Szasz identifies the force that pushed environmental policy away from pollution removal towards the logic of prevention. He describes how lawmakers sought to appease popular discontent by reinforcing toxic waste laws, and suggests this force may be a further impulse for progressive politics.
Szasz identifies the force that pushed environmental policy away from pollution removal towards the logic of prevention. He describes how lawmakers so...
Seeking to move beyond classical theories of collective behavior, this volume offers a much needed look at how social change affects political mobilization indirectly through the restructuring of existing power relations.
Seeking to move beyond classical theories of collective behavior, this volume offers a much needed look at how social change affects political mobiliz...
The first international examination of how police respond to political protests. This collection analyzes a wide array of policing styles. Focusing on Italy, France, Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, Spain, the United States, and South Africa, contributors look at cultures and political power to examine the methods and consequences of policing protest.
The first international examination of how police respond to political protests. This collection analyzes a wide array of policing styles. Focusing on...
As long as there have been formal governments, there has been political contention, an interaction between ruler and subjects involving claims and counterclaims, compliance or resistance, cooperation, resignation, condescension, and resentment. Where political studies tend to focus on either those who rule or those who are ruled, the essays in this volume call our attention to the interaction between these forces at the very heart of contentious politics.
Written by prominent scholars of political and social history, these essays introduce us to a variety of political actors: peasants and...
As long as there have been formal governments, there has been political contention, an interaction between ruler and subjects involving claims and cou...
The women's movement in India has a long and rich history in which millions of ordinary women live, work, and struggle to survive in order to remake their family, home, and social lives. Whether fighting for safe contraception, literacy, water, and electricity or resisting sexual harassment, a vibrant and active women's movement is thriving in many parts of India today.
Fields of Protest explores the political and cultural circumstances under which groups of women organize. Starting with Bombay and Calcutta, Raka Ray discusses the creation of "political fields" -- structured, unequal, and...
The women's movement in India has a long and rich history in which millions of ordinary women live, work, and struggle to survive in order to remake t...
Arising in the 1910s and emerging as legitimate governing bodies in the 1990s, the South African and the Palestinian national liberation movements have exhibited remarkable parallels over the course of their development. The fortunes of the African National Congress and the Palestinian Liberation Organization, however, have proven strikingly different. How the measurements, despite similar circumstances and experiences, have arrived at such dissimilar outcomes is described in Liberation and democratization.
Younis traces the evolution of the movements, from early domination by elites to the...
Arising in the 1910s and emerging as legitimate governing bodies in the 1990s, the South African and the Palestinian national liberation movements hav...
