Author: Johanna BillingPublisher: episode publishers
ISBN: 9789059730465
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
What's the Point of Revolution If We Can't Dance?
Author: Jane BarryPublisher:
ISBN: 9780980159806
Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Play, Creativity, and Social Movements
Author: Benjamin ShepardPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136829644
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
As we play, we step away from stark reality to conjure up new possibilities for the present and our common future. Today, a new cohort of social activists are using it to create social change and reinvent democratic social relations. In contrast to work or routine, play must be free. To the extent that it is, it infuses a high-octane burst of innovation into any number of organizational practices and contexts, and invites social actors to participate in a low-threshold, highly democratic process of collaboration, based on pleasure and convivial social relations. Despite the contention that such activities are counterproductive, movements continue to put the right to party on the table as a part of a larger process of social change, as humor and pleasure disrupt monotony, while disarming systems of power. Through this book, Shepard explores notions of play as a social movement activity, considering some of the meanings, applications and history of the concept in relation to social movement groups ranging from Dada and Surrealism to Situationism, the Yippies to the Young Lords, ACT UP to the Global Justice, anti-gentrification, community and anti-war movements of recent years.
Can't Stop Won't Stop
Author: Jeff ChangPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429902698
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Can't Stop Won't Stop is a powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century, and a provocative look into the new world that the hip-hop generation created. Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement. In a post-civil rights era defined by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop crystallized a multiracial, polycultural generation's worldview, and transformed American politics and culture. But that epic story has never been told with this kind of breadth, insight, and style. Based on original interviews with DJs, b-boys, rappers, graffiti writers, activists, and gang members, with unforgettable portraits of many of hip-hop's forebears, founders, and mavericks, including DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Chuck D, and Ice Cube, Can't Stop Won't Stop chronicles the events, the ideas, the music, and the art that marked the hip-hop generation's rise from the ashes of the 60's into the new millennium.
If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want to be Part of Your Revolution
Author: Johanna BillingPublisher: episode publishers
ISBN: 9789059730465
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
My Seventh-Grade Life in Tights
Author: Brooks BenjaminPublisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0553512501
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The perfect book for kids who are fans of Dancing with the Stars: Juniors! Football hero. Ninja freestyler. It's seventh grade. Anything is possible. All Dillon wants is to be a real dancer. And if he wins a summer scholarship at Dance-Splosion, he’s on his way. The problem? His dad wants him to play football. And Dillon’s freestyle crew, the Dizzee Freekz, says that dance studios are for sellouts. His friends want Dillon to kill it at the audition—so he can turn around and tell the studio just how wrong their rules and creativity-strangling ways are. At first, Dillon’s willing to go along with his crew’s plan, even convincing one of the snobbiest girls at school to work with him on his technique. But as Dillon’s dancing improves, he wonders: what if studios aren’t the enemy? And what if he actually has a shot at winning the scholarship? Dillon’s life is about to get crazy . . . on and off the dance floor in this kid-friendly humorous debut by Brooks Benjamin. ** "I couldn't stop smiling. Equal parts hilarious and heartwarming, Dillon's journey to find his people and his place in the world will charm everyone lucky enough to come along for the ride."--Jessica Cluess, author of A Shadow Bright and Burning “A rollicking, big-hearted breakdance of a book. It’s a story about friendship that’s got all the moves: humor both sly and slapstick, a diverse cast of characters, and a winning narrator who’s trying to learn how to follow his heart, find the beat, and dance his pants right off.” —Kate Hattemer, author of The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy
Protecting Human Rights Defenders at Risk
Author: Alice M. NahPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429687990
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
This book assesses the construction, operation and effects of the international protection regime for human rights defenders, which has evolved significantly over the last twenty years in response to the risks people face as they promote and protect human rights. Drawing upon the experiences of human rights defenders who continue to persevere in their activism in Indonesia, Egypt, Kenya, Mexico and Colombia, this edited collection examines the ways in which formal protection mechanisms by state and civil society actors intersect with self-protection measures and informal protection initiatives by families and friends. It highlights that protection practices are most effective when they are designed to address the specific risks that human rights defenders face (which are gendered and intersectional); reflect how defenders understand ‘risk’, ‘security’ and ‘protection’; and are appropriate for the dynamic sociopolitical and legal contexts in which defenders operate. This book proposes ways in which the protection of human rights defenders at risk should be reimagined and practised. This book will be a thought-provoking guide for students and scholars of politics, international relations, law and human rights, as well as to practitioners engaged in the protection of human rights defenders at risk.
If I Can't Dance to It, It's Not My Revolution
Author: Natalie MusteataPublisher:
ISBN: 9780615407951
Category : Anarchism in art
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Catalog for the exhibition if I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution curated by Natalie Musteata for the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College, March 21-May 2, 2014.
Not All of the Nuts Are in the Can
Author: Mark Shannon GibsonPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493100467
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Have you heard the phrase not all of the nuts are in the can well here is a story that falls in that category? For starters you have one man going through a divorce in which things are not going right for him. He eventually gets hooked up with a different lawyer that well isnt what you would call your typical lawyer. Then you have his bosses one is a suck up and the other one lets just say he is not the brightest tool in the shed. Then you have his co- workers that lets just say they really do fit into this category. In the end it makes you wonder which ones should be in the can and which ones is safe enough to be left out.
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