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To Serve the People: My Life Organizing with Cesar Chavez and the PoorThe long pilgrimage of LeRoy Chatfield weaves its way through multiple collective projects designed to better the condition of the marginalized and forgotten. From the cloisters of the Christian Brothers and the halls of secondary education to the fields of Central California and the...
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Farming and Working Under Contract: Peasants and Workers in Global Agricultural Value SystemsIn recent years, contract farming has received much attention in the literature, and is touted as a means to engage small farmers in high value agriculture chains. However, its role and impact in the developing countries constitute a debated ground. The proponents of contract...
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Electrification: Accelerating the Energy TransitionElectrification: Accelerating the Energy Transition offers a widely applicable framework to delineate context-sensitive pathways by which this transition can be accelerated and lists the types of processes and structures that may hinder progress towards this goal. The framework draws insights from well-established literature, ranging...
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Shaheen Bagh and the Idea of India: Writings on a Movement for Justice, Liberty and EqualityDescription On 15 December 2019, police in riot gear stormed Delhi's Jamia Millia IslamiaUniversity and attacked unarmed students protesting against the Citizenship(Amendment) Act (CAA), which makes religion the basis of Indian citizenship. Inneighbouring Shaheen Bagh, a few women-mothers, other relatives and friends ofthe students-came...
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Reflections on violenceThis book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...
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United Nations Peacekeeping Operations in the DRCInternational interventionism has become uninhibited since the end of the cold war, first of all thanks to humanitarian aid and, since September 11, 2001, because of the international terrorist threat. In this context, the "failed states" are the object of a growing international interventionism...
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Audience Development and Cultural PolicyEncouraging more - and different - people to attend the arts remains a vital issue for the cultural sector. The question of who consumes culture, and why, is key to our understanding of the arts. This book examines the relationship of audience development to...
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Economic Dignity"Timely and important . . . It should be our North Star for the recovery and beyond." --Hillary Clinton "Sperling makes a forceful case that only by speaking to matters of the spirit can liberals root their belief in economic justice in people's deepest...
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The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile StrikeThis book tells the story of 15,000 wool workers who went on strike for more than a year, defying police violence and hunger. The strikers were mainly immigrants and half were women. The Passaic textile strike, the first time that the Communist Party led...
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Unprosecuted: My Mother's Murder and the Search for Accountability"Everybody knows who did it " In the aftermath of a horrific murder of a mother in front of her four-year-old son, the entire close-knit community knew the murderer could only be one man. Several witnesses-including Eric, the boy left for dead-placed the murderer...
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TrumpspeakTrumpspeak is a witty, no-holds-barred assessment of Trump's mastery - or otherwise - of English and a thoughtful consideration of the ethical issues involved in translating someone you are at extreme odds with. Nearly two decades into her career as a press translator, and...
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State of Slum: Precarity and Informal Governance at the Margins in AccraHome to eighty thousand people, Accra's Old Fadama neighbourhood is the largest illegal slum in Ghana. Though almost all its inhabitants are Ghanaian born, their status as illegal 'squatters' means that they live a precarious existence, marginalised within Ghanaian society and denied many of...
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Liberals At LargeResearch for this book has meant delving into the underlying motivations that caused the insurmountable division in our current political system. By pointing out the "scorched-earth policy" the liberals employed after the 2016 presidential election, the author warns of the consequences of radical programs...
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Statecraft and Salvation: Wilsonian Liberal Internationalism as Secularized EschatologyUnderstanding Woodrow Wilson's approach to international relations requires acknowledgment of his Protestant faith. In Statecraft and Salvation, Milan Babík delivers a fresh analysis of Wilson's progressive international political thought by examining it within the broader context of the American liberal tradition. The progressive belief...
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Not According to Plan: Filmmaking Under StalinIn Not According to Plan, Maria Belodubrovskaya reveals the limits on the power of even the most repressive totalitarian regimes to create and control propaganda. Belodubrovskaya's revisionist account of Soviet filmmaking between 1930 and 1953 highlights the extent to which the Soviet film industry...
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Deleuze and AnarchismThis collection of 13 essays addresses and explores Deleuze and Guattari's relationship to the notion of anarchism: in the diverse ways that they conceived of and referred to it throughout their work, and also more broadly in terms of the spirit of their philosophy...
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Just War and Ordered LibertyWhen is war just? What does justice require? If we lack a commonly-accepted understanding of justice - and thus of just war - what answers can we find in the intellectual history of just war? Miller argues that just war thinking should be understood...
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Tuesday Night Massacre: Four Senate Elections and the Radicalization of the Republican PartyWhile political history has plenty to say about the impact of Ronald Reagan's election to the presidency in 1980, four Senate races that same year have garnered far less attention--despite their similarly profound political effect. Tuesday Night Massacre looks at those races. In examining...
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Alabama Republican Party - 1867-2010: Notes and Observations of a Deep South StateThis work is a historical overview of an emerging anti-slavery political party in a deep South state. The Alabama Republican Party was organized in the state capitol in Montgomery on June 4-5, 1867. The South, governed solely by Democrats, had been severely punished by...
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Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models in Political ScienceTension has long existed in the social sciences between quantitative and qualitative approaches on one hand, and theory-minded and empirical techniques on the other. The latter divide has grown sharper in the wake of new behavioural and experimental perspectives which draw on both sides...
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