-and what comes next. From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result. IF WE BURN is a stirring work of history built around a single, vital question: How did so many mass protests lead to the opposite of what they asked for? From the so-called Arab Spring to Gezi Park in Turkey, from Ukraine’s Euromaidan to student rebellions in Chile and Hong Kong, acclaimed journalist Vincent Bevins provides a blow-by-blow account of street movements and their consequences, recounted in gripping detail. He draws on four years of research and hundreds of interviews conducted around the world, as well as his own strange experiences in Brazil, where a progressive-led protest explosion led to an extreme-right government that torched the Amazon. Careful investigation reveals that conventional wisdom on revolutionary change is gravely misguided. In this groundbreaking study of an extraordinary chain of events, protesters and major actors look back on successes and defeats, offering urgent lessons for the future.

Free Download Jennifer Kling, "The Philosophy of Protest: Fighting for Justice without Going to War"
English | ISBN: 1786613204 | 2021 | 182 pages | EPUB, PDF | 382 KB + 1499 KB
Protest is a critical part of the contemporary political landscape. Despite the prevalence of protest as a real-world practice, most liberal political theory limits its focus on protest to ideal conditions. This book takes up the question of how to think about protest, from within the context of liberal political theory, in the face of serious, substantial, ongoing, and actual injustices-in short, a theory of protest for our world. What can or must protest include? What, if anything, must it avoid? Against much of the popular discourse, the authors defend the view that suitably constrained violent political protest is sometimes justified. Violent political protest is not simply revolution by any other name-it’s a last-ditch effort to remedy injustice without going to war.

Free Download Modes of Protest And Resistance: Strange Change in Morals Political
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031471431 | 383 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
This book presents a philosophical analysis of the different forms of political resistance and protest. It explores the normative space of resistance that is beyond self-defense and civil disobedience, and proposes the concept of "resistance violence" as a separate and special normative category. Instances that fall under this category can be, accordingly justified, even if they prove to be practically ineffective, by appealing to their role in preserving or upholding the dignity of the resistors or those who they aim to protect. Margaret Betz draws from important and interesting historical examples to establish the concept, and proposes to apply it to better understand contemporary struggles against injustice.

Free Download A Social Psychology of Protest: Individuals in Action
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1107178002 | 291 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
Protest is typically rare behavior, yet the first decade of the twenty-first century has been named the era of protest. Successful protests bring masses to the streets, and the emergence of social media has fundamentally changed the process of mobilization. What protests need to be successful is demand (grievances, anger, and indignation), supply (protest organizations), and mobilization (effective communication networks). Motivation to participate can be instrumental, expressive, and identity driven, and politicized collective identity plays an important role in the dynamics of collective action. This volume brings together insights from social psychology, political psychology, sociology, and political science to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of protest participation, particularly to the question of why some people protest while others do not. It is essential reading for scholars interested in the social and political psychology of individuals in action.

Free Download Ernst Wolff, "Between Daily Routine and Violent Protest: Interpreting the Technicity of Action"
English | ISBN: 3110724979 | 2021 | 325 pages | EPUB | 1525 KB
Most human action has a technical dimension. This book examines four components of this technical dimension.

Free Download Charlotte Yeldham, "Art and Protest: The Role of Art during the Campaign which led to the New Forest Act (1877) "
English | ISBN: 3111023354 | 2023 | 112 pages | PDF | 38 MB
Following official protection of natural environments for public benefit in Fontainebleau Forest in France (1861) and in Yosemite (1864) and Yellowstone (1872) in the USA, the New Forest Act of 1877 marked the first major instance in Britain. Art and artists were involved in this achievement to a greater extent than in all preceding cases. For the first time, and within an ecocritical framework, this study examines the role played by art during the previous anti-enclosure campaign – highlighting both the hitherto-unacknowledged extent of German influence in terms of the original artistic initiative and of German artists’ participation in the cause, as well as the significance of connections between landscape art of the day and priorities of the early Open Spaces movement.

Free Download Michael Scott-Baumann, "Protest, Agitation and Parliamentary Reform in Britain 1780-1928"
English | 2015 | pages: 178 | ISBN: 1471838471 | PDF | 98,1 mb
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Free Download Anna Di Ronco, "Policing Environmental Protest: Power and Resistance in Pandemic Times"
English | ISBN: 1529228751 | 2023 | 146 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This book addresses the policing and social control of eco-justice movements during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as activist practices of resistance during the same period. It is based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Trento, Italy, focusing on two eco-justice groups opposing a high-speed railway and the containment of wild bears. Rooted in critical, green, cultural and sensory approaches within criminology, the book discusses the intensification of policing strategies against eco-justice protesters during the pandemic and their increased exclusion from urban centres. Highlighting activists’ radical and transformative practices of resistance, the book identifies directions for future critical and green criminological research in the area.

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 Kathleen R. Arnold, "Migrant Protest and Democratic States of Exception"
English | ISBN: 103224559X | 2023 | 260 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Recognizing the radical disparity between migration/border policy and constitutional law "inside these borders," Kathleen R. Arnold focuses on two main forms of migrant protest to explore the meaning of resistance in a sovereign context: self-harming protest by detainees and faith-based sanctuary of individuals scheduled for detention.