Catálogo de libros: Activismo político

2858 Catálogo de libros: Activismo político

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  • How Terrorists Learn
    This volume helps us understand the transformations of terrorist organisations, as well as the conflicts they are involved in, by broadening the perspective on what is considered terrorist learning. ...
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    241,14 €

  • Countering Radicalisation and Terrorism
    VS Sripal
    The rise of extremist ideologies and the spread of radicalisation have emerged as critical challenges for governments and societies around the world. The use of violence to achieve political or ideological goals has resulted in tragic consequences, and the threat of terrorism continues to loom large. In response, many countries have developed policies and strategies to counter ...
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    66,36 €

  • Interdisciplinary Applications of Shame/Violence Theory
    Roman Gerodimos
    This book takes James Gilligan’s theory of shame and violence as a starting point for an application of the model across disciplines (psychology, sociology, philosophy, political science, cultural studies, history, architecture and urban studies) and levels of analysis (from the individual to the global). It critically engages with shame theory, exploring the existential origin...
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    158,38 €

  • Constructing Motherhood Identity Against Political Violence
    This volume offers a nuanced understanding of female agency in political violence by reviewing and analyzing the political construction of motherhood as a form of social agency against political violence committed by both state and non-state actors in different parts of the world. While the international relations discipline has traditionally viewed the relationship between wom...
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    145,29 €

  • Female Fighters in Armed Conflict
    Béatrice Hendrich
    This book explores the why and the how of women’s participation in armed struggle, and challenges preconceived assertions about women and violence, providing both a historic and a contemporary focus. ...
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    240,97 €

  • Rebel Financing and Terrorism in Civil Wars
    Margherita Belgioioso
    This book investigates the ways in which the lethality of terrorist violence depends on how rebel organizations finance their rebellion. ...
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    88,71 €

  • Routledge Handbook of Transnational Terrorism
    Nicolas Stockhammer
    This handbook provides contributions by some of the world’s leading experts in the field on recent phenomena and trends in transnational terrorism. ...
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    374,65 €

  • A Guide To Security
    Stephen Kavanagh
    This book is a guide to the essential skill set and knowledge needed to meet the challenges faced in contemporary or international security industries. Covering the basics of strategy, risk, and technology from the perspective of an experienced security personnel, focusing on the ’need to know’ and tricks of the trade. The reader will benefit from an understanding of how risk m...
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    21,54 €

  • The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology
    Collectively, The Emerald International Handbook of Activist Criminology explores the contemporary terrain around new and emergent issues and forms of activism, and offers cutting edge conceptualizations of the methodological and practical applications of activist engagement, solidarity, and resistance. ...
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    252,34 €

  • Hybrid Media Events
    Dr Minttu Tikka / Professor Johanna Sumiala / Professor Katja Valaskivi
    What are hybrid media events? And how do these events shape our lives in the present digital age? This book addresses these questions by explaining how terrorist violence makes global events. The empirical analyses are based on the case of Charlie Hebdo attacks in 2015 and the global circulation of solidarities and anger connected with the attacks. ...
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    44,86 €

  • The Patriot Jihadi
    Shawn Pardazi
    The Patriot Jihadi: A Child Soldier’s Transformation to A Patriot Guardian is a compelling memoir that traces the remarkable journey of Shawn Pardazi from a child soldier to a dedicated guardian of peace and security.Born into a tumultuous world, Shawn’s early years were marked by the brutal realities of war and violence. As a child soldier, he experienced firsthand the horrors...
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    14,50 €

  • Boston Marathon Bombing
    A.J. Kingston
    Introducing 'Boston Marathon Bombing: Tragedy Strikes' Book BundleStep into the heart of one of the most unforgettable and impactful events in modern history with our exclusive book bundle, 'Boston Marathon Bombing: Tragedy Strikes.' This captivating collection of four interconnected books offers an immersive and emotional exploration of the Patriots’ Day tragedy that shook the...
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    50,92 €

  • Policing and CBRN Hazards
    Patrick Wengler
    This book makes an important contribution to police scholarship by focusing on the critical need for law enforcement personnel to receive education on chemical/biological/radiological/nuclear (CBRN) hazards. ...
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    241,49 €

  • The Sicilian Mafia
    Anita Bestler
    This book offers a completely new approach to the complex social phenomenon of the Mafia: In addition to the origins, organization and actions  of the Mafia, the author Anita Bestler examines above all the close connection between organized crime and politics. In the process, readers [also] gain an interesting insight into the complicated political development of Italy from the...
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    46,94 €

  • Guns and Values
    Anthony K. Fleming / Dylan S. McLean
    The American gun control debate is best understood as a battle in a war over the influence of individualism on American culture, politics, and policy. This book demonstrates that the gun debate is fundamentally about values. Specifically, it is about what we value most: private rights, or the public good. This helps explain why the technical, empirical, or legalistic arguments ...
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    48,24 €

  • Guns and Values
    Anthony K. Fleming / Dylan S. McLean
    The American gun control debate is best understood as a battle in a war over the influence of individualism on American culture, politics, and policy. This book demonstrates that the gun debate is fundamentally about values. Specifically, it is about what we value most: private rights, or the public good. This helps explain why the technical, empirical, or legalistic arguments ...
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    144,77 €

  • Economics of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Measures
    Satya P. Das
    This textbook presents a systematic study of terrorism from the standpoint of economic analysis. Choosing the kind and level of measures to counter terror is, to a large extent, an economic decision, as counterterrorism (CT) measures and their side effects are costly. This text, contains theoretical models that illustrate the economic mechanisms of different types of CT measure...
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    113,12 €

  • Memories of Army Life and MPs of the 529th
    R. Olin Jackson
    The Top Military Police Company in the United States Army During the 1970s. It isn’t often that one is able to maintain that his or her military unit was the top-dog in the entire United States Army, but that’s the remarkable truth regarding the 529th Military Police Company of Heidelberg, Germany in 1974 - and euphemistically for the decade of the 1970s.In the early 1970s, it ...
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    20,56 €

  • Right-Wing Extremism in Canada and the United States
    This book is the first collection of scholarship featuring both Canadian and American scholarship on the resurgent right-wing extremist movement in the two countries. It is particularly timely given the recent rise in political populism that has engendered renewed activism from extreme right contingents. Trump’s right-wing populist and white nationalist political campaign has g...
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    169,95 €

  • Neoliberalism and neo-jihadism
    Imogen Richards
    Neoliberalism and Neo-jihadism investigates the political economy of Al Qaeda and Islamic State. Its examination reveals that while these organisations propagandise on the basis of widespread anti-capitalist sentiments, at the same time they exploit and contribute to the same mechanisms of neoliberal, late modern capitalist finance they condemn. ...
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    44,22 €

  • Interest Groups in American Politics
    Anthony J. Nownes
    Interest Groups in American Politics, Third Edition demonstrates that interest groups are involved in the political system at all levels of government and in all aspects of political activity. ...
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    213,62 €

  • Interest Groups in American Politics
    Anthony J. Nownes
    Interest Groups in American Politics, Third Edition demonstrates that interest groups are involved in the political system at all levels of government and in all aspects of political activity. ...
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    110,81 €

  • Disaster Victim Identification
    Abraham J. Domb / Jay H. Levinson
    The book explains why disaster victim identification (DVI) must be fundamentally integrated into agencies’ general disaster planning and operations procedures for pre-event assessment of any risks and vulnerabilities, allowing for coordination and planning for emergency response agencies. ...
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    214,52 €

  • Disaster Victim Identification
    Abraham J. Domb / Jay H. Levinson
    The book explains why disaster victim identification (DVI) must be fundamentally integrated into agencies’ general disaster planning and operations procedures for pre-event assessment of any risks and vulnerabilities, allowing for coordination and planning for emergency response agencies. ...
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    96,83 €

  • Political Activism in the Linguistic Landscape
    Frank Monaghan / Korina Giaxoglou / Philip Seargeant
    This graphic novel looks at political activism in the public landscape with a particular focus on the UK activist group Led By Donkeys. The book is both an innovative approach to the presentation of academic research, and an exploration of how political activism can use the linguistic landscape as a resource for communicating its message. ...
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    71,91 €

  • State Responses to Crimes of Genocide
    David Alton / Ewelina U. Ochab
    At the time of drafting the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention), the drafters were hopeful that the document will be the response needed to ensure that the world would never again witness such atrocities as committed by the Nazi regime. While, arguably, there has been no such great loss of human lives as during WWII, gen...
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    146,04 €

  • Routledge Handbook of Violent Extremism and Resilience
    The Routledge Handbook of Violent Extremism and Resilience brings together research conducted throughout Europe and the world, to analyse various articulations of violent extremism and consider the impact that such groups and networks have had on the wellbeing of communities and societies. ...
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    375,85 €

  • The Political Theory of Salvage
    Jason Kosnoski
    Explores the political and theoretical significance of the use of salvaging discarded materials by social movements during their protest activities.The use of what others have thrown away by those who squat in abandoned buildings, build neighborhoods on seeming wasteland, and occupy public spaces has been a fundamental factor in the survival of social movements during their pro...
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    43,04 €

  • Civil Society Organizations Against Terrorism
    With recent changes in social and political landscapes around the world, the focus of preventive counter-terrorism has shifted in many places from government to civil society. The contributors analyse the different approaches of Civil Society Organisations in preventing and countering violent extremism in South and Southeast Asia. ...
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    73,29 €

  • Radicalization and Disengagement in Neo-Nazi Movements
    Christer Mattsson / Thomas Johansson
    This book provides extensive in-depth studies of the process of entering into, participating in and ultimately exiting the neo-Nazi movement, with an empirical focus on the US and Sweden. ...
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    73,66 €


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