Author : Sidney Tarrow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,11 MB
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107036240
This book examines the development of the language of social movements, revolutions, and terrorism from the seventeenth century to the present and looks at the impact of events such as 9/11 and innovations such as the Internet and social media on social mobilization.
Author : Glenn A. Martínez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 29,11 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1315400979
Applying a critical lens to language education, this book explores the tensions that Latinx students face in relation to their identities, social and institutional settings, and other external factors. Across diverse contexts, these students confront complex debates and contestable affirmations that intersect with their lived experiences and social histories. Martinez and Train highlight the pedagogic and ethical urgency of teacher responsibility, learner agency and social justice in critically addressing the consequences, constraints, and affordances of the language education that Latinx students experience in historically-situated and institutionally defined spaces of practice, ideology and policy. Reframing language studies to take into account the roles of power, inequality, and social settings, this book provokes dialogue between areas of language education that rarely interface. Through privileging the learner experience, the book provides a window to the contested spaces across language education and generates new opportunities for engagement and action. Offering nuanced and insightful analyses, this book is ideal for scholars, language researchers, language teacher educators and graduate students in all areas of language education.
Author : Doug McAdam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 25,92 MB
Release : 2001-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521011877
"Over the past two decades the study of social movements, revolution, democratization and other non-routine politics has flourished. And yet research on the topic remains highly fragmented, reflecting the influence of at least three traditional divisions. The first of these reflects the view that various forms of contention are distinct and should be studied independent of others. Separate literatures have developed around the study of social movements, revolutions and industrial conflict. A second approach to the study of political contention denies the possibility of general theory in deference to a grounding in the temporal and spatial particulars of any given episode of contention. The study of contentious politics are left to 'area specialists' and/or historians with a thorough knowledge of the time and place in question. Finally, overlaid on these two divisions are stylized theoretical traditions - structuralist, culturalist, and rationalist - that have developed largely in isolation from one another." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam021/2001016172.html.
Author : Ericka A. Albaugh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 17,7 MB
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139916777
How do governments in Africa make decisions about language? What does language have to do with state-building, and what impact might it have on democracy? This manuscript provides a longue durée explanation for policies toward language in Africa, taking the reader through colonial, independence, and contemporary periods. It explains the growing trend toward the use of multiple languages in education as a result of new opportunities and incentives. The opportunities incorporate ideational relationships with former colonizers as well as the work of language NGOs on the ground. The incentives relate to the current requirements of democratic institutions, and the strategies leaders devise to win elections within these constraints. By contrasting the environment faced by African leaders with that faced by European state-builders, it explains the weakness of education and limited spread of standard languages on the continent. The work combines constructivist understanding about changing preferences with realist insights about the strategies leaders employ to maintain power.
Author : Roberta Gellis
Publisher : Belgrave House
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1610849000
Magdalene la Bâtarde is summoned to Oxford by William of Ypres, her patron. William suspects trouble, which Magdalene, along with Sir Bellamy of Itchen, may help to unravel. Niall Arvagh has been accused of murder, and William believes his enemies will insist that he ordered the murder. But is Bell so jealous of William that he’d forget his own sense of justice? 3rd of the Magdalene la Bâtarde Medieval Mysteries by Roberta Gellis; originally published by Forge
Author : Charles Tilly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 25,95 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521537131
Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650-2000 is an analysis of the relationship between democratization and contentious politics that builds upon the model set forth in the pathbreaking book, Dynamics of Contention. Using a sustained comparison of French and British histories since 1650 or so as a springboard for more general comparison within Europe Contention and Democracy goes on to demonstrate that democratization occurred as result of struggles during which (as in 19th century Britain and France) few, if any, of the participants were self-consciously trying to create democratic institutions. Consequently, circumstances for democratization vary from era to era, region to region as functions of previous history, international environments, available models of political organization, and predominant patterns of social relations.
Author : Sarah A. Soule
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 2009-08-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521898404
This book examines anti-corporate activism in the United States, providing a nuanced understanding of the changing focal points of challenges to corporations.
Author : Jennifer Hadden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 10,49 MB
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107089581
This book examines how interactions between organizations within the international climate change movement shape tactics and outcomes in climate change negotiations.
Author : James M. Jasper
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 31,50 MB
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804778930
Despite extensive theoretical debates over the utility of "political opportunities" as an explanation for the rise and success of social movements, there have been surprisingly few serious empirical tests. Contention in Context provides the most extensive effort to date to test the model, analyzing a range of important cases of revolutions and protest movements to identify the role of political opportunities in the rise of political contention. With evidence from more than fifty cases, this book explores the role of the state in protest, the frequent overemphasis on political opportunities in recent research, and the extent to which opportunity models ignore the cultural and emotional triggers for collective action. By examining new directions in the study of protest and contention, this book shows that although political opportunities can help explain the emergence of certain kinds of movements, a new strategic language can ultimately tell us far more.
Author : Charles Tilly
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0190255056
"An analysis of the major contentious events over the course of the past ten years"--Provided by publisher.
