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In I The Endurance of Palestinian Political Factions i , Issa's rich ethnographic study in Nahr el-Bared camp illuminates the ongoing suffering and oppression of the Palestinian 1948 refugees in Lebanon. Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-Determination and Decolonization beyond Partition, edited by Leila H. Farsakh. In I The Endurance of Palestinian Political Factions i , Issa is critical of viewing political factions as political structures since they have so badly failed to serve the aspirations and needs of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. [Extracted from the article]

"Settler Colonial City: Racism and Inequity in Postwar Minneapolis" by David Hugill examines the history of racism, inequity, and settler-colonial structures in Minneapolis, particularly focusing on the post-World War II era. The book explores the impact of urban change, racialized policing, and American imperialism on marginalized communities, with a particular emphasis on Indigenous peoples. Hugill highlights the structural barriers faced by marginalized groups and the need to dismantle white supremacist and settler-colonial structures. While the book primarily focuses on the violent aspects of settler-colonial urban policy, it also touches on the need to examine more subtle elements such as access to education, healthcare, and legal services. Overall, the book provides a critical perspective on the history of Minneapolis and challenges the perception of the city as progressive and inclusive. [Extracted from the article]

The following three papers are based on a Panel Presentation called "Strengths of Bioenergetics" from the 2021 IIBA Pre-Conference. Each of the three presentations focuses on dimensions that contribute to the strength of Bioenergetic Analysis. Louise Frechette presents the history of the development of Bioenergetic Analysis and the validity of its basic concepts. Then Vincentia Schroeter provides ideas on the current state of Bioenergetics, including shifts in the organization and the inclusion of modern concepts that enhance the work. Susan Kanor projects her view to the future of Bioenergetics, discussing the importance of broadening the lens beyond one-to-one therapy to incorporate social and political movements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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One of the joys of I The Radical Bookstore i is the series of fascinating, unusual venues Kinder includes, and anyone interested in book culture will no doubt keep a running list of these radical book-based places to patronize next time they travel. As Kinder methodically defines how she is using core concepts of counterplacemaking, constructive activism, and activist entrepreneurship, it quickly becomes clear that the category of "radical bookstore" encompasses myriad variations. THE RADICAL BOOKSTORE: Counter-space for Social Movements: By KIMBERLY KINDER. photos, bibliog., index. [Extracted from the article]

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The article aims to present the context of south of Bahia and to understand how the socioenvironmental conflicts related to the conflicts between antagonistic education and rural development projects are generated in the process of campestral territoriality and its confrontation against the pulp and paper industries. Based on the literature review and the interviews with the inhabitants of this territory, we conclude that the articulation of social movements and other interlocutors presses the socioenvironmental contradictions in the dispute for the territory, as well as presses an anti-hegemonic model of education and production that oppose the anti-ecological and social model inequality of agribusiness, by the articulation of social movements and other interlocutors offer potential contribution to the formation of sustainable societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper intends to conduct a spatial reading of civil resistance movements taking Jawaharlal Nehru University’s (JNU) #FeeMustFall in India as the case study. Amidst the penetration of neoliberal politics in public goods like health and education, the pay-per-user principle is not limited to the argument of efficiency of allocation of resources. It can be comprehended as the larger strategy of the ruling dispensation to deplatform dissent and homogenise state space on an ideological singularity catering to majoritarian and hegemonic nationalism. The paper shall focus on the spatial reading of civil resistance movements using Lefebvre’s characterisation of state space and Gramsci’s understanding of hegemony and nationalism in the context of JNU’s #FeeMustFall movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cooperatives, post-growth organizations, common good organizations, community-supported agriculture, transition towns or ecovillages are examples of alternative forms of organizing economic exchange. Their social practices embody and reproduce alternative moral values to the ones dominating the economy and society. They are regarded as prefigurative: They prefigure an alternative economy, both by creating imaginaries of an alternative future and by showing their viability in their everyday practices. As such, they are important actors for a social transformation of the economy which is also reflected in an increasing scholarship on alternative organizing and prefiguration in organization studies. However, the meaning of prefiguration and prefigurative organizing in this literature is not always made explicit and differs across research work. Furthermore, how prefigurative organizing relates to alternative organizing remains rather vague, as does its close relationship to anarchism. In its first part, this paper therefore informs about the main use of the concept of prefiguration in social movement studies and organization studies and describes the various meanings attached to it in this literature. It then develops a definition of prefigurative organizing that not only allows to differentiate it from alternative organizing but also to reflect its inherently political nature—its intricate linkage to multiple struggles, tensions, and conflicts. In the second part, the paper presents a systematic overview of various types of struggles around prefigurative organizing and briefly introduces each of them with reference to exemplary research. Finally, the paper argues that studying prefigurative organizing involves an alternative praxis in academia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article examines the role of digitally mediated handmade signs in contemporary social movements. Bringing together theories of memetic practice, vernacular authority, and material traditions, we argue that vernacular materiality occurs wherever users turn to handmade, physical messages and material signifiers to transmit meaning online. Juxtaposing the humble and personalized aesthetics of handwritten messages against the polished, programmed, and virtual aesthetics of digital media, users mobilize vernacular materiality to disrupt hegemonic spaces and narratives by harnessing the affordances of physical and social media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]