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The heretic's guide to global finance : hacking the future of money
This book is a practical guide for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of the inner workings of finance, and gain access to it. It explores how financial knowledge can be used to build effective social and environmental campaigns, and shows how activists can tap into the internal dynamics of the sector to disrupt it. -- Back cover.
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Civic participation in contentious politics : the digital foreshadowing of protest
The book examines the highly dynamic political ecology of recent contentious politics and its expanding digital footprint. First, it looks at the attainment of democratic citizenship through practice as street protests attract substantial numbers of followers who narrate their involvement or reflect on the claims and the implications of collective action on social media. Secondly, it considers the ramifications for contemporary democracy arising from the large-scale uptake of social media by variegated protest networks, which no longer pivot on the coordination capacity of bureaucratic movement organizations. The book ties these aspects together to propose that contentious politics can be a fertile ground for progressive civic participation. Dan Mercea is Lecturer in Sociology at City University London, UK, and Director of the Postgraduate Programme in Media and Communications. He has a lasting interest in the media and communication practices of groups, individuals and organisations involved in protest events. He has published on this topic in the Journal of Communication, New Media and Society, Information, Communication and Society, The Communication Review and Convergence. He has also edited two collections on the use of digital media in democratic politics.
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PROTESTS AS STRATEGIC GAMES
Social scientists have long viewed the decision to protest as strategic, with an individual’s participation a function of their beliefs about others’ turnout. We conduct a framed field experiment that recalibrates individuals’ beliefs about others’ protest participation, in the context of Hong Kong’s ongoing antiauthoritarian movement. We elicit subjects’ planned participation in an upcoming protest and their prior beliefs about others’ participation, in an incentivized manner. One day before the protest, we randomly provide a subset of subjects with truthful information about others’ protest plans and elicit posterior beliefs about protest turnout, again in an incentivized manner. After the protest, we elicit subjects’ actual participation. This allows us to identify the causal effects of positively and negatively updated beliefs about others’ protest participation on subjects’ own turnout. In contrast with the assumptions of many recent models of protest participation, we consistently find evidence of strategic substitutability. We provide guidance regarding plausible sources of strategic substitutability that can be incorporated into theoretical models of protests.
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The Umbrella Movement
This volume examines the most spectacular struggle for democracy in post-handover Hong Kong. It offers an informed analysis of the political future of Hong Kong and its relations with the authoritarian sovereignty as well as sheds light on the methodological challenges and promises in studying modern-day protests.
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Ripples of Hope: How Ordinary People Resist Repression Without Violence
In Ripples of Hope, Robert M. Press tells the stories of mothers, students, teachers, journalists, attorneys, and many others who courageously stood up for freedom and human rights against repressive rulers — and who helped bring about change through primarily nonviolent means. Global in application and focusing on Kenya, Liberia and Sierra Leone, this tribute to the strength of the human spirit also breaks new ground in social movement theories, showing how people on their own or in small groups can make a difference.
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Breaking Laws
This book questions the complex relationship between social movements and violence through two contrasted lenses, first through the short-lived radical left wing post '69 revolutionary violence and secondly in the present diffusion of civil disobedience actions, often at the border between non-violence and violence. This book shows how and why violence occurs or does not, and what different meanings it can take. The short-lived extreme left revolutionary groups that grew out of May '68 and the opposition to the Vietnam War (such as the German Red Army Faction, the Italian Red Brigades, and the Japanese Red Army) are without any doubt on the violent side. More ambiguous are the burgeoning contemporary forms of \"civil\" disobedience, breaking the law with the aim of changing it. In theory, these efforts are associated with nonviolence and self-restraint. In practice, the line is more difficult to trace, as much depends on how political players define and frame political violence and political legitimacy.
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They Came but Could Not Conquer
As the environmental justice movement slowly builds momentum, Diane
J. Purvis highlights the work of Indigenous peoples in Alaska's
small rural villages, who have faced incredible odds throughout
history yet have built political clout fueled by vigorous common
cause in defense of their homes and livelihood. Starting with the
transition from Russian to American occupation of Alaska, Alaska
Natives have battled with oil and gas corporations; fought against
U.S. plans to explode thermonuclear bombs on the edge of Native
villages; litigated against political plans to flood Native homes;
sought recompense for the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster;
and struggled against the federal government's fishing restrictions
that altered Native paths for subsistence. In They Came but
Could Not Conquer Purvis presents twelve environmental crises
that occurred when isolated villages were threatened by a
governmental monolith or big business. In each, Native peoples
rallied together to protect their land, waters, resources, and a
way of life against the bulldozer of unwanted, often dangerous
alterations labeled as progress. In this gripping narrative Purvis
shares the inspiring stories of those who possessed little
influence over big business and regulations yet were able to
protect their traditional lands and waterways anyway.
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