Contesting Power

Author : Douglas E. Haynes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520075856
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Power written by Douglas E. Haynes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riots, rebellions, and revolutions have always captured our attention. But moments of upheaval do not contrast as strongly with "normal" times as many social historians, sociologists, and political scientists have assumed. Offering examples from South Asia, these essays examine subtle forms of the "everyday resistance" and varieties of the everyday use of power that mark the patterns of ordinary life in the region. These essays are part of a larger effort to understand the history of subordination in India. They focus on peasants and urban laborers, courtesans and merchants, sometimes employing unconventional sources and methods. By depicting a rich variety of non-confrontational forms of resistance and contestatory behaviors, the authors challenge our usual assumptions about the overt nature of resistance to dominant powerholders. Taken together, the essays suggest that we must consider a much wider range of socio-cultural practices if we wish to understand how the world of dominated groups is constrained, modified, and conditioned by power relations. Identifying the "everydayness" of resistance in social life thus reveals a social structure formed from a constellation of contradictory and contestatory processes, rather than a seamless, functional whole. At the same time, struggle is portrayed as something that is constantly being conditioned by the structures of social and political power. As the editors note, "neither domination nor resistance is autonomous; the two are entangled together so that it becomes difficult to analyze one without discussing the effects of the other".

Author : Frances Fax Piven
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0742563405
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Challenging Authority written by Frances Fax Piven and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-07-11 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that ordinary people exercise extraordinary political courage and power in American politics when, frustrated by politics as usual, they rise up in anger and hope, and defy the authorities and the status quo rules that ordinarily govern their daily lives. By doing so, they disrupt the workings of important institutions and become a force in American politics. Drawing on critical episodes in U.S. history, Piven shows that it is in fact precisely at those seismic moments when people act outside of political norms that they become empowered to their full democratic potential.

Author : Nick Couldry
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742523852
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Media Power written by Nick Couldry and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contesting Media Power is the most ambitious international collection to date on the worldwide growth of alternative media that are challenging the power concentration in large media corporations. Media scholars and political scientists develop a broad comparative framework for analyzing alternative media in Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Topics include independent media centers, gay online networks and alternative web discussion forums, feminist film, political journalism and social networks, indigenous communication, and church-sponsored media. This important book will help shape debates on the media's role in current global struggles, such as the anti-globalization movement.

Author : Adrian Howe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138478626
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Femicide written by Adrian Howe and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on femicide, this book draws upon, whilst also providing a contemporary re-evaluation of, Carol Smart's innovative approach to the law question as first outlined in her ground-breaking book, Feminism and the Power of Law (Routledge 1989).

Author : Nick Couldry
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742575209
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Media Power written by Nick Couldry and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2003-09-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contesting Media Power is the most ambitious international collection to date on the worldwide growth of alternative media that are challenging the power concentration in large media corporations. Media scholars and political scientists develop a broad comparative framework for analyzing alternative media in Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Topics include independent media centers, gay online networks and alternative web discussion forums, feminist film, political journalism and social networks, indigenous communication, and church-sponsored media. This important book will help shape debates on the media's role in current global struggles, such as the anti-globalization movement.

Author : Poonam Bala
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739170244
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Colonial Authority written by Poonam Bala and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poonam Bala’s Contesting Colonial Authority explores the interplay of conformity and defiance amongst the plural medical tradition in colonial India. The contributors reveal how Indian elites, nationalists, and the rest of the Indian population participated in the move to revisit and frame a new social character of Indian Medicine. Viewed in the light of the cultural, nationalistic, social, literary and scientific essentials, Contesting Colonial Authority highlights various indigenous interpretations and mechanisms through which Indian sciences and medicine were projected against the cultural background of a rich medical tradition.

Author : Barry Buzan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107077478
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting International Society in East Asia written by Barry Buzan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asks whether a regional international society exists in East Asia and why its existence matters to both regional and global orders.

Author : Frank M. Turner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521372572
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Cultural Authority written by Frank M. Turner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-04-08 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume of essays which constitutes a major overview of the Victorian intellectual enterprise.

Author : James DeFilippis
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813547555
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Community written by James DeFilippis and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do community organizations and organizers do, and what should they do? "Contesting Community" addresses one of the vital issues of our day-the role and meaning of community in people's lives and in the larger political economy. It paints a more critical picture of community work which, according to the authors-in both theory and practice-has amounted to less than the sum of its parts. Their comparative study of efforts in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada describes and analyzes the limits and potential of this work.

Author : Thierry Balzacq
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136162739
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Security written by Thierry Balzacq and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contesting Security investigates to what extent the ‘logic of security’, which underpins securitization, can be contained, rolled back or dismantled. Featuring legitimacy as a cement of security practices, this volume presents a detailed account of the "logic" which sustains security in order to develop a novel approach to the relation between security and the policies in which it is engraved. Understanding security as a normative practice, the contributors suggest a nuanced, and richer take on the conditions under which it is possible, advisable or fair to accept or roll back its policies. The book comprises four sections, each investigating one specific modality of contesting security practices: resistance, desecuritization, emancipation, and resilience. These strategies are examined, compared and assessed in different political and cultural habitats. This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, securitisation theory, social theory, and IR in general.