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Food for Change: The Politics and Values of Social Movements
Concern about our food system is growing, from the costs of industrial farming to the dominant role of supermarkets and recurring scandals about the origins and content of what we eat. Food for Change documents the way alternative food movements respond to these concerns by trying to create more closed economic circuits within which people know where, how, and by whom their food is produced. Jeff Pratt, Peter Luetchford and other contributors explore the key political and economic questions of food through ...
MPN: 46334e9d2e0782c1d0d275e7135e4cea
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The Time of Youth: Work, Social Change, and Politics in Africa
Most young Africans are living in waithood, a period of suspension between childhood and adulthood. Failed neo-liberal economic policies, bad governance and political instability have caused stable jobs to disappear without jobs that pay living wages, these young people cannot support families, thus becoming fully participating members of society. As this limbo becomes pervasive and prolonged, waithood in Africa becomes seemingly permanent, gradually replacing conventional adulthood. And with the deepening ...
MPN: 5f8c09c8c46254fe81b29519cf78433e
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Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics
Social movements have an elusive power but one that is altogether real. From the French and American revolutions to the post-Soviet, ethnic, and terrorist movements of today, contentious politics exercises a fleeting but powerful influence on politics, society, and international relations. This study surveys the modern history of the modern social movements in the West and their diffusion to the global South through war, colonialism, and diffusion, and it puts forward a theory to explain its cyclical surges...
MPN: f75830d8ca35a76b8862949e3012b7dc
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Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity
This book examines contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing on developments in three arenas industrial relations, vocational education and training, and labor market po...
MPN: f1d37a7904f92253465f9b2be538cb38
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Poetics of Politics: Textuality and Social Relevance in Contemporary American Literature and Culture
Hardcover, Isd, 2015, ISBN13 9783825364472, ISBN10 382536447X
MPN: a73a6a172cb10450df10024dd6643c7f
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The Politics of Policy Change: Welfare, Medicare, and Social Security Reform in the United States
For generations, debating the expansion or contraction of the American welfare state has produced some of the nation's most heated legislative battles. Attempting social policy reform is both risky and complicated, especially when it involves dealing with powerful vested interests, sharp ideological disagreements, and a nervous public. "The Politics of Policy Change" compares and contrasts recent developments in three major federal policy areas in the United States: welfare, Medicare, and Social Security. D...
MPN: 1c5a8e585ae538b91f3181e735817782
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The Social and Gender Politics of Confucian Nationalism: Women and the Japanese Nation-State
Freiner defines a new understanding of nationalism, with a focus on the ways in which the Japanese state has utilized Confucian philosophy to create a Japanese national identity and on the impact of this on women. She examines the key policy areas of educ...
MPN: 38cc8bb16fe58d66142c15360ac13822
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The Politics of Social Welfare Policy in South Korea: Growth and Citizenship
The Politics of Social Welfare Policy in South Korea explains, in a comparative perspective, South Korea's ungenerous welfare policies. Building on welfare state theories underlining class politics and state actions, the theoretical framework also incorpo...
MPN: 28786c1c9be67a98e4c719826fbecf48
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Essentials of Social Welfare: Politics and Public Policy
A brief text presenting conflicts and controversies surrounding social welfare policy." This book is part of the Connecting Core Competencies Series. This series helps students understand and master CSWE s core competencies with a variety of pedagogy hig...
MPN: ecc2214d662ec8df4a17bd9ddde5308b
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Art and Social Movements: Cultural Politics in Mexico and Aztlan
Art and Social Movements "offers a comparative, cross-border analysis of the role of visual artists in three social movements from the late 1960s through the early 1990s: the 1968 student movement and related activist art collectives in Mexico City, a Za...
MPN: 6e7eb01fdb6c38be0d6149cfec911c90
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Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory
Paperback, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 2005, ISBN13 9780742542693, ISBN10 0742542696
MPN: 0434d72b324fb6a7ba11ebb492244e03
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Plato, Politics and a Practical Utopia: Social Constructivism and Civic Planning in the Laws
Dealing with themes of urban planning, constitutionalism, utopianism and social construction theory, this book analyzes the city of Magnesia, Plato's second-best city-state in the Laws, as if it were an actual ancient city-state. The book details the d...
MPN: 3cfe42faf9894ca53546cc712bfa6285
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