Tag: Struggles

Free Download Rebecca Selberg, "Struggles for Reproductive Justice in the Era of Anti-Genderism and Religious Fundamentalism "
English | ISBN: 3031312597 | 2023 | 272 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This open access book engages with the concept of reproductive justice by exploring case studies of struggles around abortion in the context of rising anti-genderism, religious fundamentalism, and ethno-nationalism. Based on rich qualitative data offering in-depth analyses from different geographical, political and cultural contexts, the book explores how reproductive justice is understood, contested and given meaning. Chapters further develop the Black feminist concept of reproductive justice in a critical dialogue with postcolonial theory and explore the strength of transnational feminist practices. This book thus offers a fresh approach to the issue of abortion by engaging with contemporary political and cultural processes, and it expands the narrow notions of women’s rights, particularly notions of property rights over bodies, towards an analysis of the political economy of social reproduction and how it affects bodies that can be pregnant.

Free Download American Labor Struggles: 1877-1934 By Samuel Yellen
1998 | 377 Pages | ISBN: 0873488741 | PDF | 9 MB
Engravings from news periodicals, notes, references, index.

Free Download Black and Green: Civil Rights Struggles in Northern Ireland and Black America By Brian Dooley
1998 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 074531211X | PDF | 2 MB
This volume first traces the centuries-long historical connections between African American and Irish political activists, then examines how the struggle for black civil rights in the US helped to shape the campaign against discrimination in Northern Ireland.

Free Download Working with Spiritual Struggles in Psychotherapy : From Research to Practice
by Kenneth I. Pargament and Julie J. Exline
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1462524311 | 410 Pages | True PDF | 3.76 MB

Free Download At Kingdom’s Edge : The Suriname Struggles of Jeronimy Clifford, English Subject
by Jacob Selwood
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1501764217 | 252 Pages | True ePUB | 10.8 MB

Free Download Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women By Victoria Law
2009 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1604860189 | PDF | 11 MB
In 1974, women imprisoned at New York’s maximum-security prison at Bedford Hills staged what is known as the August Rebellion. Protesting the brutal beating of a fellow prisoner, the women fought off guards, holding seven of them hostage, and took over sections of the prison. While many have heard of the 1971 Attica prison uprising, the August Rebellion remains relatively unknown even in activist circles. Resistance Behind Bars is determined to challenge and change such oversights. As it examines daily struggles against appalling prison conditions and injustices, Resistance documents both collective organizing and individual resistance among women incarcerated in the U.S. Emphasizing women’s agency in resisting the conditions of their confinement through forming peer education groups, clandestinely arranging ways for children to visit mothers in distant prisons and raising public awareness about their lives, Resistance seeks to spark further discussion and research into the lives of incarcerated women and galvanize much-needed outside support for their struggles.

Free Download Drucilla Cornell, "Today’s Struggles, Tomorrow’s Revolutions: Afro-Caribbean Liberatory Thought "
English | ISBN: 1538168480 | 2022 | 154 pages | EPUB | 201 KB
The black insurgence movement and experiments in Caribbean socialism, following the work of the committed revolutionary CLR James, have resounding significance for the political struggles of today. This book addresses class struggle and the battle against racialized capitalism, which in turn makes us reconceptualize the idea of revolution, liberation and rebellion by focusing on this great revolutionary theorist.

Free Download Luciano Baracco, "Indigenous Struggles for Autonomy: The Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua"
English | ISBN: 149855881X | 2018 | 246 pages | EPUB | 1382 KB
Indigenous Struggles for Autonomy: The Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua offers a broad and comprehensive analysis of Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast and the process of autonomy that was initiated in 1987 as part of a wider conflict resolution process during the years of the Sandinista revolution and has continued through to the present day. Over its 30 year period of development, the autonomy process on Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast can be seen as a crucible for the autonomous struggles of minority peoples throughout the Latin American continent. Autonomy on Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast remains highly contested, being simultaneously characterized by progress, setbacks, and violent confrontation within a number of fields and involving a multiplicity of local, national, and global actors. This experience offers critical lessons for efforts around the world that seek to resolve long-established and deep-seated ethnic conflict by attempting to reconcile the need for development, usually fostered by national governments through neo-extractivist policies, with the protection of minority rights advocated by marginalized minorities living within nation states and, increasingly, by intergovernmental organizations such as the United Nations and the Organization of American States. This book presents analyses that reveal the broad implications for the struggle for autonomy on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, conducted by scholars with expertise in an array of disciplines including sociology, globalization theory, anthropology, history, socio-linguistics, cultural and postcolonial studies, gender studies, and political science.

Free Download Owning Our Struggles: A Path to Healing and Finding Community in a Broken World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BNQVWH8F | 2023 | 8 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 238 MB
Author: Minaa B.
Narrator: Minaa B.
Discover the power of collective healing in this research-based and real-world guide to moving past trauma and adversity-together. Adversity comes in many forms, and can make us feel alone in our pain, even years after the fact. But as wellness coach and licensed therapist Minaa B. observes, we can’t heal in isolation. The best way to move past individual trauma is through connection and community-healing ourselves and one another. In this powerful and practical guide, Minaa shares therapeutic tools, client stories, and actionable insights to help you on your healing journey, along with reflections from her personal experiences. Each chapter focuses on a common emotional struggle-from overcoming dysfunctional family patterns to developing emotional maturity, finding our village, navigating racial trauma, and moving past isolation and despair. Through her unique mix of deeply honest personal stories, proven practices, and prompts for writing and reflection, Minaa helps listeners finally face their struggles, get unstuck, and transform their thinking-to claim agency in their own lives and circumstances, and to use that power to help heal a broken world.

Free Download Josiah Brownell, "Struggles for Self-Determination: The Denial of Reactionary Statehood in Africa"
English | ISBN: 1108832644 | 2021 | 288 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Katanga, Rhodesia, Transkei and Bophuthatswana: four African countries that, though existing in a literal sense, were, in each case, considered by the international community to be a component part of a larger sovereign state through which all official communications and interactions were still conducted. This book is concerned with the intertwined histories of these four right-wing secessionist states in Southern Africa as they fought for but ultimately failed to win sovereign recognition. Along the way, Katanga, Rhodesia, Transkei, and Bophuthatswana each invented new national symbols and traditions, created all the trappings of independent statehood, and each proclaimed that their movements were legitimate expressions of national self-determination. Josiah Brownell provides a unique comparison between these states, viewed together as a common reaction to decolonization and the triumph of anticolonial African nationalism. Describing the ideological stakes of their struggles for sovereignty, Brownell explores the international political controversies that their drives for independence initiated inside and outside Africa. By combining their stories, this book draws out the relationships between the emergence of these four pseudo-states and the fragility of the entire postcolonial African state structure.