State-Sponsored Activism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook State-Sponsored Activism write by Jessica A. J. Rich. This book was released on 2019-03-14. State-Sponsored Activism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In State-Sponsored Activism, Rich explores AIDS policy in Brazil as a lens to offer new insight into state-society relations in democratic and post-neoliberal Latin America. In contrast to the dominant view that these dual transitions produced an atomized civil society and an impenetrable technocratic state, Rich finds a new model of interest politics, driven by previously marginalized state and societal actors. Through a rich examination of the Brazilian AIDS movement, one of the most influential movements in twenty-first century Latin America, this book traces the construction of a powerful new advocacy coalition between activist bureaucrats and bureaucratized activists. In so doing, State-Sponsored Activism illustrates a model whereby corporatism - active government involvement in civic mobilization - has persisted in contemporary Latin America, with important implications for representation and policymaking.
Bridging Scholarship and Activism
Bridging Scholarship and Activism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bridging Scholarship and Activism write by Bernd Reiter. This book was released on 2015. Bridging Scholarship and Activism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This timely book brings together activist scholars from a range of disciplines to provide new insights into a growing trend in publicly engaged research and scholarship. Bridging Scholarship and Activism creatively redefines what constitutes activism without limiting it to a narrow range of practices, with an ultimate goal of creating a decolonized and democratized forum for scholar activists worldwide.
Comfort Women Activism
Comfort Women Activism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comfort Women Activism write by Eika Tai. This book was released on 2020-08-04. Comfort Women Activism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comfort Women Activism follows the movement championed by pioneer activists in Japan to demonstrate how their activism has kept a critical interpretation of the atrocities against women committed before and during World War II alive. The book shows how the challenges faced by the activists have evolved from the beginning of their uphill battles all the way to contemporary times. They were able to change social attitudes and get their message across. Yet the ambiguous position of post–World War II Japan’s government—which has consistently rejected any sign of guilt over its imperialist past—has kept the activists on their toes. Pivotal and serendipitous turning points have also played a crucial role. In particular, in the early 1990s, the post-Soviet world order assisted in creating the appropriate conditions for the movement to gather transnational support. These conditions have eroded over time; yet due to the activists’ fidelity to survivors, the movement has persisted to this day. Tai uses the activists’ narratives to show the multifaceted aspects of the movement. By measuring these narratives against scholarly debates, she argues that comfort women activism in Japan could be called a new form of feminism. “A manuscript of this depth covering such a range of material about the comfort women movement has not previously been available in English. I am deeply impressed by the author’s scholarly commitment and humanitarian compassion. The accounts provided in the book are particularly moving, putting a human face on the transnational comfort women movement that has had a global impact.” —Peipei Qiu, Vassar College “Eika Tai urges a postcolonial understanding of how activists in Japan came to embrace the issue of ‘comfort women,’ make it their own, and engage on a transnational, multigenerational effort. Her book is an absolutely clear rejection of those who portray this historical topic as activism meant to ‘hate Japan.’ Instead, she claims that this issue is at the heart of a divided Japan.” —Alexis Dudden, University of Connecticut
Activists and the Surveillance State
Activists and the Surveillance State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Activists and the Surveillance State write by Aziz Choudry. This book was released on 2019. Activists and the Surveillance State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this age of unchecked emphasis on national security, even liberal democracies seem prone to forgetting the histories of political policing and surveillance undergirding what we think of as our safety. Challenging this social amnesia, Aziz Choudry asks: What can we learn about the power of the state from the very people targeted by its security operations? Drawing on the knowledge of activists and academics from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and Chile, Activists and the Surveillance State delves into the harassment, infiltration, and disruption that has colored state responses to those deemed threats to national security. The book shows that, ultimately, movements can learn from their own repression, developing a critical and complex understanding of the nature of states and capital today that can crucially inform the struggles of tomorrow.
How Party Activism Survives
How Party Activism Survives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Party Activism Survives write by Pérez Bentancur Pérez. This book was released on 2019-10-24. How Party Activism Survives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the value of an organization-centered approach to understanding parties and their role in democratic representation.
