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The Civic Constitution provides a compelling case for rethinking the U.S. Constitution and its relations to citizens and social movements. By exploring pivotal struggles over governmental power, individual rights, and the boundaries of citizenship, this book challenges reigning approaches and reveals the profound importance of 'civic founders' who worked to reinvent the constitutional order.

Land, people, society -- A turbulent history is prologue to the present -- Germany divided and unified -- Political and popular culture -- Constitutional principles and political institutions -- Political parties in a democratic polity -- Election outcomes and voting trends -- Organized interest groups and social movements -- Socioeconomic policies and performance -- Germany in Europe and the world -- Germany in the twenty-first century

"Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond to - or actively engineer - each crisis, ordinary people are finding bold and innovative ways to share resources and support the vulnerable. Survival work, when done alongside social movement demands for transformative change, is called mutual aid. This book is about mutual aid: why it is so important, what it looks like, and how to do it. It provides a grassroots theory of mutual aid, describes how mutual aid is a crucial part of powerful movements for social justice, and offers concrete tools for organizing, such as how to work in groups, how to foster a collective decision-making process, how to prevent and address conflict, and how to deal with burnout. Writing for those new to activism as well as those who have been in social movements for a long time, Dean Spade draws on years of organizing to offer a radical vision of community mobilization, social transformation, compassionate activism, and solidarity." - website

"The establishment of democracy on both sides of the Atlantic has not been a smooth evolution towards an idealized presumed endpoint. Far from it, democratization has been marked by setbacks and victories, a process often referred to as "contested democracy". In view of recent mobilizations such as the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement, in which new technologies have played a key role, there is a need for a renewed analysis of the long-term evolution of US and UK political systems. Using new areas of research, this book argues that the ideals and the practices of Anglo-American democracy can be best understood by studying diverse forms of participation, which go beyond classical expressions of contestation and dissent such as voting. The authors analyze political parties, social movements, communications and social media, governance, cultural diversity, identity politics, public-private actors and social cohesion to illustrate how the structure and context of popular participation play a significant role in whether, and when, citizens' efforts have any meaningful impact on those who exercise political power. In doing so, the authors take crucial steps towards understanding how a vigorous public sphere and popular sovereignty can be made to work in today's global environment. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, British and US history, democracy, political participation, governance, social movements and politics

In the following, I discuss the current protests in Poland as a response to the public's growing dissatisfaction with the right-wing Polish government's attempts to fundamentally reshape the country. I develop a condensed overview of Women's Strikes as a social movement in Poland. In addition, I present some differences between protests in 2016 to 2018, and the current ones.

The Capital insurrection in Washington DC was not an anomaly in American Politics. It was the latest instance of a history of violence by white supremacists to preserve their power and status at the cost of democracy. The uprising in Puerto Rico in Summer 2019 was a massive social movement to restore democracy by removing a corrupt government that was unaccountable to the people

In this essay, we argue that the recent financial collapse, the ensuing recession and the work of key social movements have created conditions for a reengagement of critically-inclined organizational theorists with various forms of value analysis. We then introduce the seven articles in this special issue and highlight how each makes a contribution to this reengagement.

Social media is an important transmitter of anti-immigration political rhetoric. In this study, we examine the discussions posted in a Finnish online forum provoked by an MP's anti-multiculturalist Facebook post. We draw upon frame analysis and discursive social psychology to analyse the communicative processes that challenge and normalise anti-immigration political rhetoric. Using frame analysis, we study how forum users entered heated societal discussion on multiculturalism by framing the MP's anti-multiculturalist address as either hate speech or – more dominantly – as normal political conduct. Using discursive social psychology, we examine constructions of multiculturalism in these discussions. We demonstrate how anti-immigration political communication was normalised, multiculturalism was constructed as a threat and the proponents of multiculturalism were discredited. We argue that to understand the rise of anti-immigration political movements, it is important to examine everyday political deliberation online as part of a wider discursive landscape.

Fil: Derghougassian, Khatchik. Universidad de San Andrés. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales; Argentina. ; Paper presentado en el encuentro del Society for Armenian Studies en ocasión de un congreso especial por el 35° aniversario de su fundación en UCLA en marzo de 2009. ; March 1, 2008 seemed to mark a turning point in Armenian politics. The violent protest against the widely claimed fraud during the February 19, 2008 presidential elections by the followers of the former President Levon Ter Petrosian, the main contender against the official winner of the ballot, ex-PM Serge Sargsyan, met with even harsher repression by the police forces resulting to the death of 10 people and the arrest of more than a hundred others. The event highlighted a deep political polarization in Armenian society that seemed the consequence of the decision of Ter Petrosian to emerge from his decade-long silence and run as a presidential candidate. Regardless of the reasons behind this decision, what raises interest, however, is his capacity to convince and mobilize 21% of the voters according to the official figures of the elections. This paper takes a critical look into the deep causes of the political polarization in Armenia, which, as the argument goes, reflects a distorted social protest. I expand Albert Hirschman's concept of "voice, exit and loyalty" to explain the anger vote, and highlight the structural and political reasons for the lack of any credible proposal for change that addresses society's real demands for social justice.

This article aims at explaining Sewu-Sewu Ae movement which is held by the youth in Madiun city during the Pandemic of COVID-19. It is a movement initiated from some concerns from the youth toward what happened to society especially in the time of PPKM period. This is a participatory approach as one of the authors is a pioneer of the movement. The research objective is to analyze several fundamental values, innovations, operational systems, and evaluations in the Sewu-Sewu Ae movement. Data were collected using observation, documentation, and interviews. The results of the study found that one of the biggest challenges of the society was economic difficulty. Although government has provided solutions, the implementation was complicated by the system. Reflecting from this reality, the youth took a step to take roles on this matter. During the pandemic, philanthropy-based social movements are increasingly prevalent in several cities, for example, the "Solidaritas Pangan Jogja" which started on March 2020. In essence, every social movement has its own characteristics. Likewise Sewu-Sewu Ae which was initiated by the youth of Madiun City. This fundraising movement was channeled in a program "Melariskan UMKM", "Distribusi Paket Sembako", and the latest innovation entitled "Pasar Sewu". This movement has proven to be consistent and sustainable, so that it continues to gain support from public. Sewu-Sewu Ae is able to become a medium for surrounding community to actualize social sensitivity. Keywords: Madiun, social movement, Sewu-Sewu Ae, youth Tulisan ini bertujuan menjelaskan tentang gerakan sosial Sewu-Sewu Ae pada masyarakat Madiun di era pandemi. Kegiatan ini merupakan gerakan sosial berbasis solidaritas sosial, yang berlandaskan pada keprihatinan pemuda terhadap realitas masyarakat di masa PPKM. Penelitian ini menggunakan paradigma kualitatif dengan pendekatan partisipatoris. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan menggunakan metode observasi, dokumentasi, dan juga wawancara. Hasil penelitian menemukan bahwa salah satu problematika terkini adalah kesulitan ekonomi. Kendatipun pemerintah telah memberikan solusi berupa pengadaan bantuan sosial, namun implementasinya menghadapi berbagai kendala sistem. Oleh karena itu, perlu peran nyata pemuda untuk memecahkan persoalan tersebut. Pada masa pandemi, gerakan sosial berbasis filantropi kian marak di beberapa kota. Contohnya gerakan "Solidaritas Pangan Jogja" yang dimulai sejak Maret 2020. Pada hakikatnya, setiap gerakan sosial memiliki ciri khas masing-masing. Begitu pula Sewu-Sewu Ae yang diprakarsai oleh pemuda Kota Madiun. Gerakan penggalangan dana ini disalurkan dalam bentuk program "Melariskan UMKM", "Distribusi Paket Sembako", serta inovasi terbaru bertajuk "Pasar Sewu". Gerakan ini terbukti konsisten dan berkelanjutan, sehingga terus memperoleh dukungan khalayak umum. Sewu-Sewu Ae mampu menjadi medium bagi masyarakat sekitar untuk mengaktualisasikan kepekaan sosial. Kata kunci: gerakan sosial, pemuda, Sewu-Sewu Ae

Part I. Major world religions. Buddhism : historical setting /Mavis Fenn --Buddhism : contemporary expressions /Steven Emmanuel --Christianity : historical setting /Stanley M. Burgess --Christianity : contemporary expressions /Curtiss Paul DeYoung --Confucianism : historical setting /Joseph Chan --Confucianism : contemporary expressions /Stephen C. Angle --Hinduism : historical setting / O.P. Dwivedi --Hinduism : contemporary expressions /Anita Singh --Islam : historical setting /Hussam S. Timani --Islam : contemporary expressions /Erin E. Stiles --Judaism : historical setting /Moshe Hellinger --Judaism : contemporary expressions /Eliezer Segal --Part II. Religious movements and themes. Bahá'í faith /Christopher Buck --The quest for justice in revival, a Creole religion in Jamaica /William Wedenoja --The Muhammadiyah : a Muslim modernist organization in contemporary Indonesia /Florian Pohl --The role of the chief in Asante society /Yaw Adu-Gyamfi --Tibetan monastics and social justice /Derek F. Maher --Sangha and society /Hiroko Kawanami --G'meelut Chasadim (deeds of kindness) /W.E. Nunnally --Hospitality /Ana María Pineda --Zakat : faith and giving in Muslim contexts /Azim Nanji --Ecumenical and interreligious dialogue /Barbara Brown Zikmund --Part III. Indigenous people. Africa : religion and social justice among the Diola of Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau /Robert M. Baum --Australia : religion and social justice in a continent of hunter-gatherers /Robert Tonkinson --Central America : a god for the poor : folk Catholicism and social justice among the Yucatec Maya /Christine A. Kray --Europe : the Roma people of Romania /Sorin Gog and Maria Roth --Middle East : the Kurds : religion and social justice of a stateless nation /Charles G. MacDonald --New Zealand : the Māori people /Rawinia Higgins --North America : Ojibwe culture /Gregory O. Gagnon --Southeran Asia : the Gonds of India : a search for identity and justice /Sushma Yadav --Part IV. Social justice issues. Colonialism /Brigid M. Sackey --Abundant life or abundant poverty? : the challenge for African Christianity /T. John Padwick --AIDS, religion, and the politics of social justice in Sub-Saharan Africa /Afe Adogame --Religion, civil rights, and social justice /Paul Harvey --Human rights : the South African experience /Glenda Wildschut --The "double-conscious" nature of American evangelicalism's struggle over civil rights during the progressive era /L.B. Gallien, Jr. --Gender and sexuality in the context of religion and social justice /Mary E. Hunt --Beginning of life /Andrew Lustig --Death and dying /Courtney S. Campbell --Religion's influence on social justice practices relating to those with disabilities /Ruth Vassar Burgess --Ecology and the environment /Laurel Kearns --Christianity and nonviolent resistance /Celia Cook-Huffman --Building peace in the pursuit of social justice /Mohammed Abu-Nimer.

This book is the result of an ethnographic study on the impact of Black cultural diversity on social action. The ethnography has three important characteristics. First, it incorporates the multiple perspectives of the ethnographer with the diverse voices of the people through an unusual form of reflexivity that provides additional insight for the descriptions, analyses, and conclusions of the book. This epistemological method is used to challenge traditional structures of ethnographies. Secondly, it argues for the consideration of non-traditional approaches to studying the Black experience - a focus away from race relations and issues of class and an emphasis on intragroup interaction and diversity. Thirdly, it investigates the processes, social institutions, and structures within the Black community of a small college town that influence social change and social action since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s

Violence against women is not a social ill which has recently emerged, nor is it an unexplored topic in the realm of feminist academics, activists and lawyers. Yet despite streams of published articles unpacking the issue and numerous campaigns aimed at raising awareness about and combatting the prevalence of violence against women, it continues to be deeply entrenched in all factions of society. Furthermore, the idealistic society envisioned by the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 has not translated into reality and the rights enshrined in the supreme law have not dissipated incidents of violence against women. With the aforesaid in mind, this paper intends to contribute to the array of solutions already developed, in order to assist in countering the most extreme manifestation of patriarchy, sexual gender-based violence against women.1 As the time-honoured saying goes, 'prevention is better than cure' and in the same vein, a total reliance on the legislation and the legal processes in place to deal with the aftermath of rape, sexual assault and harassment, arguably have not and will not adequately address the root causes of these crimes. Hence, this paper contemplates a mechanism to strike at the core from which sexual gender-based violence stems, that core being the psychological entrenchment of male superiority and female inferiority - in other words, gender inequality. Overlooked prejudices against girls and women need to be brought into consciousness, to address them and break them down. If gender equality is sought, then we should be encouraging children to evaluate the status quo from a younger age and prioritise their role in re-imagining a society which values and promotes equality and dignity. Accordingly, it is submitted that a potential solution may lie in children's human rights education (HRE), specifically aimed at promoting gender equality and deconstructing patriarchal beliefs and ideas about masculinity. HRE is not a novel concept and is promoted in international treaties such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Child Convention), and has, in fact, already been implemented in schools in South Africa in order for the post-apartheid generation of children to strive towards racial integration and societal transformation. Unfortunately, it appears that the goal of gender equality has fallen somewhat to the wayside in the formulation of these HRE programmes. It is submitted that the UDHR and the Child Convention read together with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, as well at the African (Banjul) Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, support the advancement of gender equality through HRE programmes. In order to explore the possibility of developing HRE programmes in schools throughout South Africa with an underlying goal of advancing gender equality, empirical research was conducted in collaboration with the non-governmental organisation, Children's Resource Centre, based in Cape Town, which has developed a programme called the Girl Child Movement (GCM). The GCM aims to use the creative energies of girls to help build and sustain a qualitatively better world for girls and women. The goal of advancing the GCM is acutely targeted towards preventing the pain, suffering, humiliation and dehumanisation of girls and women who are subjected to incidents of sexual gender-based violence, the war on female bodies.

In recent decades, social movements have expanded their range of action, adopting a more global perspective. Although many studies have been made on several nationaland transnational movements, it still remains very little studied the participation that involves of immigrants, especially women, in social movements in Italy. These movements involve several issues: the right to work, the political participation, freedom of religion and the housing crisis. The thematic focus of our research is the housing issue, at the national level, and our case study concerns the situation of the women immigrants participation in movements for the housing rights in Rome.At a time when it seems to be less public interest in economic, social and cultural rights (such as the rights to education, work, house and health) in favor of a broaderinterest in individual rights (freedom of opinion, freedom of geographical movement, freedom of expression etc.), studying the role of immigrant women in the participation in social movements for the right to house in the destination countries can encourage and support a renewed attention to this area. The changing social composition of the resident population and the emergence of old and new forms of poverty - the incoming immigration flows are one of its main causes – affect significantly this issue. As we can see, the figure of the immigrant transforms the housing problem into a problem of co-habitation, or even better, of co-existence. ; Negli ultimi decenni, i movimenti sociali hanno ampliato il loro raggio d'azione, adottando una prospettiva sempre più globale. Sebbene siano stati condotti numerosi studi su vari movimenti nazionali e transnazionali, rimane ancora un campo poco studiato quello che coinvolge la partecipazione degli immigrati, in particolare le donne, nei movimenti sociali in Italia. Questi movimenti possono riguardare diverse aree problematiche: dal diritto al lavoro alla partecipazione politica, dalla libertà di religione alla questioneabitativa.Il focus tematico principale della nostra ricerca è la questione abitativa, a livello nazionale, avendo scelto come case study la situazione della città di Roma. In un momento in cui sembra esserci meno interesse per i diritti economici, sociali e culturali (come i diritti all'istruzione, al lavoro, all'abitazione e alla salute) a favore di un più ampio interesse per i diritti individuali(libertà di opinione, libertà di movimento geografico, libertà di espressione, ecc.), studiare il ruolo delle donne immigrate nella partecipazione di comunità straniere nei movimenti sociali per i diritti alla casa può incoraggiaree sostenere una rinnovata attenzione verso questo tema, con particolare riguardo alla mutevole composizione sociale della popolazione residente, e all'emergere di vecchie e nuove forme di povertà, di cui i flussi migratori in arrivo sono una delle cause principali. La figura del migrante trasforma, di fatto, il problema degli alloggi in un problema di convivenza o, meglio ancora, di coesistenza.

The developments in Russian official symbolical, cultural and social policies as well as the contradictory trajectories of important cultural, social and intellectual trends in Russian society after the year 2000. Readership: The book is intended for specialists as well as for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of politics, culture and society in Russia and other Post-Soviet countries, cultural policy, memory, history, Putin, ideology, nationalism, political regimes, elites, grassroots, Post-Soviet politics, social media, social movements, intellectual history, and imperial visions.