Tag: Politics

Free Download Kristina Roepstorff, "The Politics of Self-Determination: Beyond the Decolonisation Process"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1138108715 | EPUB | pages: 194 | 0.2 mb
Since the formation of the UN in 1945 the international community has witnessed a number of violent self-determination conflicts such as the disintegration of Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Kashmir, and South Sudan that have been a major cause of humanitarian crises and destruction. This book examines the scope and applicability of political self-determination beyond the decolonisation process.

Free Download The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism By Lindsey Stewart
2021 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0810144115 | EPUB | 1 MB
During the antebellum period, slave owners weaponized southern Black joy to argue for enslavement, propagating images of "happy darkies." In contrast, abolitionists wielded sorrow by emphasizing racial oppression. Both arguments were so effective that a political uneasiness on the subject still lingers. In The Politics of Black Joy, Lindsey Stewart wades into these uncomfortable waters by analyzing Zora Neale Hurston’s uses of the concept of Black southern joy. Stewart develops Hurston’s contributions to political theory and philosophy of race by introducing the politics of joy as a refusal of neo-abolitionism, a political tradition that reduces southern Black life to tragedy or social death. To develop the politics of joy, Stewart draws upon Zora Neale Hurston’s essays, Beyoncé’s Lemonade, and figures across several disciplines including Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Toni Morrison, Angela Davis, Saidiya Hartman, Imani Perry, Eddie Glaude, and Audra Simpson. The politics of joy offers insights that are crucial for forming needed new paths in our current moment. For those interested in examining popular conceptions of Black political agency at the intersection of geography, gender, class, and Black spirituality, The Politics of Black Joy is essential reading.

Free Download Pastora Cafferty, Carmen Rivera-Martinez, "The Politics Of Language: The Dilemma Of Bilingual Education For Puerto Ricans"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367310600 | EPUB | pages: 144 | 0.2 mb
Demographers predict that by the end of the century Spanish-speaking persons will constitute the largest minority group in the United States-in this context, bilingual education must be considered a crucial issue for educators and policymakers at the state, national, and local levels. Professors Cafferty and Rivera-Martínez analyze bilingual education policies and programs, particularly as they affect the Puerto Rican child, and reach some startling conclusions. They find that these programs do not, despite the best intentions, offer the equal opportunity and social mobility that has been their purpose. While the authors attempt to neither examine nor define the general problem of bilingual education methodology, they do address the problem of educating the Puerto Rican child as one minority among many. They suggest alternatives for solving the problem and recommend specific policies for federal, state, and local governments attempting to integrate Spanish-speaking minorities into the educational process.

Free Download Empire and the Ends of Politics By Plato, Thucydides
1999 | 64 Pages | ISBN: 0941051706 | PDF | 1 MB
This text brings together for the first time two complete key works from classical antiquity on the politics of Athens: Plato’s Menexenus and Pericles’ funeral oration (from Thucydides’ history of the Peloponnesian War).

Free Download Katalin Miklossy, Dieter Segert, "The Politics of East European Area Studies"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138653306 | EPUB | pages: 110 | 0.2 mb
Following the end of the Cold War and European Union enlargement, in what sense does Eastern Europe continue to exist as a meaningful geo-political concept? In addressing this question, contributors to this volume―Alex Cistelecan, Robert Bideleux, Katalin Miklóssy and Dieter Segert―tease out the implications for an ‘Area Studies’ approach to the region. They examine its contradictory situation within discourses of ‘orientalisation’: on one hand, posited as the ‘underdeveloped’ pendant to its western neighbours; on the other, largely Christian by religion and an integral part of a continent that dominated the world. They uncover the roots of area studies in the ‘colonial paradigm’ by which great powers promote the creation of predictive, ‘problem-solving’ knowledge that is immediately apprehendable for decision makers, helping them to take advantage of a region’s resources and strategic position, but which tends to homogenise the region’s geography and history. For critical inquiry, they argue, the challenge is to delineate transparently the reasons underlying Eastern Europe’s construction as an area of study, to identify the epistemological interests of motivated organisations such as funding agencies and political bodies, and to counter the ongoing orientalism of Western perspectives toward the East. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe.

Free Download The New Global Politics of Science: Knowledge, Markets and the State by Mats Benner
English | August 31, 2018 | ISBN: 1784717169 | True EPUB/PDF | 232 pages | 0.5/1.7 MB
Science has become a central political concern with massive increases in public investment, but resources are embedded in a complex web of expectations that vary between countries and regions. This book outlines an insightful understanding of science policy as both concerning the governance of science itself through priority-setting, funding, organization and articulation with polity, society and economy, and its extra-organizational connections in terms of higher education, innovation and national policy concerns.

Free Download Charles Austin Beard, "The Economic Basis of Politics"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1015635601 | EPUB | pages: 108 | 0.5 mb
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Free Download Frank P. Daversa, "Politics in America: A Guide to the Two-Party System"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1638715092 | EPUB | pages: 124 | 0.1 mb
This book is designed to enlighten novice and undecided voters about politics in America. To start with, it describes the types of people who make up the two major political parties. Liberal to conservative democrats and libertarians to social conservatives are covered . Next, it discusses the parties’ respective histories, ranging from 1800 to the present day. Then it explains the ideologies of each, from social issues to economics to the environment. This is followed by a summary of various landmark Congressional legislation. Next, it provides terse commentary on issue relevant to a given election, from taxes to abortion to national security. Lastly, it summarizes concept every voter should understand before casting their ballot on Election Day.

Free Download David J. Dunn, "From Power Politics to Conflict Resolution: The Work of John W. Burton"
English | 2004 | pages: 203 | ISBN: 0333666054 | PDF | 1,1 mb
From Power Politics to Conflict Resolution surveys the development of the ideas of John W. Burton, an Australian civil servant and diplomat who became a prolific author in the fields of International Relations and Conflict Theory. This work, beginning with an introduction to his life and associations, assesses the development of Burton’s ideas, at once critical of much of the conventional wisdom of International Relations as well as seeking to be innovative, helping us to understand the issues of peace and conflict in a changing world. A central theme is the development of a framework of ideas which Burton came to call provention .

Free Download Earthscan Ltd, "Environmentalism and Politics: Volume 8"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1853830623, 1849710015, 0415847176 | EPUB | pages: 2492 | 0.5 mb
This set forms a carefully selected body of work on the emergence of the environmentalism movement and its place in politics.