"Today Russia and human rights are both high on the international agenda. Since Putin returned to the presidency in 2012, domestic developments -- from the prosecution of Pussy Riot to the release of Khodorkovsky -- and Russia's global role, especially in relation to Ukraine, ha…
The contributors to Beyond Civil Society argue that the conventional distinction between civic and uncivic protest, and between activism in institutions and in the streets, does not accurately describe the complex interactions of forms and locations of activism characteristic of…
"Juxtaposes feminist and queer activism in Britain and the United States in the face of resurgent conservatism during the 1980s"--.
Resilience : searching for new weapons while fleeing -- Global conjunctions of aesthetic resilience -- Artistic practices of embodied resilience. "This book examines how renewed forms of artistic activism were developed in the wake of the neoliberal repression since the 1980s. …
In 1970, a 65 year old Philadelphian named Maggie Kuhn began vocally opposing the notion of mandatory retirement. Taking inspiration from the civil rights and anti Vietnam War movements, Kuhn and her cohorts created an activist organization that quickly gained momentum as the Gr…