[PDF] From Resilience To Revolution eBook

Author : Sean L. Yom
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 16,85 MB
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0231540272

GET BOOK

Based on comparative historical analyses of Iran, Jordan, and Kuwait, Sean L. Yom examines the foreign interventions, coalitional choices, and state outcomes that made the political regimes of the modern Middle East. A key text for foreign policy scholars, From Resilience to Revolution shows how outside interference can corrupt the most basic choices of governance: who to reward, who to punish, who to compensate, and who to manipulate. As colonial rule dissolved in the 1930s and 1950s, Middle Eastern autocrats constructed new political states to solidify their reigns, with varying results. Why did equally ambitious authoritarians meet such unequal fates? Yom ties the durability of Middle Eastern regimes to their geopolitical origins. At the dawn of the postcolonial era, many autocratic states had little support from their people and struggled to overcome widespread opposition. When foreign powers intervened to bolster these regimes, they unwittingly sabotaged the prospects for long-term stability by discouraging leaders from reaching out to their people and bargaining for mass support—early coalitional decisions that created repressive institutions and planted the seeds for future unrest. Only when they were secluded from larger geopolitical machinations did Middle Eastern regimes come to grips with their weaknesses and build broader coalitions.

Author : Jenny C. Evans
Publisher : Wise Ink
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,41 MB
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781940014265

GET BOOK

What if, despite the ever-increasing stress in your professional and personal lives, you were able to live resiliently? You eat healthy, sleep well, and have the time and energy to exercise. You perform well in a demanding work environment, are the best possible version of yourself for your loved ones, and are becoming healthier every day. Much of our physiological hardwiring still dates back to when we were cave people. The human body hasn't evolved to our twenty-first-century, stress-filled lifestyles and we're paying the price - we're dEvolving. The Resiliency rEvolution is your stress solution. Rather than letting stress diminish your life, you can become more resilient to it. Using your primitive hardwiring to your advantage, you can learn how to recover from stress more quickly and raise your threshold for it. Utilizing realistic and manageable tactics, you'll soon be on your way toward a more resilient life. It's time to join the rEvolution! Work with your body to realize your full potential and to perform at your absolute best-professionally and personally-in the face of stress.

Author : Larry Brendtro
Publisher : Solution Tree Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 29,93 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1936765713

GET BOOK

Discover effective ways of connecting with youth at risk. In this inspiring resource, the authors focus on strength-based alternatives to punishment, including creative ways to develop trusting relationships, search for hidden potential, and instill purpose in students

Author : Rosa Wang
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 34,91 MB
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1632994836

GET BOOK

Rosa Wang’s remarkable book takes readers to the last frontier of the mobile/digital revolution. While much has been written about breakthrough technologies and early adopters who live where roads are good and smart phones are affordable, this book explores the largely undocumented journey of how digital technologies are entering the lives of those in extreme poverty—people, often women, often illiterate—who live without electricity or running water. With powerful stories, Wang brings you to the front lines of the revolution—to join meetings with small-holder farmers in raucous town halls in remote parts of Tanzania, and to sit on dirt floors alongside non-literate women in rural India. The book chronicles the exponential trajectory of the mobile phone through the arc of the author’s own journey, an Asian-American woman from Mississippi navigating male-dominated environments and cultures, while changing the digital world without a background in technology. Readers will learn of the challenges that come with life on less than two dollars a day, and in that world, the transformative power of digital technologies: to give identity, improve finances, and to bring some degree of empowerment. Along the way, the author introduces memorable individuals and guides them on their journey across the digital divide to join the mobile generation. These people, poor in monetary resources and literacy, are rich in social connections, warmth, and wisdom. Their day-to-day lives seem implausibly hard, and their resilience humbles at every turn. This book is about them. At its heart, this is their story.

Author : miriam cooke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 32,28 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1315532921

GET BOOK

On March 17, 2011, many Syrians rose up against the authoritarian Asad regime that had ruled them with an iron fist for forty years. Initial successes were quickly quashed, and the revolution seemed to devolve into a civil war pitting the government against its citizens and extremist mercenaries. As of late 2015, almost 300,000 Syrians have been killed and over half of a total population of 23 million forced out of their homes. Nine million are internally displaced and over four million are wandering the world, many on foot or in leaky boats. Countless numbers have been disappeared. These shocking statistics and the unstoppable violence notwithstanding, the revolution goes on. The story of the attempted crushing of the revolution is known. Less well covered has been the role of artists and intellectuals in representing to the world and to their people the resilience of revolutionary resistance and defiance. How is it possible that artists, filmmakers and writers have not been cowed into numbed silence but are becoming more and more creative? How can we make sense of their insistence that despite the apocalypse engulfing the country their revolution is ongoing and that their works participate in its persistence? With smartphones, pens, voices and brushes, these artists registered their determination to keep the idea of the revolution alive. Dancing in Damascus traces the first four years of the Syrian revolution and the activists’ creative responses to physical and emotional violence.

Author : Eleanor Bennett
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 2023-08-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781088268407

GET BOOK

In "Resilience Revolution: Thriving in a Changing World," Eleanor Bennett crafts an uplifting manifesto that acts as a guiding light for navigating the intricacies of our ever-changing environment. With a deep pool of wisdom, Bennett illuminates the way to resilience, providing readers a transforming journey towards personal growth and empowerment. Through beautiful words and illuminating tales, Bennett addresses the crucial skill of perseverance in the face of adversity. With clarity and compassion, she unravels the components of emotional, mental, and physical resilience, empowering readers with practical strategies to embrace challenges, adjust to uncertainty, and emerge stronger from life's adversities. "Resilience Revolution" is not simply a book; it's a call to action, challenging everyone to embrace change as a chance for growth and transformation. Bennett's writing resonates as a beacon of hope, urging readers to nurture inner strength, foster positive mindsets, and harness their intrinsic capacity for perseverance. With realistic anecdotes and actionable counsel, the book enables readers to tackle transitions with courage and grace. This book is an important resource for anyone trying to not just survive life's storms but to grow in their wake. Eleanor Bennett's insights urge us to embark on a resilience revolution, where we reframe problems as stepping stones and plan a course towards thriving in the face of change. "Resilience Revolution" is a roadmap for empowerment, delivering the keys to unlock our potential for unshakable fortitude in a dynamic world.

Author : Shalanda Baker
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,73 MB
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1642830674

GET BOOK

In September 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, completely upending the energy grid of the small island. The nearly year-long power outage that followed vividly shows how the new climate reality intersects with race and access to energy. The island is home to brown and black US citizens who lack the political power of those living in the continental US. As the world continues to warm and storms like Maria become more commonplace, it is critical that we rethink our current energy system to enable reliable, locally produced, and locally controlled energy without replicating the current structures of power and control. In Revolutionary Power, Shalanda Baker arms those made most vulnerable by our current energy system with the tools they need to remake the system in the service of their humanity. She argues that people of color, poor people, and indigenous people must engage in the creation of the new energy system in order to upend the unequal power dynamics of the current system. Revolutionary Power is a playbook for the energy transformation complete with a step-by-step analysis of the key energy policy areas that are ripe for intervention. Baker tells the stories of those who have been left behind in our current system and those who are working to be architects of a more just system. She draws from her experience as an energy-justice advocate, a lawyer, and a queer woman of color to inspire activists working to build our new energy system. Climate change will force us to rethink the way we generate and distribute energy and regulate the system. But how much are we willing to change the system? This unique moment in history provides an unprecedented opening for a deeper transformation of the energy system, and thus, an opportunity to transform society. Revolutionary Power shows us how.

Author : Jack A. Goldstone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 26,5 MB
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 0197666302

GET BOOK

"In the 20th and 21st century revolutions have become more urban, often less violent, but also more frequent and more transformative of the international order. Whether it is the revolutions against Communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR; the "color revolutions" across Asia, Europe and North Africa; or the religious revolutions in Iran, Afghanistan, and Syria; today's revolutions are quite different from those of the past. Modern theories of revolution have therefore replaced the older class-based theories with more varied, dynamic, and contingent models of social and political change. This new edition updates the history of revolutions, from Classical Greece and Rome to the Revolution of Dignity in the Ukraine, with attention to the changing types and outcomes of revolutionary struggles. It also presents the latest advances in the theory of revolutions, including the issues of revolutionary waves, revolutionary leadership, international influences, and the likelihood of revolutions to come. This volume provides a brief but comprehensive introduction to the nature of revolutions and their role in global history"--

Author : Diane Kalen-Sukra
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 13,7 MB
Release : 2019-04-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781926843421

GET BOOK

At a time when incivility appears to be on the rise and increasingly tolerated, Diane Kalen-Sukra's new book, Save Your City, is a vital call to action for communities and leaders everywhere. The book takes readers from the very beginning of democracy to the challenges being addressed by communities today. This special Municipal World edition contains a forward by George B. Cuff and an exclusive companion workbook.