Christopher P Barton, "Trowels in the Trenches: Archaeology as Social Activism"
English | ISBN: 0813066735 | 2021 | 266 pages | PDF | 20 MB
Presenting examples from the fields of critical race studies, cultural resource management, digital archaeology, environmental studies, and heritage studies, Trowels in the Trenches demonstrates the many different ways archaeology can be used to contest social injustice. This volume shows that activism in archaeology does not need to involve radical or explicitly political actions but can be practiced in subtler forms as a means of studying the past, informing the present, and creating a better future.

Pamela G. Smart, "Sacred Modern: Faith, Activism, and Aesthetics in the Menil Collection"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0292737580, 0292723334 | PDF | pages: 295 | 14.3 mb
Renowned as one of the most significant museums built by private collectors, the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, seeks to engage viewers in an acutely aesthetic, rather than pedagogical, experience of works of art. The Menil's emphasis on being moved by art, rather than being taught art history, comes from its founders' conviction that art offers a way to reintegrate the sacred and the secular worlds. Inspired by the French Catholic revivalism of the interwar years that recast Catholic tradition as the avant-garde, Dominique and John de Menil shared with other Catholic intellectuals a desire to reorder a world in crisis by imbuing modern cultural forms with religious faith, binding the sacred with the modern. Sacred Modern explores how the Menil Collection gives expression to the religious and political convictions of its founders and how "the Menil way" is being both perpetuated and contested as the Museum makes the transition from operating under the personal direction of Dominique de Menil to the stewardship of career professionals. Taking an ethnographic approach, Pamela G. Smart analyzes the character of the Menil aesthetic, the processes by which it is produced, and the sensibilities that it is meant to generate in those who engage with the collection. She also offers insight into the extraordinary impact Dominique and John de Menil had on the emergence of Houston as a major cultural center.

Afropolitan Encounters : Literature and Activism in London and Berlin
by Anna von Rath
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1800790066 | 286 Pages | True PDF | 12.2 MB

Mediterranean ARTivism: Art, Activism, and Migration in Europe
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031059913 | 351 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 15 MB
This book is an interdisciplinary study aimed at re-imagining and re-routing contemporary migrations in the Mediterranean. Drawing from visual arts, citizenship studies, film, media and cultural studies, along with postcolonial, border, and decolonial discourses, and examining the issues from within a human rights framework, the book investigates how works of cultural production can offer a more complex and humane understanding of mobility in the Mediterranean beyond representations of illegality and/or crisis. Elvira Pulitano centers the discourse of cultural production around the island of Lampedusa but expands the island geography to include a digital multi-media project, a social enterprise in Palermo, Sicily, and overall reflections on race, identity, and belonging inspired by Toni Morrison's guest-curated Louvre exhibit The Foreigner's Home. Responding to recent calls for alternative methodologies in thinking the modern Mediterranean, Pulitano disseminates a fluid archive of contemporary migrations reverberating with ancestral sounds and voices from the African diaspora along a Mediterranean-TransAtlantic map. Adding to the recent proliferation of social science scholarship that has drawn attention to the role of artistic practice in migration studies, the book features human stories of endurance and survival aimed at enhancing knowledge and social justice beyond (and notwithstanding) militarized borders and failed EU policies.

Resonant Violence : Affect, Memory, and Activism in Post-Genocide Societies
by Kerry Whigham
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1978825560 | 269 Pages | True PDF | 20 MB

Resigned Activism, revised edition: Living with Pollution in Rural China (Urban and Industrial Environments) by Anna Lora-Wainwright
English | May 25, 2021 | ISBN: 0262542498 | 288 pages | PDF | 4.09 Mb
An examination of the daily grind of living with pollution in rural China and of the varying forms of activism that develop in response.

Scott H. Bennett, Charles F. Howlett, "Antiwar Dissent and Peace Activism in World War I America: A Documentary Reader"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0803240112 | PDF | pages: 398 | 13.0 mb
World War I was a watershed in modern world history. On the battlefield, millions were slaughtered by chemical warfare, machine guns, and trench warfare-and this senseless bloodletting remains the most enduring legacy of the Great War. Critical to understanding the war's significance is the often-overlooked emergence of a "modern" dynamic grassroots peace movement that both opposed war and sought to abolish its social causes.

David Stenner, "Globalizing Morocco: Transnational Activism and the Postcolonial State"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1503608999, 1503608115 | PDF | pages: 309 | 4.3 mb
The end of World War II heralded a new global order. Decolonization swept the world and the United Nations, founded in 1945, came to embody the hopes of the world's colonized people as an instrument of freedom. North Africa became a particularly contested region and events there reverberated around the world. In Morocco, the emerging nationalist movement developed social networks that spanned three continents and engaged supporters from CIA agents, British journalists, and Asian diplomats to a Coca-Cola manager and a former First Lady. Globalizing Morocco traces how these networks helped the nationalists achieve independence―and then enabled the establishment of an authoritarian monarchy that persists today.

English | ASIN: B09NC6HL3B | 2022 | 5 hours and 24 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 148 MB
This is the first in-depth examination of the important ongoing fusion of activism, capitalism, and social change, masterfully told through a compelling narrative filled with vivid stories and striking studies.Today, corporations and their executives are at the front lines of some of the most important and contentious social and political issues of our time, such as voting rights, gun violence, racial justice, immigration reform, climate change, and gender equality. Why is this sea change in business and activism happening? How should executives and activists engage one another to create meaningful progress? What are potential pitfalls and risks for each side? What can they learn from each other? What first principles should guide leaders moving forward?

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1523091991 | 225 pages | True PDF EPUB | 3.01 MB
This is the first in-depth examination of the important ongoing fusion of activism, capitalism, and social change masterfully told through a compelling narrative filled with vivid stories and striking studies.