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 Free Download Karin E. Sauer, "Healing through Remembering: Sharing Grassroots Experiences of Peace, Reconciliation and Healing in the Great Lakes Regi" English | ISBN: 365842446X | 2023 | 292 pages | PDF | 4 MB This educational handbook displays grassroots experiences of peace, reconciliation, and healing in the Great Lakes region of Africa, in which Burundian, Congolese, and Rwandan authors share their understandings and practices of Memory Work. They committed to do so in a joint Participatory Action Research Team together with German facilitators. The team members 'opened their archives' on the traumatizing effects of the severe conflicts that each of these countries experienced. Their learnings and findings from this research process are collected in this book, which aims to resolve remaining tensions resulting from past experiences. Displaying a variety of strategies that lead to a Healing of Memories, it is high time to integrate such discourses into a mainly Western-European-centered scientific community. In this way, the book aims to fill the academic void regarding the German-colonial legacy of violence in the three neighboring countries, which was fueled under colonial rule. As such, this book is central to current discourses on the decolonization of science in terms of authorship, research ethics, and methods.  Free Download Blessed Are the Organized: Grassroots Democracy in America By Jeffrey Stout 2010 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 069113586X | PDF | 3 MB In an America where the rich and fortunate have free rein to do as they please, can the ideal of liberty and justice for all be anything but an empty slogan? Many Americans are doubtful, and have withdrawn into apathy and cynicism. But thousands of others are not ready to give up on democracy just yet. Working outside the notice of the national media, ordinary citizens across the nation are meeting in living rooms, church basements, synagogues, and schools to identify shared concerns, select and cultivate leaders, and take action. Their goal is to hold big government and big business accountable. In this important new book, Jeffrey Stout bears witness to the successes and failures of progressive grassroots organizing, and the daunting forces now arrayed against it. Stout tells vivid stories of people fighting entrenched economic and political interests around the country. From parents and teachers striving to overcome gang violence in South Central Los Angeles, to a Latino priest north of the Rio Grande who brings his parish into a citizens' organization, to the New Orleans residents who get out the vote by taking a jazz band through streets devastated by Hurricane Katrina, Stout describes how these ordinary people conceive of citizenship, how they acquire and exercise power, and how religious ideas and institutions contribute to their successes. The most important book on organizing and grassroots democracy in a generation, Blessed Are the Organized is a passionate and hopeful account of how our endangered democratic principles can be put into action.
 Free Download David Hursh, "Opting Out: The Story of the Parents' Grassroots Movement to Achieve Whole-Child Public Schools" English | ISBN: 1975501497 | 2020 | 125 pages | PDF | 10 MB A 2020 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award winner  Free Download Ornette D. Clennon, "Decoloniality in the Grassroots and The Re-emergence of the Black Organic Intellectual " English | ISBN: 3031448464 | 2023 | 182 pages | PDF | 4 MB This book explores the relationship between "the roles of the Black "organic intellectual" and the PoC academic scholar, and outlines how important partnerships are emerging from these sometimes-contrasting decolonial praxes. By blending the decolonial processes of Indigenous rights via a liberation Psychology lens, Brazilian critical race scholarship and UK African diasporic collective consciousness via intersectional critical race studies, the authors provide a clear theoretical framework to show how a decolonised multi-layered community epistemology can be produced by the community for the community that in praxis form, can be employed for the fight for social justice within those communities.
 Free Download From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy By Peter F. Lau (editor) 2004 | 432 Pages | ISBN: 0822334496 | PDF | 8 MB Perhaps more than any other Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision declaring the segregation of public schools unconstitutional, highlighted both the possibilities and the limitations of American democracy. This collection of sixteen original essays by historians and legal scholars takes the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Brown to reconsider the history and legacy of that landmark decision. From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court juxtaposes oral histories and legal analysis to provide a nuanced look at how men and women understood Brown and sought to make the decision meaningful in their own lives.The contributors illuminate the breadth of developments that led to Brown, from the parallel struggles for social justice among African Americans in the South and Mexican, Asian, and Native Americans in the West during the late nineteenth century to the political and legal strategies implemented by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (naacp) in the twentieth century. Describing the decision's impact on local communities, essayists explore the conflict among African Americans over the implementation of Brown in Atlanta's public schools as well as understandings of the ruling and its relevance among Puerto Rican migrants in New York City. Assessing the legacy of Brown today, contributors analyze its influence on contemporary law, African American thought, and educational opportunities for minority children.ContributorsTomiko Brown-NaginDavison M. DouglasRaymond GavinsLaurie B. GreenChristina GreeneBlair L. M. KelleyMichael J. KlarmanPeter F. LauMadeleine E. LopezWaldo E. Martin Jr.Vicki L. RuizChristopher SchmidtLarissa M. SmithPatricia SullivanKara Miles TurnerMark V. Tushnet  Free Download Rebuilding Entrepreneurship at the Grassroots: Converging Divergent Factors of Society and Economy English | 2023 | ISBN: 303143269X | 279 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 7 MB This book analyzes the impact of entrepreneurship, technology, and innovation on meeting chronic and recurring social challenges, such as poverty, gender inequality, sustainability and climate change, income disparity, social healthcare, community housing and homelessness, and the drive to cleaner food and water supplies. It discusses inclusive entrepreneurial strategies to meet the above social challenges through transformational leadership in the developing economies.  Free Download Yavor Tarinski, "Concepts for a Democratic and Ecological Society: Grassroots Strategies for Social Change" English | ISBN: 1789049229 | 2022 | 112 pages | EPUB | 719 KB Yavor Tarinski examines the fundamental conflict between democratic aspirations and the imposed norms of capitalism, the potential for directly democratic and ecologically designed cities, the imperative to renew the commons, and the prospects for a genuine solidarity economy to overturn the ravages of capitalist economic growth. It critiques bureaucratic, technocratic and conspiracist tendencies both in mainstream discourse and on the Left, and offers a compelling and uplifting vision of a thoroughly transformed social order.  Free Download Irina Rebrova, "Re-Constructing Grassroots Holocaust Memory: The Case of the North Caucasus" English | 2020 | ISBN: 3110688867 | EPUB | pages: 380 | 4.5 mb Die Reihe "SpatioTemporality" zielt auf einen interdisziplinären Austausch über Praktiken und Konzepte aus der Doppelperspektive von Raum und Zeit. Dabei werden die Konstrukte Räumlichkeit und Zeitlichkeit und ihre unauflösliche Korrelation in historischen sowie aktuellen Zusammenhängen und hinsichtlich einschlägiger Theorien untersucht. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Bedeutung von RaumZeit im soziokulturell-lebensweltlichen Selbstverständnis der Menschen und in medialen Repräsentationen.
 Free Download Antinuclear Citizens: Sustainability Policy and Grassroots Activism in Post-Fukushima Japan (Anthropology of Policy) by Akihiro Ogawa 2023 | ISBN: 1503635406 | English | 288 pages | EPUB/PDF (True) | 10 + 5 MB Following the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, tsunamis engulfed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant located on Japan's Pacific Coast, leading to the worst nuclear disaster the world has seen since the Chernobyl crisis of 1986. Prior to this disaster, Japan had the third largest commercial nuclear program in the world, surpassed only by those in the United States and France-nuclear power significantly contributed to Japan's economic prosperity, and nearly 30% of Japan's electricity was generated by reactors dotted across the archipelago, from northern Hokkaido to southern Kyushu. This long period of institutional stasis was, however, punctuated by the crisis of March 11, which became a critical juncture for Japanese nuclear policymaking. As Akihiro Ogawa argues, the primary agent for this change is what he calls "antinuclear citizens"- a conscientious Japanese public who envision a sustainable life in a nuclear-free society. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research conducted across Japan-including antinuclear rallies, meetings with bureaucrats, and at renewable energy production sites-Ogawa presents an historical record of ordinary people's actions as they sought to survive and navigate a new reality post-Fukushima. Ultimately, Ogawa argues that effective sustainability efforts require collaborations that are grounded in civil society and challenge hegemonic ideology, efforts that reimagine societies and landscapes-especially those dominated by industrial capitalism-to help build a productive symbiosis between industry and sustainability.  Free Download Nancy A. Naples, "Grassroots Warriors: Activist Mothering, Community Work, and the War on Poverty" English | 2013 | pages: 296 | ISBN: 0415910242, 0415910250 | PDF | 7,8 mb First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
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