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Author : Harri Englund
Release : 2006-09-12
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 240/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Prisoners of Freedom by : Harri Englund
Download or read book Prisoners of Freedom written by Harri Englund. This book was released on 2006-09-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Harri Englund
Release : 2006-09-12
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Prisoners of Freedom by : Harri Englund
Download or read book Prisoners of Freedom written by Harri Englund. This book was released on 2006-09-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this vivid ethnography, Harri Englund investigates how ideas of freedom impede struggles against poverty and injustice in emerging democracies. Reaching beyond a narrow focus on the national elite, Prisoners of Freedom shows how foreign aid and human rights activism hamper the pursuit of democratic citizenship in Africa. The book explores how activists’ aspirations of self-improvement, pursued under harsh economic conditions, find in the human rights discourse a new means to distinguish oneself from the poor masses. Among expatriates, the emphasis on abstract human rights avoids confrontations with the political and business elites. Drawing on long-term research among the Malawian poor, Englund brings to life the personal circumstances of Malawian human rights activists, their expatriate benefactors, and the urban and rural poor as he develops a fresh perspective on freedom—one that recognizes the significance of debt, obligation, and civil virtues.
Author : Doris Stevens
Release : 1920
Genre : Suffrage
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Book Synopsis Jailed for Freedom by : Doris Stevens
Download or read book Jailed for Freedom written by Doris Stevens. This book was released on 1920. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chol Soo Lee
Release : 2017-06-30
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 912/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Freedom without Justice by : Chol Soo Lee
Download or read book Freedom without Justice written by Chol Soo Lee. This book was released on 2017-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom without Justice is the compelling story of Chol Soo Lee’s wrongful imprisonment and his years of survival in prison, while political activists fought to win his freedom. His saga took place against a backdrop of great historical change in Asian American communities following the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act. In 1973, less than a decade after he immigrated to the United States from Korea at the age of twelve, Lee is convicted of murder and given a life sentence. Four years later, his case became a nationwide rallying point for an extraordinary pan–Asian American movement during the late 1970s and early 1980s, bringing together people from a broad spectrum of social backgrounds for a common political cause. This diverse grassroots activism organized a six-year “Free Chol Soo Lee!” campaign that led to his release from San Quentin’s Death Row in 1983. While the case inspired newspaper headlines, TV specials, and even a Hollywood movie, until now the full story has never been told in Chol Soo Lee’s own voice. Freedom without Justice reveals the race and class dimensions of US correctional institutions from the perspective of convicts who fiercely refuse to be victims. As a chronicle of the life of a youth at risk, during a time when Asian American inmates were scarce, and Korean Americans even scarcer, Lee's memoir draws readers into a variety of worlds—war-torn Korea, the streets of San Francisco, the criminal justice system, prison gang politics, and death row.
Author : Earle, Rod
Release : 2019-12-18
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 064/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Degrees of Freedom by : Earle, Rod
Download or read book Degrees of Freedom written by Earle, Rod. This book was released on 2019-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first authoritative volume to look back on the last 40 years of The Open University providing higher education to those in prison, this unique book gives voice to ex-prisoners whose lives have been transformed by the education they received. Offering vivid personal testimonies, reflective vignettes and academic analysis of prison life and education in prison, the book will mark the 50th anniversary of Open University.
