Tag: Activism

Free Download Hazel Barnes, "Arts Activism, Education, and Therapies: Transforming Communities Across Africa "
English | ISBN: 9042038071 | 2014
| 308 pages | PDF | 11 MB

Free Download Vipul Mudgal, "Claiming India from Below: Activism and democratic transformation"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1138956910 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 0.9 mb
Going beyond electoral politics and government, this volume broadens the scope of the functioning of democracy in India, and explores citizens’ role in the implementation of public policy. It looks at the ways in which extra-parliamentary power monitoring devices such as public institutions, citizens’ associations or assemblies, and the mainstream and emerging forms of the media, permeate through the political order. The volume:

Free Download Innocent Chiluwa, "Activism, Campaigning and Political Discourse on Twitter "
English | ISBN: 1536154520 | 2019 | 311 pages | PDF | 9 MB
"In this collection of chapters, authors from different academic disciplines, coming from different social and political backgrounds and experiences have explored the increasing transformative potentials of Twitter for group advocacy. The chapters further illustrate how Twitter serves as a forum for spreading awareness and information on social events, as well as for social activism and political discourse. Some of the topics explored include: Understanding the potential of Twitter for political activism; Digital Trump and conflict: A multi-method analysis; The use of Twitter as complementary press on the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370; Constructing transnational identity through Twitter activism: A discourse study of #FGM; LGBT social media activism in India; Online activism in Mali: a study of digital discourses of the Movement for the Liberation of Azawad; Sousveilance Twitter: activists’ pro-democracy governance from below in Middle East; Twitter’s ethics of freedom in the aftermath of November 2015 Paris attacks through the lens of the anonymous collective, etc."-

Free Download The Routledge Handbook of Grassroots Climate Activism
by Sabine von Mering, Thomas E. Bell
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032500239 | 655 Pages | True PDF | 19 MB

Free Download Carol Hager, "Nimby Is Beautiful: Cases of Local Activism and Environmental Innovation around the World"
English | ISBN: 1782386017 | 2015 | 236 pages | PDF | 814 KB
NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) protests are often criticized as parochial and short-lived, generating no lasting influence on broader processes related to environmental politics. This volume offers a different perspective. Drawing on cases from around the globe, it demonstrates that NIMBY protests, although always arising from a local concern in a particular community, often result in broader political, social, and technological change. Chapters include cases from Europe, North America, and Asia, engaging with the full political spectrum from established democracies to non-democratic countries. Regardless of political setting, NIMBY movements can have a positive and proactive role in generating innovative solutions to local as well as transnational environmental issues. Furthermore, those solutions are now serving as models for communities and countries around the world.

Free Download Don’t Call Us Girls: Women’s Activism, Protest and Actions in the Vietnam War
by Barbara Leonora Tischler
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1399066064 | 224 Pages | True ePUB | 22 MB

Free Download Merry Wiesner-Hanks, "Challenging Women’s Agency and Activism in Early Modernity "
English | ISBN: 9463729321 | 2021 | 312 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Examining women’s agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Women’s Marches, and the global #MeToo movement. The essays in this collection consider women’s agency in the Renaissance and early modern period, an era that also saw both increasing patriarchal constraints and new forms of women’s actions and activism. They address a capacious set of questions about how women, from their teenage years through older adulthood, asserted agency through social practices, speech acts, legal disputes, writing, viewing and exchanging images, travel, and community building. Despite family and social pressures, the actions of girls and women could shape their lives and challenge male-dominated institutions. This volume includes thirteen essays by scholars from various disciplines, which analyze people, texts, objects, and images from many different parts of Europe, as well as things and people that crossed the Atlantic and the Pacific.

Free Download Matteo Cernison, "Social Media Activism: Water as a Common Good "
English | ISBN: 9462980063 | 2019 | 244 pages | PDF | 1380 KB
This book focuses on the referendums against water privatization in Italy and explores how activists took to social media, ultimately convincing twenty-seven million citizens to vote. Investigating the relationship between social movements and internet-related activism during complex campaigns, this book examines how a technological evolution ― the increased relevance of social media platforms ― affected in very different ways organizations with divergent characteristics, promoting at the same time decentralized communication practices, and new ways of coordinating dispersed communities of people. Matteo Cernison combines and adapts a wide set of methods, from social network analysis to digital ethnography, in order to explore in detail how digital activism and face-to-face initiatives interact and overlap. He argues that the geographical scale of actions, the role played by external media professionals, and the activists’ perceptions of digital technologies are key elements that contribute in a significant way to shape the very different communication practices often described as online activism.

Free Download The Epistemology of Protest: Silencing, Epistemic Activism, and the Communicative Life of Resistance
by José Medina
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0197660908 | 452 Pages | True PDF | 2.56 MB

Free Download Su Epstein, "Social Justice and Activism in Libraries: Essays on Diversity and Change"
English | ISBN: 1476672032 | 2019 | 228 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
In a rapidly changing world with myriad conflicting voices, the library’s role as a place of safety and inclusion and as a repository of knowledge cannot be overstated. Librarians must serve as community leaders with a mission to educate and inform, ready to model the principles they support. The question for many is: how?