Civics category: 1212 books
De Colores Means All of Us
Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
A radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identity
Elizabeth Martínez’s unique Chicana voice has been formed through over thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s liberation, and Latina/o empowerment. In De Colores Means All of Us, Martínez presents...
Fighting for Rights
Military Service and the Politics of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Leaders around the globe have long turned to the armed forces as a "school for the nation." Debates over who serves continue to arouse passion today because the military's participation policies are seen as shaping politics beyond the military, specifically the politics of identity and citizenship....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Citizenship studies is at a crucial moment of globalizing as a field. What used to be mainly a European, North American, and Australian field has now expanded to major contributions featuring scholarship from Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
The Routledge Handbook of Global...
America's New Working Class
Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in a Biopolitical Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
Today’s political controversy over immigration highlights the plight of the working class in this country as perhaps no other issue has recently done. The political status of immigrants exposes the power dynamics of the “new working class,” which includes the former labor aristocracy, women,...
by Matthew Green, Daniel Martinez, Jeremy Slack
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
The “American Dream” means many things to many people, but in general it can be said that it connects the idea of freedom to the opportunity for prosperity and upward social mobility. Sandra L. Hanson and John K. White have joined together with a group of social scientists to explore the attitudes,...
Trading Barriers
Immigration and the Remaking of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Why have countries increasingly restricted immigration even when they have opened their markets to foreign competition through trade or allowed their firms to move jobs overseas? In Trading Barriers, Margaret Peters argues that the increased ability of firms to produce anywhere in the world combined...
Citizenship, Education and Social Conflict
Israeli Political Education in Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
This volume provides new perspectives into the challenges of citizenship education in the age of globalization and in the context of multicultural and conflict-ridden societies. It calls on us to rethink the accepted liberal and national discourses that have long dominated the conceptualization and...
Run to Win!
How You Can Run a Successful Campaign for Local or State Public Office
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Earl Baker leads you sequentially through the logical, practical way to run a winning campaign for local or state office.
Injustice
Political Theory for the Real World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
This book challenges the conventional approach to problems of injustice in global normative theory. It offers a radical alternative designed to transform our thinking about what kind of problem injustice is and to show how political theorists might do better in understanding and addressing it. Michael...
National Identity
Pragmatic Solutions for Democratic Governance in African Nations
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2014
Historically, before the advent of colonialism, African continent was made up of independent states and kingdoms with organized political, social and economic practices. Most of the states and kingdoms had their social and political structures founded on various religious beliefs. In order to understand...
God in Action
How Faith in God Can Address the Challenges of the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
"What if God has his own ways that are not always our ways? What if God acts in public affairs in ways that can, of course, be ignored from day to day but at a price for individuals and whole societies? If God is an actor, how is it possible to trace his action? . . . Can we discover God’s actions...
CiviC Disobedience
Taking Politics Seriously, A Democtratic Theory of Political Disobedience
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
The book offers a counter-model to the classical liberal theories of civil disobedience, as developed by authors such as John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin. Based on a strict opposition between liberalism and democracy it proposes a new perspective for the understanding of political disobedience. As an...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
In modern times, political and social reform often starts at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder; common people with ordinary lives enact change through community organization and the desire to improve their own lives and the lives of those around them. Governments that support such movements can...
I, the Citizen
Unraveling the Power of Citizen Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
I, the Citizen is an attempt to understand citizen development and engagement. R. Balasubramaniam takes the reader through interpretations of development initiatives at the grassroots and what good governance means to ordinary people. He unravels the power of citizen engagement through his experiences...