Political Advocacy

The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington DC...

From trailblazing political activist Angela Y. Davis, a major new collection of essays and interviews that argue for a radical rethinking of our prison systemsAn icon of revolutionary politics, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective...

From an acclaimed musician comes an inside look at one of the most controversial and influential civil rights movements of our time.Nights in Tents is a memoir of the profoundly moving, and often hysterical, circumstances a fifty-one-year-old...

Do you really want to change the world? If the answer is YES, then this book shows you how. Ethical consumerism is now big business. But leading a sustainable and truly radical life encompasses a whole variety of things that challenge the mainstream...

A useful - and sprightly! - effort to get at the choice between individual and systemic action on the greatest problem we've ever faced. - Bill McKibben, author, The End of Nature Taking a tongue-in-cheek approach, self-confessed eco-hypocrite Sami...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905192007Author Lindsey GermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 855g

On April 4, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., arrived in Indiana to campaign for the Indiana Democratic presidential primary. As Kennedy boarded his flight from an appearance in Muncie to Indianapolis, he learned that civil rights leader Dr. Martin...

An ideal introduction for undergraduate students of social movements in courses on sociology, social policy and political theory with a focus on collective action and social protest. The book provides accessible theoretical readings and case studies of...

This book brings together activists, artists and scholars of colour to show how Black feminism and Afrofeminism are being practiced in Europe today, exploring their differing social positions in various countries, and how they organise and mobilise to...

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...

This is the first book-length treatment of the concepts, designs, methods, and tools needed to conduct effective advocacy and policy change evaluations. By integrating insights from different disciplines, Part I provides a conceptual foundation for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262526890Author Peter WeibelFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

In late 2006, Saket Soni, a twenty-eight-year-old Indian-born community organizer, received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker in Mississippi. He was one of five hundred men trapped in squalid Gulf Coast "man camps," surrounded by...

The ways in which we gather information about current events and communicate it with others have been transformed by the rapid rise of digital and social media platforms. The political is no longer confined to the institutional and electoral arenas, and...

In carefully crafted official statements, the European Union presents itself as an honest broker in the Middle East. In reality, however, the EU's 27 governments have been engaged in a long process of accommodating Israel's occupation of Palestinian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525429135Author Nilofer MerchantFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

'Illuminating ... Johnson has not only lifted a corner of the curtain which covers China's reality beyond its glittering eastern cities; he has drawn the whole curtain' The Times Literary SupplementIn Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson...

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 distribution...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982116798Author Eitan HerschFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570273650Author Cornelia SollfrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Minor CompositionsPublisher Autonomedia

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914143052Author Chinedu ChukwudinmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995535244Author Kate HudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Public Reading RoomsPublisher Public Reading Rooms

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement 2009. Short-listed for New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism 2010.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623716844Author Robert JensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780768477566Author Emma StarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Destiny ImagePublisher Destiny Image

This book examines the rhetoric of various "exemplars" who advocate for causes and actions pertaining to human rights in particular contexts. Although some of these exemplars champion human rights, others are human rights antagonists. Simply...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668053485Author Sami SageFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint GalleryPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 349g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438499086Author Gene BunnellFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams) 227g

Beyond the Law's Reach? argues that fundamental assumptions in contemporary political philosophy need to be rethought in the face of pervasive political violence. At an applied level, Nili develops this claim by delving into a series of specific...

This book examines the rhetoric of various "exemplars" who advocate for causes and actions pertaining to human rights in particular contexts. Although some of these exemplars champion human rights, others are human rights antagonists. Simply...

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...

Advocating for the Common Good: People, Politics, Process, and Policy on Capitol Hill offers a rich and accessible guide to policy-making in the nation’s capital, beckoning us to get to the table, make our voices heard, and reinvigorate our policy making...

The Internet is facilitating a generational transition within America's advocacy group system. New "netroots" political associations have arisen in the past decade and play an increasingly prominent role in citizen political mobilization. At...

Created in 2000 following a long-standing regional movement, Jharkhand-the land of forests-represents an important experiment in regional autonomy and self-determination for indigenous communities in a postcolonial democracy. Over two decades, Jharkhand...

From sites like Hollaback! and Everyday Sexism, which document instances of street harassment and misogyny, to social media-organized movements and communities like #MeToo and #BeenRapedNeverReported, feminists are using participatory digital media as...

Rio de Janeiro's favelas have become well-known sites of gang and police violence. Since the 1970s, dangerous networks between drug traffickers and corrupt state actors have transformed these poor neighborhoods into sites of armed conflict and political...

Moving beyond the existing scholarship on language politics in north India which mainly focuses on Hindi-Urdu debates, Language Politics and Public Sphere in North India examines the formation of Maithili movement in the context of expansion of Hindi as...

Advocating for the Common Good: People, Politics, Process, and Policy on Capitol Hill offers a rich and accessible guide to policy-making in the nation’s capital, beckoning us to get to the table, make our voices heard, and reinvigorate our policy making...

Social movements play a central role in the scope and direction of social change. They were instrumental in the creation of the modern state and, today, are major forces in politics and culture. Environmentalism, gay rights, alterglobalization, and...

At a time of political tribalism and ideological purity tests, when surveys tell us that pluralities of the people in each party deem the opposition 'downright evil,' it can be hard to remember that cross-party hatred isn't an inherent feature of...