Claiming The Streets

Author : Paul O'Leary
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708325424
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Claiming the Streets written by Paul O'Leary and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Street processions were a defining feature of life in the Victorian town, and this book examines how those events created new civic identities in the growing towns of nineteenth-century south Wales.

Author : Paul O'Leary
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : Carwil Bjork-James
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816540152
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sovereign Street written by Carwil Bjork-James and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twenty-first century Bolivian social movements made streets, plazas, and highways into the decisively important spaces for acting politically, rivaling and at times exceeding voting booths and halls of government. The Sovereign Street documents this important period, showing how indigenous-led mass movements reconfigured the politics and racial order of Bolivia from 1999 to 2011. Drawing on interviews with protest participants, on-the-ground observation, and documentary research, activist and scholar Carwil Bjork-James provides an up-close history of the indigenous-led protests that changed Bolivia. At the heart of the study is a new approach to the interaction between protest actions and the parts of the urban landscape they claim. These “space-claiming protests” both communicate a message and exercise practical control over the city. Bjork-James interrogates both protest tactics—as experiences and as tools—and meaning-laden spaces, where meaning is part of the racial and political geography of the city. Taking the streets of Cochabamba, Sucre, and La Paz as its vantage point, The Sovereign Streetoffers a rare look at political revolution as it happens. It documents a critical period in Latin American history, when protests made headlines worldwide, where a generation of pro-globalization policies were called into question, and where the indigenous majority stepped into government power for the first time in five centuries.

Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1429904658
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing in the Streets written by Barbara Ehrenreich and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2007-12-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling social commentator and cultural historian comes Barbara Ehrenreich's fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy In the acclaimed Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich delved into the origins of our species' attraction to war. Here, she explores the opposite impulse, one that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. Although sixteenth-century Europeans viewed mass festivities as foreign and "savage," Ehrenreich shows that they were indigenous to the West, from the ancient Greeks' worship of Dionysus to the medieval practice of Christianity as a "danced religion." Ultimately, church officials drove the festivities into the streets, the prelude to widespread reformation: Protestants criminalized carnival, Wahhabist Muslims battled ecstatic Sufism, European colonizers wiped out native dance rites. The elites' fear that such gatherings would undermine social hierarchies was justified: the festive tradition inspired French revolutionary crowds and uprisings from the Caribbean to the American plains. Yet outbreaks of group revelry persist, as Ehrenreich shows, pointing to the 1960s rock-and-roll rebellion and the more recent "carnivalization" of sports. Original, exhilarating, and deeply optimistic, Dancing in the Streets concludes that we are innately social beings, impelled to share our joy and therefore able to envision, even create, a more peaceable future. "Fascinating . . . An admirably lucid, level-headed history of outbreaks of joy from Dionysus to the Grateful Dead."—Terry Eagleton, The Nation

Author : Elijah Anderson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393070387
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City written by Elijah Anderson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2000-09-17 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice) Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules—based largely on an individual's ability to command respect—is a powerful and pervasive form of etiquette, governing the way in which people learn to negotiate public spaces. Elijah Anderson's incisive book delineates the code and examines it as a response to the lack of jobs that pay a living wage, to the stigma of race, to rampant drug use, to alienation and lack of hope.

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Total Pages : 1258 pages
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Author : Boston (Mass.). City Council
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Total Pages : 1296 pages
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Download or read book Reports of Proceedings ... written by Boston (Mass.). City Council and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1030 pages
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Download or read book The Lawyers Reports Annotated, Book 1-70 written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chicago (Ill.). Street Railway Commission
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
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Download or read book Report to the City Council of the City of Chicago written by Chicago (Ill.). Street Railway Commission and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 688 pages
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Download or read book The N.Y. Weekly Digest of Cases Decided in the U.S. Supreme, Circuit, and District Courts, Appellate Courts of the Several States, State and City Courts of New York and English Courts written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: