Political Advocacy

Scholars and students of contentious politics, social movements, and Canadian history will appreciate this detailed analysis of social movement societies, both within the Canadian context and in comparison to other countries and the transnational sphere...

Undergraduate students in sexuality studies, political science, law, and social movement studies, as well as policy makers, political journalists, and queer activists.Book InformationISBN 9780774829076Author Professor Manon TremblayFormat HardbackPage...

From the days of the fur trade through the contemporary period, women have played important roles in the public life of Canada. Until the 1970s, however, these contributions were generally overlooked. Opening Doors Wider looks at the progress made in the...

Seventy percent of Canadians think that 'advocacy groups' are a better vehicle for change than political parties; however, people involved in these groups are actually more involved in traditional political circles and party politics. This volume looks...

Contesting Transformation is a sober and critical reflection on the wave of social movement struggles which have taken place in post-Apartheid South Africa. Moving beyond a social movement scholarship that has tended to romanticise emergent movements,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Nautilus Award (Social Change) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9780312595371Author Paul Rogat LoebFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812995305Author Srdja PopovicFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Spiegel & GrauPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318g

Who were the women who fought back at Grunwick and Gate Gourmet? Striking Women gives a voice to the women involved as they discuss their lives, their work and their trade unions. Striking Women is centred on two industrial disputes, the famous Grunwick...

This book examines the policies aimed at promoting integration, combating terrorism, and countering violent extremism in five European countries with significant Muslim populations and the role of the 27-member European Union (EU) in shaping European...

This book brings together testimonials from people of different nationalities and professions who are 'pro-Palestinian', whether as scholars, film-makers, artists, musicians, activists, or NGO workers. Using what oral historians call the ‘focused life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247724Author Tony BlairFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksWeight(grams) 148g

Feminists, like other political actors, cannot avoid the state.Whether they want equal pay, anti-domestic violence laws, refugee orchildcare centres, they must engage with state institutions. Whatdetermines the nature and extent of this involvement? Why...

Undergraduate students in sexuality studies, political science, law, and social movement studies, as well as policy makers, political journalists, and queer activists.Book InformationISBN 9780774829083Author Professor Manon TremblayFormat PaperbackPage...

From 1973 to 1988, Race Today, the journal of the revolutionary Race Today Collective was at the epicentre of the struggle for racial justice in Britain. Placing race, sex and social class at the core of its analysis, it featured in its articles and...

In 1968, as protests shook France and war raged in Vietnam, the giants of black radical politics descended on Montreal to discuss the unique challenges and struggles facing their black comrades all over the world. Against a backdrop of widespread racism...

Augusto Boal saw theatre as a mirror to the world, one that we can reach into to change our reality. This book, The Theatre of the Oppressed, is the foundation to 'Forum Theatre', a popular radical form practised across the world. Boal's techniques...

The tumultuous events that began in Egypt in 2011 have embraced revolution and counter-revolution. For Philip Marfleet, they are a complex and continuing process in which millions of people from a range of political formations and socio-economic and...

Contesting Transformation is a sober and critical reflection on the wave of social movement struggles which have taken place in post-Apartheid South Africa. Moving beyond a social movement scholarship that has tended to romanticise emergent movements,...

This is the untold story of the truly groundbreaking linguistic and educational developments that took place among Republican prisoners in Long Kesh prison from 1972-2000. During a period of bitter struggle between Republican prisoners and the British...

Trouble in the Tribe explores the increasingly contentious place of Israel in the American Jewish community. In a fundamental shift, growing numbers of American Jews have become less willing to unquestioningly support Israel and more willing to publicly...

This book is a comprehensive survey of a large number of non-state armed groups in South Asia. It brings together rich and rigorous contributions by scholars in India and reflects their deep understanding not only of the groups, but also the...

For more than a decade Mikhail Gorbachev has been engaged in working to protect the earth and its inhabitants via the organization he founded in 1992, Green Cross International. In an age when ecological crises, poverty and military conflicts are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771131827Author Gabriel Nadeau-DuBoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Between the LinesPublisher Between the LinesWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634240628Author C.J. HinkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Trine DayPublisher Trine DayWeight(grams) 494g

County Mayo, Ireland, is spectacularly beautiful. Dolphins, whales, and seals frolic in bays, rivers teem with salmon. Into this tranquil, unspoiled region, in early 2002, came Shell Oil, announcing plans to build a gas refinery. Shell promised wonderful...

A vigilante group is an armed private group that has taken the law into its own hands or that has the announced potential of doing so. There are quite a number of such organisations in the contemporary United States, and many have members who are said to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795709098Author Gugulethu MhlunguFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Kwela BooksPublisher Kwela BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Examining the work of social justice groups in Minneapolis following the 2008 recession Since the Great Recession, even as protest and rebellion have occurred with growing frequency, many social justice organizers continue to displace as much as...

The United States boasts scores of organizations that offer crucial representation for groups that are marginalized in national politics, from women to racial minorities to the poor. Here, in the first systematic study of these organizations, Dara Z...

The 1984 explosion of the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India was undisputedly one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Some have argued that the resulting litigation provided an "innovative model" for dealing with the global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640091276Author Scott WarrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629637983Author Jeremy BrecherFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629631479Author Cynthia KaufmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 399g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629633794Author Alice LyndFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629637044Author International InitiativeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629633855Author Jeremy BrecherFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629632292Author Thomas LinzeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629635033Author Howard EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570272189Author Marc BousquetFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Minor CompositionsPublisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 135g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570273605Author Heath SchultzFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Minor CompositionsPublisher Autonomedia