Добірка наукової літератури з теми "The unpropertied"

This essay considers how conceptions of manliness shaped the electoral franchise on Victorian Prince Edward Island. Soon after its institution of responsible government, Prince Edward Island shifted away from a property-based franchise to one grounded in the performance of statute labour. Instead of heralding the male property owner, this new law championed the man who used his labour to faithfully serve and improve his community. Because of limited land distribution, bourgeois ideals of manliness based upon property ownership fit the conditions of the colony poorly. A statute labour franchise better reflected the gender ideals upheld by the Island’s unpropertied majority. Like all gender ideals, these standards were not accepted across Prince Edward Island unopposed.

Based on a sample of about 5,000 members, this article offers the first comprehensive social profile of the IRA covering the entire period of the Irish revolution. The picture that emerges is of an organization composed largely of unpropertied, unmarried, young men of the middling classes, increasingly disproportionately dominated by urban, skilled, and socially mobile activists. Officers tended to be slightly older and of slightly higher social status than their men. Sinn Fein activists were older again but otherwise shared these characteristics, as did the IRA in Britain. This dependence on urban and skilled or white-collar members, the reverse of what republicans and most historians have believed, may be attributable to a combination of the greater risks and greater organizational opportunities faced by the IRA in towns. Nevertheless, the movement did attract rural and labouring members, and did to some extent transcend class and geographical boundaries. IRA units were almost never segregated along class lines, and were usually built around familial and neighbourhood networks. Also, as the revolution progressed, activists' previous social identities were superseded by a new and essentially egalitarian identity as comrades and guerrillas.

I Egendomslösa historier: Om historieproduktion i de jordlösas rörelse (MST) undersöks berät- telser om det förflutna med upphov inom den sociala rörelsen o movimento dos trabalhadores rurais sem terra (de jordlösa lantarbetarnas rörelse) i Brasilien. Uppsatsens syfte är att utöka förståelsen för hur berättelser om det förflutna kan användas som en samhällsförändrande kraft. I uppsatsen ställs frågan om hur berättelser om det förflutna blir en resurs för MST:s pågående organisering och kamp. Frågan undersöks med perspektiv från muntlig historia och med narrativ analys. Som material används filmen Raiz forte (på svenska “Starka rötter”), A históra da luta pela terra e o MST som är en inom rörelsen välspridd och ofta diskuterad historiebok samt levnadsberättelser från tre deltagare i rörelsen. Uppsatsens resultat är att berättelser om det förflutna blir en resurs för social förändring genom att de berättas med narrativ struktur som är inkluderande, aktiverande och som hjälper de jordlösa att framträda som berättare. Viktigt är också det sätt på vilka berättelserna omsätts, det vill säga i rörelsens bas som är ett sammanhang präglat av muntliga utbyten och deltagande demokrati.
In Unpropertied Stories: The Social Production of History in the Landless’ Movement (MST) I explore stories about the past with origin in the brazilian social movement o movimento dos trabalhadores rurais sem terra (the landless rural workers’ movement). The purpose of the thesis is to enhance the understanding for how narratives about the past can be used in social change. The starting point for the thesis is a question about how the past becomes a resource for the ongoing struggle and organisation that the MST performs. This question is elaborated with perspectives from oral history and narrative analysis. Material is collected from the movie Raiz forte (in english “Strong Roots”), A história da luta pela terra e o MST which is common and well spread among the participants of the movement, and personal narratives from three of the movement’s participants. The result of the thesis is that narratives about the past becomes resourceful for social change because they are told with a narrative structure that is inclusive, activating, and that invites the landless to become story tellers of their own making. Further important is the way in which the stories are being told and lis- tened to, that is in the movement’s base which is a context dominated by oral exchange and participatory democracy.

The unpropertied, also known as subaltern people, were a social class that lived during the 18th, 19th, and 20th century in Sweden. They were a social class that hade very few rights and had torely on the closest farmer and his lands to get by. But also, other jobs, for example as a farm maiden or as a shoemaker. In archaeology, remains after the unpropertied are still visible in the cultural landscape they once created. Despite this, the interest and effort in keeping the memory of the unpropertied alive is very little. This is what this essay aims to discuss. This essay will, through a case-study, show how remains after the unpropertied are still visible in the cultural landscape. The casestudy will examine how and where the unpropertied is found in the landscape. The limitation will be at the border between Vena and Målilla parish. It also aims to examine the status of the remains and if the area where the remains are located have been preserved with the intention to focus on the history it holds. The essay also includes multiple historical maps and church archives with the purpose to put a relative date on the objects that has been examined. Later, the author will discuss why the history of the unpropertied is important to preserve and enlighten to the public. This will be discussed with the case-study and other archeological reports from excavations as a foundation, but also other articles regarding the subject in matter.

This chapter introduces the book’s enquiry into the idea of the rights of man in eighteenth-century England and into the earlier glimmerings of that idea in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English thought. If protection of the right to property is an implicit and sometimes explicit principle of international human rights law, the chapter raises the question of whether there may exist an alternative tradition of thought about human rights, in which what is important is not the right to property, but instead the dispossession of the unpropertied.

This chapter discusses the right to vote. Democracy demands that every vote count and that every voter be able to shape social and economic policy. Equality of participation, however, is seriously undermined by the outsized role that money plays in American electoral politics—making the exercise of the franchise even more important for persons who are poor or have low income. The chapter discusses the legal and practical barriers that low-income citizens face when they go to the polls, including demands for identification cards, the need to take time off from work, and long waiting periods at the ballot box in neighborhoods that are poor or populated by persons of color. The chapter sets out the constitutional basis for the right to vote, locating current restrictions in past practices that excluded the poor and unpropertied, and impeded the political rights of African Americans after emancipation. Discussion focuses on conditions that states have attached to the right to vote, on protections afforded under federal statutes, and rules governing voter registration campaigns.