Reinventing Social Solidarity Across Europe

Reinventing Social Solidarity Across Europe
Author: Marion Ellison
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2012
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1847427278

This valuable collection is the first to identify how social solidarity across Europe is being re-invented from below and redefined from above.

Reinventing social solidarity across Europe

Reinventing social solidarity across Europe
Author: Ellison, Marion
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2011-10-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1847427286

As Europe's public realms face upheaval, this is the first book to identify how social solidarity is being reinvented from below and redefined from above. Interdisciplinary transnational approaches provide new insights into the relationship between national and transnational social solidarity across Europe.Valuable to students, policy makers and scholars, it reveals social solidarity as the defining pillar of European integration, bringing a greater dimension and integrity beyond democracy across nation states.

Reinventing social security worldwide

Reinventing social security worldwide
Author: Rys, Vladimir
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2010-05-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1847426425

Prior to the onset of the recent financial crisis, global trends of social security in industrialised societies were indicating a progressive disengagement of the State, in favour of tax-financed measures similar to social assistance, which may fail to ensure a basic standard of living. In this timely book the author, with his life-long experience of international social security, advocates reinstating social insurance by reducing the volume of income redistribution, increasing the transparency of money flows and improving citizen information. It will be of interest to a wide audience, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and lecturers, policy makers, social partners, professionals dealing with social security institutions and civil society groups.

Our Commons

Our Commons
Author: Thomas de Groot
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2019-06-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9492302357

Our Commons: Political Ideas for a New Europe is a collection of essays, case studies and interviews that showcase the wealth of transformative ideas that the commons have to offer. Featuring reflections on the enclosure of knowledge and the monopolisation of the digital sphere, stories about renewable energy cooperatives and community foodwaste initiatives and urgent pleas to see the city as a commons and to treat health as a common good, this book is a political call to arms for all Europeans to embrace the commons and build a new Europe. Our Commons features contributions by David Bollier, Sheila R. Foster, Benjamin Coriat, Silke Helfrich, George Monbiot, Kate Raworth, Trebor Scholz and many others.

Reinventing Revolution

Reinventing Revolution
Author: Edward J Mccaughan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2019-05-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429977352

Based on in-depth interviews with seventy-four intellectuals of the lefts in Cuba and Mexico, Reinventing Revolution explores the rapidly changing thinking of progressives on the big-and enduring-questions of democracy, economic alternatives, and national sovereignty. Offering a unique world-systems perspective on the sociology of intellectuals and

Reinventing the Left in the Global South

Reinventing the Left in the Global South
Author: Richard Sandbrook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2014-08-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107072786

A fresh appraisal of the nature and significance of the democratic left in the Global South.

Reinventing Politics

Reinventing Politics
Author: Vladimir Tismaneanu
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 617
Release: 2000-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1439105952

Reinventing Politics gives an account of East European politics from the time of Soviet domination to the 1989-90 revolutions, and considers the effect of tyranny on East European culture and politics, the chances for successful and harmonious development in the region, and its relationship with the rest of Europe. “Using primary materials from Eastern European democratic movements, Tismaneanu shows how dissident enclaves, grassroots political groups, independent unions and underground initiatives spearheaded the spontaneous outbursts of discontent that led to the nonviolent collapse of communist dictatorships…In an illuminating, exciting comparative analysis of the breakup of the Soviet Union's outer empire, Tismaneanu …identifies bureaucratic inertia, renascent authoritarian tendencies and the lure of populist adventurers as key obstacles to democracy.” —Publishers Weekly

Reinventing Paulo Freire

Reinventing Paulo Freire
Author: Antonia Darder
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2017-06-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 131719926X

One of the most influential critical educators of the twentieth century, Paulo Freire challenged those educational inequalities and conditions of injustice faced by oppressed populations. In this new edition of Reinventing Paulo Freire, Antonia Darder re-examines his legacy through reflections on Freirean pedagogy and the narratives of teachers who reinvent his work. The fully revised first part provides important historical, political, and economic connections between major societal concerns and educational questions raised by Freire and their link to the contemporary moment, including questions tied to neoliberalism, coloniality, and educational inequalities. At the heart of the book is a critical understanding of how Freire’s pedagogy of love can inform, in theory and practice, a humanizing approach to teaching and learning. Powerful teacher narratives offer examples of a living praxis, committed to democratic classroom life and the emancipation of subaltern communities. The narratives clearly illustrate how Freire’s ideas can be put concretely into practice in schools and communities. These reflections on Freirean praxis are sure to spark conversation and inspiration in teacher education courses. Through a close theoretical engagement of Freire’s ideas and key insights garnered from lived experiences, the book speaks to the ways Freire can still inspire contemporary educators to adopt the spirit of liberatory pedagogy, By so doing, Reinventing Paulo Freire is certain to advance his theories in new ways, both to those familiar with his work and to those studying Freire for the first time.