The Politics Of The Trail

Author : Oded Lowenheim
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472052128
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Trail written by Oded Lowenheim and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of conflict on display through a morning commute through Jerusalem

Author : Alexandra Kerry
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 1605297917
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes from the Trail written by Alexandra Kerry and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2008-08-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern race for the presidency has become a national sport. We've seen the baby-kissing, the barbecues, and the photo-ops; news cameras have taken us inside Iowan living rooms leading up to the caucuses, and they've given us a bird's-eye view of the grand halls of political conventions. But what is it like to be on the inside of this spectacle? What happens when the candidate is your closest family member? In her account of her father's bid for the presidency, Alexandra Kerry brings us inside the bubble. Her words and images lend an intimacy to our often overblown politics as she sheds light on some of the contradictions, ironies, and saving graces of our electoral process and our country.

Author : Richard F. Fenno
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806130620
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Senators on the Campaign Trail written by Richard F. Fenno and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the politics of representative democracy, written from the perspective of the politicians who make it work. Typically, political scientists study campaigns from the perspective of the voter and for the purpose of explaining election outcomes. But campaigns also need to be studied from the perspective of the candidate, for the purpose of understanding representation. Richard F. Fenno, Jr., traveled with ten U.S. senators as they campaigned in their home states-using what he calls the "drop in/drop out, tag along/hang around" method of research-to present a developmental picture of their activities. His focus here is on three such activities—pursuing a career, campaigning for office, and building constituency connections. Taken together, the three constitute the political underpinnings of representative democracy. Fenno describes the achievement, the testing, and the maintenance of representational relationships. He examines challengers and incumbents, winners and losers, and motivations, strategies, and behaviors; and he reports on differences, similarities, and patterns among them. In studying the candidates' varied careers, campaigns, and connections in stages and sequences and in depth—and in allowing us to hear them reflect on these experiences—Fenno has been able to offer rare insights into campaigns and elections, insights very different from conventional ones that concentrate on the behavior of voters. In its focus on the process of representative democracy, Senators on the Campaign Trail offers a rich, rounded, developmental view of some high-level individuals who work at the business of representation. For scholars, the book suggests some qualitative confirmation and added stimulation in forging generalizations about politicians. For citizens, the book argues for replacing the conventional blanket condemnation of our politicians, so prevalent today, with more discriminating judgments about what they do, and why and to what purpose they do it.

Author : Sarah Mittlefehldt
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295804882
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tangled Roots written by Sarah Mittlefehldt and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Appalachian Trail, a thin ribbon of wilderness running through the densely populated eastern United States, offers a refuge from modern society and a place apart from human ideas and institutions. But as environmental historian—and thru-hiker—Sarah Mittlefehldt argues, the trail is also a conduit for community engagement and a model for public-private cooperation and environmental stewardship. In Tangled Roots, Mittlefehldt tells the story of the trail’s creation. The project was one of the first in which the National Park Service attempted to create public wilderness space within heavily populated, privately owned lands. Originally a regional grassroots endeavor, under federal leadership the trail project retained unprecedented levels of community involvement. As citizen volunteers came together and entered into conversation with the National Parks Service, boundaries between “local” and “nonlocal,” “public” and “private,” “amateur” and “expert” frequently broke down. Today, as Mittlefehldt tells us, the Appalachian Trail remains an unusual hybrid of public and private efforts and an inspiring success story of environmental protection. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFyhuGqbCGc

Author : Wang, Xi
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820342068
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trial of Democracy written by Wang, Xi and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Civil War, Republicans teamed with activist African Americans to protect black voting rights through innovative constitutional reforms--a radical transformation of southern and national political structures. The Trial of Democracy is a comprehensive analysis of both the forces and mechanisms that led to the implementation of black suffrage and the ultimate failure to maintain a stable northern constituency to support enforcement on a permanent basis. The reforms stirred fierce debates over the political and constitutional value of black suffrage, the legitimacy of racial equality, and the proper sharing of power between the state and federal governments. Unlike most studies of Reconstruction, this book follows these issues into the early twentieth century to examine the impact of the constitutional principles and the rise of Jim Crow. Tying constitutional history to party politics, The Trial of Democracy is a vital contribution to both fields.

Author : John Dickerson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501130676
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Her Trail written by John Dickerson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines his stormy relationship with his mother, describing her role as a pioneering woman journalist, the lavish political soirees that marked his parents' marriage, and his feelings about his mother's perpetual absence throughout his youth.

Author : Jean Bethke Elshtain
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 0887848540
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy on Trial written by Jean Bethke Elshtain and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 1993-11-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is democracy as we know it in danger? More and more we confront one another as aggrieved groups rather than as free citizens. Deepening cynicism, the growth of corrosive individualism, statism, and the loss of civil society are warning signs that democracy may be incapable of satisfying the yearnings it itself unleashes - yearnings for freedom, fairness, and equality. In her 1993 CBC Massey Lectures, political philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain delves into these complex issues to evaluate democracy's chances for survival.

Author : Javier Campo
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781783209163
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Trail of Fire for Political Cinema written by Javier Campo and published by Intellect (UK). This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: The Place of The Hour of the Furnaces in World Cinema (and in the Political World) -- Chapter 1: To Invent Our Revolution: An Aesthetic-Political Analysis of The Hour of the Furnaces -- Chapter 2: Fanon and The Hour of the Furnaces -- Chapter 3: A Look from Literature on Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino's The Hour of the Furnaces -- Chapter 4: Popular Music and Political Militancy in The Hour of the Furnaces -- Chapter 5: The Hour of the Furnaces' Sexualized History -- Chapter 6: The Hour of the Furnaces, May 68, and the Pesaro International Film Festival -- Chapter 7: Tracing the Winding Road of The Hour of the Furnaces in the First World -- Chapter 8: Trails of Ink: An Approximation to the Historiography on The Hour of the Furnaces -- Chapter 9: The Dialogue between The Hour of the Furnaces and the Tradition of Argentine Documentary -- Chapter 10: Solanas' Recent Documentaries -- Chapter 11: Experimenting with TV: The Hour of the Furnaces at the Crossroads of Cinematic Experimentalism and Video Art -- Chapter 12: The Hour of the Furnaces as an Essay Film -- Afterthoughts on The Hour of the Furnaces -- Contributors -- Back Cover.

Author : Oded Lowenheim
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047212028X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Trail written by Oded Lowenheim and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each day, as Oded Löwenheim commutes by mountain bike along dirt trails and wadis in the hills of Jerusalem to Hebrew University, he feels a strong emotional connection to his surroundings. But for him this connection also generates, paradoxically, feelings and emotions of confusion and estrangement. In The Politics of the Trail, Löwenheim confronts this tension by focusing on his encounters with three places along the trail: the separation fence between Israel and the Palestinians; the ruins of the Palestinian village Qalunya, demolished in 1948; and the trail connecting the largest 9/11 memorial site outside the U.S. with a top-secret nuclear-proof bunker for the Israeli cabinet. He shares the stories of the people he meets along the way and considers how his own subjectivity is shaped by the landscape and culture of conflict. Moreover, he deconstructs, challenges, and resists the concepts and institutions that constitute such a culture and invites conversation about the idea of conflict as a culture.

Author : Gilles Kepel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674010901
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jihad written by Gilles Kepel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kepel has traveled throughout the Muslim world gathering documents, interviews, and archival materials, in order to give readers a comprehensive understanding of the scope of Islamist movements, their past, and their present. 7 maps.