Social Movements cleverly translates the art of collective action and mobilization by excluded groups to facilitate understanding social change from below. Students learn the core components of social movements, the theory and methods used to study them, and the conditions under which they can lead to political and social transformation.This fully class-tested book is the first to be organized along the lines of the major subfields of social movement scholarship—framing, m...

What are the conditions and factors that drive people to protest against government economic policies in the developing world?Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Pacific Sociological Association (2015)Paul Almeida’s comparative study of the largest social movement campaigns that existed between 1980 and 2013 in every Central American country (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama) provides a granular examination of the force...

Civil society actors contested the fifty-year long transition to a global economy based on the principles of neoliberalism. Mobilization against neoliberal measures represents one of the most common forms of social-movement activity across the world. We explore the evolution of resistance to economic liberalization from the 1970s to the current period. Our study highlights several dimensions of civic opposition to the implementation of free market policies, including: forms of neoliberalis...

Deftly demonstrates how the rise and fall of social movements throughout history is closely linked to economic and political developments.In the early decades of the twenty-first century, an international movement to slow the pace of climate change mushroomed across the globe. The self-proclaimed Climate Justice movement urges immediate action to reduce carbon emissions and calls for the adoption of bold new policies to address global warming before irreversible an...

The most recent scientific reporting suggests that the outlook for continued global warming is dire. Collective action and civic engagement by ordinary people around the world will prove decisive in slowing down global warming and supporting planetary survival. Climate Change and Civic Engagement demonstrates the origins, gains, and future trajectory of the climate movement. In analyzing collective action events around the world and exploring how the movement navigates the competi...

Cet ouvrage est issu du traité L'Arthroscopie publié sous l'égide de la Société francophone d'arthroscopie (SFA).Il rassemble en plus de 75 fiches didactiques et synthétiques toutes les notions indispensables à connaître en arthroscopie (principes généraux et voies d'abord par articulation). Chaque fiche est une synthèse actualisée d'un ou plusieurs chapitres du traité et reprend le même plan récurrent :• physiopathologie,• diagnostic,• traitement,• indications et résultats.Guide pratique ...

The Jews were drastically expelled from Spain by the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile. In Portugal, the king deported 2,000 Jewish children to colonize the island of Santo Tomé, in Africa, and also decreed forced conversion to Christianity. The aim was to erase the traditions of a people. .The persecution grew even more in 1536, when the Inquisition arrived in Portugal. Many Jews died at the stake, others had their property confiscated. However, the co...

O presente livro, intitulado A hermenêutica filosófica e a hermenêutica bíblica no pensamento de Paul Ricoeur, de Frederico Soares de Almeida se estrutura com base em duas questões centrais da hermenêutica atual. Procura responder à pergunta: o que é a hermenêutica filosófica? Quer encontrar a conexão entre a hermenêutica filosófica e a hermenêutica bíblica. As respostas a essas indagações estão articuladas a partir de uma prévia abordagem da história da hermenêutica que culmina com a rece...

Rabbits have many uses - as well as being cherished pets, they are bred for their meat and fur, and as laboratory animals. Understanding their genetics and genomics is key to their production and, equally, to their care, welfare and health. Beginning with an introduction to the rabbit, including key information on their evolution, domestication and breed types, this book then concentrates on the genetics and genomics of this valuable animal. This book covers: - Cytogenetics, genetic maps a...

The Jews were drastically expelled from Spain by the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile. In Portugal, the king deported 2,000 Jewish children to colonize the island of Santo Tomé, in Africa, and also decreed forced conversion to Christianity. The aim was to erase the traditions of a people. .The persecution grew even more in 1536, when the Inquisition arrived in Portugal. Many Jews died at the stake, others had their property confiscated. However, the co...

This book is a collection of nine essays exploring the Irish-American experience in the New Jersey and New York metropolitan area, both historically and today. The essays place the local Irish-American experience in the wider context of immigration studies, assimilation, and historical theory. Using case studies, interviews, scholarly research in primary historical documents and theory, and first-hand experience, the authors delve into what it has meant, and means, to be Irish American in ...

Ganhador do prêmio Nobel, Paul Nurse apresenta cinco questões fundamentais para compreender a biologia e como aplicá-las em nosso cotidianoO renomado geneticista e biólogo celular Paul Nurse dedicou a carreira a desvendar o funcionamento de células vivas. Em O que é a vida?, ele aceita o desafio de descrever o ciclo celular e, consequentemente, o que significa estar vivo de um jeito descomplicado e elegante, acessível a todos os leitores.Para expl...