Books related to ActivismThe Millennium Curse: Why Activism is Failing
by Tony Saghbiny
Description : There's something wrong with the way we do activism; we all know it on a subtle level, whether we are in Beirut, Athens, Oakland, Barcelona, Uttar Pradesh or Hong Kong. The political agitations and social change movements since the 2000s onward were reactionary, short lived, and often failed t...more..
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Activism That Makes Sense: Congregations and Community Organization
by Gregory F. Augustine Pierce
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Activism and the School Librarian: Tools for Advocacy and Survival
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Description : School libraries provide an essential service to the community, but without proper funding few libraries stand a chance to maintain the resources they offer—or to survive at all. School librarians can play an instrumental role in the survival of their programs. This how-to book provides school ...more..
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Activism, Inc.: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns Is Strangling Progressive Politics in America
by Dana Fisher
Description : Activism, Inc. introduces America to an increasingly familiar political actor: the canvasser. She's the twenty-something with the clipboard, stopping you on the street or knocking on your door, the foot soldier of political campaigns.Granted unprecedented access to the "People's...more..
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@ Is For Activism: Dissent, Resistance And Rebellion In A Digital Culture
by Joss Hands
Description : @ is For Activism examines the transformation of politics through digital media, including digital television, online social networking and mobile computing. Joss Hands maps out how political relationships have been reconfigured and new modes of cooperation, deliberation and represe...more..
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Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color
by Channette Romero
Description : Since the 1980s, many activists and writers have turned from identity politics toward ethnic religious traditions to rediscover and reinvigorate their historic role in resistance to colonialism and oppression. In her examination of contemporary fiction by women of color—including Toni Morris...more..
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Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the Age of Cultural Production
by Nato Thompson
Description : A significant meditation on political art and the politics of art by the country’s most celebrated young curatorA fog of information and images has flooded the world: from advertising, television, radio, and film to the information glut produced by the new economy. With the rise of ...more..
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Activism and Rhetoric: Theories and Contexts for Political Engagement
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Description : This volume examines the role of rhetoric in today’s culture of democratic activism. The volume takes on two of the most significant challenges currently facing contemporary rhetorical studies: (1) the contested meanings and practices of democracy and civic engagement in global context, and (2...more..
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The Fragility of Things: Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, and Democratic Activism
by William E. Connolly
Description : In The Fragility of Things, eminent theorist William E. Connolly focuses on several self-organizing ecologies that help to constitute our world. These interacting geological, biological, and climate systems, some of which harbor creative capacities, are depreciated by that brand of neoli...more..
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The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: A Guide to Creative Financial Activism
by Brett Scott
Description : Popular anger against bankers and financial speculators has never been greater, yet the practical workings of the system remain opaque to many people. The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance aims to bridge the gap between protest slogans and practicalproposals for reform.As a s...more..
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