Contested Communities
Title | Contested Communities PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Miller Klubock |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Total Pages | 390 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780822320920 |
In Contested Communities Thomas Miller Klubock analyzes the experiences of the El Teniente copper miners during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. Describing the everyday life and culture of the mining community, its impact on Chilean politics and national events, and the sense of self and identity working-class men and women developed in the foreign-owned enclave, Klubock provides important insights into the cultural and social history of Chile. Klubock shows how a militant working-class community was established through the interplay between capitalist development, state formation, and the ideologies of gender. In describing how the North American copper company attempted to reconfigure and reform the work and social-cultural lives of men and women who migrated to the mine, Klubock demonstrates how struggles between labor and capital took place on a gendered field of power and reconstituted social constructions of masculinity and femininity. As a result, Contested Communities describes more accurately than any previous study the nature of grassroots labor militancy, working-class culture, and everyday politics of gender relations during crucial years of the Chilean Popular Front in the 1930s and 1940s.
Contested City
Title | Contested City PDF eBook |
Author | Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani |
Publisher | Humanities and Public Life |
Total Pages | 222 |
Release | 2019-01-03 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1609386108 |
Layered SPURA -- Walking the neighborhood -- In practice #1: crisis and teaching -- Three words: community, collaboration, and public -- In practice #2: alternative space -- The next fifty
Contested Lives
Title | Contested Lives PDF eBook |
Author | Faye D. Ginsburg |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 364 |
Release | 1998-09-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780520922457 |
Based on the struggle over a Fargo, North Dakota, abortion clinic, Contested Lives explores one of the central social conflicts of our time. Both wide-ranging and rich in detail, it speaks not simply to the abortion issue but also to the critical role of women's political activism. A new introduction addresses the events of the last decade, which saw the emergence of Operation Rescue and a shift toward more violent, even deadly, forms of anti-abortion protest. Responses to this trend included government legislation, a decline in clinics and doctors offering abortion services, and also the formation of Common Ground, an alliance bringing together activists from both sides to address shared concerns. Ginsburg shows that what may have seemed an ephemeral artifact of "Midwestern feminism" of the 1980s actually foreshadowed unprecedented possibilities for reconciliation in one of the most entrenched conflicts of our times.
Re-imagining Contested Communities
Title | Re-imagining Contested Communities PDF eBook |
Author | Campbell, Elizabeth |
Publisher | Policy Press |
Total Pages | 252 |
Release | 2018-03-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1447333322 |
This look offers a close look at contested communities through the lens of Rotherham, an English town struggling to survive in terms of its image, profile and identity. Recently divided, and left reeling, from the powerful impact of the Jay report on Child Sexual Exploitation, and increasingly used as a center for activism and agitation by the far right, Rotherham could be seen as an exemplar of a contested community. But what happens when a community confronts an identity that has been forced upon it? How does a community re-define itself? More than simply a book about Rotherham, this is a book about history, culture, feelings, methods and ideas that will help to articulate the lived meanings of political cultures in Britain today.
Contested Waters
Title | Contested Waters PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Wiltse |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2009-11-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780807888988 |
From nineteenth-century public baths to today's private backyard havens, swimming pools have long been a provocative symbol of American life. In this social and cultural history of swimming pools in the United States, Jeff Wiltse relates how, over the years, pools have served as asylums for the urban poor, leisure resorts for the masses, and private clubs for middle-class suburbanites. As sites of race riots, shrinking swimsuits, and conspicuous leisure, swimming pools reflect many of the tensions and transformations that have given rise to modern America.
Community Rights, Conservation and Contested Land
Title | Community Rights, Conservation and Contested Land PDF eBook |
Author | Fred Nelson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0415520363 |
First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Contested Communities
Title | Contested Communities PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Hoggett |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Communities |
ISBN | 9781447366645 |
"Community" is a much used but little understood term. Through a set of detailed case studies, this book examines the sources of community activism, the ways in which communities define themselves, and the nature of the interface between communities and public agencies via partnerships.