Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits - 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 Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits write by Donatella Della Porta. This book was released on 2008. Voices of the Valley, Voices of the Straits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Protest campaigns against large-scale public works usually take place within a local context. However, since the 1990s new forms of protest have been emerging. This book analyses two cases from Italy that illustrate this development: the environmentalist protest campaigns against the TAV (the building of a new high-speed railway in Val de Susa, close to the border with France), and the construction of the Bridge on the Messina Straits (between Calabria and Sicily). Such mobilizations emerge from local conflicts but develop as part of a global justice movement, often resulting in the production of new identities. They are promoted through multiple networks of different social and political groups, that share common claims and adopt various forms of protest action. It is during the protest campaigns that a sense of community is created."--BOOK JACKET.
The Right to Nature
The Right to Nature - 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 The Right to Nature write by Elia Apostolopoulou. This book was released on 2018-12-07. The Right to Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the 2008 financial crash the expansion of neoliberalism has had an enormous impact on nature-society relations around the world. In response, various environmental movements have emerged opposing the neoliberal restructuring of environmental policies using arguments that often bridge traditional divisions between the environmental and labour agendas. The Right to Nature explores the differing experiences of a number of environmental-social movements and struggles from the point of view of both activists and academics. This collection attempts to both document the social-ecological impacts of neoliberal attempts to exploit non-human nature in the post-crisis context and to analyse the opposition of emerging environmental movements and their demands for a radically different production of nature based on social needs and environmental justice. It also provides a necessary space for the exchange of ideas and experiences between academics and activists and aims to motivate further academic-activist collaborations around alternative and counter-hegemonic re-thinking of environmental politics. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and activists interested in environmental policy, environmental justice, social and environmental movements.
Democracy in the Making
Democracy in the Making - 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 Democracy in the Making write by Kathleen M. Blee. This book was released on 2012-03-30. Democracy in the Making available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Democracy in the Making, Kathleen M. Blee provides an in-depth look at modern grassroots activism, and reveals its simultaneous power and fragility. In the process, she examines the struggle between democratic vision and strategic reality that shapes each organization's trajectory and determines its ultimate success or failure.
The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication
The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication - 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 The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication write by Anders Hansen. This book was released on 2015-03-05. The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for theory, research and practice with regard to environment and communication, and it does this from a perspective which is both international and multi-disciplinary in scope. Offering comprehensive critical reviews of the history and state of the art of research into the key dimensions of environmental communication, the chapters of this handbook together demonstrate the strengths of multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to understanding the centrality of communication to how the environment is constructed, and indeed contested, socially, politically and culturally. Organised in five thematic sections, The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication includes contributions from internationally recognised leaders in the field. The first section looks at the history and development of the discipline from a range of theoretical perspectives. Section two considers the sources, communicators and media professionals involved in producing environmental communication. Section three examines research on news, entertainment media and cultural representations of the environment. The fourth section looks at the social and political implications of environmental communication, with the final section discussing likely future trajectories for the field. The first reference Handbook to offer a state of the art comprehensive overview of the emerging field of environmental communication research, this authoritative text is a must for scholars of environmental communication across a range of disciplines, including environmental studies, media and communication studies, cultural studies and related disciplines.
Civil Strife against Local Governance
Civil Strife against Local Governance - 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 Civil Strife against Local Governance write by Sethulego Matebesi. This book was released on 2017-03-13. Civil Strife against Local Governance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hardly a day goes by without South Africans going on a rampage over the provision of basic municipal services such as water, electricity, sanitation and other municipal obligations. This book connects the critical issue of community protests to the equally precarious issue of political trust in local governance in South Africa by using comparative analysis of grassroots activism in predominantly black communities and predominantly white communities.
