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Format: 1 online resource (xii, 148 pages).

ISBN: 9780203842720 , 0203842723 , 9781136907760 , 1136907769 , 9781136907715 , 1136907718 , 9781136907753 , 1136907750 , 9780415533676 , 0415533678 , 1282930206 , 9781282930209 , 9786612930201 , 6612930209

Series Statement: Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; v. 35

Content: "By examining how NGOs operate in Southern India in the early 2000's, this book discusses the challenges faced by small, local NGOs in the uncertain times of changing aid dynamics. The key findings focus on what empowerment means for Indian women, and how NGO accountability to these groups is an important part of the empowerment being realised. The notion of community empowerment, in which the 'solidarity' of a group can be a path to individual empowerment, is discussed, as well as analysing how empowerment can be a useful concept in development. Based on case studies of 15 NGOs as well as in-depth interviews with 80 women's self-help groups, the book highlights the key features of effective empowerment programs. The author uses innovative statistical analysis tools to show how a key factor in empowerment of marginalised women is the accountability relationship between themselves and the supporting NGO. The book goes on to discuss the ways that NGOs can work with communities in the future, and recognises the limitations of a donor-centric accountability framework. It provides a useful contribution to studies on South Asia as well as Gender and Development Studies. Introduction 1. Non-Governmental Organisations in India 2. The work of NGOs in India - SHGs and Women's Empowerment 3. Rural NGOs 4. Pune Waste-picker program 5. Measuring Women's Empowerment 6. NGO Accountability 7. Conclusion"--Publisher's description.

Note: Non-governmental organizations in India -- , Introduction -- , What makes NGOs tick? Some theory -- , Indian NGOs -- , The work of NGOs in India -- SHGs and women's empowerment -- , Introduction -- , Poverty in India -- , Models of NGO intervention -- , Empowerment -- , Rural NGOs -- , Introduction -- , Resourcing NGOs -- , NGO responses -- , The NGO case studies -- , IDS projects 2008-2009 -- , Pune waste-pickers programme -- , Introduction -- , Waste-pickers -- , Waste-pickers and SNDT -- , Solid waste collection and handling (SWaCH) co-operative -- , Measuring women's empowerment -- , Introduction -- , Researching empowerment with Indian NGOs -- , Empowerment -- , Factors that affect empowerment -- , Empowerment in practice -- , NGO accountability -- , Introduction -- , Accountability -- , Conclusion -- , Conclusion -- , Introduction -- , NGOs and empowerment -- , Accountability. , English.

Additional Edition: Print version: Kilby, Patrick. NGOs in india : the challenges of women's empowerment and accountability. London ; New York : Routledge, [2011] ISBN 9780415544306

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science , Sociology

Keywords: Electronic books

DOI: 10.4324/9780203842720

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Format: XI, 310 Seiten.

ISBN: 978-0-691-17551-5

Content: "As the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. Social media companies such as Facebook can sort us ever more efficiently into groups of the like-minded, creating echo chambers that amplify our views. It's no accident that on some occasions, people of different political views cannot even understand each other. It's also no surprise that terrorist groups have been able to exploit social media to deadly effect. Welcome to the age of #Republic. In this revealing book, Cass Sunstein, the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars, shows how today's Internet is driving political fragmentation, polarization, and even extremism...and what can be done about it. Thoroughly rethinking the critical relationship between democracy and the Internet, Sunstein describes how the online world creates "cybercascades," exploits "confirmation bias," and assists "polarization entrepreneurs." And he explains why online fragmentation endangers the shared conversations, experiences, and understandings that are the lifeblood of democracy. In response, Sunstein proposes practical and legal changes to make the Internet friendlier to democratic deliberation. These changes would get us out of our information cocoons by increasing the frequency of unchosen, unplanned encounters and exposing us to people, places, things, and ideas that we would never have picked for our Twitter feed. #Republic need not be an ironic term. As Sunstein shows, it can be a rallying cry for the kind of democracy that citizens of diverse societies most need. "...

Note: Includes index

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science , General works

Keywords: Demokratie ; Social Media ; Internet ; Politische Einstellung ; Öffentlichkeit ; Politische Beteiligung

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Author information: Sunstein, Cass R. 1954-

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Format: 1 online resource (xiv, 259 pages) : , illustrations (black and white).

ISBN: 9781003037231 , 1003037232 , 9781000191455 , 1000191451

Series Statement: Routledge global cooperation series

Content: "Hegemony and World Order explores a key question for our tumultuous times of multiple global crises. Does hegemony - that is, legitimated rule by dominant power - have a role in ordering world politics of the twenty-first century? If so, what form does that hegemony take: does it lie with a leading state or with some other force? How does contemporary world hegemony operate: what tools does it use and what outcomes does it bring? This volume addresses these questions by assembling perspectives from various regions across the world, including Canada, Central Asia, China, Europe, India, Russia, and the USA. The contributions in this book span diverse theoretical perspectives from realism to postcolonialism, as well as multiple issue areas such as finance, the internet, migration, and warfare. By exploring the role of non-state actors, transnational networks, and norms, this collection covers various standpoints and moves beyond traditional concepts of state-based hierarches centred on material power. The result is a wealth of novel insights on today's changing dynamics of world politics. Hegemony and World Order is critical reading for policymakers and advanced students of International Relations, Global Governance, Development, and International Political Economy"--

Additional Edition: Print version: Hegemony and world order Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. ISBN 9780367479015

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science

Keywords: Electronic books. ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

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ISBN: 978-0-231-52078-2

Content: Rey Chow is arguably one of the most prominent intellectuals working in the humanities today. Characteristically confronting both entrenched and emergent issues in the interlocking fields of literature, film and visual studies, sexuality and gender, postcolonialism, ethnicity, and cross-cultural politics, her works produce surprising connections among divergent topics at the same time as they compel us to think through the ethical and political ramifications of our academic, epistemic, and cultural practices. This anthology - the first to collect key moments in Chow's engaging thought - provides readers with an ideal introduction to some of her most forceful theoretical explorations. Organized into two sections, each of which begins with a brief statement designed to establish linkages among various discursive fields through Chow's writings, the anthology also contains an extensive Editor's Introduction, which situates Chow's work in the context of contemporary critical debates. For all those pursuing transnational cultural theory and cultural studies, this book is an essential resource. Praise for Rey Chow "[Rey Chow is] methodologically situated in the contentious spaces between critical theory and cultural studies, and always attending to the implications of ethnicity."& mdash; Social Semiotics "Rich and powerful work that provides both a dazzling synthesis of contemporary cultural theory and at the same time an exemplary critique of Chinese cinema."& mdash;China Information "Should be read by all who are concerned with the future of human rights, liberalism, multiculturalism, identity politics, and feminism."& mdash;Dorothy Ko "Wide-ranging, theoretically rich, and provocative... completely restructures the problem of ethnicity."& mdash;Fredric Jameson.

Content: Intro -- CONTENTS -- Editor's Introduction ix -- Acknowledgments xxv -- PART 1. Modernity and Postcolonial Ethnicity -- 1. The Age of the World Target: Atomic Bombs, Alterity, Area Studies 2 -- 2. The Postcolonial Difference: Lessons in Cultural Legitimation 20 -- 3. From Writing Diaspora: Introduction: Leading Questions 30 -- 4. Brushes with the-Other-as-Face Stereotyping and Cross-Ethnic Representation 48 -- 5. The Politics of Admittance Female Sexual Agency, Miscegenation, and the Formationof Community in Frantz Fanon 56 -- 6. When Whiteness Feminizes . . . Some Consequences of a Supplementary Logic 76 -- PART2. Filmic Visuality and Transcultural Politics 82 -- 7. Film and Cultural Identity 84 -- 8. Seeing Modern China: Toward a Theory of Ethnic Spectatorship 92 -- 9. The Dream of a Butterfly 124 -- 10. Film as Ethnography -- or, Translation Between Culturesin the Postcolonial World 148 -- 11. A Filmic Staging of Postwar Geotemporal Politics: On Akira Kurosawa's No Regrets for Our Youth, Sixty Years Later 172 -- 12. From Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility 180 -- 13. The Political Economy of Vision in Happy Times and Not One Less -- or, a Different Type of Migration 196 -- Notes 215 -- Index 269.

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Language: English

Subjects: Political Science , General works

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Format: xvii, 148 Seiten : , Illustrationen.

ISBN: 978-0-19-985850-7

Series Statement: Very short introductions 381

Content: "From 1789 in France to 2011 in Cairo, revolutions have shaken the world. In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships. They have often, though not always, sparked cataclysmic violence, and have at times won miraculous victories, though at other times suffered devastating defeat. This Very Short Introduction illuminates the revolutionaries, their strategies, their successes and failures, and the ways in which revolutions continue to dominate world events and the popular imagination. Starting with the city-states of ancient Greece and Rome, Jack Goldstone traces the development of revolutions through the Renaissance and Reformation, the Enlightenment and liberal constitutional revolutions such as in America, and their opposite...the communist revolutions of the 20th century. He shows how revolutions overturned dictators in Nicaragua and Iran and brought the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and examines the new wave of non-violent "color" revolutions-the Philippines' Yellow Revolution, Ukraine's Orange Revolution...and the Arab Uprisings of 2011-12 that rocked the Middle East. Goldstone also sheds light on the major theories of revolution, exploring the causes of revolutionary waves, the role of revolutionary leaders, the strategies and processes of revolutionary change, and the intersection between revolutions and shifting patterns of global power. Finally, the author examines the reasons for diverse revolutionary outcomes, from democracy to civil war and authoritarian rule, and the likely future of revolution in years to come. About the Series: Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects...from Islam to Sociology, Politics to Classics, Literary Theory to History, and Archaeology to the Bible. Not simply a textbook of definitions, each volum

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Language: English

Subjects: History , Political Science

Keywords: Revolution ; Umsturz ; Einführung ; Einführung ; Einführung

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Format: XXII, 284 Seiten : , Diagramme, Karten.

ISBN: 978-0-231-21387-5 , 978-0-231-21386-8

Series Statement: Columbia studies in Middle East politics

Content: "How do ordinary people survive wartime violence when it arrives in their neighborhood? When confronted with the threat of violence, how do individuals decide whether to stay in their homes or flee? For those who stay, what factors determine whether individuals cooperate or contend with insurgent governance? Since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 up to the formation of the Islamic State, Iraqis from different walks of life have confronted existential decisions about how to survive political violence. Despite facing similar threats and limited resources, some people fled their homes while others remained. Among those who stayed, most hid, others resisted, some remained nonaligned, and a select few collaborated. In this book, Austin J. Knuppe draws on fieldwork in Baghdad and Iraqi Kurdistan, along with UN migration data, to illustrate how individuals drew upon a combination of routines, tools, and rhetorical strategies to navigate violent situations. Knuppe finds that Iraqis belonging to communities with limited cohesion and capacity survived by fleeing to safer areas under the protection of rival security providers. For those who stayed, the ability of communities to pursue cooperation, contention, or neutrality depended not only on the cohesion and capacity of the community, but also the resolve and combat effectiveness of the anti-IS coalitions. This account gives voice to ordinary Iraqis who were forced to make hard choices during times of intense danger and uncertainty, and sheds new light on the repertoires civilians employ when faced with war."

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Subjects: History , Political Science

Keywords: Bürgerkrieg ; Überleben ; Resilienz ; Vertreibung ; Flucht

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Format: xi, 280 Seiten , Illustrationen

ISBN: 9781107198401 , 9781316648179

Content: Throughout the modern age, revolutions have spread across state borders, engulfing entire regions, continents, and, at times, the globe. Revolutionary World examines the spread of upheavals during the major revolutionary moments in modern history: the Atlantic Revolutions, Europe's 1848 revolts, the commune movement of the 1870s, the 1905-15 upheavals in Asia, the communist revolutions around 1917, the 'Wilsonian' uprisings of 1919, the 'Third World' revolutions, the global Islamic revolt of 1978-79, the events of 1989, and the rise and fall of the 'Arab Spring'. The chapters explore the nature of these revolutionary waves, tracing the exchange of radical ideas and the movements of revolutionaries around the world. Bringing together a group of distinguished historians, Revolutionary World shows that the major revolutions of the modern age, which have so often been studied as isolated national or imperial events, were almost never contained within state borders and were usually part of broader revolutionary moments

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-108-18240-9

Language: English

Subjects: History , Political Science

Keywords: Revolution ; Aufstand ; Geschichte 1775-2015 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Author information: Motadel, David 1981-

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Format: 273 Seiten, 16 Seiten mit Bildtafeln : , Illustrationen, Karten.

ISBN: 978-0-241-97303-5

Content: "Park has told the harrowing story of her escape from North Korea as a child many times, but never before [now] has she revealed the most intimate and devastating details of the repressive society she was raised in and the enormous price she paid to escape"...Amazon.com

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science

Keywords: Flucht ; Biografie

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Author information: Park, Yeonmi 1993-

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Format: 1 online resource (392 pages)

ISBN: 9780199706013

Content: Through a sustained historical analysis of three of the most important issues in American politics--Social Security, environmental regulation, and federal education policy--Conservatism and American Political Development explores how conservatives have helped shape U.S. domestic policy and how the growth of the American state has in turn shaped conservatism. Featuring leading scholars of American political development, the book traces the evolution of each issue over the course of three epochs: the New Deal, the Great Society era, and the Reagan era. Throughout, it emphasizes the ironic role of conservatism in the expansion of the American state. As conservatives increased their presence in the federal apparatus, they were frequently co-opted into maintaining or even expanding regulatory and public fiscal power. At times, conservatives also came to accept the existence of the liberal state, but attempted to use it to achieve conservative policy ends. Despite conservatives' power in U.S. politics and governance over the last quarter century, "big government" remains. As Conservatism and American Political Development shows, conservatism has not only helped shape the state, but has been shaped by it as well.

Content: Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: Studying the Role of Conservatives in American Political Development -- Part I: The New Deal to the Great Society -- 1 Environmental Policy from the New Deal to the Great Society: The Lagged Emergence of an Ideological Dividing Line -- 2 Social Security from the New Deal to the Great Society: Expanding the Public Domain -- 3 Education Policy from the New Deal to the Great Society: The Three Rs-Race, Religion, and Reds -- Part II: The Great Society to 1980 -- 4 Environmental Policy from the Great Society to 1980: A Coalition Comes Unglued -- 5 Social Security from the Great Society to 1980: Further Expansion and Rekindled Controversy -- 6 Education Policy from the Great Society to 1980: The Expansion and Institutionalization of the Federal Role in Schools -- Part III: 1980 to 2008 -- 7 Environmental Policy from 1980 to 2008: The Politics of Prevention -- 8 Social Security from 1980 to the Present: From Third Rail to Presidential Commitment-and Back? -- 9 Education Policy from 1980 to the Present: The Politics of Privatization -- Conclusion: Conservatism and American Political Development -- Afterword: An Attenuated Reconstruction: The Conservative Turn in American Political Development -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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