Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action

Author(s): Dennis Dalton

Columbia University Press, New York, 1993, pp. 279

Analysis of Gandhi’s concept of satyagraha, of his political leadership and and of the 1931 Salt Satyagraha and 1947 fast, as well as covering critiques by contemporaries and making comparisons with Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

Land

Author(s): Derek Hall

Polity, Cambridge, 2012, pp. 176

Analyzes conflicts over land in terms of its role as territory (leading to inter-state claims or wars), its status as property, and ways in which its use is regulated. The book examines the attempts of NGOs to protect property rights and environments in the Global South and the land grabs by corporations and governments, drawing on wide range of examples, including China and Honduras.

A Place Apart

Author(s): Dervla Murphy

Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1980, pp. 300

Originally published: 1978

Records the experiences of this distinguished Irish travel writer during her cycling tour of Northern Ireland in 1976-77. Briefly recapitulates the historical background to the Troubles, and re-examines the rival myths and prejudices of the Protestant and Catholic communities, both of whom warmly welcomed her while remaining suspicious of each other. Informed by genuine affection for the people of Northern Ireland and an optimism about its future in the longer term though discounting the possibility of a united Ireland.

God’s Dream

In: Waging Peace Series - Booklet 24

Author(s): Desmond Tutu

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Santa Barbara, CA, 1990

Originally published: June 1990

Archbishop Tutu discusses the arms race and the concept of world order in light of the Gaia Peace Atlas, a collection published in the year of the U.N. special sessions on disarmament, that provides a study of the prospects for peace and survival into the twenty-first century.

Celebrating the Feminine: Daoist Connections to Contemporary Feminism in China

Author(s): Dessie Miller

Vol Master of Arts in Asia Pacific Studies (MAPS), University of San Francisco, San Francisco, 2017, pp. 24

Discusses the evolution of the idea of feminism over the centuries in China and what may be called a “proto-feminism” concept, known as the Daodejing. Classical Chinese philosophy has influenced and helped shape what feminism is today in China. Dessie Miller analyzed the use of language in the Daodejing to demonstrate the feminine imagery throughout the text. She also deconstructed the characters that bear significance for feminist interpretations for the Dao and Yin-Yang in order to analyse their deeper meaning. Finally, she compared Confucianism and Daoism in order to provide a broader context and to show how they differ from each other. Lastly, she used contemporary feminist figures—such as Li Ruzhen, Qiu Jin, and the “Beijing Five”—as examples to show how Daoism was a precursor to and how it helped shape feminism in what is today’s China.

Bulgaria: lost in transition

Author(s): Nikolay Nikolov, Dessislava Hristova Kurzydlowski, Sonya Merkova, and Tanya Simeonova

In: OpenDemocracy.net, 2013

Stresses that Bulgaria’s corrupt and incompetent governments are result of the nature of the 1989 transition, the opportunities created then for members of the security services to seize economic, social and political power, and lack of public debate about the past.

Available online at:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/nikolay-nikolov-dessislava-hristova-kurzydlowski-sonya-merkova-tanya-simeonova/bu

Organizing “People Power” in the Philippines

Author(s): Dette Pascual

In: Journal of Democracy, Vol 1, No 1 (winter), 1990, pp. 102-109

Brief but illuminating account, by the founder and chair of the National Women’s Movement for the Nurturance of Democracy in the Philippines, of the role played by her organization and two related civil society groups between 1983 and 1986.

The Movement of Movements

Editor(s): Development

In: Development, Vol 48, No 2 (June), 2005, pp. 1-121

Analysis of Social Forum processes, the nature of the global justice movement and the Zapatista experience. NB: Development, vol. 47 no 3 (2004) is on ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’.

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