Author: David E Lowes
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781842776834
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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This dictionary is an alternative and a counter-balance to the many political dictionaries that ignore or marginalize the history and influence of anti-capitalist movements. It paints a rich picture of the ideas and issues that inform today's anti-capitalist activity. Anti-capitalism has existed in many forms and with a variety of names since the advent of capitalism. But this kind of oppositional force has often been ignored, misrepresented or trivialised by many in the mainstream media and academia and by established political parties. In the wake of the protests which started in Seattle in 1999, the continuing dissent around the Bush/Blair regimes, and ongoing commitments to neo-liberalism around the world, the movement continues to flourish. The Anti-Capitalist Dictionary is organised in an easily accessible alphabetical format, with self-contained, cross-referenced entries that introduce and explain concepts and issues that are integral to understanding today's global movement. The Dictionary demonstrates how the meaning and relevance of some of these have evolved and illustrates a linkage between past and present activity that might be unfamiliar to people who are involved or interested in the movement's current manifestations. This Dictionary has international coverage and will prove invaluable to students of politics as well as to activists and the general reader. David Lowes has a PhD on the theory and practice of labour activism from Liverpool John Moores University. He has been active in labour movement politics for over twenty years.
Author: David E. Lowes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789832535805
Category : Anti-globalization movement
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Author: David E. Lowes
Publisher: Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood
ISBN: 9781552661994
Category : Anti-globalization movement
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Author: John Bassett Mccleary
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 0307814335
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Whether you lived through the sixties and seventies or just wish you had, this revised and expanded edition of the Hippie Dictionary entertains as much as it educates. Cultural and political listings such as "Age of Aquarius," "Ceasar Chavez," and "Black Power Movement," plus popular phrases like "acid flashback," "get a grip," and "are you for real?" will remind you of how revolutionary those 20 years were. Although the hippie era spans two decades beginning with the approval of the birth control pill in 1960 and ending with the death of John Lennon in 1980, it wasn't all about sex, drugs, and rock'n' roll. These were the early years of pro-ecology and anti-capitalist beliefs-beliefs that are just as timely as ever. So kick back and trip out on the new entries as well as the old, and discover why some are dubbing the sixties and seventies "the intellectual renaissance of the 20th century."
Author: Steven W. Sowards
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 0838996353
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Focusing on print and electronic sources that are key to business and economics reference, this work is a must-have for every reference desk.
Author: Simon Tormey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1780742517
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 207
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Every aspect of the anti-capitalist world is covered in this helpful guide, from WOMBLES to Zapatistas, NGOs to environmentalism, Paris 1968 to Seattle, and beyond. Picking up where Naomi Klein left off, this is not so much a manifesto as a roadmap, which captures the essence of the movement, and also articulates a range of possibilities for future alternatives to the corporate domination of our planet.
Author: Boaventura De Sousa Santos
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1848137745
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Leading sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos makes an impassioned case for the politicisation of the World Social Forum, arguing that its full potential as a force for social, economic and political change can be achieved only by taking a stand against neo-liberal globalization, war, famine and corruption. However, since its inception in Porto Alegre in 2001, the World Social Forum has refused to adopt political positions on world events, preferring instead to provide a platform that facilitates cooperation between diverse social movements. Through a detailed analysis of the WSF's history and organization, he demonstrates that it has always been an inherently political organization, and argues that if the WSF is able to realise its potential as an institution for a new form of politics, it will become a global power to be reckoned with in the 21st century.
Author: T. R. Young
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000315908
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1479
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This book is a teaching dictionary with the goal of de-mystifying current social science theory in a comprehensive, accessible format. It focuses on important terminology in progressive, radical, critical Marxist, feminist, left-liberal, postmodern, and semiotic contexts.
Author: Mark Fisher
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1780997345
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. Using examples from politics, films, fiction, work and education, it argues that capitalist realism colours all areas of contemporary experience. But it will also show that, because of a number of inconsistencies and glitches internal to the capitalist reality program capitalism in fact is anything but realistic.
Author: Nicholas Von Hoffman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781560257127
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 323
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A wicked and witty guide to all things "business" covers everything from Globalism to Globalony, and from Abacus to Zukor, and everything in between.
