Suchergebnisse

parte 1. Marcha para Oeste : ideologia e política de integração nacional -- parte 2. Colônias agrícolas nacionais : gestão social de espaços e regulação de camponeses -- parte 3. As experiências dos camponeses : deslocamentos e redefinição de fronteiras -- parte 4. Mediadores sociais e redefinição de projetos políticos : entre missionários e comunistas -- parte 5. A luta pela terra como movimento social : ações coletivas de camponeses e indígenas

"This book seeks to explore the relevance of major theoretical and methodological approaches currently dominating the field of ethnic conflict and civil war research, testing their efficacy by applying them to three major South Caucasus conflicts of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Souleimanov explores the causes and dynamics of ethnic conflict and civil war, distinguishing between onset-based and process-based theories. He introduces a scheme of periodization which links the phase of low-scale inter-ethnic violence with the phase of sustainable organized violence, asserting the crucial importance of elites and their use of opportunity in power asymmetry as a key factor in instigating full-scale civil war. As a merger of theoretical and empiricist approaches, this book focuses on the case-specific contextual richness of the local conflicts in Karabakh, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia to draw solid theoretical conclusions as well as providing suggestions for the improvement of current theories."--

1. Finding the women's movement / Marian Sawer -- 2. Disruption, continuity and waves in the feminist movement / Drude Dahlerup -- 3. Discursive politics : changing the talk and raising expectations / Sarah Maddison 4. Taking to the streets / Catherine Strong and Kirsty McLaren -- 5. Hiding in plain sight : Australian women's advocacy organisations / Marian Sawer and Merrindahl Andrew -- 6. The institutional harvest : women's services and women's policy agencies / Merrindahl Andrew -- 7. Role models and Roller Derby : feminism and popular culture / Catherine Strong and Sarah Maddison -- 8. Blogging and the women's movement : new feminist networks / Frances Shaw -- 9. SlutWalking : where is the next generation of feminists? / Sarah Maddison -- 10. Global feminist organising : identifying patterns of activism / Myra Marx Ferree and Christina Ewig.

"Since the January 25 Revolution of 2011 that ousted Hosni Mubarak, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has emerged as a legal entity operating the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP). That party won a strong plurality in the 2011-2012 parliamentary elections as well as claiming the presidency. But while the group was one of the primary beneficiaries of the revolution, its future is clouded by serious generational divides within the organization. The MB is led by an aged leadership whose formative experience was the mihna (ordeal) of the 1960's when the state tried to stamp out the Islamist movement. This hardened the group's leaders and put a premium on secrecy and organizational security. Although individuals under the age of 35 make up a large share of the MB's membership, their participation is modeled on the principle of "listen and obey." This overbearing hierarchy has already led to splits within the MB and will continue to present challenges going forward. These youth merit attention not only as a challenge to the Brotherhood's organizational cohesion, but also as a potential conduit for expanding U.S. engagement with the group. This study presents several recommendations on how the United States can incorporate MB youth into engagement efforts, including understanding but not gaming divisions in the organization, expanding engagement beyond a handful of MB senior leaders, leveraging existing outreach programs to include MB youth, and cultivating leadership buy-in for youth engagement efforts

Ethnic elites, the influential business owners, teachers, and newspaper editors within distinct ethnic communities, play an important role as self-appointed mediators between their communities and "mainstream" societies. In Ethnic Elites and Canadian Identity, Aya Fujiwara examines the roles of Japanese, Ukrainian, and Scottish elites during the transition of Canadian identity from Anglo-conformity to ethnic pluralism. By comparing the strategies and discourses used by each community, including rhetoric, myths, collective memories, and symbols, she reveals how prewar community leaders were driving forces in the development of multiculturalism policy. In doing so, she challenges the widely held notion that multiculturalism was a product of the 1960s formulated and promoted by "mainstream" Canadians and places the emergence of Canadian multiculturalism within a transnational context.