...This chapter details the history of the American Branch of the English Folk Dance Society (EFDS), as well as its clashes with the International Folk Dance movement. In the years between 1915 and 1918, Cecil Sharp had come to establish a cultural hegemony that emphasized the American Branch...

... for Albania accolades from International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank officials. It turned out that the government manipulated the data, and accurate data collection was complicated by the privatization of farms and cooperatives. Furthermore, Albania’s economic growth, if indeed it was phenomenal...

...This chapter explores the limits, tensions, and possibilities of cross-border organizing using the case of International Rivers and the local struggle of activists in Lesotho challenging a mega-dam water scheme, the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP). It privileges the perspective of one local...

... for the framework of international law, saying that Bush–Cheney’;s foolish rebuff of the United Nations was a sign of much worse antidiplomatic arrogance to come, at a time when the United States needed as many allies as possible. There were also those who argued that the United States could not be trusted...

...There is currently little literature on how religious institutions are influenced by the international migration of its members, in other words, how the transnationalization of a religious organization is felt and practiced on the ground. Chapter 6 examines how and why the international migration...

...: Relume Dumará. ———. 2003 . “ Récits et Représentations d’adoption internationale: Les logiques du dom et de la dette. ” In Littérature Orale: Paroles vivantes et mouvantes , ed. J. B. Martin , 139–156. Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon. Bourdieu, Pierre . 1971...

... States also sends children into international adoptions—particularly children of color. The book thus complicates the standard scholarly treatment of the subject, which tends to focus on the tensions between those who argue that transnational adoption is an outgrowth of American wealth, power...

... American activists in Seattle deliberately choose to hold their events in Seattle's International District, the historic Asian American neighborhood. In this social space, they are able to reexamine taken-for-granted assumptions about who is Asian American, who is gay, and who gets to claim a physical...

... is also included. Stephens Hester Apartheid global statistics Kefala system DuToit Darcy Employment agencies Brown Tamara Rose formation of colonial slavery legacies Ochao Ernestina Romero Mary overview global organizing history International Domestic Workers Network IDWN Blumberg Rae...

...Chapter 3 discusses the history, structure, and processes of the International Labour Organization and its groundbreaking inclusion of domestic workers in the policymaking process. It examines the revolutionary nature of activist groups’ alignment to determine policy protections for some...

... that disrupts the model of an LGBT rights activism framed through the binary of Western “Gay International” polarized against an authentic Arab identity. In this chapter, Nisrine Chaer examines protest soundscapes, or the auditory sensations in embodied encounters within the spaces of the protests, that have...

... and the international community, implemented a series of drug-control policies attempting to curb the illicit drug trade and its globalization. This chapter explores why Afghanistan emerged as a global drug hotspot, what the Afghan government did to try to stop it, and ultimately, why attempts to stop the drug trade...

... Black oral traditions Five Percenters Black nationalism/Nation of Islam Hip Hop as social commentary critical pedagogy Hip Hop and international activism The history of Black America is typified by resistance against consistently imposed systemic racism in the United States. Throughout centuries...

..., an outgrowth of Lenahan v. United States. Finally, it explores the ways in which these and other issues such as international human rights, police response, and gender bias play out today: the election of President Donald Trump, coupled with the rise of the #MeToo movement, have put...

..., and infrastructures and social movements. It also explains how transnational feminist history brings to the fore international organizations crossing borders, allowing women to develop feminist consciousness. feminism Hartmann Heidi Marxism transnational feminist history Women’s studies comparative history...

...This introductory chapter argues that female soldiers are perhaps one of the most underrepresented categories of “war-affected” citizens. In Sierra Leone—the book's case example—stories of conflict, reflected in the literature, media accounts, and international nongovernmental organization (INGO...

... interface GUI mobile media personalization privacy copyright free speech phenomenology video games agency kit and caboodle Schalk Sami gender Herndon April medicalization pregnancy regulation law guideline accessibility disability Section 508 World Wide Web Consortium International...

... Hague Adoption Convention heterosexual international adoption marriage legal Florida private adoption loopholes guardianship Badgett M V Lee modifying documents paperwork legal biological children “real parent ” custody issues stepparent adoption family formation heteronormative...

... international historical context and compares its experience with that of some other ex-imperial powers. This comparison should add to the understanding of the challenges facing the Russians today as they proceed to reinvent or at least reimagine their country yet again. Finally, the chapter explores...

...This chapter looks at the reemergence of representations of the Internet as democratic and as a vehicle of international freedom in the wake of blogs and social networking. The Internet continued to represent fluid and democratic participation even after commodification. Bloggers drew...