Seizing the Square: 1989 Protests in China and Germany from a Global Perspective, Daniel Palm
Автор: Ferguson Roderick A. Название: We Demand: The University and Student Protests ISBN: 0520293002 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520293007 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 2533.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the post World War II period, student movements rebelled against the archaic university. This book shows how the university, particularly the public university, is moving away from "the people," in all their diversity. As more resources are put towards STEM education, humanities and interdisciplinary programs are being cut and shuttered.
Описание: This gripping insider`s account highlights the internal debates and public protests at the Southern Weekly, a newspaper known for pushing the envelope on media controls. In his first-person account of a seminal moment as Xi Jinping tightened his grip, Guan Jin provides an ominous warning on the path ahead for Chinese media and civil society.
Описание: This gripping insider`s account highlights the internal debates and public protests at the Southern Weekly, a newspaper known for pushing the envelope on media controls. In his first-person account of a seminal moment as Xi Jinping tightened his grip, Guan Jin provides an ominous warning on the path ahead for Chinese media and civil society.
Описание: The practice of petitioning the Ottoman Sultan was a well-known institution which existed in one form or another throughout Ottoman history and enabled Ottoman subjects, far from the capital of Istanbul, to convey their grievances directly to the supreme ruler. Here, Yuval Ben-Bassat examines the petitions, including many previously unpublished ones, sent during the last decades of the Empire to the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II. The petitions enable Ben-Bassat to explore Palestine's history in this formative period from a unique perspective, providing first-hand accounts of the dilemmas, struggles, acts, concerns, schisms and transformations Palestinian society experienced. Petitioning the Sultan will be of great interest to a broad audience of specialists studying the history of the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, and Palestine's late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century world.
Автор: Lamond Ian R., Spracklen Karl Название: Protests as Events: Politics, Activism and Leisure ISBN: 1783480777 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783480777 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 6683.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Protests as Events: Politics, Activism and Leisure is an edited collection that explores activism as a leisure activity and protests as events.
Mass mobilization is among the most dramatic and inspiring forces for political change. When ordinary citizens take to the streets in large numbers, they can undermine and even topple undemocratic governments, as the recent wave of peaceful uprisings in several postcommunist states has shown. However, investigation into how protests are organized can sometimes reveal that the origins and purpose of "people power" are not as they appear on the surface. In particular, protest can be used as an instrument of elite actors to advance their own interests rather than those of the masses.
Weapons of the Wealthy focuses on the region of post-Soviet Central Asia to investigate the causes of elite-led protest. In nondemocratic states, economic and political opportunities can give rise to elites who are independent of the regime, yet vulnerable to expropriation and harassment from above. In conditions of political uncertainty, elites have an incentive to cultivate support in local communities, which elites can then wield as a "weapon" against a predatory regime. Scott Radnitz builds on his in-depth fieldwork and analysis of the spatial distribution of protests to demonstrate how Kyrgyzstan's post-independence development laid the groundwork for elite-led mobilization, whereas Uzbekistan's did not. Elites often have the wherewithal and the motivation to trigger protests, as is borne out by Radnitz's more than one hundred interviews with those who participated in, observed, or avoided protests.
Even Kyrgyzstan's 2005 "Tulip Revolution," which brought about the first peaceful change of power in Central Asia since independence, should be understood as a strategic action of elites rather than as an expression of the popular will. This interpretation helps account for the undemocratic nature of the successor government and the 2010 uprising that toppled it. It also serves as a warning for scholars to look critically at bottom-up political change.
Although academics have paid much attention to contentious politics in China and elsewhere, research on the outcomes of social protests, both direct and indirect, in non-democracies is still limited. In this new work, Yongshun Cai combines original fieldwork with secondary sources to examine how social protest has become a viable method of resistance in China and, more importantly, why some collective actions succeed while others fail.
Cai looks at the collective resistance of a range of social groups—peasants to workers to homeowners—and explores the outcomes of social protests in China by adopting an analytical framework that operationalizes the forcefulness of protestor action and the cost-benefit calculations of the government. He shows that a protesting group's ability to create and exploit the divide within the state, mobilize participants, or gain extra support directly affects the outcome of its collective action. Moreover, by exploring the government's response to social protests, the book addresses the resilience of the Chinese political system and its implications for social and political developments in China.
Автор: Irene Weipert-Fenner; Jonas Wolff Название: Socioeconomic Protests in MENA and Latin America ISBN: 3030196208 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030196202 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11878.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This edited volume presents a detailed account of the dynamics of socioeconomic contention in Egypt and Tunisia since 2011.
Автор: Aytac S. Erdem, Stokes Susan C. Название: Why Bother?: Rethinking Participation in Elections and Protests ISBN: 1108475221 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108475228 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 13622.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Why Bother? offers and tests a new theory about participation in politics and, in particular, why people vote and join protests. This book will appeal to students and scholars in political science, sociology, and social psychology and to members of the public who want to understand trends in political participation.
Описание: The aim of Protests and Generations is to problematize the relations between generations and protests in the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean. Most of the work on recent protests insists on the newness of their manifestation but leave unexplored the various links that exist between them and what preceded them. Mark Muhannad Ayyash and Ratiba Hadj-Moussa (Eds.) argue that their articulation relies at once on historical ties and their rejection. It is precisely this tension that the chapters of the book address in specifically documenting several case studies that highlight the generating processes by which generations and protests are connected. What the production and use of generation brings to scholarly understanding of the protests and the ability to articulate them is one of the major questions this collection addresses.
Contributors are: Mark Muhannad Ayyash, Lorenzo Cini, Eric Gobe, Ratiba Hadj-Moussa, Andrea Hajek, Chaymaa Hassabo, Gal Levy, Ilana Kaufman, Sunaina Maira, Mohammad Massala, Matthieu Rey, Gokboru Sarp Tanyildiz, and Stephen Luis Vilaseca.
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