Read and Download eBook Full
Author: Rowhea M. Elmesky
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2017-10-13
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 1783504617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is guided through the powerful ideological frameworks of culture and social reproduction and looks specifically to the role of schooling as a vehicle for catalysing change.
Author: Manuel Pastor
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2018-04-03
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1620973308
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Concise, clear and convincing. . . a vision for the country as a whole.” —James Fallows, The New York Times Book Review A leading sociologist's brilliant and revelatory argument that the future of politics, work, immigration, and more may be found in California Once upon a time, any mention of California triggered unpleasant reminders of Ronald Reagan and right-wing tax revolts, ballot propositions targeting undocumented immigrants, and racist policing that sparked two of the nation's most devastating riots. In fact, California confronted many of the challenges the rest of the country faces now—decades before the rest of us. Today, California is leading the way on addressing climate change, low-wage work, immigrant integration, overincarceration, and more. As white residents became a minority and job loss drove economic uncertainty, California had its own Trump moment twenty-five years ago, but has become increasingly blue over each of the last seven presidential elections. How did the Golden State manage to emerge from its unsavory past to become a bellwether for the rest of the country? Thirty years after Mike Davis's hellish depiction of California in City of Quartz, the award-winning sociologist Manuel Pastor guides us through a new and improved California, complete with lessons that the nation should heed. Inspiring and expertly researched, State of Resistance makes the case for honestly engaging racial anxiety in order to address our true economic and generational challenges, a renewed commitment to public investments, the cultivation of social movements and community organizing, and more.
Author: Peter Bloom
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-11-02
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1783487550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHas political resistance has lost its ability to confront political and economic power and achieve social change? Despite its best intentions, resistance has often become incorporated and neutered before it achieves its aims, as new forms of power absorb it and turn it towards their own ends. Since the Enlightenment, the opposing forces of power and resistance have framed our view of society and politics. Exploring that development, this book shows how resistance can, ironically, reinforce existing status quos and fundamentally strengthen capitalist and colonial desires for “sovereignty” and “domination”. It highlights, therefore, the urgent need for new critical perspectives that breaks free from this imprisoning modern history. In this spirit, this book seeks to theorize the radical potential for a post-resistance existence and politics. One that exchanges a permanent revolution against authority with the discovery of novel forms of agency, social relations and the self that are currently lacking. That aims to construct economic and social systems based not on the possibility of freedom but enlarging the freedom of possibility. In the 21st century can we move beyond power and resistance to a politics at the radical limits that eternally expands what is socially possible?
Author: Lauren Rabinovitz
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780252071249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn detailing the relationship of three women filmmakers' lives and films to the changing institutions of the post-World War II era, Lauren Rabinovitz has created the first feminist social history of the North American avant-garde cinema. At a time when there were few women directors in commercial films, the postwar avant-garde movement offered an opportunity. Rabinovitz argues that avant-garde cinema, open to women because of its marginal status in the art world, included women as filmmakers, organizers, and critics. Focusing on Maya Deren, Shirley Clarke, and Joyce Wieland, Rabinovitz illustrates how women used bold physical images to enhance their work and how each provided entrée to her subversive art while remaining culturally acceptable. She combines archival materials with her own interviews to show how the women's labor and films, even their identities as women filmmakers, were produced, disseminated, and understood. With a new preface and an updated bibliography, Points of Resistance simultaneously demonstrates the avant-garde's importance as an organizational network for women filmmakers and the processes by which women remained marginal figures within that network.
Author: Julie A. Gorlewski
Publisher: IAP
Published: 2011-07-01
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1617354074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudents in public schools serving poor and working-class students are inundated by the effects of high-stakes examinations. Teachers are demoralized and students suffer substandard curricular and pedagogical experiences. These effects are articulated by students and teachers in the high school that provided the setting for the critical ethnography on which this text is based. Teachers resent being judged on the basis of students’ performance on standardized assessments. They are deprofessionalized as their roles are oriented toward working-class norms. Students feel alienated by content that is meaningless and test-based pedagogies that are disempowering. While these findings are disturbing, critical theory provides a foundation for seeking hope. By incorporating inquiry and dialogue, this theoretical framework opens a space where resistance can be revealed and examined. In this case, the study exposed glimmers of resistance, spaces in the structure of schooling where students and teachers critique the system and suggest ways of subverting the negative effects of the neoliberal reforms through dialogic, empowering, culturally responsive pedagogies. Collective resistance, achieved through dialogic pedagogies that build on understandings of resistance and power, can cultivate theoretical and material spaces where a cycle of praxis can enhance possibilities for social justice. To that end, the conclusion is devoted to the implementation of critical, dialogic approaches to literacies, approaches intended to interrupt the hegemonic influences that perpetuate social reproduction by capitalizing on the potential for solidarity and collective agency among the students and teachers who populate and educate the working classes. This book would interest teacher educators, teachers, and school administrators.
Author: Monica M. White
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2018-11-06
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1469643707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Freedom Farms Cooperative (FFC). A community-based rural and economic development project, FFC would grow to over 600 acres, offering a means for local sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and domestic workers to pursue community wellness, self-reliance, and political resistance. Life on the cooperative farm presented an alternative to the second wave of northern migration by African Americans--an opportunity to stay in the South, live off the land, and create a healthy community based upon building an alternative food system as a cooperative and collective effort. Freedom Farmers expands the historical narrative of the black freedom struggle to embrace the work, roles, and contributions of southern Black farmers and the organizations they formed. Whereas existing scholarship generally views agriculture as a site of oppression and exploitation of black people, this book reveals agriculture as a site of resistance and provides a historical foundation that adds meaning and context to current conversations around the resurgence of food justice/sovereignty movements in urban spaces like Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, New York City, and New Orleans.
Author: Sudipta De
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9819714060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ann Brooks
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1134822332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines how feminism is being redefined for the twenty-first century. Concepts covered include: feminist epistemology, Foucault, psychoanalytic theory and semiology, cultural politics and sexuality and identity.
Author: Gilad James, PhD
Publisher: Gilad James Mystery School
Published:
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9850526572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPower refers to the ability of an individual or group to influence the behavior of others. Power exists in various forms, such as social, economic, political, and physical power. It is an essential element in human relationships, and it shapes the interactions between people in different social contexts. Power can be seen as a tool that is used to achieve certain ends, either for the benefit of the individual or group that possesses it or for the benefit of the broader community. The distribution of power in society can also have significant effects on social justice and equality. Therefore, a better understanding of power is crucial for individuals to navigate their social and political environments effectively. The study of power has been a central concern in political science, sociology, and psychology. Theories of power attempt to explain how power operates in different contexts, and how it shapes social relations. The concept of power is often associated with concepts such as authority, domination, and control. Scholars have also explored the dynamics of power in interpersonal relationships, organizations, and institutions, and how power can be used to achieve positive outcomes, such as social change and collective action. It is essential to recognize that power is not necessarily negative or harmful, but it can also be harnessed for the public good.
