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... of its citizens. Ne'lv Political Science, 2013 Vol. 35, No.2, 227-249, httpdx.doi.org/l0.l080/07393148.2013.790711 Writing Cartographies of Violence: Nation Building through State Failure Stacey Hunt Auburn University, USA Abstract Literacy and literature were central to the birth of the modern nation...

... providing a quality intellectual experience for all students must work politically to ensure that all faculty have humane and secure working conditions and manageable teaching loads. In short, tenured faculty committed to a future for democratic public education must take up the challenge of building...

... NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE, 2017 VOL. 39, NO.1, 109-125 httpdx.doLorg/1 0.1 080107393148.2017.1278857 Growing Grassroots Democracy: Dynamic Outcomes in Building New York City's Participatory Budgeting Program Isaac Jabola-Carolus Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA ABSTRACT...

...Christine (Cricket) Keating Abstract One of the most important challenges of contemporary progressive politics is building social movements for change that take up the ways that that relations of power are shaped by the interaction and intersection of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability...

...’ problem in both the civil war and the 2004 Tsunami. I argue that both the nationas a treasure-box and caged-problem arise simultaneously in the process and project of nation building, and therefore both the cultural and political representations of the state are necessary for assessing the limitations...

...Joseph G. Peschek Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet , by Matthew T. Huber , London : Verso Books , 2022 , 312 pp., $24.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-78873-388-5 . © 2024 Joseph G. Peschek 2024 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE 2024, VOL. 46, NO.1, 107-115...

... provides a model of how to build and sustain agrifood worker power across the food chain from farm to table. Its coalition illustrates key themes relevant to the study of how we might transform the agrifood system by centering the diverse workers who provide us with our daily food. Three themes stand out...

... future. B-girls help build the networks of support upon which hip- hop artists rely. However, despite its challenge to racial and economic hegemonies, much of hip-hop culture excludes women. How do b-girls use hip-hop to mobilize for a socially just future under such conditions? This article suggests...

...Garrett Morrow Designing for Democracy: How to Build Community in Digital Environments , by Jennifer Forestal , New York : Oxford University Press , 2021 , 232 pp., $30.99 (softcover) ISBN: 978-0-197-56876-7 . © 2024 Garrett Morrow 2024 @360 BOOK REVIEWS into them and uses...

...James K. Rowe Abstract This article explores the growing use of mind/body practices such as meditation and yoga in Left social movements. The analysis is rooted in interviews with activists participating in the transformative movement-building current: the growing number of organizations...

... of contemporary capitalism. To address these important new political developments, this article argues for “participatory contract building” as a new direction in critical contract theory and participatory democracy. In order to unpack this approach, it analyzes the recent “crowd-sourced” constitution-drafting...

... argues, the critical attitude does not reject governing altogether; it is not a call for anarchy. Rather, it demands an alternative to the current governance. The question becomes how to maintain the critical attitude while also building alternative institutions. Does institution building attenuate...

... by Queer Indigenous scholars and then provide examples of Native organizing that shows how coalitions can bring members together across difference. To illustrate how this model of coalition building is different than non-Native coalition building, which tends to absorb and obscure differences, I then turn...

...-structural present. While the “cultural turn” promised to give voice against structuralist silencing, the critical subject of emancipation has been defaced, eradicated such that we currently have no theoretical place from where to build an emancipatory project. We must clear an analytical space through which...

... advocacy. To this end, this article builds upon post-pluralist and post-Marxist insights to outline the advocacy system’s “politics of affirmation.” Using recent antigay legislation to explore this concept, I argue that today’s political advocacy circumscribes, rather than enlivens, prevailing standards...

... with female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) in African and Middle Eastern countries, a move that erases differences and hinders building cross-cultural coalitions much less a transnational feminist movement. Decolonizing the colonized vagina, occupied by a range of forces except the women in whom...

... a discourse analysis of political rhetoric employed by the Walker campaign. We join critical race perspectives to examine how politicians play on existing inequalities as a method of gaining political and electoral legitimacy and achieving a retrenchment of the modern state. Moreover, we build a case...

... a theoretically informed account of this case. I argue that local fair trade initiatives represent examples of generative practices that build alternatives and aim to promote citizen engagement, and share many of the features of new social movements. I also argue that when global ideas and discourses...

..., in the post camp eviction period, made efforts to infuse a new kind of class politics among members of the newly and structurally dispossessed in the Los Angeles area. It focuses mainly on their efforts to build bridges among a variety of community based social movements during specific actions such as May...

...Anne McNevin Abstract In recent years, irregular migrants have mobilised, marched, occupied buildings, rioted, gone on strike, petitioned, blogged, written manifestos, and generally brought attention to their long-term presence in states where they live with the constant threat of deportation. What...