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Democracy and democratization in post-communist Europe / Andrew Roberts -- Belated transitions in the Balkans and the post-Yugoslav republics / Florian Bieber -- Explaining Ukraine / Andrew Wilson -- Eastern Europe's semi-presidential regimes / Thomas Sedelius and Jenny Aisborg -- Core executives in Central Europe / Martin Brusis -- Institutionalizing parliaments in Central and Eastern Europe / Josephine T. Andrews -- Political parties / Allan Sikk -- The rule of law / Martin Mendelski -- Bureaucracies in Central and Eastern Europe and the western Balkans / Jan Hinrik Meyer-Sahling -- Federalism in Eastern Europe during and after communism / James Hughes -- Elections and electoral participation / Sarah Birch -- Voters and parties in Eastern Europe / Zsolt Enyedi and Kevin Deegan Krause -- Social movements after communism / Ondrej Cisar -- The study of protest politics in Eastern Europe in the search of theory / Grzegorz Ekiert and Jan Kubik -- Understanding ethnic minorities in Eastern Europe / Sherrill Stroschein -- The plight of Eastern Europe's Romas / Peter Vermeersch -- The representation of women / Frank C. Thames -- The struggle for LGBT rights / Conor O'Dwyer -- Politics at the fringes? : Eastern Europe's populists, racists and extremists / Cas Mudde -- Varieties of capitalism in Eastern Europe / Dorothee Bohle -- East European exceptionalism : foreign domination in finance / Rachel A. Epstein -- Dealing with the past : post-communist transitional justice / Vello Pettai and Eva-Clarita Pettai -- "The West, the East and the rest" : foreign policy orientations of Central Eastern European countries / Elsa Tulmets -- Combatting corruption / Tatiana Kostadinova and Maria Spirova -- Enlargement and europeanization in Central and Eastern Europe : accession and beyond / Antoaneta Dimitrova -- NATO enlargement and the post-communist states / Mark Webber -- Russia in the region / Richard Sakwa.

"Bringing together scholars and activists, With Stones in Our Hands confronts the rampant anti-Muslim racism and imperialism across the globe today. After September 11, 2001, the global War on Terror has made clear that Islam and Muslims are central to an imperial system of racism. Prior to 9/11, white supremacy had a violent relationship of dominance with Islam and Muslims. Racism against Muslims today borrows from centuries of white supremacy and is a powerful and effective tool to maintain the status quo. With Stones in Our Hands compiles writings by scholars and activists who are leading the struggle to understand and combat anti-Muslim racism. Through a bold call for a politics of the Muslim Left and the poetics of the Muslim International, this book offers a glimpse into the possibilities of social justice, decolonial struggle, and political solidarity. The essays in this anthology reflect a range of concerns such as the settler colonial occupation of Palestine, surveillance and policing, blackness and radical protest traditions, militarism and empire building, social movements, and political repression. With Stones in Our Hands offers new ideas to achieve decolonization and global solidarity. Contributors: Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, Abdullah Al-Arian, Arshad Imtiaz Ali, Evelyn Alsultany, Vivek Bald, Abbas Barzegar, Hatem Bazian, Sylvia Chan-Malik, Arash Davari, Fatima El-Tayeb, Hafsa Kanjwal, Ronak K. Kapadia, Maryam Kashani, Robin D.G. Kelley, Su'ad Abdul Khabeer, Nadine Naber, Selim Nadi, Sherene H. Razack, Atef Said, Steven Salaita, Stephen Sheehi"--

Introduction : democracy 2.0, old and new media, and the quest for engaged participation / Michael Hoechsmann, Paul R. Carr and Gina Thesee -- Technocracy, education, and the global imperative / Peter Pericles Trifonas -- Voluntary subservience and capitalist religion in the era of reality television politics / William M. Reynolds -- The development of democratic citizenship within the context of education for Latin American unification : media literacy 2.0, from classroom praxis to critical engagement / Raul Olmo Fregoso Bailon and Felipe de Jesus Alatorre Rodriguez -- Digital citizens, not just consumers : defining digital citizenship for democracy / Megan Ryland -- Engagement with the mainstream media and the relationship to political literacy the influence of hegemonic education on democracy / Paul R. Carr, Gary W. J. Pluim and Lauren Howard -- Embodiment as discourse in indigenous photography : narrative as multiplicitous reality / Kalli Paakspuu -- The role of social media in Africa's democratic transitions : lessons from Burundi / Anne Munene and Ibrahim Magara -- Critical pedagogy through participatory video : possibilities for post-colonial higher education in the Caribbean / Lynette Sampson -- Community-driven media in Australia : the public pedagogy of Australian indigenous activism / Renee Desmarchelier, Jon Austin and Cally Jetta -- The battle for free universal education in Chile : the use of Youtube in the student protests of 2011 / Salome Sola-Morales -- The #ocupaescola ("#occupyschool") movement : counter-hegemonic media and new ways to fight for education / Ivan Bomfim -- "Democracy! not just for locals but for us too!" : exploring multiethnic young people's calls for social change in Hong Kong through cellphilms / Casey Burkholder -- Afterword : danger ahead ready yourself and join the struggle / Peter McLaren

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction: sound studies and the art of listening -- Listening to the past: writing sound and sound as sound -- Listening to popular culture -- Listening to the city -- Listening to trains -- Listening to the sirens -- References -- Part I: Introduction: sonic epistemologies and debates -- References -- 1. Sound as theory 1863-2014: from Hermann von Helmholtz to Salomé Voegelin -- 1863-1954: Theories of sound -- 1977-1994: Theories on sound -- 1967-2005: Sound on theory -- 1998-2014: Sound as theory -- Note -- References -- 2. What is sound studies? -- Introduction -- What is sound studies? -- What is sound? -- Sound studies and sound studies -- Notes -- References -- 3. Embodiment and the senses -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 4. Multisensory investigation of sound, body, and voice -- Introduction -- Sound, body, and voice definitions as "primal marks" -- From familiarity to the novelty of a sensorium challenge -- The equilibrium between Wagner and underwater singing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5. The return to sound aesthetics -- The rhetoric of aesthetic return -- Sound and modern thought -- Toward a media aesthetics -- References -- 6. Sound, affect, politics -- Introduction: what is affect good for? -- Sound, music, and affect -- New affect theories -- Transforming new affect theories -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Introduction: sonic conflicts, concepts and culture -- References -- 7. Silence and noise -- References -- 8. Sound waves of protest: noise abatement movements -- Searching for a paradise of sound -- Against unnecessary noise: the first wave in noise abatement (1900s-1930s) -- Restructuring society: the second wave in noise abatement (late 1950s-1970s)

"This book deals with the role that artists and intellectuals have had regarding projects of European integration. Taking Spain as a case study, the book analyzes how their works offer nuanced and engaging perspectives on the emotions generated by the ideal of a unified Europe and its most recognizable embodiment, the European Union (EU). The sustained scrutiny of the ever-evolving idea of Europe by artists and intellectuals has helped to pave the way for the current widespread protests against the EU. Consciously or not, they partake of a tradition of Euroskepticism. In the book, Euroskepticism designates a constellation of attitudes and arguments that have developed in reaction to pan- and pro-European movements. Its evolving features are conditioned by culture and formed in discourse. Because Euroskepticism is often associated exclusively with the discourse of political elites, its literary and artistic expressions have gone largely unnoticed, because their complex contributions escape academic approaches that prioritize other types of data. The book addresses this gap in the scholarship by examining closely a variety of Euroskeptic texts from a diachronic perspective, covering roughly from 1915 to the present. Knowing about this eclipsed critical tradition contributes to a deeper understanding of the notion of Europe and its institutional embodiments. It gives resonance to the intellectual and cultural history of Europe's "peripheries" and re-evaluates Euroskeptic contributions as one of the few hopes left to imagine ways to renew the promise of a union of the European nations"--

Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Transcripts -- Conceptual Framings of Identity in a Multifaceted World -- 1 Many Ways-of-Being Across Sites. Identity as (Inter)action -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Identity and Identity-Positions in Global North Mass-Media Sites -- 1.2.1 A Contemporary Mass-Media Example Across Physical-Digital Sites: Elise By Olsen -- 1.2.2 Identifications Across Physical-Digital Mass-Media Sites -- 1.3 A Selective Overview of Research into Identity -- 1.4 Many-ways-of-Being. Identity, Decoloniality -- References -- Ref Elise By Olsen http://www.ink-live.com/emagazines/norwegian-magazine/1978/july-2015/#1/z -- 2 Positioning Theory and Life-Story Interviews: Discursive Fields, Gaze and Resistance -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Positioning Theory -- 2.3 Extending Positioning Theory -- 2.4 More Thoughts and Conclusion -- References -- 3 Refusing What We Are: Communicating Counter-Identities and Prefiguring Social Change in Social Movements -- 3.1 Revisiting Identity -- 3.2 Governmentality and Counter-Conduct -- 3.3 Prefiguration and Identity -- 3.4 Discourse, Governmentality and Counter-Identities -- 3.5 Case Study: "United Nathans Weapons Inspectors" -- 3.5.1 From Customers to Inspectors -- 3.5.2 Doing Being 'Mock Inspectors' -- 3.5.3 Analytics of Protest -- 3.5.4 Governing Inspection: Counter-Identities -- 3.6 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Center-Staging Language and Identity Research from Earthrise Positions. Contextualizing Performances in Open Spaces -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.1.1 Two Dominant Views -- 4.1.2 Going Beyond Binary Hegemonic Positions -- 4.1.3 Aims and Chapter Structure -- 4.2 Critical Humanistic Socially Oriented Conceptual Framings -- 4.2.1 A Note on Alternative Epistemologies and Research Agendas

Frontmatter --Contents --Note from the editors --Introduction --Shifting the baselines --Our European incapacity --Our European capacity. Which Europe do we want? Rediscovering Hannah Arendt's concept of integral federalism --Shifting Cities --Introduction --The magnet and the container. A transnational space of expression for "Cities of change" through Europe --The cities want them in. For a revised common European refugee policy to revive the European Union --Rebel cities are not utopia --Institutions mean inertia --Moment of confluence on the Atlantic coast --This is how you win an election --Forerunners of Italian municipalism --Don't let them d(r)own --Cities rejecting surveillance --Shifting Media --Introduction --The Populist Challenge 2.0. How populism profits from social media --Contesting the shrinking media space in Slovakia --Fluid media landscapes --Networked protest for a populist age --Journalism in spite of everything Interview with Esther Alonso, eldiario.es --We are the newcomers Interview with Ramy Al-Asheq, Abwab --Our digitally mediated society --Shifting Alliances --Introduction --A rigged economy in a rigged democracy --Breaking with the rules that ruin the Union --Social networks of influence in Europe -- and beyond --Learning from Syriza --The commons as unifying political vision --Instructions for building a pan-European movement --Together means Razem --The birth of a new civic platform in Romania --The Rojava Revolution and the model of democracy without a state --Works by Democratic Self-Administration of Rojava and Studio Jonas Staal. New World Summit Rojava (2015-2017) --A revolution of life --Annex.

"Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Cubans migrated to New York City to organize and protest against Spanish colonial rule. While revolutionary wars raged in Cuba, expatriates envisioned, dissected, and redefined meanings of independence and nationhood. An underlying element was the concept of Cubanidad, a shared sense of what it meant to be Cuban. Deeply influenced by discussions of slavery, freedom, masculinity, and United States imperialism, the question of what and who constituted 'being Cuban' remained in flux and often, suspect. The first book to explore Cuban racial and sexual politics in New York during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Suspect Freedoms chronicles the largely unexamined and often forgotten history of more than a hundred years of Cuban exile, migration, diaspora, and community formation. Nancy Raquel Mirabal delves into the rich cache of primary sources, archival documents, literary texts, club records, newspapers, photographs, and oral histories to write what Michel Rolph Trouillot has termed an 'unthinkable history.' Situating this pivotal era within larger theoretical discussions of potential, future, visibility, and belonging, Mirabal shows how these transformations complicated meanings of territoriality, gender, race, power, and labor. She argues that slavery, nation, and the fear that Cuba would become 'another Haiti' were critical in the making of early diasporic Cubanidades, and documents how, by the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Afro-Cubans were authors of their own experiences; organizing movements, publishing texts, and establishing important political, revolutionary, and social clubs. Meticulously documented and deftly crafted, Suspect Freedoms unravels a nuanced and vital history"--From publisher's website

Beginning in the early nineteenth century, Cubans migrated to New York City to organize and protest against Spanish colonial rule. While revolutionary wars raged in Cuba, expatriates envisioned, dissected, and redefined meanings of independence and nationhood. An underlying element was the concept of Cubanidad, a shared sense of what it meant to be Cuban. Deeply influenced by discussions of slavery, freedom, masculinity, and United States imperialism, the question of what and who constituted "being Cuban" remained in flux and often, suspect. The first book to explore Cuban racial and sexual politics in New York during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Suspect Freedoms chronicles the largely unexamined and often forgotten history of more than a hundred years of Cuban exile, migration, diaspora, and community formation. Nancy Raquel Mirabal delves into the rich cache of primary sources, archival documents, literary texts, club records, newspapers, photographs, and oral histories to write what Michel Rolph Trouillot has termed an "unthinkable history." Situating this pivotal era within larger theoretical discussions of potential, future, visibility, and belonging, Mirabal shows how these transformations complicated meanings of territoriality, gender, race, power, and labor. She argues that slavery, nation, and the fear that Cuba would become "another Haiti" were critical in the making of early diasporic Cubanidades, and documents how, by the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Afro-Cubans were authors of their own experiences; organizing movements, publishing texts, and establishing important political, revolutionary, and social clubs. Meticulously documented and deftly crafted, Suspect Freedoms unravels a nuanced and vital history

Digital Activism in the Social Media Era -- Foreword -- References -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I Political Engagements in Mediated Online Communities -- 1 Dovetailing Desires for Democracy with New ICTs' Potentiality as Platform for Activism -- Introduction -- Activism in Africa: Towards an African Spring? -- Rethinking Activism -- Digital Engagements: Lessons Learnt -- Chapter Summaries -- References -- 2 Engaging in Polarized Society: Social Media and Political Discourse in Ethiopia -- Zone 9 Bloggers-Seeking a Shrinking Middle Ground -- Methodology -- Campaigning Locally and Globally -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Baba Jukwa and the Digital Repertoires of Connective Action in a 'Competitive Authoritarian Regime': The Case of Zimbabwe -- Introduction and Background of the Study -- SMs and the Internet -- An Overview of Social Movements in Zimbabwe -- Civic Vacuum and the Emergence of Baba Jukwa -- Conceptual Framework -- Methodology -- Discussion and Analysis of Findings -- How was the Facebook Page Deployed by Baba Jukwa to Advocate for Political Change in Zimbabwe? -- BJ Facebook Page and Collective Action Frames in Zimbabwe -- Baba Jukwa and Digital Repertoires of Connective Action -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Digital Activism in Uganda -- Introduction -- Activism and Digital Activism -- Prospects for Digital Activism in Uganda -- Mixed Messages on Freedom of Expression, Access to Information and the Right to Privacy -- Circumscribing Activism -- Doing Digital Activism in Uganda -- The Save Mabira Campaign 2007/2011 -- The Campaign in the Media -- New Media -- The March -- Achievement of the Save Mabira Campaign -- Challenges of the Mabira Campaign -- The Walk-To-Work Protests of 2011 and the 2016 Elections -- The Campaign in the Media (2016) -- The 2016 Elections

Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture--the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life. Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation, coordinate disaster relief, campaign for policy change, and strengthen local advocacy groups. The world watched as activists used social media to organize protests during the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution. Many governmental and community organizations changed their mission and function as they adopted new digital tools and practices. This book examines the use of "civic media"--The technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life. Scholars from a range of disciplines and practitioners from a variety of organizations offer analyses and case studies that explore the theory and practice of civic media. The contributors set out the conceptual context for the intersection of civic and media; examine the pressure to innovate and the sustainability of innovation; explore play as a template for resistance; look at civic education; discuss media-enabled activism in communities; and consider methods and funding for civic media research. The case studies that round out each section range from a "debt resistance" movement to government service delivery ratings to the "It Gets Better" campaign aimed at combating suicide among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth. The book offers a valuable interdisciplinary dialogue on the challenges and opportunities of the increasingly influential space of civic media.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Why Muslim Women in Asia?6 -- Brief History of Islam in Asia -- The Book -- Part I: Globalization and Transnationalism: The Local Muslim Woman and Public Space -- Part II. Muslim Women: Lived Realities, Resistance, and the State -- Part III. Women's Voices and Agency: Challenging and Reclaiming Islam -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I: Globalization and Transnationalism: The Muslim Woman and Public Space -- 1. "Just 6P on a T-shirt, or 12P on a pair of jeans": Bangladeshi Garment Workers Fight for a Livable Wage -- Introduction -- From Import Substitution to Export-Led Growth and the Rise of a Female Labor Force -- The Failed Promise and Emergent Worker Consciousness -- Ongoing Contestation and Worker Demands -- Policies as Usual: The BGMEA Resists Worker Demands -- Widespread Protest, Government Backlash, and the Struggle Goes Global -- Improved Working Conditions- The Key to Bangladesh's Competitive Edge -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. Dilemmas of Women's Movements in Turkey: Labor, Charity, and Neoliberal Patriarchy -- Introduction -- Traversing Varied Spaces: A Brief Note on Research -- Neoliberal Reform: Labor, Gender Inequality, and New Forms of Poverty -- Kemalist/Secularist Women: Modernization, Westernization, and the Ongoing Micropolitics of Attire and Representation -- Conservative/Islamist/Pious Women: Micropolitics of Charity and Piety -- Beyond Secular/Pious Dichotomy: Seeing Similarities and Embracing the Challenges Ahead -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. Complicated Belonging: Gendered Empowerment and Anxieties about "Returning" among Internally Displaced Muslim Women in Puttalam, Sri Lanka -- Pollution and Purity of Displacement -- Humanitarian Work and Gender -- Class-Specific Identity Performances -- Reproductive Health -- Women as Border-Crossers.

"The true story of star-crossed lovers Herbert Newton, a black communist seeking the end of an oppressive America, and Jane Newton, the white daughter of a wealthy American Legion commander, and their part in the Depression-Era, communist fight for a black sovereign nation. Readers will be introduced to a largely ignored piece of civil rights history that unfolded a quarter century before the mass protests that began in the 1950s. The Newtons' love story underscores the fraught times of a segregated and flailing country, while David Beasley's account of the movement's history creates a full and layered backdrop. Including the attempt to unionize Southern workers, the trial of the Atlanta Six, and other major turning points, the book explores communists' endeavor to utilize the black community's anger and oppression to fuel a deflated movement on American soil. Readers will experience a detailed picture of the friendship between the Newtons and Richard Wright, who wrote Native Son while living with the couple and struggling to find an identity outside of the communist party in New York City. In addition, A Life in Red covers the sanity trials Jane Newton underwent simply for being white, promoting communism, and marrying a black man; delves into The Scottsboro Trial as a crucial foundation for the communist movement's relationship with the African American community; and describes the intimate lives of both black and white communist members of the era trained in the United States and Russia"--Provided by publisher

They go for strolls against the »islamification of the Occident«, chant »we are the people« and rail against the »liar-press«: the Pegida protests of 2014/15 rocked the whole of Germany. Tens of thousands were mobilized, not just (though above all) in Dresden, where Pegida had its beginnings. The media and political system were puzzled: what is Pegida? Where does the movement come from? What defines it, and what drives its participants? This book delivers the first findings. The authorial team from Göttingen has observed Pegida protesters and carried out interviews, group discussions and online surveys. This has allowed them to gain a deeper insight into the beliefs and convictions of the Pegida milieu. The counter-protesters from NoPegida were also investigated by the Göttingen Institute for Democracy Studies: in what way are the two camps different? This has generated a multifaceted study, which provides the first data about Pegida, and about the constitution of German society as a whole in 2015. Lars Geiges (Dr. disc. pol.), geb. 1981, ist Journalist und Politikwissenschaftler. Er arbeitet als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Göttinger Institut für Demokratieforschung und ist Redaktionsmitglied der INDES. Zeitschrift für Politik und Gesellschaft. Forschungsschwerpunkte sind (Bürger-)Protestbewegungen, soziale Konflikte sowie Engagement und Partizipation. Stine Marg (Dr. disc. pol.), geb. 1983, ist Mitarbeiterin am Göttinger Institut für Demokratieforschung und Mitherausgeberin der BP-Gesellschaftsstudie. Sie arbeitet vorwiegend im Bereich der politischen Kulturforschung sowie u.a. zum Thema »Bürgerproteste«. Franz Walter (Prof. Dr.), geb. 1956, ist Professor für Politikwissenschaft und seit 2000 Leiter des Instituts für Demokratieforschung in Göttingen. Er ist Herausgeber von INDES. Zeitschrift für Politik und Gesellschaft. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Parteien und politische Kulturforschung. Er publiziert vor allem zur Geschichte und Entwicklung der deutschen Parteien, u.a. regelmäßig auf SPIEGEL ONLINE.

"Incidences of public disorder, and the manner in which they have been suppressed, have repeatedly ignited debate on the role of policing, the effectiveness of current legislation and the implications for human rights and civil liberties. These same issues have reverberated throughout British history, and have frequently resulted in the enactment of new legislation that reactively aimed to counter the specific concern of that era. This book offers a detailed analysis on the expansion of public order law in the context of the historical and political developments in British society. The correlation of key historical events and the enactment of consequent legislation is a key theme that resonates throughout the book, and demonstrates the expanding influence of the law on public assemblies and protest, which has continued to criminalise and prohibit certain social behaviours. Crucial movements in Britain's social and political history who have all engaged in, or have provoked public disorder, are examined in the book. Other incidents of riot and disorder, such as the Featherstone Riot (1893), the Battle of Cable Street (1936), the Inner City Riots (1980s) and the UK riots (2011) are also covered. By positioning legal developments within their historical context it demonstrates the ebb and flow between the prominence of the competing demands of the liberties of free expression and assembly on the one hand and the protection of the general public and property on the other. This book is essential reading for academics and students in the fields of criminology, history and law"--