Tag: Refusing

Breaking Ranks Refusing to Serve the West Bank and Gaza Strip


Free Download Breaking Ranks: Refusing to Serve the West Bank and Gaza Strip by Ronit Chacham
English | December 17th, 2024 | ISBN: 1590510992 | 176 pages | True EPUB | 6.30 MB
In a series of moving and provocative conversations, nine members of the Israeli Defense Force tell why they refused to serve in the West Bank and Gaza. The "Refuseniks" describe their risky moral decision against the background of what is perhaps the most volatile conflict in the world today: the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. Their individual choices and their collective activism have generated intense debate in Israel and the international community, from the leading Israeli newspaper Ha’Aretz to a segment on 60 Minutes.

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Refusing Ecocide


Free Download William K. Carroll, "Refusing Ecocide "
English | ISBN: 103253642X | 2024 | 202 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 3 MB
Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World provides a critical analysis of the central role of fossil capitalism in causing climate change and argues that only alternatives based upon democratic eco-socialism can prevent the deepening of the climate crisis.

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Refusing the Limits of Contemporary Childhood Beyond Innocence


Free Download Julie C. Garlen, "Refusing the Limits of Contemporary Childhood: Beyond Innocence "
English | ISBN: 1666911534 | 2023 | 262 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 2 MB
Each of the essays in this collection considers what lies beyond the limiting discourses of childhood innocence. Instead of focusing on how children "grow up," as has been the focus of developmental science for over a century, we ask what it might mean for discourses of childhood to finally "grow out" of childhood innocence? The authors featured in this volume explore this question through critical approaches that actively refuse the limits of normative and normalizing conceptions of the child by surfacing and centering complex, multiplicitous configurations of childhood. Together, these perspectives challenge existing discourses and social practices to reveal how power operates in and through the child and its uses.

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