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The Portuguese colonial war and the African liberation struggles: memory, pol…
Introduction / Miguel Cardina -- Portugal, colonial aphasia and the public memory of war / Miguel Cardina -- Politics of memory and silence: Angola's liberation struggle in postcolonial times / Vasco Martins -- The liberation struggle and the politics of heroism in Mozambique: the war veterans as remains of memory / Natália Bueno and Bruno Sena Martins -- Mantenhas para quem luta! : Evoking t…
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Contemporary Housing Struggles
This OA book provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities, expulsions and social contention are a central characteristic of today’s capitalist crisis. These two East European cities that fall outside the usual focus of urban movements research provide an illuminating case of similar st…
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Globalization and History : the Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Ec…
Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson present a coherent picture of trade, migration, and international capital flows in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914-the first great globalization boom, which anticipated the experience of the last fifty years.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread of Surveillance
Today, personal information is captured, processed, and disseminated in a bewildering variety of ways, and through increasingly sophisticated, miniaturized, and distributed technologies: identity cards, biometrics, video surveillance, the use of cookies and spyware by Web sites, data mining and profiling, and many others. In The Privacy Advocates, Colin Bennett analyzes the people and groups ar…
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Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century
How xerography became a creative medium and political tool, arming artists and activists on the margins with an accessible means of making their messages public. This is the story of how the xerographic copier, or "Xerox machine," became a creative medium for artists and activists during the last few decades of the twentieth century. Paper jams, mangled pages, and even fires made early versions…
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Capital Flows and Crises
The implications of capital mobility for growth and stability are some of the most contentious and least understood contemporary issues in economics. In this book, Barry Eichengreen discusses historical, theoretical, empirical, and policy aspects of the effects, both positive and negative, of capital flows. He focuses on the connections between capital flows and crises as well as on those betwe…
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- 1 online resource (viii, 377 pages) :illustrations
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The demonstration society
"An analysis of the "demonstration"-from protests to tech product demos and everything in between-to draw out their peculiarities and common features"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The Good Drone: how social movements democratize surveillance
"'This is a short, engagingly written academic trade-style book looking at aerial technologies-with particular emphasis on drones, followed by satellites, and some bits about balloons and kites-and how those technologies are/have been used for the public good, particularly by the activist and social movement crowd. The author argues that social movements regularly use technology to challenge po…
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- 1 online resource (xv, 308 pages) :illustrations (black and white).
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The Walls Have the Floor: Mural Journal, May '68
The graffiti of the French student and worker uprising of May 1968, capturing participatory politics in action."Fifty years ago, in 1968, barricades were erected in the streets of Paris for the first time since the Paris Commune of nearly one hundred years before. The events of May 1968 began with student protests against the Vietnam War and American imperialism but quickly expanded to rebellio…
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Labor and the environmental movement :the quest for common ground
Relations between organized labor and environmental groups are typically characterized as adversarial, most often because of the specter of job loss invoked by industries facing environmental regulation. But, as Brian Obach shows, the two largest and most powerful social movements in the United States actually share a great deal of common ground. Unions and environmentalists have worked togethe…
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