Tag: Movements

Free Download Nick Crossley, "Contesting Psychiatry: Social Movements in Mental Health"
English | 2005 | pages: 230 | ISBN: 0415354161 | PDF | 1,8 mb
Resistance and social movements in mental health have been important in shaping current practice in both mental health and psychiatry. Contesting Psychiatry, focusing largely on the UK, examines the history of resistance to psychiatry between 1950 and 2000. Building on the author’s extensive research, the book provides an empirical account and exploration of the key features including:

Free Download Belinda Davis, "Rethinking Social Movements after ’68: Selves and Solidarities in West Germany and Beyond "
English | ISBN: 1800735650 | 2022 | 382 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The year 1968 has widely been viewed as the only major watershed moment during the latter half of the twentieth century. Rethinking Social Movements after ’68 takes on this conventional approach, exploring the spaces, practices, organization, ideas and agendas of numerous activists and movements across the 1970s and 1980s. From the Maoist Communist League to the women’s movement, youth center movement, and gay liberation movement, established and emerging scholars across Europe and North America shed new light on the development of modern European popular politics and social change.

Free Download Lydia Alpízar Durán, Noël D. Payne, Anahi Russo, "Building Feminist Movements and Organizations: Global Perspectives"
English | 2007 | pages: 289 | ISBN: 1842778498, 1842778501 | PDF | 0,8 mb
The struggle for the advancement of women’s rights and gender equality globally is impossible without strong women’s organizations and movements to provide leadership and momentum. But what does a strong women’s organization look like? And what does it take to create effective and sustainable women’s movements? This groundbreaking collection of essays by activists from all corners of the globe explores what it means to be an influential women’s organization, and what it takes to build the kinds of movements needed to transform women’s lives. From how to build successful participatory democratic processes and implement shared leadership models, to lessons on overcoming internal organizational divisions, the case studies in this collection focus not only on the "what" but also the "how" of movement building. Those concerned with how to effect sustainable change will find not only much food for thought, but also an abundance of creative ideas and innovative strategies – served up with a uniquely feminist twist.

Free Download Claudia Strauss, "Political Sentiments and Social Movements: The Person in Politics and Culture "
English | ISBN: 3319723405 | 2018 | 325 pages | EPUB | 1234 KB
This unique volume is about how ordinary people construct political meanings, form political emotions and identities, and become involved in or disengaged from political contests. Drawing on psychological anthropology, it illustrates the complexities of political subjectivities through engaging personal stories that complicate our understanding of the relationship between culture and politics. Chapters examine the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street in the United States, third gender activism in India, Rastafari in Jamaica, Courage to Refuse in Israel, the environmental movement in the U.S., Salafi movements in northern Nigeria, post-socialist labor politics in Romania, and anti-immigrant activism in Denmark.

Free Download SOMATIC YOGA EXERCISES FOR WOMEN: 18 Movements to Relax Muscles, Release Tension, and Enhance Mobility by Claire Allen
English | July 16, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0D9MGRJ8B | 147 pages | EPUB | 6.33 Mb
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Free Download Possibly Harmful Religious Groups and Religious Movements: Exploring the Dangers and Deceptions Behind Spiritual Extremes by Fr. Nonnette C. Legaspi
English | August 28, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0D9YL2CB3 | 140 pages | EPUB | 6.17 Mb
As our world becomes increasingly interconnected, the realm of religious belief has evolved, often extending beyond traditional boundaries to encompass a wide array of new religious groups and movements. While many of these groups provide positive spiritual guidance and foster a sense of community, some present significant risks to their adherents. These risks can include psychological manipulation, social isolation, financial exploitation, and, in extreme cases, physical harm. Possibly Harmful Religious Groups and Religious Movements: Exploring the Dangers and Deceptions Behind Spiritual Extremes aims to critically examine these groups, exploring their beliefs, practices, and the potential dangers they pose.

Free Download Marian Burchardt, Amy Patterson, Louise Mubanda Rasmussen, "The Politics and Anti-Politics of Social Movements: Religion and AIDS in Africa"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 113823737X, 1138939056 | EPUB | pages: 146 | 0.6 mb
This book explores the nature, significance and consequences of the religious activism surrounding AIDS in Africa. While African religion was relatively marginal in inspiring or contributing to AIDS activism during the early days of the epidemic, this situation has changed dramatically. In order to account for these changes, contributors provide answers to pressing questions. How does the entrance of religion into public debates about AIDS affect policymaking and implementation, church-state relations, and religion itself? How do religious actors draw on and reconfigure forms of transnational connectivity? How do resource flows from development and humanitarian aid that religious actors may access then affect relationships of power and authority in African societies? How does religious mobilization on AIDS reflect contestation over identity, cultural membership, theology, political participation, and citizenship?

Free Download Geertje A. Nijeholt, Saskia Wieringa, Geertje Lycklama a Nijeholt, "Women’s Movements and Public Policy in Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean: The Triangle of Empowerment (Gender, Culture and Global Politics)"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0815324790 | EPUB | pages: 206 | 0.6 mb
The triangle of empowerment is how this volume’s editors describe the three sets of actors involved in women’s collective struggles in the political arena: the women’s movement, feminist politicians, and feminist civil servants. Original case studies from Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean analyze the political struggles women are waging to make their voices heard and to place women’s issues on the agenda in different societies.

Free Download Astrid Ulloa, "The Ecological Native: Indigenous Peoples’ Movements and Eco-Governmentality in Columbia"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0415972884, 0415884055 | EPUB | pages: 314 | 0.3 mb
This text analyzes indigenous peoples’ processes of identity construction as ecological natives. It opens space for reconstructing all the different networks, conditions of emergence, and implications (political, cultural, social and economic) of one specific event: the consolidation of the relationship between indigenous peoples and environmentalism. This text is based on ethnographic information and focused on the historical process of the emergence of indigenous peoples’ movements in Latin America, in general, and indigenous peoples of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta do Columbia (SNSM), in particular. It demonstrates the process of the construction of indigenous peoples’ environmental identities as an interplay of local, national and transnational dynamics among indigenous peoples and environmental movements and discourses in relation to global environmental policies.

Free Download Solidarity Economics: Why Mutuality and Movements Matter by Manuel Pastor, Chris Benner
English | September 3, 2021 | ASIN: B09FH6VDZG, ISBN: 1509544070, 1509544089 | True AZW3 | pages | 0.4 MB
Traditional economics is built on the assumption of self-interested individuals seeking to maximize personal gain, but that is far from the whole story. Sharing, caring, and a desire to uphold the collective good are also powerful motives. In a world wracked by inequality, social divisions, and ecological destruction, can we build an alternative economics based on cooperation?