Can the Democrats Deliver for the Base? Partisanship, Group Politics, and the Case of Organized Labor in the 110th Congress
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 83-88
ISSN: 0030-8269, 1049-0965
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In: PS: political science & politics, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 83-88
ISSN: 0030-8269, 1049-0965
In: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser. v.45
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Setting the Stage: Los Angeles and Urban Archaeology -- PART 1. Don Parson: From Urban Idealism to Reaction-Five Essays -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 A Mecca for the Unfortunate: Housing and Progressive Reform in Los Angeles -- CHAPTER 2 "Houses for the Rich Were Also for the Birds": Designing a Better World -- CHAPTER 3 "A New Deal Democrat Plus": The Progressive Judicial Career of Stanley Moffatt -- CHAPTER 4 Breeding Grounds of Communism: The Gwinn Amendment in Los Angeles' Public Housing -- CHAPTER 5 Housing Is a Labor Process: Housing Policy and Housework -- PART 2. Hunting Elmer Fudd: Don Parson's Journey through Los Angeles -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 6 "Making a Better World": My Intersections with Don Parson, by Tom Sitton -- CHAPTER 7 History Repeating . . . , by Sue Ruddick -- CHAPTER 8 Of Bunnies and Barricades, by Steven Flusty, with Don Parson -- PART 3. Alternative Futures: Don Parson Revisited -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 9 Ben Margolis and Gregory Ain: A Meeting of Radical Minds, by Greg Goldin -- CHAPTER 10 Power Lines: Boundaries of Erasure and Expansion in Los Angeles, by Dana Cuff -- CHAPTER 11 "Downtown Is Not the Heart of the City": Mike Davis in Conversation with Jennifer Wolch and Dana Cuff -- CHAPTER 12 Public Housing in Los Angeles: "Adding Space: The First and Final Frontier?," by Jacqueline Leavitt -- CHAPTER 13 The City and Spatial Justice, by Edward W. Soja -- CHAPTER 14 Race, Class, and Political Activism: Black, Chicana/o, and Japanese American Leftists in Southern California, 1968-1978, by Laura Pulido -- On Activist Futures in a Dark Age-A Postscript, by Roger Keil -- Don Parson, a Select Bibliography, compiled by B. Uyeda and Judy Branfman -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H.
In: Schriftenreihe des AK atomwaffenfreies Europa
World Affairs Online
From the California Indians who labored in the Spanish missions to the immigrant workers on Silicon Valley's high-tech assembly lines, California's work force has had a complex and turbulent past, marked by some of the sharpest and most significant battles fought by America's working people. This anthology presents the work of scholars who are forging a new brand of social history--one that reflects the diversity of California's labor force by paying close attention to the multicultural and gendered aspects of the past. Readers will discover a refreshing chronological breadth to this volume, as well as a balanced examination of both rural and urban communities. Daniel Cornford's excellent general introduction provides essential historical background while his brief introductions to each chapter situate the essays in their larger contexts. A list of further readings appears at the end of each chapter. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995
In: New perspectives quarterly: NPQ, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 70-71
ISSN: 1540-5842
Since its emergence in the 1990s, the field of Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has focused on unsettling traditional understandings of the 'city' as entirely distinct from nature, showing instead how cities are metabolically linked with ecological processes and the flow of resources. More recently, a new generation of scholars has turned the focus towards the climate emergency. Turning up the heat seeks to turn UPE's critical energies towards a politically engaged debate over the role of extensive urbanisation in addressing socio-environmental equality in the context of climate change.The collection brings together theoretical discussions and rigorous empirical analysis by key scholars spanning three generations, engaging UPE in current debates about urbanisation and climate change. Engaging with cutting edge approaches including feminist political ecology, circular economies, and the Anthropocene, case studies in the book range from Singapore and Amsterdam to Nairobi and Vancouver. Contributors make the case for a UPE better informed by situated knowledges: an embodied UPE that pays equal attention to the role of postcolonial processes and more-than-human ontologies of capital accumulation within the context of the climate emergency. Acknowledging UPE's rich intellectual history and aiming to enrich rather than split the field, Turning up the heat reveals how UPE is ideally positioned to address contemporary environmental issues in theory and practice
This inspired collection offers a new paradigm for moving the world beyond violence as the first, and often only, response to violence. Through essays and poetry, prayers and meditations, Transforming Terror powerfully demonstrates that terrorist violence—defined here as any attack on unarmed civilians—can never be stopped by a return to the thinking that created it. A diverse array of contributors—writers, healers, spiritual and political leaders, scientists, and activists, including Desmond Tutu, Huston Smith, Riane Eisler, Daniel Ellsberg, Amos Oz, Fatema Mernissi, Fritjof Capra, George Lakoff, Mahmoud Darwish, Terry Tempest Williams, and Jack Kornfield—considers how we might transform the conditions that produce terrorist acts and bring true healing to the victims of these acts. Broadly encompassing both the Islamic and Western worlds, the book explores the nature of consciousness and offers a blueprint for change that makes peace possible. From unforgettable firsthand accounts of terrorism, the book draws us into awareness of our ecological and economic interdependence, the need for connectedness, and the innate human capacity for compassion