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Author : Jane Barry
Release : 2008
Genre : Human rights
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 806/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis What's the Point of Revolution If We Can't Dance? by : Jane Barry
Download or read book What's the Point of Revolution If We Can't Dance? written by Jane Barry. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Shepard
Release : 2012-05-23
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 644/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Play, Creativity, and Social Movements by : Benjamin Shepard
Download or read book Play, Creativity, and Social Movements written by Benjamin Shepard. This book was released on 2012-05-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we play, we step away from stark reality to conjure up new possibilities for the present and our common future. Today, a new cohort of social activists are using it to create social change and reinvent democratic social relations. In contrast to work or routine, play must be free. To the extent that it is, it infuses a high-octane burst of innovation into any number of organizational practices and contexts, and invites social actors to participate in a low-threshold, highly democratic process of collaboration, based on pleasure and convivial social relations. Despite the contention that such activities are counterproductive, movements continue to put the right to party on the table as a part of a larger process of social change, as humor and pleasure disrupt monotony, while disarming systems of power. Through this book, Shepard explores notions of play as a social movement activity, considering some of the meanings, applications and history of the concept in relation to social movement groups ranging from Dada and Surrealism to Situationism, the Yippies to the Young Lords, ACT UP to the Global Justice, anti-gentrification, community and anti-war movements of recent years.
Author : Ari Honarvar
Release : 2021-09-21
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 475/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Girl Called Rumi by : Ari Honarvar
Download or read book A Girl Called Rumi written by Ari Honarvar. This book was released on 2021-09-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Girl Called Rumi, Ari Honarvar’s debut novel, weaves a captivating tale of survival, redemption, and the power of storytelling. Kimia, a successful spiritual advisor whose Iranian childhood continues to haunt her, collides with a mysterious giant bird in her mother’s California garage. She begins reliving her experience as a nine-year-old girl in war-torn Iran, including her friendship with a mystical storyteller who led her through the mythic Seven Valleys of Love. Grappling with her unresolved past, Kimia agrees to accompany her ailing mother back to Iran, only to arrive in the midst of the Green Uprising in the streets. Against the backdrop of the election protests, Kimia begins to unravel the secrets of the night that broke her mother and produced a dangerous enemy. As past and present collide, she must choose between running away again or completing her unfinished journey through the Valley of Death to save her brother.
Author : Johanna Billing
Release : 2006
Genre : Art, Modern
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Book Rating : 465/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want to be Part of Your Revolution by : Johanna Billing
Download or read book If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want to be Part of Your Revolution written by Johanna Billing. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alice M. Nah
Release : 2020-11-22
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 990/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Protecting Human Rights Defenders at Risk by : Alice M. Nah
Download or read book Protecting Human Rights Defenders at Risk written by Alice M. Nah. This book was released on 2020-11-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses the construction, operation and effects of the international protection regime for human rights defenders, which has evolved significantly over the last twenty years in response to the risks people face as they promote and protect human rights. Drawing upon the experiences of human rights defenders who continue to persevere in their activism in Indonesia, Egypt, Kenya, Mexico and Colombia, this edited collection examines the ways in which formal protection mechanisms by state and civil society actors intersect with self-protection measures and informal protection initiatives by families and friends. It highlights that protection practices are most effective when they are designed to address the specific risks that human rights defenders face (which are gendered and intersectional); reflect how defenders understand ‘risk’, ‘security’ and ‘protection’; and are appropriate for the dynamic sociopolitical and legal contexts in which defenders operate. This book proposes ways in which the protection of human rights defenders at risk should be reimagined and practised. This book will be a thought-provoking guide for students and scholars of politics, international relations, law and human rights, as well as to practitioners engaged in the protection of human rights defenders at risk.
