books about: contentious     books:     Contentious      Race, Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles Janet L. Abu-Lughod Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 American society has been long plagued by cycles of racial violence, most dramatically in the 1960s when hundreds of ghetto uprisings erupted across American cities. Though the larger, underlying causes of contentious race relations have remained the same, the lethality, intensity, and outcomes of these urban rebellions have varied widely. What ...             The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media, and International Activism (Cambridge Studies in Contentious ... Clifford Bob Cambridge University Press, 2005 A brilliant book Clifford Bob's The Marketing Rebellion is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the NGO sector operates. The literature on NGOs is not a particularly sophisticated one, heavily populated with self-serving and unenlightening tomes. Bob examines the nexus ...             The New Transnational Activism (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics) Sidney Tarrow Cambridge University Press, 2005 Tarrow on global protest In The New Transnational Activism, Sidney Tarrow extends his familiar "political opportunities model" to the global realm toward understanding the contours of global protest. He makes the case that, just as political structures present at the national and subnational ...             Governing Water: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building (Global Environmental ... Ken Conca The MIT Press, 2005 Winner of the 2006 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award presented by the International Studies Association (ISA) and Winner of the 2006 Chadwick F. Alger Award presented by the International Studies Association (ISA) Water is a key component of critical ecosystems, a marketable commodity, a foundation of local communities and cultures, and a ...             Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge ... Deborah J. Yashar Cambridge University Press, 2005 Deborah Yashar analyzes the contemporary and uneven emergence of Latin American indigenous movements--addressing both why indigenous identities have become politically salient in the contemporary period and why they have translated into significant political organizations in some places and not others. She argues that ethnic politics can best be ...             The Politics of Collective Violence (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics) Charles Tilly, Douglas McAdam, ... Cambridge University Press, 2003 A Must for any Student of Collective Violence One reason for political scientists to be wary of the analyses offered by their discipline is that sociologists have always been better at providing contemporary political analysis. Charles Tilly goes even further when he comes as a historical sociologist. In The ...             Contentious Performances (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics) Charles Tilly Cambridge University Press, 2008 How can we get inside popular collective struggles and explain how they work? Contentious Performances presents a distinctive approach to analyzing such struggles, drawing especially on incomparably rich evidence from Great Britain between 1758 and 1834. The book accomplishes three main things. First, it presents a logic and method for describing ...             Contentious Politics Charles Tilly, Sidney Tarrow Paradigm Publishers, 2006 Revolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and transnational movements: these forms of contentious politics combine in Charles Tilly's and Sidney Tarrow's Contentious Politics. The book presents a set of analytical tools and procedures for study, comparison, and explanation of these very different ...             Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) Sidney Tarrow Cambridge University Press, 1998 Ideal for the social movement student I had to read an earlier edition of that book for a course on social movements. It was one of my first contacts with social movements literature. Since then, I plug almost everything I read on social movement to the theoretical framework described in this book. I guess ...             Rightful Resistance in Rural China (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics) Kevin J. O'Brien, Lianjiang Li Cambridge University Press, 2006 Contentious politics in rural China This short book lays out, conceptually, what kind of contentious politics "Rightful Resistance" is and where in the literature its place should be. Rightful Resistance is somewhere between James Scott's "everyday forms of resistance," on the one hand, and the ...             Contentious Lives: Two Argentine Women, Two Protests, and the Quest for Recognition (Latin America Otherwise) Javier Auyero Duke University Press, 2003 A model of engaged ethnography Read this book, Auyero did it again. A wonderful and inspiring exercise of political ethnography, this book combines attention to biographical details, protest dynamics, and structural transformations in a stunningly well-written account. Hard to put it down.             Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics) Ronald R. Aminzade, Jack A. Goldstone, ... Cambridge University Press, 2001 The aim of the book is to highlight and begin to give "voice" to some of the notable "silences" evident in recent years in the study of contentious politics. The coauthors hope to redress the present topical imbalance in the field. In particular, the authors take up seven specific topics in the volume: the relationship between emotions and ...             Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650-2000 (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics) Charles Tilly, Douglas McAdam, ... Cambridge University Press, 2003 This analysis of the relationship between democratization and contentious politics builds upon the model set forth in Dynamics of Contention (Cambridge, 2001). Comparing the Low Countries, Iberia, France, the British Isles, the Balkans, Russia, and other European regions over three and a half turbulent centuries, the book demonstrates how similar ...             The Politics of Place: Contentious Urban Redevlopment in Pittsburgh Gregory J. Crowley University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005 In urban America, large-scale redevelopment is a frequent news item. Many proposals for such redevelopment are challenged--sometimes successfully, and other times to no avail. The Politics of Place considers the reasons for these outcomes by examining five cases of contentious redevelopment in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, between 1949 and 2000. ...             Patriots, Politics, and the Oklahoma City Bombing (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics) Stuart A. Wright Cambridge University Press, 2007 Great culminating read on the OKC bombing After researching and skimming through other books written about the Oklahoma City bombing and Timothy McVeigh, this book by far takes the cake. I started reading the first chapter and before I knew it I was half way into the book! Author does a great job laying out ...          products you might be interested in search for books environmental, institutional, international, performances, sustainability, transnational      toavi.com    web we recommend A model of engaged ethnography randomly chosen VHS: The Spirit of Qi Gong- Chinese Exercises for Longevity