Contesting Transformation

Author : Marcelle C. Dawson
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745335025
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Transformation written by Marcelle C. Dawson and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contesting Transformation is a sober and critical reflection of the wave of social movement struggles which have taken place in post-apartheid South Africa. Much of the writing on these movements was produced when they were at their peak, whereas this collection takes stock of the subsequent period of difficulty and complexity. The contributors consider how these different movements conceive of transformation and assess the extent to which these understandings challenge the narrative of the ruling African National Congress (ANC). From township revolts to labour struggles, Contesting Transformation is the definitive critical survey of the state of popular struggle in South Africa today.

Author : Carol Hardy-Fanta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521196434
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contested Transformation written by Carol Hardy-Fanta and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first in-depth look at male and female elected officials of color using survey and other empirical data.

Author : Steve Chan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197580327
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Revisionism written by Steve Chan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we know a country, such as the United States or China, is revisionist, that is, whether it intends to upset the international order? What motivates states to act the way they do? Contesting Revisionism focuses on a particular kind of motivation inclining a state to challenge the existing norms, rules, and institutions of international order: revisionism. The authors offer a critique of the existing discourse on revisionism and investigate the origin and evolution of the foreign policy orientations of revisionist states in the past. Furthermore, they introduce an ensemble of indicators to discern and compare the extent of revisionist tendencies on the part of contemporary China and the United States. Questioning the facile assumption that past episodes will repeat in the future, they argue that "hard" revisionism relying on war and conquest is less viable and likely in today's world. Instead, "soft" revisionism seeking to promote institutional change is more relevant and likely. Focusing on contemporary Sino-American relations, they conclude that much of the current discourse based on power transition theory is problematic. A dominant power is not inevitably committed to the defense of international order, nor does a rising power always have a revisionist agenda to challenge this order. The transformation of international order does not necessarily require a power transition between China and the US., nor does a possible power transition necessarily augur war. After developing the concept of revisionism both theoretically and empirically, they conclude with a series of policy recommendations for enhancing international stability and diminishing tension in Sino-American relations.

Author : Antulio Joseph Echevarria
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Challenging Transformation's Clichés written by Antulio Joseph Echevarria and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Annika Bjorkdahl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317409418
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peacebuilding and Spatial Transformation written by Annika Bjorkdahl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates peacebuilding in post-conflict scenarios by analysing the link between peace, space and place. By focusing on the case studies of Cyprus, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Northern Ireland and South Africa, the book provides a spatial reading of agency in peacebuilding contexts. It conceptualises peacebuilding agency in post-conflict landscapes as situated between place (material locality) and space (the imaginary counterpart of place), analysing the ways in which peacebuilding agency can be read as a spatial practice. Investigating a number of post-conflict cases, this book outlines infrastructures of power and agency as they are manifested in spatial practice. It demonstrates how spatial agency can take the form of conflict and exclusion on the one hand, but also of transformation towards peace over time on the other hand. Against this background, the book argues that agency drives place-making and space-making processes. Therefore, transformative processes in post-conflict societies can be understood as materialising through the active use and transformation of space and place. This book will be of interest to students of peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, human geography and IR in general.

Author : Emily Barman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804754491
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Communities written by Emily Barman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deftly blending sociological theory of organizations with archival research, interviews with nonprofit leaders, and original survey data, this book investigates the rise of new workplace fundraisers alongside the United Way, identifying why competition has occurred and delineating its consequences for donors, nonprofits, and recipients.

Author : Karin Murris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317511689
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Posthuman Child written by Karin Murris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Posthuman Child combats institutionalised ageist practices in primary, early childhood and teacher education. Grounded in a critical posthumanist perspective on the purpose of education, it provides a genealogy of psychology, sociology and philosophy of childhood in which dominant figurations of child and childhood are exposed as positioning child as epistemically and ontologically inferior. Entangled throughout this book are practical and theorised examples of philosophical work with student teachers, teachers, other practitioners and children (aged 3-11) from South Africa and Britain. These engage arguments about how children are routinely marginalised, discriminated against and denied, especially when the child is also female, black, lives in poverty and whose home language is not English. The book makes a distinctive contribution to the decolonisation of childhood discourses. Underpinned by good quality picturebooks and other striking images, the book's radical proposal for transformation is to reconfigure the child as rich, resourceful and resilient through relationships with (non) human others, and explores the implications for literary and literacy education, teacher education, curriculum construction, implementation and assessment. It is essential reading for all who research, work and live with children.

Author : Władysław Adamski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of State Socialism as a Challenge to Systemic Transformation written by Władysław Adamski and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah Maddison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134654103
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conflict Transformation and Reconciliation written by Sarah Maddison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines approaches to reconciliation and peacebuilding in settler colonial, post-conflict, and divided societies. In contrast to current literature, this book provides a broader assessment of reconciliation and conflict transformation by applying a distinctive ‘multi-level’ approach. The analysis provides a unique intervention in the field, one that significantly complicates received notions of reconciliation and transitional justice, and considers conflict transformation across the constitutional, institutional, and relational levels of society. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in South Africa, Northern Ireland, Australia, and Guatemala, the work presents an interdisciplinary study of the complex political challenges facing societies attempting to transition either from violence and authoritarianism to peace and democracy, or from colonialism to post-colonialism. Informed by theories of agonistic democracy, the book conceives of reconciliation as a process that is deeply political, and that prioritises the capacity to retain and develop democratic political contest in societies that have, in other ways, been able to resolve their conflicts. The cases considered suggest that reconciliation is most likely an open-ended process rather than a goal — a process that requires divided societies to pay ongoing attention to reconciliatory efforts at all levels, long after the eyes of the world have moved on from countries where the work of reconciliation is thought to be finished. This book will be of great interest to students of reconciliation, conflict transformation, peacebuilding, transitional justice and IR in general.

Author : Marcelle C. Dawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783712137
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Transformation written by Marcelle C. Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sober and critical reflection of the wave of social movement struggles which have taken place in post-Apartheid South Africa.