Contested Communities

Contested Communities
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 390
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ISBN-10 : 0822320924
ISBN-13 : 9780822320920
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Contested Communities by : Thomas Miller Klubock

In Contested Communities Thomas Miller Klubock analyzes the experiences of the El Teniente copper miners during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. Describing the everyday life and culture of the mining community, its impact on Chilean politics and national events, and the sense of self and identity working-class men and women developed in the foreign-owned enclave, Klubock provides important insights into the cultural and social history of Chile. Klubock shows how a militant working-class community was established through the interplay between capitalist development, state formation, and the ideologies of gender. In describing how the North American copper company attempted to reconfigure and reform the work and social-cultural lives of men and women who migrated to the mine, Klubock demonstrates how struggles between labor and capital took place on a gendered field of power and reconstituted social constructions of masculinity and femininity. As a result, Contested Communities describes more accurately than any previous study the nature of grassroots labor militancy, working-class culture, and everyday politics of gender relations during crucial years of the Chilean Popular Front in the 1930s and 1940s.

Contested City

Contested City
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Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : 9781609386108
ISBN-13 : 1609386108
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Contested City by : Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani

2020 Brendan Gill Prize finalist For forty years, as New York’s Lower East Side went from disinvested to gentrified, residents lived with a wound at the heart of the neighborhood, a wasteland of vacant lots known as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA). Most of the buildings on the fourteen-square-block area were condemned in 1967, displacing thousands of low-income people of color with the promise that they would soon return to new housing—housing that never came. Over decades, efforts to keep out affordable housing sparked deep-rooted enmity and stalled development, making SPURA a dramatic study of failed urban renewal, as well as a microcosm epitomizing the greatest challenges faced by American cities since World War II. Artist and urban scholar Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani was invited to enter this tense community to support a new approach to planning, which she accepted using collaboration, community organizing, public history, and public art. Having engaged her students at The New School in a multi-year collaboration with community activists, the exhibitions and guided tours of her Layered SPURA project provided crucial new opportunities for dialogue about the past, present, and future of the neighborhood. Simultaneously revealing the incredible stories of community and activism at SPURA, and shedding light on the importance of collaborative creative public projects, Contested City bridges art, design, community activism, and urban history. This is a book for artists, planners, scholars, teachers, cultural institutions, and all those who seek to collaborate in new ways with communities.

Contested Extractivism, Society and the State

Contested Extractivism, Society and the State
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9781137588111
ISBN-13 : 113758811X
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Contested Extractivism, Society and the State by : Bettina Engels

This book empirically discusses recent struggles over land and mining, exploring state-society relations conflicts on various scales. In contrast with the existing literature, analyses in this volume deliberately focus on large-scale land use changes both in relation to the expansion of industrial mining and to agro-industry. The authors contend that there are significant parallels between contestations over different variants of resource extractivism, as they reflect the same global trends and processes. Chapters draw on critical theoretical approaches from political ecology, political economy, spatial theory, contentious politics, and the study of democracy. The authors not only provide empirical insights on actual resource struggles from different world regions based on in-depth field research, but also contribute to theory-building by linking concepts from various critical approaches to one another, developing a perspective for analysing struggles over resources related to current global crisis phenomena.

Contested Illnesses

Contested Illnesses
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 342
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ISBN-10 : 9780520950429
ISBN-13 : 0520950429
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Contested Illnesses by : Phil Brown

The politics and science of health and disease remain contested terrain among scientists, health practitioners, policy makers, industry, communities, and the public. Stakeholders in disputes about illnesses or conditions disagree over their fundamental causes as well as how they should be treated and prevented. This thought-provoking book crosses disciplinary boundaries by engaging with both public health policy and social science, asserting that science, activism, and policy are not separate issues and showing how the contribution of environmental factors in disease is often overlooked.

Contested Communities

Contested Communities
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1447366646
ISBN-13 : 9781447366645
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Contested Communities by : Paul Hoggett

"Community" is a much used but little understood term. Through a set of detailed case studies, this book examines the sources of community activism, the ways in which communities define themselves, and the nature of the interface between communities and public agencies via partnerships.

Contested Lives

Contested Lives
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 364
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ISBN-10 : 052092245X
ISBN-13 : 9780520922457
Rating : 4/5 (5X Downloads)

Synopsis Contested Lives by : Faye D. Ginsburg

Based on the struggle over a Fargo, North Dakota, abortion clinic, Contested Lives explores one of the central social conflicts of our time. Both wide-ranging and rich in detail, it speaks not simply to the abortion issue but also to the critical role of women's political activism. A new introduction addresses the events of the last decade, which saw the emergence of Operation Rescue and a shift toward more violent, even deadly, forms of anti-abortion protest. Responses to this trend included government legislation, a decline in clinics and doctors offering abortion services, and also the formation of Common Ground, an alliance bringing together activists from both sides to address shared concerns. Ginsburg shows that what may have seemed an ephemeral artifact of "Midwestern feminism" of the 1980s actually foreshadowed unprecedented possibilities for reconciliation in one of the most entrenched conflicts of our times.

Contested Waters

Contested Waters
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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780807888988
ISBN-13 : 0807888982
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Contested Waters by : Jeff Wiltse

From nineteenth-century public baths to today's private backyard havens, swimming pools have long been a provocative symbol of American life. In this social and cultural history of swimming pools in the United States, Jeff Wiltse relates how, over the years, pools have served as asylums for the urban poor, leisure resorts for the masses, and private clubs for middle-class suburbanites. As sites of race riots, shrinking swimsuits, and conspicuous leisure, swimming pools reflect many of the tensions and transformations that have given rise to modern America.

Global Civil Society

Global Civil Society
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 191
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ISBN-10 : 9781134256877
ISBN-13 : 1134256876
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Global Civil Society by : Gideon Baker

For many commentators, global civil society is revolutionising our approach to global politics, as new non-state-based and border-free expressions of political community challenge territorial sovereignty as the exclusive basis for political community and identity. This challenge 'from below' to the nation-state system is increasingly seen as promising nothing less than a reconstruction, or a re-imagination, of world politics itself. Whether in terms of the democratisation of the institutions of global governance, the spread of human rights across the world, or the emergence of a global citizenry in a worldwide public sphere, global civil society is understood by many to provide the agency necessary for these hoped-for transformations. Global Civil Society asks whether this idea is such a qualitatively new phenomenon after all; whether the transformation of the nation-state system is actually within its reach; and what some of the drawbacks might be.

Contested Community

Contested Community
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 277
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ISBN-10 : 9781793613745
ISBN-13 : 1793613745
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Contested Community by : Veronika Groke

Veronika Groke interrogates the concept of the comunidad indígena (indigenous community) in the context of the history and social life of a Guaraní community in eastern Bolivia. While this institution is today firmly embedded in Bolivian politics and society, different people and interest groups have varying understandings of its meaning and purpose. By showing the comunidad to be a multifaceted complex of diverging and sometimes competing ideas, desires, and agendas, Groke provides new insight into contemporary political tensions related to culture, identity, and development

Community Rights, Conservation and Contested Land

Community Rights, Conservation and Contested Land
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Publisher : Earthscan
Total Pages : 342
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ISBN-10 : 9781849775052
ISBN-13 : 1849775052
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Community Rights, Conservation and Contested Land by : Fred Nelson

Natural resource governance is central to the outcomes of biodiversity conservation efforts and to patterns of economic development, particularly in resource-dependent rural communities. The institutional arrangements that define natural resource governance are outcomes of political processes, whereby numerous groups with often-divergent interests negotiate for access to and control over resources. These political processes determine the outcomes of resource governance reform efforts, such as widespread attempts to decentralize or devolve greater tenure over land and resources to local communities. This volume examines the political dynamics of natural resource governance processes through a range of comparative case studies across east and southern Africa. These cases include both local and national settings, and examine issues such as land rights, tourism development, wildlife conservation, participatory forest management, and the impacts of climate change, and are drawn from both academics and field practitioners working across the region. Published with IUCN, The Bradley Fund for the Environment, SASUSG and Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs