Social Movements Books

New and Published Books – Page 4

31. Civil Society and Global Poverty

    Hegemony, Inclusivity, Legitimacy

    By Clive Gabay

    Series: Routledge/Warwick Studies in Globalisation

    The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) is world’s largest civil society movement fighting against poverty and inequality, incorporating over 100 affiliated country-level coalitions. It has become a significant global actor and its annual days of mobilisation now attract over 175 million...

    Published July 18th 2012 by Routledge
32. Hindu Mahasabha in Colonial North India, 1915-1930

    Constructing Nation and History

    By Prabhu Bapu

    Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

    Hindu nationalism has emerged as a political ideology represented by the Hindu Mahasabha. This book explores the campaign for Hindu unity and organisation in the context of the Hindu-Muslim conflict in colonial north India in the early twentieth century. It argues that India's partition...

    Published July 2nd 2012 by Routledge
33. Fighting Corruption in Eastern Europe

    A Multilevel Perspective

    Edited by Diana Schmidt-Pfister, Holger Moroff

    Anti-corruption programmes, projects and campaigns have come to constitute an essential aspect of good governance promotion over the last two decades. The post-communist countries in Eastern Europe have presented one of the first key targets of transnational anti-corruption efforts, and indeed most...

    Published May 31st 2012 by Routledge
34. Encoding the Olympics

    The Beijing Olympic Games and the Communication Impact Worldwide

    Edited by Luo Qing, Giuseppe Richeri

    Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

    Encoding the Olympics assembles a uniquely representative international team of media experts to provide a comprehensive review of the global impact of media and cultural communications associated with the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Commissioned by the IOC, this pioneering comparative study – the...

    Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
35. Ambiguities of Activism

    Alter-Globalism and the Imperatives of Speed

    By Ingrid M. Hoofd

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    This volume provides a critical and in-depth investigation of the relationship between alter-globalist thinking and practices and their popular discourses. It examines the ways in which several alter-globalist activist groups (like Indymedia, no-borders campaigns, and forms of climate change...

    Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
36. Functional and Territorial Interest Representation in the EU

    Edited by Michèle Knodt, Christine Quittkat, Justin Greenwood

    Series: Journal of European Integration Special Issues

    Despite a substantial legacy of literature on EU interest representation, there is no systematic analysis available on whether a European model of interest representation in EU governance is detectable across functional, and territorial, categories of actors. ‘Functional’ actors include...

    Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
37. NGOs in India

    The challenges of women's empowerment and accountability

    By Patrick Kilby

    Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

    By examining how NGOs operate in Southern India in the early 2000’s, this book discusses the challenges faced by small, local NGOs in the uncertain times of changing aid dynamics. The key findings focus on what empowerment means for Indian women, and how NGO accountability to these groups is an...

    Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
38. Migration, Work and Citizenship in the New Global Order

    Edited by Ronaldo Munck, Carl Schierup, Raúl Wise

    Series: Rethinking Globalizations

    Any consideration of global migration in relation to work and citizenship must necessarily be situated in the context of the Great Recession. A whole historical chapter – that of neoliberalism – has now closed and the future can only be deemed uncertain. Migrant workers were key players during this...

    Published March 11th 2012 by Routledge
39. Situating Global Resistance

    Between Discipline and Dissent

    Edited by Lara Montesinos Coleman, Karen Tucker

    Series: Rethinking Globalizations

    The book examines some of the ways in which contemporary forms of political dissent are situated within processes of global ordering. Grounded in analysis of concrete practices of discipline and dissent in specific contexts, it explores the ways in which resistance can be shaped by dominant...

    Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge
40. Governing Through Pedagogy

    Re-educating Citizens

    Edited by Jessica Pykett

    This edited collection brings together researchers from education, human geography, sociology, social policy and political theory in order to consider the idea of the ‘pedagogical state’ as a means of understanding the strategies employed to re-educate citizens. The book aims to critically...

    Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge