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Oberman, Michelle, Her Body, Our Laws: On the Front Lines of the Abortion War, from El Salvador to Oklahoma, Boston, Massachusetts, Beacon Press, 2018 , pp. 192

Drawing on her years of research in El Salvador, legal scholar Michelle Oberman explores the consequences of criminalizing abortion. She then turns her attention to the United States, where the battle over abortion takes place, in her opinion, almost exclusively in legislatures and courtrooms. Focusing on Oklahoma, she interviews current and former legislators and activists, and shows how Americans voice their moral opposition to abortion by supporting laws that would restrict it. She challenges this approach to the law by highlighting the real life impact of laws and policies on motherhood and abortion on women.

, Dominican Republic. Policies fuel teens pregnancy, Human Rights Watch, 2019

Describes the Human Right Watch campaign against the denial of sexual and reproductive rights to young women in the Dominican Republic, which has the highest teen pregnancy rate in Latin America. The country has failed to provide scientifically accurate, right-based sexual education programmes in schools, as the authorities announced they would do in 2015. This article also provides the link to a 50-page report, I Felt Like The World Was Falling Down On Me: Sexual And Reproductive Health And Rights In The Dominican Republic’, which is based on interviews with 30 girls who became pregnant before turning 18 and provides an overview on the stigmatization and clandestine-abortion related risks these young women face.

Anderson, Perry, Incommensurate Russia, July-August 2015 94 , pp. smaller than 0

Anderson discusses the nature of Putin’s regime, starting from two opposing assessments of it. The first, promoted by western journalists, stressed lack of legality, kleptocracy, thuggery and authoritarianism. The second, elaborated by some academic studies, suggested a more nuanced picture of gradual progress towards greater legal stability. Anderson then considers in some detail the implications of Russian policy in relation to the Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea in 2014, and situates Putin’s rule in the wider context of Russian and Soviet history. He concludes by noting the tension created by trying to combine traditional Russian emphasis on military power and regional domination with the logic of financial capitalism.

Skilling, Gordon, Czechoslovakia’s Interrupted Revolution, Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1976 , pp. 924

Especially chapters 21-22 (pp. 659-758). Charts the background to and evolution of the Prague Spring, international reactions to it and mounting Soviet and Warsaw Pact pressure, before outlining the August 1968 invasion and popular and official unarmed resistance to it. Skilling also discusses reasons for the gradual end to resistance and acceptance of the replacement of Dubcek by Husak.

True, Michael, The 1989 democratic uprising in China from a nonviolent perspective, In Mahendra Kumar, Peter Low, Legacy and Future of Nonviolence, New Delhi, Gandhi Peace Foundation, 1996 , pp. 141-157

Suttner, Raymond; Cronin, Jeremy, 50 Years of the Freedom Charter, Pretoria, Unisa Press, 2006 , pp. 246

Revised and updated from the banned book Raymond Suttner, Jeremy Cronin, 30 Years of the Freedom Charter, Johannesburg, Ravan Press, 1986 , pp. 266 . Recounts the process of formulating as well as discussing the political implications of the Freedom Charter adopted in 1955. (Part of Unisa’s series ‘Hidden Histories’.)

Ellwood, Douglas, Philippines Revolution 1986: Model of Nonviolent Change, Quezon City, Philippines, New Day Publishers, 1986 , pp. 60

Includes material on role of local peace movement, nonviolence training and a 1983 statement on ‘creative nonviolence’.

Estrada, Luis; Poire, Alejandro, Taught to protest, learning to lose, 18 1 2007 , pp. 73-87

Argues popular protests led by Obrador against election results undermined democratic process.

, Nga Patai: Racism and Ethnic Relations in Aotearoa, ed. Spoonley, Paul; Macpherson, Cluny; Pearce, David, Palmerston N.Z., Dunmore Press, 1996

, Tackling Trident, ed. Vinthagen, Stellan; Kennick, Justin; Mason, Kelvin, Sparsnas Sweden, Irene Publishing, 2012 , pp. 362

On two ‘Academic Conference Blockades’ at Faslane Trident missile base in Scotland in January and June 2007.

Robinson, Lucy, Gay Men and the Left in Post-War Britain: How the Personal got Political, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2011 , pp. 232

Cory, Geoffrey, Political dialogue workshops: Deepening the peace process in Northern Ireland, 30 1 2012 , pp. 53-90

The author discusses the more than fifty residential three-day political dialogue workshops he facilitated between 1994 and 2007 at the Glencree Centre for Reconciliation near Dublin that brought together politicians from all parties in Britain and Ireland during the period of peace negotiations in Northern Ireland.

Dalton, Emma, A feminist critical discourse analysis of sexual harassment in the Japanese political and media worlds, 77 2019 , pp. 1-10

This article examines sexual harassment that has occurred worlds of media and politics in Japan, in the context of the global (mostly Western) #MeToo movement. It argues that harassment by male political leaders constitutes a pattern and should not be seen simply as isolated individual incidents. This pattern occurs within a cultural context that discourages women from speaking out about individual grievances. The naming of this pattern of sexual harassment is important to address ‘Violence Against Women in Politics’ (VAWP), a problem around the world. The public and media outrage directed at individual sexist statements by male politicians often dissipates, only to emerge again after the next sexist incident makes headlines. By establishing a pattern of sexual harassment, the author aims to show that there is a systemic problem facing all women working in politics or in close proximity to politicians in Japan.

Luna, Juan-Pablo, Chile's Fractured Democratic Consensus, In in Thomas Carothers and Andreas Feldman, eds., Divisive Politics and Democratic Dangers in Latin America 2021 pp. smaller than 0

An informed political assessment of the problems of Chile's political system, and the social and political divisions revealed by the 2019 protests and  exacerbated by the Covid pandemic. Luna, a professor of politics, concludes with some brief suggestions on how international actors could contribute positively to the political debate by promoting moderate reforms.  

Sharp, Gene, Gandhi as Political Strategist, Boston, Porter Sargent, 1980 , pp. 384

Barker, Colin, Festival of the Oppressed: Solidarity, Reform, and Revolution in Poland, 1980-81, London, Bookmarks, 1986 , pp. 192

and also his essay ‘Fear, Laughter, and Collective Power: The Making of Solidarity at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, August 1980’, pp. 175-194, Jeff Goodwin, Francesca Polletta, James M. Jasper, Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements (A. 6. Nonviolent Action and Social Movements) .

Cristalis, Irena, Bitter Dawn: East Timor – A People’s History, 2002 London, Zed Books, 2009 , pp. 384

Beltran, Elizabeth, Water, Privatization and Conflict: Women from the Cochabamba Valley, Berlin, Heinrich Böll Foundation, 2004 , pp. 48

Starr, Stephen, Revolt in Syria: Eye-Witness to the Uprising, New York and London, Columbia University Press and Hurst, 2012 , pp. 232

Tracy, James, Direct Action: Radical Pacifism from the Union Eight to the Chicago Seven, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1996 , pp. 196

Examines how a small group of radical pacifists (such as Dave Dellinger, A.J. Muste and Bayard Rustin) played a major role in the rebirth of US radicalism and social protest in the 1950s and 1960s, applying nonviolence to social issues and developing an experimental protest style.

Lama, Dalai, My Land and My People, London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1962 , pp. 253

Autobiography of his earlier years.

van Donge, Jan, Kamuzu’s Legacy: The democratization of Malawi, 94 375 1995 , pp. 227-257

, Thai NGOs: The Continuing Struggle for Democracy, ed. Boonyarattanasoontorn, Jaturang; Chutima, Gawin, Bangkok, Thai NGO Support Project, 1995 , pp. 188

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