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Museum activism
Only a decade ago, the notion that museums, galleries and heritage organisations might engage in activist practice, with explicit intent to act upon inequalities, injustices and environmental crises, was met with scepticism and often derision. Seeking to purposefully bring about social change was viewed by many within and beyond the museum community as inappropriately political and antithetical…
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- 13
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781351251044
- Collation
- xxix, 406 p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 069 JAN m
Opposing democracy in the digital age : the Yellow Shirts in Thailand
Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age is about why ordinary people in a democratizing state oppose democracy and how they leverage both traditional and social media to do so. Aim Sinpeng focuses on the people behind popular, large-scale antidemocratic movements that helped bring down democracy in 2006 and 2014 in Thailand. The yellow shirts (PAD—People’s Alliance for Democracy) that are the…
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- 13
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472128563
- Collation
- xiii, 270 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 322.4209593 SIN o
Capital at the brink : overcoming the destructive legacies of neoliberalism
Capital at the Brink reveals the pervasiveness, destructiveness, and dominance of neoliberalism within American society and culture. The contributors to this collection also offer points of resistance to an ideology wherein, to borrow Henry Giroux’s comment, “everything either is for sale or is plundered for profit.” The first step in fighting neoliberalism is to make it visible. By discu…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781607853060
- Collation
- 277p. ; ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 320.51 JEF c
Unintended lessons of revolution : student teachers and political radicalism …
Tanalís Padilla traces the history of the normales rurales—rural schools in Mexico that trained campesino teachers—and outlines how despite being intended to foster a modern, patriotic citizenry, they became sites of radical politics.
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- 4
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781478022084
- Collation
- ix, 371 p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 370.91734 PAD u
Do-gooders at the end of aid : scandinavian humanitarianism in the twenty-fir…
Scandinavian countries are routinely considered exceptional for their commitment to development cooperation, peace mediation, and humanitarian action. This book highlights how the political culture of Scandinavia is indeed characterized by the idea of doing good on the world stage, but then shows how this 'Scandinavian humanitarian brand' is an asset that policymakers and others can capitalize …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781108772129
- Collation
- xix, 296 p. ; ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 361.260948 PUY d
Commitment and beyond : reflections on/of the political in arabic literature …
This book is about the relations between literature, society and politics in the Arab world. It is an attempt to come to terms with the changing conceptualizations of the political in Arabic literature (and to a certain extent theater and the visual arts) in recent modern history. It examines historical and contemporary conceptions of literary commitment (iltizām) and how notions of ‘writing…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783954906130
- Collation
- 358 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 892.709 YVO c
No truth without beauty : god, the Quran, and women's rights
In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and countered it not just with Qur’anic evidence to the contrary, but with easy-to-use tools available to all. How can a woman’s testimony be worth half of a man’s? How can men…
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- 4
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030835828
- Collation
- xxxii, 306 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 297.082 ELA n
Parental life courses after separation and divorce in Europe
This open access book assembles landmark studies on divorce and separation in European countries, and how this affects the life of parents and children. It focuses on four major areas of post-separation lives, namely (1) economic conditions, (2) parent-child relationships, (3) parent and child well-being, and (4) health. Through studies from several European countries, the book showcases how le…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030445751
- Collation
- x, 308 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- Life Course Research and Social Policies volume 12
- Call Number
- 306.815 KRE p
Networks and institutions in Europe's emerging markets
Do ties between political parties and businesses harm or benefit the development of market institutions? The post-communist transition offers an unparalleled opportunity to explore when and how networks linking the polity and the economy support the development of functional institutions. A quantitative and qualitative analysis covering eleven post-socialist countries combined with detailed cas…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781139381628
- Collation
- xiv, 248 p. ; ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 322.30947 SCH n
The politics of contemporary art biennials: spectacles of critique, theory an…
Contemporary art biennials are sites of prestige, innovation and experimentation, where the category of art is meant to be in perpetual motion, rearranged and redefined, opening itself to the world and its contradictions. They are sites of a seemingly peaceful cohabitation between the elitist and the popular, where the likes of Jeff Koons encounter the likes of Guy Debord, where Angela Davis an…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781315645049
- Collation
- 206 p.: black and white, ill.
- Series Title
- Routledge advances in art and visual studies
- Call Number
- 701.03 KOM t
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