Books: 'Grassroots level'

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Oluyitan, Funso E. Combatting Corruption at the Grassroots Level in Nigeria. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44856-5.

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Khan, Shahrukh Rafi. Devolution of power to the grassroots level, some key issues. Islamabad: Sustainable Development Policy Institute, 2000.

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Ndung'u, Margaret Nyambura. ICTs and health technology at the grassroots level in Africa. Nairobi: African Technology Policy Studies Network, 2007.

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Lambsdorff, Johann, and Günther G. Schulze, eds. Corruption at the Grassroots-level – Between Temptation, Norms, and Culture. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110511628.

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Khan, Shahrukh Rafi. A indicative model for power devolution to the grassroots level. Islamabad: Sustainable Development Policy Institute, 2000.

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Mbilinyi, Marjorie J. Policy review processes at the grassroots level: The case of Ngorongoro District. [Dar es Salaam]: Rural Food Security Policy and Development Group, Institute of Development Studies, 2000.

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author, Haqiqat Singh, ed. Bench marking of rural local-self government in India: Some ground realities at grassroots level. Chandigarh, India: Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development, 2015.

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National Conference on Government at the Grassroots Level in Nigeria (1985 Ahmadu Bello University). Government at the grassroots level in Nigeria: A collection of papers from the National Conference on Government at the Grassroots Level [in] Nigeria, held in Kongo Conference Hotel, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 25th March-28th March, 1985. Zaria: Department[s] of Local Government Studies, Management, Research and Consultancy, Institute of Administration, Ahmadu Bello University, 1985.

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Gyasuddin, Molla Md. Village government in Bangladesh: People's participation at grassroot level. Dhaka, Bangladesh: Ashraf, 1992.

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Joshi, Savita S. Women workers at the grassroot level: A sociological study. New Delhi: Ashish Pub. House, 1995.

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Working with community at the grassroot level: Strategies and programmes. New Delhi: Radha Publications, 2001.

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Uddin, Ahmed Minhaj, Khaleque M. A, and Pallī Unnaẏana Ekāḍemī (Bogra, Bangladesh), eds. Workshops on Community Empowerment for Poverty Alleviation at the Grassroot Level. Bogra: Rural Development Academy, 1998.

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Haq, S. Anwarul. National Judicial Policy, 2009: A years for focus on justice at the grassroot level. Lahore: Punjab Law Book House, 2009.

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National Judicial Policy, 2009: A years for focus on justice at the grassroot level. Lahore: Punjab Law Book House, 2009.

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Haq, S. Anwarul. National Judicial Policy, 2009: A years for focus on justice at the grassroot level. 2nd ed. Lahore: Punjab Law Book House, 2009.

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Goodall, Heather. Beyond Borders. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462981454.

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Beyond Borders: Indians, Australians and the Indonesian Revolution, 1939 to 1950 rediscovers an intense internationalism — and charts its loss — in the Indonesian Revolution. Momentous far beyond Indonesia itself, and not just for elites, generals, or diplomats, the Indonesian anti-colonial struggle from 1945 to 1949 also became a powerful symbol of hope at the most grassroots levels in India and Australia. As the news flashed across crumbling colonial borders by cable, radio, and photograph, ordinary men and women became caught up in in the struggle. Whether seamen, soldiers, journalists, activists, and merchants, Indonesian independence inspired all of them to challenge colonialism and racism. And the outcomes were made into myths in each country through films, memoirs, and civic commemorations. But as heroes were remembered, or invented, this 1940s internationalism was buried behind the hardening borders of new nations and hostile Cold War blocs, only to reemerge as the basis for the globalisation of later years.

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Lyimo, Babuel A. From smallpox to AIDS: Public health services at grassroots levels in Tanzania (1955-1995) : a personal and historical account of the organisation, challenges, and development of public health services in Tanzania from 1955-1995, by a retired senior public health officer. Bergen: Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, 2001.

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Oluyitan, Funso E. Combatting Corruption at the Grassroots Level in Nigeria. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

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Combatting Corruption at the Grassroots Level in Nigeria. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

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Chapin, F. Stuart. Grassroots Stewardship. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190081195.001.0001.

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The book presents a novel strategy for addressing the major environmental and social problems of our time. It emphasizes transformative actions by individual citizens, both ordinary and extraordinary, rather than by government and other groups. It empowers a spectrum of solutions appropriate to people with varying interests, skills, political persuasions, and level of environmental and social commitment. The book draws on social and ecological theory to formulate a four-tiered stewardship strategy to transform communities, nations, and the planet. Key elements of this strategy are (1) individual actions that link people with nature and reduce human impacts on the planet, (2) effective communication to reduce political polarization and share solutions, (3) collaborations that integrate actions of multiple groups, and (4) political engagement to trigger needed transformations. The book builds on diverse visions and goals for the future of ecosystems and society: concern for future generations, a spiritual commitment to care for Creation and vulnerable people, a desire to sustain the best of nature and of cultures, and a concern about the security and well-being of communities, nations, and the world. This is not a book about what should be done. It is a book about what has been and can be done and a pragmatic strategy for tangible progress.

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Oladimeji, Aborisade, ed. On being in charge at the grassroots level in Nigeria. Ile-Ife: Dept. of Local Government Studies, Faculty of Administration, Obafemi Awolowo Uiniversity, 1989.

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What Every Military Spouse Should Know to Survive at the Grassroots Level! PublishAmerica, 2007.

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Festen, Marcia, Marianne Philbin, and Kim Klein. Level Best: How Small and Grassroots Nonprofits Can Tackle Evaluation and Talk Results. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2007.

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Morris, John Charles, William Allen Gibson, William Marshall Leavitt, and Shana Campbell Jones. Case for Grassroots Collaboration: Social Capital and Ecosystem Restoration at the Local Level. Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2015.

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The Case For Grassroots Collaboration Social Capital And Ecosystem Restoration At The Local Level. Lexington Books, 2013.

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Moane, Geraldine. Integrating Grassroots Perspectives and Women’s Human Rights. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190614614.003.0005.

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This chapter considers how social psychological perspectives from feminist and liberation psychologies can enhance understandings of human rights activism, using three examples from the Irish context: abortion, poverty, and sexual orientation. The gap between institutional/state structures and grassroots community groups is apparent from the case of abortion and the use of the human rights framework in an Irish context. Possibilities for bridging this gap and for expanded understandings of human rights are considered. Firstly, Links are made between women’s human rights and structures of oppression through examples from community-based education with women living in impoverished communities. Secondly, A case study of community activism involving women from a deprived community demonstrates how a micro-level or bottom-up understanding of social change can be integrated with human rights. Thirdly, The example of LGBT women points to the need to expand individualistic concepts of personhood that underpin human rights to include relational and collective psychological processes.

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Level Best: How Small and Grassroots Nonprofits Can Tackle Evaluation and Talk Results (Kim Klein's Chardon Press). Jossey-Bass, 2006.

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Reed, Sally D. A parent's survival guide to the public schools: How to fight the NEA at the grassroots level. Devin-Adair, 1986.

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Planning at the grassroots level: An action programme for the eleventh five year plan : report of the expert group. New Delhi: Ministry of Panchayati Raj, 2006.

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India. Ministry of Panchayati Raj., ed. Planning at the grassroots level: An action programme for the eleventh Five Year Plan : report of the expert group. New Delhi: [Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Govt. of India], 2006.

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India. Ministry of Panchayati Raj., ed. Planning at the grassroots level: An action programme for the eleventh Five Year Plan : report of the expert group. New Delhi: [Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Govt. of India], 2006.

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Tripp, Aili Mari. Women’s Organizations and Peace Initiatives. Edited by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Naomi Cahn, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Nahla Valji. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199300983.013.34.

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Women’s peace movements in the post–Cold War era frequently share three common characteristics: a grassroots and local focus due to exclusion from formal peace negotiations; an early and sustained commitment to bridging differences between factions; and the use of international and regional pressures to create success on the local level. This chapter reviews each of these characteristics through case studies. Examples from Sri Lanka, Somalia, and Nepal illustrate the successes and challenges of grassroots or local peace movements led by women. Peace processes in Burundi, led by women activists, exemplify a commitment to unity across ethnic lines. The chapter concludes with examples from Liberia and Sierra Leone, demonstrating the efficacy of international and regional organizations supporting local peace movements.

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Aslanidis, Paris. Populism and Social Movements. Edited by Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Paul Taggart, Paulina Ochoa Espejo, and Pierre Ostiguy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198803560.013.23.

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Populism is usually treated as an exclusively top-down affair where political party leaders mobilize diverse constituencies to reap electoral benefits. This perspective discounts a rich universe of bottom-up populist mobilization that remains exogenous to strict electoral contestation, thus unreasonably constraining the empirical study of the phenomenon. This chapter draws from social movement studies and social psychology to examine populist social movements under a comprehensive theoretical framework, aiming to bring together theorists of populism with scholars of social mobilization and encourage their mutually beneficial interaction. It argues that populism—as a compelling political dialect—has traditionally informed and continues to inform significant waves of grassroots contention around the world, triggering seemingly extraordinary developments at the party system level while also potentially determining processes of democratization. The chapter concludes by predicting an increasing relevance for grassroots populism, urging scholars to widen their scope of study by embracing it alongside its top-down variant.

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Sica, Emanuele. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039850.003.0001.

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This book examines the Italian army’s occupation of the French Riviera during the period 1940–1943 at three different levels, each involving a triangular relationship. At a more general level, it analyzes the military occupation with the lens of historical sociology, making references to the triangular comparison of the Italian occupation of France to the German occupation of France and to the Italian occupation of the Balkans. It also considers “the structural effects of occupation on the occupied society’s environment and living conditions,” with particular emphasis on the triangular and rocky relationship between the representatives of the French state, especially the prefects and mayors, and the Italian military authorities, the officers of Italian units deployed on French soil, and Italian civilian authorities who were officially dispatched by Rome to supervise the implementation of the Franco-Italian armistice and to secretly prepare for the annexation of the occupied territories. Finally, at a grassroots level, the book explores the “face-to-face interaction between occupiers and occupied people” and how it was shaped by both groups’ habits, culture, prejudices, and tensions.

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Tanzania national training seminar for community development leaders/trainers at grassroots level for women and youth on participatory programming for integrated rural development: Proceedings of a national seminar, Zanzibar, 25th-30th May, 1992. [Arusha, Tanzania]: Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Africa, 1992.

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Davis, Lisa. The Gendered Dimensions of Torture. Edited by Metin Başoğlu. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199374625.003.0011.

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Through decades of concerted grassroots organizing and creative lawyering, women’s and gender justice activists achieved the international recognition that gender-based violence is not just a “private” matter, but is, in fact, violence that can rise to the level of torture in certain cases. As states and other actors continue to resist this development by rejecting their due diligence obligations, it is vital that human rights advocates understand the history and theories underlying this critical gain. This chapter focuses on the development of the legal determination that rape specifically can rise to the level of torture, as it has the most developed legal history, and thus provides a useful means for understanding the struggle to eliminate gender-based violence. Alongside case analysis and theory, the chapter presents the women’s rights movement history, its subsequent deepening to include LGBTI persons, and the successes that these movements achieved at the international level.

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Skocpol, Theda, and Caroline Tervo, eds. Upending American Politics. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190083526.001.0001.

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Analysts and citizens alike struggle to comprehend recent gyrations in US politics. The country did an apparent U-turn in just eight short years, from the election of Barack Obama and an all-Democratic Congress in 2008 to the election of Donald Trump and confirmation of GOP control of Congress in 2016. Twice in under a decade, ordinary citizens reacted by organizing local grassroots groups all over the country—with Tea Parties starting in 2009 and anti-Trump resistance groups starting in late 2016. Upending American Politics offers a fresh perspective on these developments by focusing on recent and newly changing organizational configurations, such as voluntary local citizens’ groups, elite advocacy organizations, consortia of wealthy donors, and candidate-led political campaigns. Contributors have collected many new kinds of data to document and probe changing organizational configurations at the national level and in the pivotal states of Wisconsin, North Carolina, Michigan, Florida, Texas, and Pennsylvania. The volume offers insightful answers to key questions: Why has partisan polarization unfolded in a heavily rightward-tilted manner that sees Republicans embracing ever-more extreme positions? Why have widespread grassroots citizens movements erupted twice just eight years, and what impact have these movements had on the major political parties?

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Đánh giá năng lực cán bộ tư pháp cấp tỉnh về quản lý, hướng dẫn công tác hoà giải ở cơ sở =: Assessment on provincial legal officials' capacity on managing and providing guidance for conciliation at grassroots level. Ba Đình, Hà Nội: Nhà xuất bản Tư pháp, 2005.

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Bruce, Tricia Colleen. Decisions. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190270315.003.0004.

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This chapter offers an insider look at how bishops make decisions to establish personal parishes, or not. No formal policy exists to regulate when and why bishops choose to start personal parishes, resulting in a high level of local discretion. Both top-down and grassroots sources influence personal parish outcomes. From the top, documents out of the Vatican and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops introduce personal parishes as one option among others. Interviews with bishops reveal key criteria they identify as prerequisites for personal parish establishment. From below, local Catholics mobilize, petition, and fundraise to convey parish need. Personal parish outcomes reveal that bishops assess an interlocking parish landscape and subjective considerations of lay need. Institutional authorities circumscribe lay preferences for local religious organization.

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Krishna, Anirudh. Missing Links in the Institutional Chain. Edited by Carol Lancaster and Nicolas van de Walle. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199845156.013.6.

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This article examines how the chain of institutions that links individuals and communities with the state and with markets helps promote economic development and democracy. It argues that strengthening institutional chains with links at the grassroots, or local, level, such as school boards and parent-teacher associations, district offices of congressmen or political parties, or neighborhood councils, would help citizens diminish the power of local oligarchies, make ruling elites more accountable, and do something about indifferent bureaucrats. Citing the case of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh in India, the article illustrates how human capabilities and individual agency can help communities close the existing institutional gaps by effectively utilizing collective resources in the service of democracy and development. It shows that economic development is possible through democratic participation and by connecting social capital with programs of the state and with market-based opportunities.

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Berger, Tobias. Translating Practices and Normative Orders. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807865.003.0007.

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This chapter analyses, firstly, the translation of a key practice of the rule of law—the formal documentation of court proceedings in writing. It shows how the grassroots-level NGO fieldworkers do not use the official paperwork provided by the project to neutrally record village court sessions. Instead, they use the documents as symbolic capital that allows marginalized people to access local elites they could have otherwise not have accessed. Secondly, the employees of the local NGOs also translate the normative vocabularies in which the rule of law is justified. Instead of advocating access to village court justice in the secular registers of human rights and the rule of law, the fieldworkers draw on Islam and Islamic law to enhance participatory spaces in non-state courts, particularly for women. This, however, leads to contestations with established religious authorities over competing interpretations of Islam and Islamic law.

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Wodzinski, Marcin. Hasidism and Politics. Liverpool University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781904113737.001.0001.

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Analysing the political relations between the Kingdom of Poland and the hasidic movement, this book examines plans formulated by the government and by groups close to government circles regarding hasidim, and describes how a hasidic body politic developed in response. The book demonstrates that the rise of Hasidism was an important factor in shaping the Jewish policy of both central and provincial authorities and shows how the creation of socio-political conditions that were advantageous to the hasidic movement accelerated its growth. While concentrating on the dynamic that developed in the Kingdom of Poland, the discussion is informed by a consideration of the relationship between the state and the hasidic movement from its inception in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The novelty of this study lies in the fact that, whereas most analyses of political culture concentrate on states and societies with well-established electoral systems of representation, the book focuses on the under-researched area of political relations between a non-democratic state and a low-status community lacking authorized representation. Applying concepts more often associated with cultural history, the analysis draws a distinction between the terms of reference of high-level political debate and the actual implementation of policy middle- and low-level officials. Similarly, in analysing hasidic responses, the book differentiates between high-level hasidic representations in the state and the grassroots politics of the community. This combination enables a broad contextualization of the whole subject, integrating the social and cultural history of Polish Jewry with that of Polish society in general.

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Wang, Y. Yvon. Reinventing Licentiousness. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501752971.001.0001.

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This book navigates an overlooked history of representation during the transition from the Qing Empire to the Chinese Republic — a time when older, hierarchical notions of licentiousness were overlaid by a new, pornographic regime. The book draws on previously untapped archives to argue that pornography in China represents a unique configuration of power and desire that both reflects and shapes historical processes. On the one hand, since the late imperial period, pornography has democratized pleasure in China and opened up new possibilities of imagining desire. On the other, ongoing controversies over its definition and control show how the regulatory ideas of premodern cultural politics and the popular products of early modern cultural markets have contoured the globalized world. The book emphasizes the material factors, particularly at the grassroots level of consumption and trade, that governed “proper” sexual desire and led to ideological shifts around the definition of pornography. By linking the past to the present and beyond, the book's social and intellectual history showcases circulated pornographic material as a motor for cultural change. The result is an astonishing foray into what historicizing pornography can mean for our understandings of desire, legitimacy, capitalism, and culture.

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Berger, Tobias. Global Norms and Local Courts. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807865.001.0001.

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What happens to transnational norms when they travel from one place to another? How do norms change when they move; and how do they affect the place where they arrive? This book develops a novel theoretical account of norm translation that is located in-between theories of norm diffusion and norm localization. It shows how such translations do not follow linear trajectories from ‘the global’ to ‘the local’. Instead, they unfold in a recursive back and forth movement between different actors located in different contexts. As norms are translated, their meaning changes; and only if their meaning changes in ways that are intelligible to people within a specific context, the social and political dynamics of this context change as well. This book analyses translations of ‘the rule of law’. It focuses on contemporary donor-driven projects with non-state courts in rural Bangladesh and shows how in these projects, global norms change local courts—but only if they are translated, often in unexpected ways from the perspective of international actors. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book reveals how grassroots-level employees of local non-governmental organizations significantly alter the meaning of global norms—for example when they translate secular notions of the rule of law into the language of Islam and Islamic Law—and only thereby also enhance participatory spaces for marginalized people. Such translations that change both global norms and local courts have been largely neglected by scholars and policy makers alike; they are the central theme of this book.

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Folwell, Emma J. The War on Poverty in Mississippi. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496827395.001.0001.

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When President Lyndon Johnson’s war on poverty arrived in Mississippi in 1965, it was met with a ferocious response. The federally-funded war against poverty—the embodiment of 1960s liberalism—clashed explosively with Mississippi’s closed society. In the years between 1965 and 1973, the opposing forces of the war against poverty and a war against the war on poverty transformed the state. Through a state-level history of the war on poverty, this book traces the attempts of white and black Mississippians to utilize antipoverty programs to address the desperate poverty in the state. The war on poverty was, at times, a powerful tool for black empowerment. But more often, antipoverty programs became a potent mechanism of white resistance to black advancement. Through the war on poverty, both black activism and white opposition to black empowerment evolved following the momentous events of 1964. White Mississippians used massive resistance as a template for resistance to black economic empowerment, forging antipoverty programs into tools to marginalize black political and economic power. This book traces the grassroots war against the war on poverty that laid the foundation for the fight against 1960s liberalism, as Mississippi became a national model for resistance to social change through its evolving resistance to the war on poverty that lay at the heart of the emerging new conservatism. Many white Mississippians forged this resistance into the political, economic, and social structures of the state, contributing to the development of the state’s Republican Party and articulating a new conservatism.

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Jamal, Manal A. Promoting Democracy. NYU Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479811380.001.0001.

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Democracy aid has grown considerably since the end of the Cold War. In the late 1980s, less than US$1 billion a year went to democracy assistance; by 2015, the estimated total was more than $10 billion. Despite this overwhelming commitment to spreading democracy abroad, the results have been mixed, and in some cases, this aid has in fact undermined the longer-term prospects for democratic development. What factors account for these different outcomes? Why are democracy promotion efforts far more successful in some cases as opposed to others? Promoting Democracy answers these questions while also providing an often overlooked perspective - the perspective of those most directly affected by the impact of this assistance. By examining two primary conflicttopeace transition cases- the Palestinian territories and El Salvador- and drawing from over 150 interviews with grassroots activists, political leaders, heads of NGOs, and directors of donor agencies, Manal A. Jamal investigates how democracy assistance shaped the re-constitution of political and civic life. She examines these developments at a more macro, general level in terms of democratic outcomes and then at the level of civil society by tracing transformations in one social movement sector--the women’s sector--in each case. She argues that ultimately the pervading political settlements determined the different outcomes, and that democracy assistance mediated these processes. The book then expands the temporal and geographic aperture of the study by examining developments in the Palestinian territories following Ḥamas’ 2006 election victory, and then by investigating the impact of political settlements and the mediating role of democracy assistance in Iraq and South Africa during the start of their political transitions. Jamal challenges more simple accounts that rely on NGO professionalization to explain civil society outcomes and illustrates how pervading political settlements that govern political relations in these contexts ultimately determined the different outcomes. By providing a systematic analysis of how democracy assistance impacts civil society and broader democratic outcomes, she provides new ways of understanding the relationship between foreign aid and domestic political contexts and resolves key debates about the limits of democracy promotion in non-inclusive political contexts.

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Castledine, Jacqueline. Cold War Legacies. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037269.003.0006.

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This chapter illustrates how African American women remained active at both the highest levels of the Progressive Party (PP) and its base, where interracial grassroots networks attempted to bring the ideals of national figures like Eslanda Goode Robeson, Shirley Graham Du Bois, and Charlotta Bass to life. The American Labor Party (ALP)—which served as the PP organization of New York in 1948—was an important vehicle for women fighting racism and U.S. militarism in their local communities. Historians who have documented the ALP's important contributions to New York's early civil rights campaigns often overlook the significance of the party's linkage between peace, racial justice, and women's rights. An examination of the ALP, therefore, offers the opportunity to consider the challenges progressive women's networks encountered in the struggle to keep the hope of positive peace alive.

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Daniel, Seblewengel, Mmapula Diana Kebaneilwe, and Angeline Savala, eds. Mother Earth, Mother Africa and Mission. African Sun Media, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.52779/9781991201317.

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The volume is significant in bringing together voices of African women theologians and their allies on the urgent topic of ecology. First, it decisively intervenes into scholarly discourses on ecofeminism by highlighting the reflections of African women scholars and African women as subjects. This function of the volume is very important both at local and global levels. Second, it contributes to contextualizing of scriptural interpretation around the issue of ecology. Biblical reflection occurs throughout the volume and is put into dialogue with African traditions, with ecofeminism, with Africa-based mission projects, and with the current crisis of sustainability and African women’s roles in protecting the earth. Third, the volume includes several concrete case studies based on interviews and grassroots qualitative research, as well as especially original articles that integrate biblical exegesis of Genesis with reflections on patriarchal legal systems in Botswana, and an original take on “male headship” in relation to ecofeminism.

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Povitz, Lana Dee. Stirrings. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653013.001.0001.

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In the last three decades of the twentieth century, government cutbacks, stagnating wages, AIDS, and gentrification pushed ever more people into poverty, and hunger reached levels unseen since the Depression. In response, New Yorkers set the stage for a nationwide food justice movement. Whether organizing school lunch campaigns, establishing food co-ops, or lobbying city officials, citizen-activists made food a political issue, uniting communities across lines of difference. The charismatic, usually female leaders of these efforts were often products of earlier movements: American communism, civil rights activism, feminism, even Eastern mysticism. Situating food justice within these rich lineages, Lana Dee Povitz demonstrates how grassroots activism continued to thrive, even as it was transformed by unrelenting erosion of the country's already fragile social safety net. Using dozens of new oral histories and archives, Povitz reveals the colorful characters who worked behind the scenes to build and sustain the movement, and illuminates how people worked together to overturn hierarchies rooted in class and race, reorienting the history of food activism as a community-based response to austerity. The first book-length history of food activism in a major American city, Stirrings highlights the emotional, intimate, and interpersonal aspects of social movement culture.

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