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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Linkages Between Citizen Participation, Digital Technology, and Urban Development -- Introduction -- E-participation and Citizen Engagement -- Key Concepts and Relationships -- The Extent and Impact of Citizen Participation -- Cities Adoption and Implementation of Innovations -- City and System Characteristics -- Research Design and Methodological Approach -- Summaries of Arguments and Findings -- References -- 2 Participation and Influence in Urban Development: Does City E-Participation Strategy Matter? -- Introduction -- E-Participation in a Multi-Channel Context -- City E-Participation Strategies -- E-Participation and Participation Divides -- Why City E-Participation Strategies Might Not Matter -- Methods and Data -- City E-Participatory Strategies -- Madrid -- Melbourne -- Oslo -- Findings -- How Local Activists Participate -- Combination of Different Participatory Channels -- Local Activists' Influence Over Urban Development -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Displacement and Citizen Participation: A Comparison of the Enactment of E-Participation Platforms in Oslo and Madrid -- Introduction -- Theoretical Perspectives -- The Danger of Displacement -- Enacting Technology -- The Importance of the Context -- The Inherent Logic of E-Participation Technology -- Data and Methods -- Findings -- Similar State-Civil Society Regimes… -- …Yet, Different Enactment of E-Participation Technologies -- Perception -- Design -- Implementation -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- 4 Inside the Black Box: Perspectives and Attitudes of Civil Servants on Citizen Participation -- Introduction -- Factors Conditioning Civil Servants' Attitudes -- Rational of Case Selection and Research Methods -- Data Analysis.

The book addresses the theme of youth climate activism building on the experience of FridaysForFuture activists and analyzing both their social representations of climate change and their social media usage practices. It accounts for the results of a qualitative research carried out with(in) the Roman group of the movement, adopting a solidarity-based epistemic stance that invites reflections both on activism and research practices.
Drawing upon social representations theory, the authors analyze how the "Fridays" perceive climate change: as a socio-ecological crisis that comes from afar and has repercussions on the future, as something that affects everything and everyone; but also, as a generational problem whose environmental, social, and economic costs will be paid mainly by young people. On the other hand, guided by the literature on digital activism, the authors explore the way in which the activists inhabit social media: as constitutive environments of activism, where political and media practices define each other; but also, as environments that belong to young people and are characterized by age-specific communication styles.
The two experiences related to climate change and the political usages of social media influence each other, giving rise to an unprecedented youth movement for the climate that can tell us about the transformations currently undergoing digital, environmental, and youth activism.

Decolonizing 1968 explores how activists in 1968 transformed university campuses across Europe and North Africa into sites of contestation where students, administrators, and state officials collided over definitions of modernity and nationhood after empire. Burleigh Hendrickson details protesters' versions of events to counterbalance more visible narratives that emerged from state-controlled media centers and ultimately describes how the very education systems put in place to serve the French state during the colonial period ended up functioning as the crucible of postcolonial revolt. Hendrickson not only unearths complex connections among activists and their transnational networks across Tunis, Paris, and Dakar but also weaves together their overlapping stories and participation in France's May '68. Using global protest to demonstrate the enduring links between France and its former colonies,Decolonizing 1968 traces the historical relationships between colonialism and 1968 activism, examining transnational networks that emerged and new human and immigrants' rights initiatives that directly followed. As a result, Hendrickson reveals that 1968 is not merely a flashpoint in the history of left-wing protest but a key turning point in the history of decolonization. Thanks to generous funding from Penn State and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.

Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- About the Book and Research Justification -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Community-Based Research in Higher Education -- 1: Community-Based Research in Higher Education: Research Partnerships for the Common Good -- Introduction -- Aim of This Book -- Community-Based Research -- The Paradigm and Basic Principles of CBR -- Epistemological Assumptions -- Ontological Assumptions -- Methodological Assumptions -- Axiological Assumptions -- The Transformative Outcomes of CBR -- Educative Intent -- Emancipatory Intent -- Activist Intent -- Core Concepts of the Book -- Knowledge Democracy -- Social Justice -- Power Relations -- Vulnerable Populations -- Structure and Content of the Book -- Conclusion -- Questions to Provoke Discussion -- Further Reading -- References -- 2: Rethinking Ethical Processes for Community-Based Research with Vulnerable Populations: Lessons from Practice -- Introduction -- Ethics and Ethical Challenges in Community-Based Research -- Major Frameworks for Research Ethics -- Ethical Concerns in Community-Based Research -- Partnership, Collaboration and Power -- Blurring the Boundaries Between Researcher and Researched, Academic and Activist -- Community Rights, Conflict and Democratic Representation -- Ownership and Dissemination of Data, Findings and Publications -- Anonymity, Privacy and Confidentiality -- Institutional Ethical Review Processes -- Social Action for Social Change -- Community-Based Research with Vulnerable Populations: Examples of Ethical Dilemmas -- Linking the Cases to Core Areas of Ethical Concerns -- Implications for Practice: Doing Research with Vulnerable Populations -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- References -- 3: Building Capacity for Community-Based Research -- Introduction.

"Sadomasochism and the BDSM Community in the United States: Kinky People Unite chronicles the development of sadomasochistic sexuality and its communities in the United States from the post-war period to the present day. Having evolved from scattered networks of sadomasochists to a coherent body bound by shared principles of "safe, sane, consensual," activists worked to transform popular perceptions of their community, end its routine harassment by law enforcement, and win inclusion in American society. Often paralleling the work of LGBTQ activists, people who engaged in BDSM (Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, and Sadism and Masochism) transformed both their own sexual practices and how outsiders perceived them, successfully changing popular perceptions of them from fascists, murderers, and outlaws to people living an alternative lifestyle. The development of this community highlights the interactions of people of different sexual orientations within a sexual community, the influence of various campaigns for sexual freedom, and the BDSM community's influence on popular perceptions of sexuality and sexual freedom. The text's historical perspective gives depth and texture to a specific dimension of American history of sexuality. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in the history of sexuality. It's clear and direct approach offers an important and useful chronology of a movement that has long been neglected"--

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- International conferencing as a political practice -- Structure -- Approaches -- Chapter 1: Towards an historical geography of international conferencing -- Introduction -- Pre-histories of the modern conference -- Modern international conferences -- Liberal international conferencing -- Colonial, imperial and Commonwealth conferencing -- Anti-colonial, non-aligned and activist conferencing -- Conclusion -- Part I: State internationalism -- Chapter 2: Ambassadors, activists and experts: Conferencing and the internationalization of international relations in the nineteenth century -- Chapter 3: Contesting representations of indigeneity at the First Inter-American Indigenista Congress, 1940 -- Introduction -- The physical and social spaces of the conference -- Leadership of and participation in the conference -- Indigenous agency, voice and resistance -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Awe and espionage at Lancaster House: The African decolonization conferences of the early 1960s -- Introduction -- Background to the conferences -- The London advantage: Control, influence, expertise, infrastructure and espionage -- 'The Lancaster House treatment' -- Travelling from Africa -- Conclusion -- Part II: Science, civil society and the state -- Chapter 5: Conferencing the aerial future -- The international atmosphere -- Aerial futures at the 1926 Imperial Conference -- Weather permitting: The 1929 Conference of Empire Meteorologists -- Rehearsing the aerial future: The 1930 Imperial Conference -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Scientific internationalism in a time of crisis: The Month of Intellectual Cooperation at the 1937 Paris World Fair -- Introduction: Paris 1937 - A huge 'waste of time'?.

Introduction / Eduard Arriaga and Andrés Villar -- Afro-Latinx Digital Cultures: Towards Complex and Diverse (Digital?) Humanities / Eduard Arriaga -- Digital Autonomy and Knowledge Production by Black and Brazilian Women: Interview with Silvana Bahia, director of PretaLab, Brazil / Eduard Arriaga and Andrés Villar -- Afro-Latina Minimal Computing: Interview with Sandra Abd'Allah-Alvarez, Cuban activist and blogger / Eduard Arriaga and Andrés Villar -- Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Cuban Digital Culture / Maya Anderson-Gonzalez -- Fighting Racism with Digital Weapons: Interview with Mónica Carrillo, LUNDU (Peru) and Proyecto Afrolatin@ (USA) / Eduard Arriaga and Andrés Villar -- International Organization (IO) Theory and Online Afro-Latin America / Yvonne Captain -- Between Analog and Digital Activism in Afro-Colombia: Interview with Yancy Castillo and Dora Inés Vivanco, CNOA (Conferencia Nacional de Organizaciones Afro-Colombianas), Bogot , Colombia / Eduard Arriaga and Andrés Villar -- Towards the Creation of an Afrodescendant Digital Archive: The Cape Verdean Association in Buenos Aires / María Cecilia Martino -- Borrowing Digital Tools to Connect the Periphery: Interview with Alí Majul, Artist and Activist, Colectivo Contextos and Canal Cultural, Cartagena, Colombia / Eduard Arriaga and Andrés Villar -- Using Games to Build Connections in Africa and Beyond: Interview with Adebayo Adegbembo, founder of Genii Games / Eduard Arriaga and Andrés Villar -- Epilogue: Using Digital Tools to Build Afro-Latinx Connections and Futures

Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- Transnationalizing Feminist and LGBTI+ Activisms in Russia, the Scandinavian Countries, and Turkey -- Varieties of Modernization in the Early Twentieth Century -- Cold War Rivalries and Transnational Organizing -- Contemporary Contestations of Gender Equality and Sexual Rights -- Navigating Contested Terms -- Multi-scalar Transnational Methodology -- Fieldwork in/on Russia -- Fieldwork in the Scandinavian Countries -- Fieldwork in Turkey -- Positionality and Ethical Concerns -- Chapter Outline -- References -- 2 Transnational Spaces of Resistance -- Scaling Resistance -- Transnational Civil Society: Between Co-optation and Resistance -- Promises and Pitfalls of Transnational Solidarity -- From Individual Bodies to Transnational Organizing: Beyond the Dichotomy of Visibility-Invisibility -- References -- 3 Transforming Conditions of Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism -- Contextualizing Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism: State-Civil Society Contestations -- Russia: Activists' Mobilization in Response to Repressive State Practices -- Turkey: Coping with the State Through In/Formal Organizing -- Scandinavian Countries: Civil Society as Extended Arm of State and the Invisibility of Marginalized Actors -- Marketization and Tensions Within Transnational Civil Society -- International Collaborations Beyond the East-West Divide -- Majority/Minority Divides -- Regional/Metropolitan Belongings -- (Un)doing Donor Politics -- Funding Policies and the Agenda of Activist Work -- Salaries: Between Passion and Profession -- Resisting Donor Hegemonies -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Solidarities Across: Borders, Belongings, Movements -- De/stabilizing Divides Through Transnational Solidarities.

"The 1963 Children's March in Birmingham, Alabama. Tiananmen Square, 1989. The 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests. March for Our Lives, and School Strike for Climate. What do all these social justice movements have in common? They were led by passionate, informed, engaged young people. Jamie Margolin has been organizing and protesting since she was fourteen years old. Now the co-leader of a global climate action movement, she knows better than most how powerful a young person can be. You don't have to be able to vote or hold positions of power to change the world. In Youth to Power, Jamie presents the essential guide to changemaking, with advice on writing and pitching op-eds, organizing successful events and peaceful protests, time management as a student activist, utilizing social media and traditional media to spread a message, and sustaining long-term action. She features interviews with prominent young activists including Tokata Iron Eyes of the #NoDAPL movement and Nupol Kiazolu of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, who give guidance on handling backlash, keeping your mental health a priority, and how to avoid getting taken advantage of. Jamie walks readers through every step of what effective, healthy, intersectional activism looks like. Young people have a lot to say. Youth to Power gives you the tools to raise your voice"--

"A comprehensive and timely resource for students, activists, educators and advocates, Domestic Violence and Abuse: A Reference Handbook provides a rich and scholarly assessment of this important social issue while also including stories and profiles for a more personal understanding. Domestic Violence and Abuse: A Reference Handbook provides a thorough review of the most recent research about intimate partner violence. Additionally, a historical review provides readers with a sense of how views on domestic violence have changed over time and how different policies and practices have and have not been successful. Appropriate for readers at the high school level and above, the volume focuses on the scope, extent, and characteristics of domestic violence and offers several unique elements, including profiles of significant individuals, personal stories from advocates, activists and survivors, and a review of controversial issues. The volume also includes a chronology of key events, relevant data and documents, primary source data, and recommended resources. --Compiles the most recent data about victims and offenders, thereby correcting many misconceptions about domestic violence --Offers a timeline of critical events for readers to understand the history of the movement --Includes primary source documents and personal stories, which help make the book beneficial to all readers --Addresses the most common controversies in the field, allowing readers to support more informed positions." --

"In this wide-ranging and multidisciplinary volume, leading scholars, activists, journalists, and public figures deliberate about the creative and critical potential of public imagination in an era paradoxically marked by intensifying globalization and resurgent nationalism. Divided into five sections, these essays explore the social, political, and cultural role of imagination and civic engagement, offering cogent, ingenious reflections that stand in stark contrast to the often grim rhetoric of our era. Short and succinct, the essays engage with an interconnected ensemble of themes and issues while also providing insights into the specific geographical and social dynamics of each author's national or regional context. Part 1 introduces the reader to theoretical reflections on imagination and the public sphere; Part 2 illustrates dynamics of public imagination in a diverse set of cultural contexts; Part 3 reflects in various ways on the urgent need for a radically transformed public and civic imagination in the face of worldwide ecological crisis; Part 4 suggests new societal possibilities that are related to spiritual as well as politically revolutionary sources of inspiration; Part 5 explores characteristics of present and potentially emerging global society and the existing transnational framework that could provide resources for a more humane global order. Erudite and thought-provoking, On Public Imagination makes a vital contribution to political thought, and is accessible to activists, students, and scholars alike"--

Back to America is an ethnography of local activist groups within the Tea Party, one of the most important recent political movements to emerge in the United States and one that continues to influence American politics. Though often viewed as the brainchild of conservative billionaires and Fox News, the success of the Tea Party movement was as much, if not more, the result of everyday activists at the grassroots level. William H. Westermeyer traces how local Tea Party groups (LTPGs) create submerged spaces where participants fashion action-oriented collective and personal political identities forged in the context of cultural or figured worlds. These figured worlds allow people to establish meaningful links between their own lives and concerns, on the one hand, and the movement's goals and narratives, on the other. Collectively, the production and circulation of the figured worlds within LTPGs provide the basis for subjectivities that often nurture political activism. Westermeyer reveals that LTPGs are vibrant and independent local organizations that, while constantly drawing on nationally disseminated cultural images and discourses, are far from simple agents of the larger organizations and the media. Back to America offers a welcome anthropological approach to this important social movement and to our understanding of grassroots political activism writ large. -- Publisher.

"American society is often described as one that celebrates self-reliance and personal responsibility. However, abolitionists, progressive reformers, civil rights activists, and numerous others often held their fellow citizens responsible for shared problems such as economic exploitation and white supremacy. Moreover, they viewed recognizing and responding to shared problems as essential to achieving democratic ideals. In Democratic Responsibility, Nora Hanagan examines American thinkers and activists who offered an alternative to individualistic conceptions of responsibility and puts them in dialogue with contemporary philosophers who write about shared responsibility. Drawing on the political theory and practice of Henry David Thoreau, Jane Addams, Martin Luther King Jr., and Audre Lorde, Hanagan develops a distinctly democratic approach to shared responsibility. Cooperative democracy is especially relevant in an age of globalization and hyperconnectivity, where societies are continually threatened with harms--such as climate change, global sweatshop labor, and structural racism--that result from the combined interactions of multiple individuals and institutions, and which therefore cannot be resolved without collective action. Democratic Responsibility offers insight into how political actors might confront seemingly intractable problems, and challenges conventional understandings of what commitment to democratic ideals entails. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of political science, especially those who look to the history of political thought for resources that might promote social justice in the present"--

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Global Childhood and the Early Cold War -- The Junior Marshall Plan: Children, World Friendship, and Internationalism after World War II -- Friends of the Free World: The Boy Scouts and the Juvenilization of America's Cold War Empire -- Science Fairs as National Security: Adolescent Culture in Postwar America, 1950-1965 -- Training Teenagers: Social Acceptance and Consensus Building in Postwar America -- Part 2. Youth Activism and Midcentury Rights Movements -- Gender, Civic Fitness, and Disability in Post-World War II American Youth Organizations -- "Remove Our Troops from Veit Nom and Listen": Youth Diplomacy and Johnson's Vietnam War -- A "Force for Change": Youth Activists and the Asian American Movement -- Dictating Their Own Future: Indigenous Student Activists, Cultural Relevancy, and Shaping the Education of Future Generations -- "The White[s] Say They Are American, but They Are Not": Subversive Pamphlets Mailed by American Children and Teens to the White House, 1972-1984 -- Part 3. Childhood and Youth in the Age of Fracture -- Engineering Girls: The Evolution of Advocacy for Young Women's Stem Education -- "Say You Love Satan": Teens and Popular Occulture in 1980s America -- Accessing Equality: High School Students, the First Amendment, and the Equal Access Act of 1984 -- Milk Carton Kids: Endangered Childhood and the Carceral State -- Contributors -- Index.

So the presidential election of 2016 happened. You cried, you ranted, you marched. But how do you stay engaged for the long term? How do you keep fighting while also continuing your real life? How do you get involved when you feel far from the action? How do you stay vigilant without being furious? All. The. Time. Needing to take action after the election, Emma Gray, Executive Women's Editor at HuffPost, put on her journalist hat and set out to get answers to these questions from some of the most prominent thought leaders and activists of our time. She spoke with march organizers, and senators, long-time activists, and newcomers across political movements to find out the best ways to listen to those who have been doing this for a while, join in, and create sustainable action. In all of her conversations, one theme came up again and again: young women are essential to the resistance. Interweaving the interviews with her own experiences covering resistance events and being a member of the media in a time when the media has been under assault, Emma has created a down and dirty guide for women of all ages to roll up their sleeves and resist the forces that are a threat to our rights