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Book Participatory Governance

Download or read book Participatory Governance written by and published by IIED. This book was released on with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Expose  Oppose  Propose

Download or read book Expose Oppose Propose written by William K. Carroll and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoliberal capitalism positions us all as consumers in a hypermarket where money talks. For the majority of people around the globe, this translates as precarity and immiseration. But how can we break from this dominant ideological framework? Expose, Oppose, Propose details how, since the mid 1970s, transnational alternative policy groups (TAPGs) have functioned as think tanks of a different sort, generating resources for a globalization from below in dialogue with the critical social movements that are protagonists for global justice. Based on two years of intensive research, William Carroll not only provides a detailed examination of a variety of TAPGs – showing how each group is distinctive and autonomous in its vision, practical priorities, and ways of producing and mobilizing alternative knowledge – but also reveals how TAPGs form a master frame that advocates and envisages global justice and ecological wellbeing.

Book Beyond the Boomerang

Download or read book Beyond the Boomerang written by Christopher L. Pallas and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The types of actors involved in transnational advocacy have diversified. Northern NGOs have lost power and influence and been restricted in their access to southern states. Southern NGOs have developed a capacity to undertake advocacy on their own and often built closer relationships with their own governments. International institutions have become more open to southern NGOs and more skeptical of southern NGOs' claims to speak for southern populations. The result is that the boomerang theory, although still useful, no longer provides the broad explanation for advocacy. A wealth of recent articles (many by contributors to this volume) showed a growing scholarly recognition of the need for new theory. "Beyond the Boomerang" offers cutting-edge scholarship and synthesizes a new theoretical framework to develop a coherent, integrated picture of the current dynamics in global advocacy. .

Book Refusing Ecocide

Download or read book Refusing Ecocide written by William K. Carroll and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-19 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refusing Ecocide: From Fossil Capitalism to a Liveable World provides a critical analysis of the central role of fossil capitalism in causing climate change and argues that only alternatives based upon democratic eco-socialism can prevent the deepening of the climate crisis. Employing three core concepts within historical materialism – capitalist accumulation, imperialism and hegemony – it locates the existential threat of our changing climate in the drive for increasing profit and growth, the domination of advanced capitalist states that strip resources and exploit cheap labour, and the consent to the capitalist way of life in the global North. With attention to the ways in which, powered by fossil fuels, capital has subjected the world to its predatory logic, this book charts this history and surveys the damage from the Industrial Revolution to today’s deep civilizational crisis, arguing that the market-based and purely technological solutions of ‘climate capitalism’ are too little, too late. A call for a multifaceted and multi-scalar shift away from capitalist accumulation, imperialism and class hegemony and instead towards democratic eco-socialism, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in political and social theory, the environment and sustainability.

Book Regime of Obstruction

Download or read book Regime of Obstruction written by William K. Carroll and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapidly rising carbon emissions from the intense development of Western Canada’s fossil fuels continue to aggravate the global climate emergency and destabilize democratic structures. The urgency of the situation demands not only scholarly understanding, but effective action. Regime of Obstruction aims to make visible the complex connections between corporate power and the extraction and use of carbon energy. Edited by William Carroll, this rigorous collection presents research findings from the first three years of the seven-year, SSHRC-funded partnership, the Corporate Mapping Project. Anchored in sociological and political theory, this comprehensive volume provides hard data and empirical research that traces the power and influence of the fossil fuel industry through economics, politics, media, and higher education. Contributors demonstrate how corporations secure popular consent, and coopt, disorganize, or marginalize dissenting perspectives to position the fossil fuel industry as a national public good. They also investigate the difficult position of Indigenous communities who, while suffering the worst environmental and health impacts from carbon extraction, must fight for their land or participate in fossil capitalism to secure income and jobs. The volume concludes with a look at emergent forms of activism and resistance, spurred by the fact that a just energy transition is still feasible. This book provides essential context to the climate crisis and will transform discussions of energy democracy. Contributions by Laurie Adkin, Angele Alook, Clifford Atleo, Emilia Belliveau-Thompson, John Bermingham, Paul Bowles, Gwendolyn Blue, Shannon Daub, Jessica Dempsey, Emily Eaton, Chuka Ejeckam, Simon Enoch, Nick Graham, Shane Gunster, Mark Hudson, Jouke Huizer, Ian Hussey, Emma Jackson, Michael Lang, James Lawson, Marc Lee, Fiona MacPhail, Alicia Massie, Kevin McCartney, Bob Neubauer, Eric Pineault, Lise Margaux Rajewicz, James Rowe, JP Sapinsky, Karena Shaw, and Zoe Yunker.

Book Student Vocabulary Companion

Download or read book Student Vocabulary Companion written by Okyere Bonna and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most words used in the English language today were borrowed (taken) from other languages. Many English words are made up of a root (or base word) and a prefix. Some words also have a suffix. This book ofers basic understanding of word formation and extensive vocabulary, especially for students preparing for standardized tests including SAT, GRE, GMAT and End of Grade exams. At the end of each chapter you will find various worksheets to help you practice and master your vocabulary.

Book Think Tanks and Global Politics

Download or read book Think Tanks and Global Politics written by Alejandra Salas-Porras and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a cutting edge analysis of the increasingly central role think tanks play in societies worldwide. Examining their control of global resources both in economic and political policy fields and their inroads into structures of power, it addresses key questions. How have think thanks reached these positions of power? Has the northern core produced neoliberal clones that have hydra-like colonised the globe? Who funds and controls these think tanks and for what purpose? How is policy making knowledge created? How are new policy ideas propagated and validated? How do think tanks become dominant sources of knowledge in public spheres including the media? Exploring the dynamics of think tank networks in specific regions and countries, this book considers the coalitions they generate to advance the social purpose they endorse and, in particular, the spaces they occupy in the structures and fields of power at the national, regional and global level.

Book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia written by William Dwight Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia  The Century dictionary     prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney     rev    enl  under the superintendence of Benjamin E  Smith

Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia The Century dictionary prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney rev enl under the superintendence of Benjamin E Smith written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia  The Century dictionary     prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney

Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia The Century dictionary prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney written by William Dwight Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia  Dictionary

Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Progressive Exercises in English Composition

Download or read book Progressive Exercises in English Composition written by Richard Green Parker and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis

Download or read book The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis written by John McLevey and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 951 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis builds on the success of its predecessor, offering a comprehensive overview of social network analysis produced by leading international scholars in the field. Brand new chapters provide both significant updates to topics covered in the first edition, as well as discussing cutting edge topics that have developed since, including new chapters on: · General issues such as social categories and computational social science; · Applications in contexts such as environmental policy, gender, ethnicity, cognition and social media and digital networks; · Concepts and methods such as centrality, blockmodeling, multilevel network analysis, spatial analysis, data collection, and beyond. By providing authoritative accounts of the history, theories and methodology of various disciplines and topics, the second edition of The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis is designed to provide a state-of-the-art presentation of classic and contemporary views, and to lay the foundations for the further development of the area. PART 1: GENERAL ISSUES PART 2: APPLICATIONS PART 3: CONCEPTS AND METHODS

Book The Winston Dictionary

Download or read book The Winston Dictionary written by William Dodge Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Winston Simplified Dictionary

Download or read book The Winston Simplified Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hal Leonard Pocket Rhyming Dictionary

Download or read book Hal Leonard Pocket Rhyming Dictionary written by Jana Ranson and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). If the muse seems to have lost your address, or a big writer's block has hit you squarely in the head, the Hal Leonard Pocket Rhyming Dictionary may be just the inspiration you need to get your words to once again flow freely! A treasure trove of 30,000 entries organized alpha-phonetically to maximize word choice and minimize cross-referencing, this concise and user-friendly new resource is ideal for singer/songwriters, writers and poets, whether serious or recreational, professional or amateur. Encompassing standard vocabulary, proper nouns, popular expressions and much more, this is by far the most contemporary rhyming dictionary on the market. Includes a foreword by Nashville songwriting legend Buzz Cason! The Pocket Rhyming Dictionary follows in the footsteps of these other handy resources from leading music print publisher Hal Leonard: The Pocket Music Dictionary (HL00183006, ISBN 0-7935-1654-4) and Pocket Music Theory (HL00330968, ISBN 0-634-04771-X).