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Accidental Activists
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Author : Celeste L. Arrington
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2016-03
Accidental Activists written by Celeste L. Arrington and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03 with History categories.
Government wrongdoing or negligence harms people worldwide, but not all victims are equally effective at obtaining redress. In Accidental Activists, Celeste L. Arrington examines the interactive dynamics of the politics of redress to understand why not. Relatively powerless groups like redress claimants depend on support from political elites, active groups in society, the media, experts, lawyers, and the interested public to capture democratic policymakers’ attention and sway their decisions. Focusing on when and how such third-party support matters, Arrington finds that elite allies may raise awareness about the victims’ cause or sponsor special legislation, but their activities also tend to deter the mobilization of fellow claimants and public sympathy. By contrast, claimants who gain elite allies only after the difficult and potentially risky process of mobilizing societal support tend to achieve more redress, which can include official inquiries, apologies, compensation, and structural reforms. Arrington draws on her extensive fieldwork to illustrate these dynamics through comparisons of the parallel Japanese and South Korean movements of victims of harsh leprosy control policies, blood products tainted by hepatitis C, and North Korean abductions. Her book thereby highlights how citizens in Northeast Asia—a region grappling with how to address Japan’s past wrongs—are leveraging similar processes to hold their own governments accountable for more recent harms. Accidental Activists also reveals the growing power of litigation to promote policy change and greater accountability from decision makers.
Disability Mothers And Organization
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Author : Melanie Panitch
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-08-06
Disability Mothers And Organization written by Melanie Panitch and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-06 with Family & Relationships categories.
This book examines how and why mothers with disabled children became activists. Leading campaigns to close institutions and secure human rights, these women learned to mother as activists, struggling in their homes and communities against the debilitating and demoralizing effects of exclusion. Activist mothers recognized the importance of becoming advocates for change beyond their own families and contributed to building an organization to place their issues on a more public scale. In highlighting this under-examined movement, this book contributes to the scholarship on Disability Studies, Women's Students, Sociology, and Social Movement Studies.
How To Become An Accidental Activist
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Author : Elizabeth MacLeod
language : en
Publisher: Accidental
Release Date : 2021-04-13
How To Become An Accidental Activist written by Elizabeth MacLeod and has been published by Accidental this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-13 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Learn how ordinary people have persevered throughout history to do extraordinary things to help themselves and others. Meet activists like Lilly Singh, Ai Weiwei and Autumn Pelletier who are standing up for human rights, the environment and much more! Book jacket.
Accidental Activists
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Author : Melanie R. Panitch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Accidental Activists written by Melanie R. Panitch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Developmentally disabled children categories.
The Accidental Activist
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Author : Candace Gingrich
language : en
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Release Date : 1996
The Accidental Activist written by Candace Gingrich and has been published by Scribner Book Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
With extraordinary candor and courage, Candace Gingrich, Newt's half-sister--thrust into the national spotlight upon revealing that she is a lesbian--chronicles her often paintful coming-out journey and provides fresh insights into the nation's controversial House Speaker. of photos.
The Accidental Activist
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Author : Matt Ball
language : en
Publisher: Lantern Books
Release Date : 2014-06-10
The Accidental Activist written by Matt Ball and has been published by Lantern Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-10 with Nature categories.
Not every activist starts out with the goal of changing the world. Some have their life shaped by chance, quirks of timing, and strange coincidences. And an unwillingness—or simple inability—to fully ignore the horrors perpetrated on animals today. Since Matt Ball learned of factory farms well over a quarter century ago, his journey has been anything but linear. Instead, his evolution has been fraught with denial, regression, conflicts, and failures. Matt’s evolution shows that not every activist is a confident extrovert with all the answers. His struggles—often publicly played out in written form, in newsletters, mailings, blogs—have influenced, directly and indirectly, countless individuals. Even though accidental and reluctant, the hard-learned but ultimately pragmatic lessons Matt shares in this book are changing the world. Having learned from years of mistakes, his insights can help others be effective and, hopefully, happier as well. As Peter Singer notes, “A new future is in sight, one that Matt, Vegan Outreach, and other advocates are hard at work creating.” This book can help each of us be a part of bringing about this new future.
Accidental Activists
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Author : David Collins
language : en
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Release Date : 2017-08-15
Accidental Activists written by David Collins and has been published by University of North Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-15 with Social Science categories.
In early 2013 same-sex marriage was legal in only ten states and the District of Columbia. That year the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Windsor appeared to open the door to marriage equality. In Texas, Mark Phariss and Vic Holmes, together for sixteen years and deeply in love, wondered why no one had stepped across the threshold to challenge their state’s 2005 constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage. They agreed to join a lawsuit being put together by Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLD. Two years later—after tense battles in the Federal District Court for the Western District of Texas and in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, after sitting through oral arguments at the Supreme Court of the United States in Obergefell v. Hodges—they won the right to marry deep in the heart of Texas. But the road they traveled was never easy. Accidental Activists is the deeply moving story of two men who struggled to achieve the dignity of which Justice Anthony Kennedy spoke in a series of Supreme Court decisions that recognized the “personhood,” the essential humanity of gays and lesbians. Author David Collins tells Mark and Vic’s story in the context of legal and social history and explains the complex legal issues and developments surrounding same-sex marriage in layman’s terms.
The Accidental Activist
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Author : Matt Ball
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-06
The Accidental Activist written by Matt Ball and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06 with Nature categories.
Not every activist starts out with the goal of changing the world. Some have their life shaped by chance, quirks of timing, and strange coincidences. And an unwillingness or simple inability to fully ignore the horrors perpetrated on animals today. Since Matt Ball learned of factory farms well over a quarter century ago, his journey has been anything but linear. Instead, his evolution has been fraught with denial, regression, conflicts, and failures. Matt's evolution shows that not every activist is a confident extrovert with all the answers. His struggles often publicly played out in written form, in newsletters, mailings, blogs have influenced, directly and indirectly, countless individuals. Even though accidental and reluctant, the hard-learned but ultimately pragmatic lessons Matt shares in this book are changing the world. Having learned from years of mistakes, his insights can help others be effective and, hopefully, happier as well. As Peter Singer notes, "A new future is in sight, one that Matt, Vegan Outreach, and other advocates are hard at work creating." This book can help each of us be a part of bringing about this new future.
Accidental Activists
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Author : Celeste Louise Arrington
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Accidental Activists written by Celeste Louise Arrington and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
Scholars suggest that we are experiencing an "age of apology," as governments atone for past wrongs and citizens hold their leaders more accountable. Yet why would a government ever apologize and grant redress for harmful policies? Since policy-makers are usually loath to admit mistakes or wrongdoing, the people harmed sometimes must engage in collective action to obtain redress. Government responses to such victim groups range from comprehensive redress to negotiated settlements, in which the state disavows any responsibility for the victimization. Redress may come rapidly to some but take decades for others. What explains such differences in the extent and timing of state responsiveness to victim groups' demands for redress? Victim redress organizations lack the standard resources needed to influence policy-makers: money, access, and votes. Understanding why victims can be powerful requires determining when they are more or less powerful. This study finds that the mode of conflict expansion--the way in which marginalized victim groups gain support from the public and political elites--explains the level of redress that victims receive. Surprisingly, it is not when groups have access that they are most successful, but rather when they expand the arena of conflict by using their victimhood to shame the government and gain the public's empathy. As "accidental activists," therefore, victims' very weakness is their strength. This project uses paired in-depth case studies to examine how state responsiveness to victim movements differs cross-nationally and across issue areas. Japan and Korea represent interesting contexts in which to examine victim redress politics because these historically "strong states," with insulated policy-making processes, seem unlikely to admit blame, especially to outsiders like victims. This study compares paired victim movements in three issue areas where similar victimization occurred in both Japan and Korea, related to a) the treatment of persons affected by Hansen's disease (leprosy), b) hepatitis C infections from tainted blood products, and c) the abductions of Japanese and South Korean nationals by North Korea. The cross-national comparison reveals that victim groups in Japan generally receive more comprehensive redress than Korean victim groups. Filter groups, such as non-victim activists and the media, facilitate conflict expansion to a greater extent in Japan than in Korea. Across issue areas, conflict expansion dynamics also account for within-country variations in state responsiveness. The study of victim redress politics suggests more broadly that politics is becoming more open in Japan and Korea, but in markedly different ways. These cases further indicate that the judicial route is more open to grievance groups in both countries, but that the resources to effectively utilize the judicial channel are more widely available in Japan than in Korea. The varying success of redress movements sheds light on accountability mechanisms and the balance of power in state-society relations in East Asia's main democracies.
Drastic Dykes And Accidental Activists
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Author : La Shonda Mims
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2022-11-29
Drastic Dykes And Accidental Activists written by La Shonda Mims and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-29 with Social Science categories.
After World War II, Atlanta and Charlotte emerged as leading urban centers in the South, redefining the region through their competing metropolitan identities. Both cities also served as home to queer communities who defined themselves in accordance with their urban surroundings and profited to varying degrees from the emphasis on economic growth. Uniting southern women's history with urban history, La Shonda Mims considers an imaginatively constructed archive including feminist newsletters and queer bar guides alongside sources revealing corporate boosterism and political rhetoric to explore the complex nature of lesbian life in the South. Mims's work reveals significant differences between gay men's and lesbian women's lived experiences, with lesbians often missing out on the promises of prosperity that benefitted some members of gay communities. Money, class, and race were significant variables in shaping the divergent life experiences for the lesbian communities of Atlanta and Charlotte; whiteness especially bestowed certain privileges. In Atlanta, an inclusive corporate culture bolstered the city's queer community. In Charlotte, tenacious lesbian collectives persevered, as many queer Charlotteans leaned on Atlanta's enormous Pride celebrations for sanctuary when similar institutional community supports were lacking at home.