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  • Social Movements 2e

    by Suzanne Staggenborg ...
    Now in a second edition, Social Movements offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the field's historical background and major theories. Key issues are explored in the context of specific social movements and counter movements active within Canada and around the world, showing how these movements originate, mobilize participants, and bring about social change. Chapters on the women's, ... Read more

    $22.09 USD

  • Fractured Communities

    Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions

    by Stephanie A. Malin, Hilary Boudet, Sherry Cable, Brittany Gaustad, Peter Hall, James Maples, Tamara Mix, Carmel Price, Dakota K.T. Raynes, Stacia Ryder, Suzanne Staggenborg, Trang Tran, Ion Bogdan Vasi, Cameron Thomas Whitley, Patricia Widener ...
    Series series Nature, Society, and Culture
    While environmental disputes and conflicts over fossil fuel extraction have grown in recent years, few issues have been as contentious in the twenty-first century as those surrounding the impacts of unconventional natural gas and oil development using hydraulic drilling and fracturing techniques—more commonly known as “fracking”—on local communities. In Fractured Communities, Anthony E. Ladd and ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Grassroots Environmentalism

    by Suzanne Staggenborg ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
    Grassroots activism is essential to the success of the contemporary environmental movement, which depends on the organization of local activists as well as state, national, and international organizations. Yet grassroots activists confront numerous challenges as they attempt to organize diverse participants and devise fresh strategies and tactics. Drawing on more than seven years of fieldwork ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Waves of Protest

    Social Movements Since the Sixties

    by Abigail Halcli, Suzanne Staggenborg, Emily Stoper, Diana Gay Cutchin, Luther P. Gerlach, John C. Green, Eric L. Hirsch, J Craig Jenkins, Roberta Ann Johnson, David S. Meyer, Frederick D. Miller, Nancy E. Whittier, David G. Bromley, James M. Jasper, Doug McAdam, Verta Taylor ...
    Series series People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P
    This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed-from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and collective identity. Top social scientists combine insiders' insights with critical analyses to ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • The U.S. Women's Movement in Global Perspective

    by Lisa Baldez, Maryann Barakso, Jo Freeman, Joyce Gelb, Carol Nechemias, Jo Reger, Belinda Robnett, Deana Rohlinger, Barbara Ryan, Suzanne Staggenborg, David S. Meyer, Nancy E. Whittier, Celeste Montoya ...
    Series series People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P
    This ambitious volume brings together original essays on the U.S. women's movement with analyses of women's movements in other countries around the world. A comparative perspective and a common theme-feminism in social movement action-unite these voices in a way that will excite students and inspire further research. From the grassroots to the global, the significance of the U.S women's movement ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

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    by Benjamin Ginsberg ...
    Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"--administrators and staffers often without serious academic backgrounds or experience--are setting the educational agenda. The Fall of the ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • No Shortcuts

    Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

    by Jane F. McAlevey ...
    The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington DC (and capitols throughout the West), where they are outmatched and outspent by corporate interests. Labor unions now focus on the narrowest ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

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  • The Problem of the Media

    U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century

    by Robert D. McChesney ...
    The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-known—a decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate. McChesney's new book, The Problem of the Media, gets to the roots of this crisis, explains it, and points a way forward for the growing media reform movement ... Read more

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  • No Turning Back

    The History of Feminism and the Future of Women

    by Estelle Freedman ...
    Repeatedly declared dead by the media, the women’s movement has never been as vibrant as it is today. Indeed as Stanford professor and award-winning author Estelle B. Freedman argues in her compelling new book, feminism has reached a critical momentum from which there is no turning back. A truly global movement, as vital and dynamic in the developing world as it is in the West, feminism has helped ... Read more

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  • Digital Disconnect

    How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

    by Robert W. McChesney ...
    Celebrants and skeptics alike have produced valuable analyses of the Internet's effect on us and our world, oscillating between utopian bliss and dystopian hell. But according to Robert W. McChesney, arguments on both sides fail to address the relationship between economic power and the digital world.McChesney's award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy skewered the assumption that a society ... Read more

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  • How Canadians Communicate IV

    Media and Politics

    Edited by David Taras, Christopher Waddell ...
    Substantial changes have occurred in the nature of political discourse over the past thirty years. Once, traditional media dominated the political landscape, but in recent years Facebook, Twitter, blogs and Blackberrys have emerged as important tools and platforms for political campaigns. While the Canadian party system has proved surprisingly resilient, the rhythms of political life are now very ... Read more

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  • Mutualism

    Building the Next Economy from the Ground Up

    by Sara Horowitz ...
    A profound look at the crisis of work and the collapse of the safety net, and a vision for a better way forward, rooted in America’s cooperative spirit, from the founder of the Freelancers Union“Read this essential book to see how we can and must build the future.”—Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedinMutualism: It’s not capitalism and it’s not socialism. It’s the future.The twentieth century ... Read more

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