Author: Maryjane Osa
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: contention, movements, protest, social, polish, networks, solidarity, opposition
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-07-16
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0816638748
ISBN-13: 9780816638741

After a series of failed attempts at mobilizing society, Poland’s opposition sprang to surprising-and newly effective-life with the formation of the Solidarity trade union in 1980. If not for those past failures, this book suggests, Solidarity might never have succeeded. Solidarity and Contention deftly reconstructs the networks of protest in Communist Poland to show how waves of dissent during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s left an organizational residue that both instructed and enabled Solidarity and, ultimately, the Polish revolution. Using newly available documentary sources, Maryja

Author: Marco G. Giugni
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: democracy, contention
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1998-08-27
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0847691063
ISBN-13: 9780847691067

From Contention to Democracy addresses a crucial aspect of contemporary societies: the role of social movements for political and social change. The volume gathers together essays written by prominent social theorists who have been asked to reflect on the relationship between movements and processes of social, political and cultural change. Three broad types of movement-change nexus are distinguished and discussed: incorporation, transformation, and democratization. The chapters in this book all point to the place of social movements in relation to these three processes of change, while discus

Author: Piers Anthony
Publisher: Tor Fantasy
Keywords: novel, xanth, contention, xone
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2000-10-15
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0812555236
ISBN-13: 9780812555233

New York Times bestselling author of Zombie LoverA wild and wonderful new magical adventure that leads from Xanth to Earth - and back again!A cataclysmic cloud hangs over the enchanted land of land of Xanth. Three courageous couples must venture into the O-Xone, a cybernetic interface between Xanth and our own world, to rescue the enchanted realm from destruction.A xany new fantasy xaga from the Master of Merriment, Xone of Contention is chock-filled with danger, excitement and xillions of laughs!After a year filled with harrowing adventures, all Breanna of the Black Wave and her newfound lo

Author: T. K. Oommen
Publisher: Sage Publications
Keywords: society, indian, contention, crisis
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-07-21
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 076193359X
ISBN-13: 9780761933595

This book analyses those contentious issues currently confronting India’s society and polity and which are threatening to assume crisis proportions if not tackled properly. Its central thrust is to problematize the societal dimensions that shape these issues and cause crises, and suggests solutions to these difficult problems. The author identifies seven ’internal threats’ which are in opposition to the democratic ethos. These are: " Secessionist movements that question the legitimacy of the Indian state; " Irredentist movements that do not accept the arti

Author: Norma Cook Everist
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Keywords: collaboration, contention, conflict, church
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2004-11
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0687038014
ISBN-13: 9780687038015

You love your work. You love the people--most of the time. They respect you, most of the time. You work together with colleagues, staff, and laity, with energy and enthusiasm, most of the time. But then something goes wrong: a word spoken in anger, a misunderstanding, and things turn sour. What do you do? How do you deal with conflict, whether it be long or short-term, low or high intensity? Conflict is a part of the human predicament, yet it need not define or control your ministry. This book is designed to help the reader ask certain key questions about the nature and scope of the conflic

Author: Charles Tilly
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: britain, contention, popular
Number of Pages: 476
Published: 1998-07-14
List price: $83.00
ISBN-10: 0674689801
ISBN-13: 9780674689800

Between 1750 and 1840 ordinary British people abandoned such time-honored forms of protest as collective seizures of grain, the sacking of buildings, public humiliation, and physical abuse in favor of marches, petition drives, public meetings, and other sanctioned routines of social movement politics. The change created--perhaps for the first time anywhere--mass participation in national politics. Charles Tilly is the first to address the depth and significance of the transmutations in popular collective action during this period. As he unravels the story of thousands of popular struggles an

Author: Carol Becker
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: series, suny, interruptions, border, testimony, anxiety, gender, contention, essays, art, institutions, zones
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 1996-07
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0791429385
ISBN-13: 9780791429389