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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “isabelle sommier”
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  • Breaking Laws

    Violence and Civil Disobedience in Protest

    by Isabelle Sommier, Graeme Hayes ...
    Series series Protest and Social Movements
    Breaking Laws: Violence and Civil Disobedience in Protest questions the complex relationship between social movements and violence through two contrasted lenses; first through the short-lived radical left wing post '68 revolutionary violence, and secondly in the present diffusion of civil disobedience actions, often at the border between non-violence and violence. This book shows how and why ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Observing Protest from a Place

    The World Social Forum in Dakar (2011)

    Edited by Johanna Siméant, Marie-Emanuelle Pommerolle, Isabelle Sommier ...
    Series series Protest and Social Movements
    Social movements throughout the world have been central to history, politics, society, and culture. Observing Protest from a Place examines the impact of one such campaign, the global justice movement, as seen from the southern hemisphere. Drawing upon a collective survey from the 2011 World Social Forum in Dakar, the essays explore a number of vital issues, including the methodological problems ... Read more

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  • Controlling Frontiers

    Free Movement Into and Within Europe

    by Elspeth Guild ...
    Focusing in particular on the European borders, this volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of academics to consider questions of immigration and the free movement of people, linking control within the state to the role of the police and internal security. The contributors all take as the point of departure the significance of European governmentality within the Foucauldian meaning as ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Great Regression

    Edited by Heinrich Geiselberger ...
    We are living through a period of dramatic political change – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the liberal values and ideals associated with cosmopolitanism and globalization. Suddenly we find ourselves in a world that few would have imagined possible just a few years ... Read more

    $14.00 USD

  • The Decline of American Power

    by Immanuel Wallerstein ...
    The internationally renowned theorist contends that the sun is setting on the American empire in this "lucid, informed, and insightful" account ( The New York Times).The United States currently finds itself [a] superpower that lacks true power, a world leader nobody follows and few respect, and a nation drifting dangerously amidst a global chaos it cannot control.The United States in decline? Its ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise of English

    Global Politics and the Power of Language

    by Rosemary Salomone ...
    A sweeping account of the global rise of English and the high-stakes politics of language Spoken by a quarter of the world's population, English is today's lingua franca--its common tongue. The language of business, popular media, and international politics, English has become commodified for its economic value and increasingly detached from any particular nation. This meteoric "rise of English" ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

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  • Political Protest in Contemporary Africa

    by Lisa Mueller ...
    From spray-painted slogans in Senegal to student uprisings in South Africa, twenty-first century Africa has seen an explosion of protests and social movements. But why? Protests flourish amidst an emerging middle class whose members desire political influence and possess the money, education, and political autonomy to effectively launch movements for democratic renewal. In contrast with pro ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Impact of Gender Quotas

    by Drude Dahlerup ...
    The introduction of electoral gender quotas in diverse contexts around the globe has attracted a great deal of scholarly and political interest. To date, research on these measures has focused primarily on quota design, adoption, and effects on the numbers of women elected. While this remains a crucial focus, quotas are not simply about changing the proportion of women in political office. Both ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The Endtimes of Human Rights

    by Stephen Hopgood ...
    "We are living through the endtimes of the civilizing mission. The ineffectual International Criminal Court and its disastrous first prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, along with the failure in Syria of the Responsibility to Protect are the latest pieces of evidence not of transient misfortunes but of fatal structural defects in international humanism. Whether it is the increase in deadly attacks on ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The OECD and the Challenges of Globalisation

    The governor of the world economy

    by 50minutes ...
    Series series Economic Culture
    Understand the workings of the OECD in no time! Find out everything you need to know about this important global organisation with this practical and accessible guide.When the Second World War came to an end in 1945, the European economy was in ruins. It was decided that a plan of economic revival was necessary – the Marshall Plan – which would be implemented by an organisation that included many ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conflict, Security and the Reshaping of Society

    The Civilization of War

    Edited by Alessandro Dal Lago, Salvatore Palidda ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Liberty and Security
    A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.This book is an examination of the effect of contemporary wars (such as the 'War on Terror') on civil life ... Read more

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  • Artificial Democracy

    The Impact of Big Data on Politics, Policy, and Polity

    Edited by Cecilia Biancalana, Eric Montigny ...
    Democracy and data have a complicated relationship. Under the influence of big data and artificial intelligence, some democracies are being transformed, for better or worse, as relations between citizens, political parties, governments, and corporations are being redrawn.Artificial Democracy explores the ways in which data collection and analytics, and their application, are changing political ... Read more

    $25.19 USD