Social Change
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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Challenging the Right, Augmenting the LeftRecasting the Leftist Imagination |
What does the future hold for the left? How does the left adapt to, and prepare for, the crises of our time? In moments of crisis it is always important to rethink longstanding assumptions, … | A.T. Kingsmith; Julian von Bargen; Niko Block; Robert Latham | 272 | 2020 | View |
NEW! Change for GoodAn Action-Oriented Approach for Businesses to Benefit from Solving the World’s Most Urgent Social Problems |
An action-oriented approach for businesses to solve the world’s most urgent social problems — and benefit from doing so. More than a year into a global pandemic, profit and … | Paul Klein | 274 | 2022 | View |
NEW! Decolonize Museums |
The idealized Western museum, as typified by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, and the Museum of Natural History, has remained much the same for over a century: a uniquely … | Shimrit Lee | 296 | 2023 | View |
Educating for ActionStrategies to Ignite Social Justice |
The pursuit of freedom and justice is a timeless effort, but new activists may not know where to begin, while more experienced ones often become jaded or fatigued. The task of constructing a new … | Anthony J. Nocella II; Jason Del Gandio | 259 | 2014 | View |
Emergent AgricultureFarming, Sustainability and the Return of the Local Economy |
Long embraced by corporations who are driven only by the desire for profit, industrial agriculture wastes precious resources and spews millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere … | Gary S. Kleppel | 195 | 2014 | View |
Expose, Oppose, ProposeAlternative Policy Groups and the Struggle for Global Justice |
Expose, Oppose, Propose explores the networks, discourses and practices through which transnational alternative policy groups exert political and cultural influence and assesses the challenges … | William K. Carroll | 246 | 2016 | View |
Identity, Place, KnowledgeSocial Movements Contesting Globalization |
Grassroots organizations have long been involved in the education and mobilization of local populations. Through the development of coalition formation, broad-based campaign-organizing and … | Janet M. Conway | 304 | 2004 | View |
Illusion or OpportunityCivil Society and the Quest for Social Change |
The failure of development strategies in the past few decades has given rise to a worldwide movement in the direction of “another development.” This is a form of development that is … | Henry Veltmeyer | 142 | 2007 | View |
Resilience ImperativeCooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy |
We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place compelled by the intertwining forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The … | Michael Lewis; Pat Conaty | 400 | 2012 | View |
Resist!A Grassroots Collection of Stories, Poetry, Photos and Analyses from the Quebec City FTAA Protests and Beyond |
In late April, tens of thousands of people gathered to protest at the Second People’s Summit of the Americas (the FTAA Summit). RESIST! is a collection of young peoples’ experiences … | Bethany Or; Darryl Leroux; Eloginy Tharmendran; Emmie Tsumara; Jen Chang; Steve Daniels | 191 | 2001 | View |
NEW! Resisting EvictionDomicide and the Financialization of Rental Housing |
Resisting Eviction centres tenant organizing in its investigation of gentrification, eviction and the financialization of rental housing. Andrew Crosby argues that racial discrimination, property … | Andrew Crosby | 188 | 2023 | View |
NEW! The Sea Is Rising and So Are WeA Climate Justice Handbook |
The Sea is Rising and So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook is an invitation to get involved in the movement to build a just and sustainable world in the face of the most urgent challenge our … | Bill McKibben; Cynthia Kaufman | 193 | 2021 | View |
This is My Real NameA Stripper's Memoir |
The frank and bracing memoir of a woman who spent ten years as a stripper. This Is My Real Name is the memoir of Cid V Brunet, who spent ten years working as a dancer at strip clubs, using the … | Cid V Brunet | 289 | 2021 | View |
Turning the World Right-Side UpScience, Community and Democracy |
The focus of this book is on the un-sustainability of the system that economists, in the name of science, have foisted upon society. Corporations and the economists who act as their apologists, … | John Kearney; Patrick Kerans | 240 | 2006 | View |
From NEW! Editor’s PrefaceFrom: Decolonize Museums |
In the Preface, series editor Bhakti Shringarpure reflects on the bloody and violent foundation of modern museums in Europe and North America. | Bhakti Shringarpure | 10 | 2023 | $1.00 Add |
From NEW! Foreword |
Forward from acclaimed author and environmentalist Bill McKibben. | Bill McKibben | 2 | 2021 | $0.20 Add |