Introduction The HoriZone Ecovillage was a camp in place 1–9 July 2005, to support protest actions at the G8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, that ran 6–8 July that year. This rural convergence site occupied two fields, totalling approximately 30 acres, behind the football stadium on the outskirts of Stirling. In this chapter I situate the creation of the Ecovillage in the context of a much longer history of social movement activism, as represented by the participant action and writing of Starhawk, the US ecofeminist 1 activist and non-violent direct action
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While developing an intersectional analysis of the possibilities and limitations of protest camps, this book also tells new and inspiring stories of feminist organising and agency. It will appeal to feminist theorists and activists, as well as to social movement scholars.
A growing number of people are claiming or reclaiming a religious or spiritual identity for themselves. Yet, in contemporary Western societies, the frameworks of understanding that have developed within the social science disciplines, and which are used to analyse data, are secular in nature, and so may be inappropriate for investigating some aspects of religion, spirituality and faith and how these intersect with individuals’ lives.
This edited collection addresses important theoretical and methodological issues to explore ways of engaging with religion and spirituality when carrying out social science research. Divided into three sections, the book examines the notion of secularism in relation to contemporary western society, including a focus upon secularisation; explores how the values underpinning social scientific enquiry might serve to marginalise religion and spirituality; and reflects on social science research methodologies when researching religion and spirituality.
With international contributions from key academics in the fields of religious studies, cultural studies, political science, criminology, sociology, health and social policy, this engaging book will provide social science students, educators, researchers and practitioners with an essential overview of key debates around secularism, faith, spirituality and social science research.
The law is heavily implicated in creating, maintaining, and reproducing racialised hierarchies which bring about and preserve acute global disparities and injustices. This essential book provides an examination of the meanings of decolonisation and explores how this examination can inform teaching, researching, and practising of law.
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Drawing on original research from the Women, Family, Crime and Justice research network, this edited collection sheds new light on the challenges and experiences of women and families who encounter the criminal justice system in the UK.
Each contribution demonstrates how these groups are often ignored, oppressed and repeatedly victimised. The book addresses crucial issues including short-term imprisonment, trauma-specific interventions, schools supporting children affected by parental imprisonment and visibility and voice in research.
Bringing together contemporary knowledge from both research and practice, this ambitious volume offers valuable insights and practical recommendations for positive action and change.
This book offers a critical examination of existing cycling structures and the current policy and practices used to promote cycling. An international range of contributors provide an interdisciplinary analysis of the complex cultural politics of infrastructural provision and interrogate the pervasive bias against cyclists in city planning and transport systems across the globe.
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With capitalism in crisis - rising inequality, unsustainable resource depletion and climate change all demanding a new economic model - the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) has been suggested as an alternative. What can contribute in terms of generating livelihoods that provide a dignified life, meeting of social needs and building of sustainable futures? What can activists in both the global North and South learn from each other?
In this volume academics from a range of disciplines and from a number of European and Latin American countries come together to question what it means to have a ‘sustainable society’ and to ask what role these alternative economies can play in developing convivial, humane and resilient societies, raising some challenging questions for policy-makers and citizens alike.
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, have created new symbols, prayers, songs, feasts and liturgies (Christ and Plaskow, 1979; Plaskow and Christ, 1989; Harris, 1991; Starhawk, 1999 [1979]). Prominent themes of feminist spirituality are women’s discovery of their own self and agency, the experience of networking and sharing, the new awareness of empowerment from within to work collaboratively for personal, social and political changes. Many of these themes are reflected in contemporary women’s culture that, through poetry and fiction, songs, music, film, art and theatre, explores different
as the specific endeavour to establish the women-only or ‘non-mixed’ camp that is the focus of her chapter. While both Arat and Gómez Nicolau concentrate on social movement dynamics, the final chapter in this part has a very different approach to the question of feminist mobilisation in camps, zeroing in on an individual activist and organiser, the ecofeminist Starhawk. Encountering Starhawk in the archives of the HoriZone Ecovillage in Stirling, Scotland, Haran spirals outward to show how ecofeminist and permaculture ideas and practices, as represented by
