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Why Dissent Matters
Author | : William Kaplan |
Publsiher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780773550704 |
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An inquiry into dissent and how it might save the world.
Policing Dissent
Author | : Luis Fernandez |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2008-02-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780813544748 |
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In November 1999, fifty-thousand anti-globalization activists converged on Seattle to shut down the World Trade Organization’s Ministerial Meeting. Using innovative and network-based strategies, the protesters left police flummoxed, desperately searching for ways to control the emerging anti-corporate globalization movement. Faced with these network-based tactics, law enforcement agencies transformed their policing and social control mechanisms to manage this new threat. Policing Dissent provides a firsthand account of the changing nature of control efforts employed by law enforcement agencies when confronted with mass activism. The book also offers readers the richness of experiential detail and engaging stories often lacking in studies of police practices and social movements. This book does not merely seek to explain the causal relationship between repression and mobilization. Rather, it shows how social control strategies act on the mind and body of protesters.
The Right to Dissent
Author | : Alan John Mitchell Milne |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Civil rights |
ISBN | : OCLC:1154822447 |
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Where We Stand
Author | : Dan Carter,Leslie Dunbar,Gene Nichol,Daniel H. Pollitt |
Publsiher | : NewSouth Books |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781588381699 |
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"This book contains essays from twelve leading Southern historians, activists, civil rights attorneys, law professors, and theologians. They discuss militarism, religion, the environment, voting rights, the Patriot Act, the economy, prisons and crime, and other subjects significant to the South and the Nation in the ongoing debate about the future of the United States. The writers come from, or have been active in the affairs of, each of the former Confederate states."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
University Commons Divided
Author | : Peter MacKinnon |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2018-01-18 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781487518554 |
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In recent years, a number of controversies have emerged from inside Canadian universities. While some of these controversies reflect debates occurring at a broader societal level, others are unique to the culture of universities and the way in which they are governed. In University Commons Divided, Peter MacKinnon provides close readings of a range of recent incidents with a view to exploring new challenges within universities and the extent to which the idea of the university as ‘commons,’ a site for open and contentious disagreement, may be under threat. Among the incidents addressed in this book are the Jennifer Berdahl case in which a UBC professor alleged a violation of her academic freedom when she was phoned by the university's board chair to discuss her blog on which she speculated about the reasons for the university president's departure from office; the case of Root Gorelick, a Carleton University biologist and member of the university’s board of governors who refused to sign a code of conduct preventing public discussion of internal board discussions; the Facebook scandal at Dalhousie University’s Faculty of Dentistry in which male students posted misogynistic comments about their female classmates. These and many other examples of turmoil in universities across the country are used to reach new insights on the state of freedom of expression and academic governance in the contemporary university. Accessibly written and perceptively argued, University Commons Divided is a timely and bold examination of the pressures seeking to transform the culture and governance of universities.
Satire and Dissent
Author | : Amber Day |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2011-02-16 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9780253005144 |
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In an age when Jon Stewart frequently tops lists of most-trusted newscasters, the films of Michael Moore become a dominant topic of political campaign analysis, and activists adopt ironic, fake personas to attract attention—the satiric register has attained renewed and urgent prominence in political discourse. Amber Day focuses on the parodist news show, the satiric documentary, and ironic activism to examine the techniques of performance across media, highlighting their shared objective of bypassing standard media outlets and the highly choreographed nature of current political debate.
In Defense of Troublemakers
Author | : Charlan Nemeth |
Publsiher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018-03-20 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780465096305 |
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An eminent psychologist explains why dissent should be cherished, not feared We've decided by consensus that consensus is good. In In Defense of Troublemakers, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that this principle is completely wrong: left unchallenged, the majority opinion is often biased, unoriginal, or false. It leads planes and markets to crash, causes juries to convict innocent people, and can quite literally make people think blue is green. In the name of comity, we embrace stupidity. We can make better decisions by embracing dissent. Dissent forces us to question the status quo, consider more information, and engage in creative decision-making. From Twelve Angry Men to Edward Snowden, lone objectors who make people question their assumptions bring groups far closer to truth--regardless of whether they are right or wrong. Essential reading for anyone who works in groups, In Defense of Troublemakers will radically change the way you think, listen, and make decisions.
The Vital Center
Author | : Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
Publsiher | : Transaction Large Print |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-09-30 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : 1412855632 |
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The Vital Center is an eloquent and incisive defense of liberal democracy against its rivals to the left and to the right, communism and fascism. Originally published in 1949, it shows how the failures of free society led to the disenchantment of the masses with democracy, and sharpened the appeal of totalitarian solutions. The book calls for a radical reconstruction of the democratic polity based on a realistic understanding of human limitations and frailties.