Author: Jeffrey W. Rubin
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Keywords: juchitã¡n, mexico, democracy, radicalism, regime, ethnicity, decentering
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1997-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0822320630
ISBN-13: 9780822320630

Since 1989 an indigenous political movement—the Coalition of Workers, Peasants, and Students of the Isthmus (COCEI)—has governed the southern Mexican city of Juchitán. In Decentering the Regime, Jeffrey W. Rubin examines this Zapotec Indian movement and shows how COCEI forged an unprecedented political and cultural path—overcoming oppression in the 1970s to achieve democracy in the 1990s. Rubin traces the history and rise to power of this grassroots movement, and describes a Juchitán that exists in substantial autonomy from the central Mexican government and Mexican nationalism—there

Author: James J. Farrell
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: american, radicals, radicalism, postwar, sixties, making, spirit
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 1997-02-05
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0415913853
ISBN-13: 9780415913850

The Spirit of the Sixties explains how and why the personal became political when Sixties activists confronted the institutions of American postwar culture.The Spirit of the Sixties uses political personalism to explain how and why the personal became political when Sixties activists confronted the institutions of American postwar culture. After establishing its origins in the Catholic Worker movement, the Beat generation, the civil rights movement, and Ban-the-Bomb protests, James Farrell demonstrates the impact of personalism on Sixties radicalism.Students, antiwar activists and countercultu

Author: Suzanne Pepper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: ideal, development, model, search, china, education, reform, century, radicalism
Number of Pages: 622
Published: 2000-07-10
List price: $40.99
ISBN-10: 0521778603
ISBN-13: 9780521778602

In 1976, China’s "education revolution" was being hailed by foreign observers as an inspiration for all low-income countries. By 1980, the Chinese themselves had disavowed the experience, declaring it devoid of even a single redeeming virtue. This is the first comprehensive book to cover the whole sweep of twentieth-century Chinese education, and in particular to provide a detailed study of what occurred in the countryside under the radical Maoist education experiments of the Cultural Revolution.

Author: Richard Strier
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: historicism, studies, cultural, poetics, new, texts, structures, particularity, radicalism, renaissance, resistant
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1997-03-31
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520209052
ISBN-13: 9780520209053

Taking Wittgenstein’s "Don’t think, but look" as his motto, Richard Strier argues against the application of a priori schemes to Renaissance (and all) texts. He argues for the possibility and desirability of rigorously attentive but "pre-theoretical" reading. His approach privileges particularity and attempts to respect the "resistant structures" of texts. He opposes theories, critical and historical, that dictate in advance what texts mustor cannotsay or do. The first part of the book, "Against Schemes," demonstrates, in discussions of Rosemond Tuve, Steph

Author: Alastair Bonnett
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: racism, studies, migration, critical, representation, anti, radicalism
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1993-12-17
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0415072034
ISBN-13: 9780415072038

Alastair Bonnett sets racial representation and anti-racism in their wider political context and then focuses on the ambiguities and political characteristics of race equality consciousness among public educators. Bonnett also addresses the contemporary crisis of racial and political representation among anti-racists and radicals. He shows that there is no one anti-racism but that different ideals and assumptions have been arrived at within different historical and geographical contexts--both multi-racial and white. Bonnett suggests that this intellectual plurality provides a resource for thos

Author: Daniel Pope
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: american, cultural, history, social, readers, radicalism, blackwell
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2001-02-16
List price: $53.95
ISBN-10: 0631218998
ISBN-13: 9780631218999

This collection contains ten of the best scholarly essays on significant events and figures over the last two hundred years of the radical tradition in American history. Arranged chronologically, each chapter contains an introduction and one major article, plus four primary documents that bring to vivid life the ideas and people involved in particular radical struggles. Concise introductions to all articles and documents, chronologies, and suggested reading lists place this book at the forefront of student guides to American Radicalism.

Author: Leela Gandhi
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: politics, friendship, history, culture, radicalism, siã¨cle, communities, anticolonial, thought, fin, affective
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2006-02-28
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0822337150
ISBN-13: 9780822337157