Struggle for the Land
Title | Struggle for the Land PDF eBook |
Author | Ward Churchill |
Publisher | City Lights Books |
Pages | 470 |
Release | 2002-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780872864146 |
Landmark work illustrates the history of North American indigenous resistance and the struggle for land rights.
The Struggle for Land
Title | The Struggle for Land PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Foweraker |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2002-08-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521526005 |
A 'regional' political economy which makes its own contribution to the theory of the state.
All Our Relations
Title | All Our Relations PDF eBook |
Author | Winona LaDuke |
Publisher | Haymarket Books |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2017-01-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1608466612 |
How Native American history can guide us today: “Presents strong voices of old, old cultures bravely trying to make sense of an Earth in chaos.” —Whole Earth Written by a former Green Party vice-presidential candidate who was once listed among “America’s fifty most promising leaders under forty” by Time magazine, this thoughtful, in-depth account of Native struggles against environmental and cultural degradation features chapters on the Seminoles, the Anishinaabeg, the Innu, the Northern Cheyenne, and the Mohawks, among others. Filled with inspiring testimonies of struggles for survival, each page of this volume speaks forcefully for self-determination and community. “Moving and often beautiful prose.” —Ralph Nader “Thoroughly researched and convincingly written.” —Choice
An Example for All the Land
Title | An Example for All the Land PDF eBook |
Author | Kate Masur |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2010-10-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0807899321 |
An Example for All the Land reveals Washington, D.C. as a laboratory for social policy in the era of emancipation and the Civil War. In this panoramic study, Kate Masur provides a nuanced account of African Americans' grassroots activism, municipal politics, and the U.S. Congress. She tells the provocative story of how black men's right to vote transformed local affairs, and how, in short order, city reformers made that right virtually meaningless. Bringing the question of equality to the forefront of Reconstruction scholarship, this widely praised study explores how concerns about public and private space, civilization, and dependency informed the period's debate over rights and citizenship.
Kūʻē
Title | Kūʻē PDF eBook |
Author | Haunani-Kay Trask |
Publisher | Mutual Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Hawaii |
ISBN | 9781566476942 |
Land, Protest, and Politics
Title | Land, Protest, and Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Gabriel Ondetti |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0271047844 |
Brazil is a country of extreme inequalities, one of the most important of which is the acute concentration of rural land ownership. In recent decades, however, poor landless workers have mounted a major challenge to this state of affairs. A broad grassroots social movement led by the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) has mobilized hundreds of thousands of families to pressure authorities for land reform through mass protest. This book explores the evolution of the landless movement from its birth during the twilight years of Brazil&’s military dictatorship through the first government of Luiz In&ácio Lula da Silva. It uses this case to test a number of major theoretical perspectives on social movements and engages in a critical dialogue with both contemporary political opportunity theory and Mancur Olson&’s classic economic theory of collective action. Ondetti seeks to explain the major moments of change in the landless movement's growth trajectory: its initial emergence in the late 1970s and early 80s, its rapid takeoff in the mid-1990s, its acute but ultimately temporary crisis in the early 2000s, and its resurgence during Lula's first term in office. He finds strong support for the influential, but much-criticized political opportunity perspective. At the same time, however, he underscores some of the problems with how political opportunity has been conceptualized in the past. The book also seeks to shed light on the anomalous fact that the landless movement continued to expand in the decade following the restoration of Brazilian democracy in 1985 despite the general trend toward social-movement decline. His argument, which highlights the unusual structure of incentives involved in the struggle for land in Brazil, casts doubt on a key assumption underlying Olson's theory.
The Struggle for Land and Justice in Kenya
Title | The Struggle for Land and Justice in Kenya PDF eBook |
Author | Ambreena Manji |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1847012558 |
Finalist for the African Studies Association's 2021 Best Book Prize. Explores the limits of law in changing unequal land relations in Kenya.