Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement (Cooper Charlotte)(Paperback)

Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement (Cooper Charlotte)(Paperback)

Charlotte Cooper, a fat activist with more than 30 years experience, lifts the lid on a previously unexplored social movement and offers a fresh perspective on one of the major problems of our times. In her expansive, intelligent grassroots study she: - Reveals details of fat activist methods and

Fat Activism (Second Edition): A Radical Social Movement (Cooper Charlotte)(Paperback)

In this new edition of her accessible autoethnography of fat feminist activism in the West, Charlotte Cooper revisits and discusses her activism in the context of recent shifts in the movement. It is part of a new wave of accessible, accountable and rigorous work emerging through Research Justice

Radical Social Work in Practice: Making a Difference (Ferguson Iain)(Paperback)

Radical social work is a tradition often identified exclusively with the movement which developed in the UK in the 1970s, yet as this much-needed new textbook demonstrates, the relevance of radical approaches to contemporary social work practice have never been stronger. Challenges to a neoliberal

What Moves Us: The Lives and Times of the Radical Imagination (Khasnabish Alex)(Paperback)

Emerging from the Radical Imagination Project, a social movement research initiative based in Halifax, Canada, What Moves Us? brings together a diverse group of scholar-activists and movement- based thinkers and practitioners to reflect on the relationship between the radical imagination and

In the Aftermath of Gezi: From Social Movement to Social Change? (Hemer Oscar)(Paperback)

Radical Feminism: A Documentary Reader (Crow Barbara A.)(Paperback)

A selection of essential writings to understand the radical feminism movement of the 1960s and 1970s The second wave of feminism was one of the most significant political and cultural developments of the 1960s and 1970s. Yet the role radical feminism played within the women's movement remains hotly

Organizing Freedom: Black Emancipation Activism in the Civil War Midwest (Harbour Jennifer R.)(Paperback)

Organizing Freedom is a riveting and significant social history of black emancipation activism in Indiana and Illinois during the Civil War era. By enlarging the definition of emancipation to include black activism, author Jennifer R. Harbour details the aggressive, tenacious defiance through which

Doing Democracy: The Map Model for Organizing Social Movements (Moyer Bill)(Paperback)

Citizen activism has achieved many positive results. But the road to success for social movements is often complex, usually lasting many years, with few guides for evaluating the precise stage of a movement's evolution to determine the best way forward.Doing Democracy provides both a theory and

Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism (Cooper Melinda)(Paperback)

Professional Boundaries in Social Work and Social Care: A Practical Guide to Understanding, Maintaining and Managing Your Professional Boundaries (Cooper Frank)(Paperback)

Read and Riot - A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism (Tolokonnikova Nadya)(Paperback / softback)

From artist, activist, and Pussy Riot founder Nadya Tolokonnikova, a guerilla guide to radical protest and joyful political

Story of Crass (Berger George)(Paperback)

Crass was the anarcho-punk face of a revolutionary movement founded by radical thinkers and artists Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher, and Steve Ignorant. When punk ruled the waves, Crass waived the rules and took it further, putting out their own records, films, and magazines and setting up a series of

The Artistic Activism of Elombe Brath (Aiello Thomas)(Paperback)

In 1963, at the height of the southern civil rights movement, Cecil Brathwaite (1936-2014), under the pseudonym Cecil Elombe Brath, published a satire of Black leaders entitled Color Us Cullud! The American Negro Leadership Official Coloring Book. The book pillories a variety of Black leaders--from

The Rainbow Comes and Goes (Cooper Diana)(Paperback)

Lady Diana Cooper was a star of the early twentieth stage, screen and social scene. This first instalment of her sparkling autobiography tells of her upbringing, her beautiful artistic mother and aristocratic father, her debut into high society and the glittering parties - 'dancing and extravagance

Theatre of the Ridiculous: A Critical History (Aliano Kelly I.)(Paperback)

Theater of the Ridiculous is a significant movement that highlighted the radical possibilities inherent in camp. Much of contemporary theater owes this form a great debt but little has been written about its history or aesthetic markers. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the important

Safeguarding in Social Work Practice: A Lifespan Approach (Chisnell Charlotte)(Paperback)

Safeguarding is a serious and complex area of social work, and demonstrating an understanding of important theory, law, policy and skills for practice is essential and it is vital that this understanding extends across the lifespan. This book brings together common safeguarding themes and knowledge

Radical Metabolism - A powerful plan to blast fat and reignite your energy in just 21 days (Gittleman Ann Louise)(Paperback / softback)

Starting a Spiritual Business: Inspiration, Case Studies and Advice Featuring Diana Cooper and Ian Lawman (Edwards Charlotte Anne)(Paperback)

Social Choreography: Ideology as Performance in Dance and Everyday Movement (Hewitt Andrew)(Paperback)

Through the concept of 'social choreography' Andrew Hewitt demonstrates how choreography has served not only as metaphor for modernity but also as a structuring blueprint for thinking about and shaping modern social organization. Bringing dance history and critical theory together, he shows that

101 Movement Games for Children: Fun and Learning with Playful Moving (Wiertsema Huberta)(Paperback)

The movement games in this book are intended to cultivate children's social and creative abilities. Some are based on playground games, others on professional theater and dance exercises. The games described are divided into ten categories including touch and reaction, concentration and puzzles,

The Racial Contract (Mills Charles W.)(Paperback)

The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged contract has shaped a system of

Queer Nuns: Religion, Activism, and Serious Parody (Wilcox Melissa M.)(Paperback)

An engaging look into the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, queer activists devoted to social justice The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence make up an unlikely order of nuns. Self-described as 'twenty-first century queer nuns,' the Sisters began in 1979 when three bored gay men donned retired Roman

Black Resistance to British Policing (Elliott-Cooper Adam)(Paperback)

Using a decade of activist research, this book offers a radical analysis of grassroots black resistance to policing in twenty-first-century

Chartism: A new history (Chase Malcolm)(Paperback)

No British social movement captured contemporary imaginations as Chartism did. This unique book is the only history to offer complete, in-depth coverage of the full chronological spread of its activities (1838-58), based throughout on detailed