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Doing Democracy
(December 2013)
Activist Art and Cultural Politics
Nancy S. Love - Editor
Mark Mattern - Editor
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Demonstrates how activists and others use art and popular culture to strive for a more democratic future.
Doing Democracy examines the potential of the arts and popular culture to extend and deepen the experience of democracy. Its contributors address the use of photography, cartooning, memorials, monuments, poetry, literature, music, theater, festivals, and parades to open political spaces, awaken critical consciousness, e...(Read More) |
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Youth Peacebuilding
(April 2013)
Music, Gender, and Change
Lesley J. Pruitt - Author
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Defines a new research area linking youth cultures and music with peacebuilding practice and policy.
This book highlights the important role youth can play in processes of peacebuilding by examining music as a tool for engaging youth in such activities. As Lesley J. Pruitt discusses throughout the book, music—as expression, as creation, as inspiration—can provide many unique insights into transforming conflicts, alter...(Read More) |
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Two Sides of a Barricade
(January 2013)
(Dis)order and Summit Protest in Europe
Christian Scholl - Author
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Investigates how activists confront global powers with their street-level dissent.
Two Sides of a Barricade argues that to construct global democracy, conflict and dissent must be taken seriously. Christian Scholl explores the political significance of the confrontations within four sites of interaction: bodies, space, communication, and law. Each site of struggle provides a different entry point to understand the influe...(Read More) |
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Making Globalization Work for Women
(November 2011)
The Role of Social Rights and Trade Union Leadership
Valentine M. Moghadam - Editor
Suzanne Franzway - Editor
Mary Margaret Fonow - Editor
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Explores the potential for trade unions to defend the socioeconomic rights of women.
Making Globalization Work for Women explores the potential for trade unions to defend the socioeconomic rights of women in a global context. Looking at labor policies and interviews with people in unions and nongovernmental organizations, the essays diagnose the problems faced by women workers across the world and assess the progress that un...(Read More) |
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¡VIVA!
(November 2011)
Community Arts and Popular Education in the Americas
Deborah Barndt - Editor
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Compelling case studies of groups in Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, the United States, and Canada using the arts for education, community development, and social movement building.
This compelling collection of inspiring case studies from community arts projects in five countries will inform and inspire students, artists, and activists. ¡VIVA! is the product of a five-year transnational research project that integrates...(Read More) |
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Transnationalism Reversed
(October 2011)
Women Organizing against Gendered Violence in Bangladesh
Elora Halim Chowdhury - Author
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2012 Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize presented by the National Women’s Studies Association
Examines transnational movement building through a focus on acid attacks and organizing against acid violence in Bangladesh.
Acid attacks against women and girls have captured the attention of the global media, with several high-profile reports ranging from the BBC to The Oprah Winfrey Show. In Bangladesh,...(Read More) |
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Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice
(April 2010)
Revisioning Academic Accountability
Joe Parker - Editor
Ranu Samantrai - Editor
Mary Romero - Editor
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Considers the past, present, and future of interdisciplinary fields motivated by concerns for social justice.
In the 1960s and 1970s, activists who focused on the academy as a key site for fostering social change began by querying the assumptions of the traditional disciplines and transforming their curricula, putting into place women’s and ethnic studies programs that changed both the subject and methods of scholarship. T...(Read More) |
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Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis
(January 2010)
Amanda Lock Swarr - Editor
Richa Nagar - Editor
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Investigates the theory and practice of transnational feminist approaches to scholarship and activism.
Provocative, timely, and global, this volume offers a critical and grounded engagement with transnational feminism through the lens of praxis—the juncture of theory and practice. In so doing, it grapples with questions of power and representation while remaining deeply committed to radical critiques and agendas of transnati...(Read More) |
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