Criminalization of Activism: Historical, Present and Future Perspectives By Valeria Vegh Weis (editor)
2021 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0367700123 | PDF | 4 MB
Criminalization of Activism draws on a multiplicity of perspectives and case studies from the Global South and Global North to show how protest has been subject to processes of criminalisation over time. Contributors are made of up scholars and activist from different disciplinary backgrounds, with a balance between authors from the Global North and the Global South. An introduction frames the topic within critical criminology, while also highlighting the possible disciplinary approaches and definitions of criminalization of resistance/activism. The editors also look into the particularities of the current times in comparison to dynamics of criminalization in prior stages of capitalism. The first part offers four different theoretical approaches to understand the complex interrelations between politics and criminalization of resistance. Second, the book offers case studies to expose certain historical patterns in the criminalization of riots, experiences of resistance and class struggle. This includes an analysis of the cast system in India, neoliberalism and social inequality in Argentina and refugees in Italy and Greece. The third part of the book deals with three further case studies which expose trends in the historical criminalization of policing and prison related struggles, analysing prison riots in the United States and Argentina, and the civil rights movement confronting police brutality in the United States. Part four provides insight into historical patterns in the criminalization of political activities, with case studies on Italian leftist activism, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Catalonian struggle for independence. The last part of the book deals with the criminalization of green struggles, examining the green ban in Australia, indigenous struggles in Brazil and Ecuador and environmental demonstrations in Belgium. Finally, the conclusion analyses the interactions between the different contributions and discusses the future challenges to this field of study. Bringing together a range of criminalisation themes into a single volume, compromising historical criminology, indigenous studies, gender studies, critical criminology, southern criminology, convict criminology and green criminology, it will be of great interest to scholars and students of criminology and sociology, as well as those involved in activism.

Creativity and Academic Activism: Instituting Cultural Studies By Meaghan Morris (editor), Mette Hjort (editor)
2012 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 1932643206 | PDF | 2 MB
This work explores in detail how innovative academic activism can transform our everyday workplaces in contexts of considerable adversity. Personal essays by prominent scholars provide critical reflections on their institution-building triumphs and setbacks across a range of cultural institutions. Often adopting narrative approaches, the contributors examine how effective programs and activities are built in varying local and national contexts within a common global regime of university management policy. Here they share experiences based on developing new undergraduate degrees, setting up research centers and postgraduate schools, editing field-shaping book series and journals, establishing international artist-in-residence programs, and founding social activist networks. This book also investigates the impact of managerialism, marketization, and globalization on university cultures, asking what critical cultural scholarship can do in such increasingly adversarial conditions. Experiments in Asian universities are emphasized as exemplary of what can or could be achieved in other contexts of globalized university policy. Contributors. Tony Bennett, Stephen Ching-Kiu Chan, Kuan-Hsing Chen, Douglas Crimp, Dai Jinhua, John Nguyet Erni, Mette Hjort, Josephine Ho, Koichi Iwabuchi, Meaghan Morris, Tejaswini Niranjana, Wang Xiaoming, Audrey Yue

Amit Goswami Ph.D., "How Quantum Activism Can Save Civilization: A Few People Can Change Human Evolution"
English | ISBN: 1571746374 | 2011 | 304 pages | EPUB | 1314 KB
Beginning with Taking the Quantum Leap by Fred Alan Wolf, there have been a number of books that have created new paradigms for integrating science and spirituality. These books have been long on theory and short on application. This work represents something completely different for this genre.

The Politics of Poetics: Poetry and Social Activism in Early-Modern Through Contemporary Italy By Giovanna Summerfield (editor)
2013 | 245 Pages | ISBN: 1443846236 | PDF | 2 MB
Through a series of original analyses of poetic works belonging to the Italian canon or purposely posing themselves at the margins of it, the project seeks to highlight poetry as an art form which has the capacity to show the incongruities of society, not just semantically, but especially through the use it makes of signifiers, which allow meaning to come through notwithstanding linear communication. Specifically, this project identifies and analyzes a line of diverse early modern to contemporary Italian poetic works in which the goal is not only to imitate or represent the world, but to enact a change upon it. Rather than resulting in an exercise in self-indulgence, these works focus on poetics as an agent of social transformation. Deleuze and Guattari used, in 1976, the metaphor of the rhizome: a subterranean -- and therefore subversive - root, a growth that develops in hidden, unpredictable directions. The rhizome is a figure of alterity and discontinuity, in opposition to the binary logic proper of hierarchical structures. Each of the works analyzed in this volume enhances, in different ways, this intuition by proposing a non-linear undergrowth that affects poetics and invades the very logic of society, finally enacting a revolt, and transforming the world from within.

Radical Regeneration
by Harvey, Andrew;Baker, Carolyn;Fox, Matthew;Levy, Paul;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1644115603 | 776 pages | True EPUB | 6.36 MB

The Pedagogy of Teacher Activism: Portraits of Four Teachers for Justice By Keith Catone
2016 | 156 Pages | ISBN: 1433134373 | PDF | 4 MB
Through the artful science of portraiture, The Pedagogy of Teacher Activism presents the stories of four teacher activists―how they are and have become social change agents―to uncover important pedagogical underpinnings of teacher activism. Embedded in their stories are moments of political clarity and consciousness, giving rise to their purpose as teacher activists. The narratives illuminate how both inner passions and those stirred by caring relationships with others motivate their work, while the intentional ways in which they attempt to disrupt power relations give shape to their approaches to teacher activism. Knowing their work will never truly be done and that the road they travel is often difficult, the teacher activists considered here persist because of the hope and possibility that their work might change the world. Like many pre-service educators or undergraduates contemplating teaching as a vocation, these teacher activists were not born ready for the work that they do. Yet by mining their biographical histories and trajectories of political development, this book illuminates the pedagogy of teacher activism that guides their work.

Ahmed Tohamy, "Youth Activism in Egypt: Islamism, Political Protest and Revolution "
English | ISBN: 1780769210 | 2016 | 336 pages | EPUB | 1155 KB
In this book, Ahmed Tohamy analyses the often-neglected trajectory that led up to the protests in Egypt that culminated in the fall of Hosni Mubarak in February 2011. Tohamy's assertion is that by examining the decade preceding this momentous event, we see that the youth movement far from being inert was extremely active. Tohamy uses the Social Movements Theory to argue how Egyptian youth became a new agent of change in the Middle East. By positioning the youth activists as dynamically engaging with their social and political contexts within a framework of opportunities and constraints, his analysis strikes at the heart of the debates concerning the nature and substance of revolution and its effects on state and society."

Drew G I Hart, "Who Will Be A Witness: Igniting Activism for God's Justice, Love, and Deliverance"
English | ISBN: 1513806580 | 2020 | 373 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Churches have begun awakening to social and political injustices, often carried out in the name of Christianity. But once awakened, how will we respond?

Christopher C. Martell, "Teaching History for Justice: Centering Activism in Students' Study of the Past "
English | ISBN: 0807764744 | 2020 | 176 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Learn how to enact justice-oriented pedagogy and foster students' critical engagement in today's history classroom. Over the past 2 decades, various scholars have rightfully argued that we need to teach students to "think like a historian" or "think like a democratic citizen." In this book, the authors advocate for cultivating activist thinking in the history classroom. Teachers can use Teaching History for Justice to show students how activism was used in the past to seek justice, how past social movements connect to the present, and how democratic tools can be used to change society. The first section examines the theoretical and research foundation for "thinking like an activist" and outlines three related pedagogical concepts: social inquiry, critical multiculturalism, and transformative democratic citizenship. The second section presents vignettes based on the authors' studies of elementary, middle, and high school history teachers who engage in justice-oriented teaching practices.

Jón Ingvar Kjaran, "Queer Social Movements and Activism in Indonesia and Malaysia"
English | ISBN: 3031158083 | 2022 | 216 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book examines queer activism and queer social movements (QSMs) in Indonesia and Malaysia, broadly engaging with these topics on three different levels: macro (global and national discourses), meso (organizational level - activities), and micro (individual - the activist). The micro level perspective allows for moving beyond the "traditional" political movement paradigm by understanding activism in Foucauldian terms as the ethics of the self (Foucault, 1984). In other words, the queer subject is seen as an active agent in taking care of the self by queering/resisting gender norms as well as heteronormative practices and regimes in their social environment through embodiment and actions. This kind of ethical being has the potential to build support and community between and amongst individuals.