This biography traces Betty Boothroyd's humble beginnings as the only child of an impoverished textile-working couple in the Pennine town of Dewsbury, where she formed a desire "to change society". It follows her early adventurous career as a dancer, and then her path through the political foothills - first working for the Labour Party as a secretary to MPs, including Barbara Castle. The book chronicles her attempts to win a seat in Parliament, and her final success in a by-election at West Bromwich. It tells the story of her fight to become recognized in the man's world of Westminster, her role as "hammer of the Left" on the party's national executive and her triumph in becoming the first Labour woman Deputy Speaker. It also tells the inside story of winning the Speakership, the result of an all-party campaign led by John Biffen MP. Finally, her record as Speaker is assessed. Paul Routledge is the author of "Scargill".

Madam Speaker: The life of Betty Boothroyd

Routledge, Paul

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Drawing from the field of political sociology, geography, anthropology, and peace studies, Routledge explores how peasant communities in rural India form effective resistance movements against displacement, dislocation, and cultural destruction engendered by the development process. He shows how the Baloapal movement--resisting a missile base--and the Chipko movement--resisting a program of deforestation--offer rich lessons in development strategies, nonviolent sanctions, and grassroots social change. The sanctions chosen by the movements are shown to be of particular importance and to have emerged from the participants' profound sense of place. Core beliefs, traditional values, and common goals are summoned to inspire beleaguered communities and are employed to resist outside domination and despoliation. Terrains of Resistance, accordingly, marks sites of conflict in specific times and places at the essential levels of belief and culture. They juxtapose the state's coercive power in support of development against the ingenuity and tenacity of grassroots movements. A highly informed, well written work showing the potential for nonviolent sanctions throughout the developing world, and the possible implications of continued grassroots mobilizations. This book will be of particular interest to students of social movements and Indian politics and to political scientists, sociologists, geographers, and anthropologists.

Terrains of Resistance: Nonviolent Social Movements and the Contestation of Place in India

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Praeger

This book argues that practices of resistance cannot be separated from practices of domination, and that they are always entangled in some configuration. They are inextricably linked, such that one always bears at least a trace of the other that contaminates or subverts it. The team of contributors explore themes of identity, embodiment, organisation, colonialism, and political transformation, examining them from historical, contemporary and more abstract perspectives within a wide geographical and cultural spectrum. Case studies include German Reunification; Jamaican Yardies on British Television; Victorian Sexuality and Moralisation in Cremorne Gardens; Ethnicity, Gender and Nation in Ecuador; Sport as Power; the film Falling Down. Entanglements of Power presents an exciting and challenging account of the symbiotic relationship between domination and resistance, and contextualises this within the parameters of geography with a rich body of case-study material and a respected team of contributors.

Entanglements of Power: Geographies of Domination/Resistance (Critical Geographies)

Philo, Chris

Paddison, Ronan

Sharp, Joanne

Routledge

This biography follows Gordon Brown from his career at Edinburgh University where he was rector while still a student, through the grind of politics, to emerge in Downing Street. It discloses the story of the struggle for Labour leadership in 1994, and investigates Brown's vision for Britain.

Gordon Brown : The Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Pocket_Books

This text traces the formative years of Peter Benjamin Mandelson from a middle-class upbringing in North London through to his acceptance at Oxford. It investigates his "Red Period" when he was a young communist, and his time working for the TUC.

Mandy: The unauthorised biography of Peter Mandelson

A biography of Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Blair government. It traces his early life in Scotland and his rise through the hard grind of politics, incorporating an account of the struggle for the Labour leadership in 1994 and of the power-play in Blair's cabinet.

Gordon Brown: The biography

Simon&Schuster

A biography of Peter Mandelson which traces his rise to political prominence from a middle-class upbringing in north London. It investigates his activities as a Young Communist and as a TUC researcher (the subject of MI5 surveillance), his status within the Labour Party, and his homosexuality.

Mandy: The Unauthorised Biog of Peter Mandelson

SIMON SCHUSTER (TRADE DIVISION)

This book provides a critical investigation of what has been termed the "global justice movement." Through a detailed study of a grassroots peasants’ network in Asia (People’s Global Action), an international trade union network (the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mining and General Workers) and the Social Forum process, it analyzes some of the global justice movement’s component parts, operational networks and their respective dynamics, strategies and practices. The authors argue that the emergence of new globally-connected forms of collective action against neoliberal globalization are indicative of a range of place-specific forms of political agency that coalesce across geographic space at particular times, in specific places, and in a variety of ways. Rather than being indicative of a coherent "movement," the authors argue that such forms of political agency contain many political and geographical fissures and fault-lines, and are best conceived of as "global justice networks": overlapping, interacting, competing, and differentially-placed and resourced networks that articulate demands for social, economic and environmental justice. Such networks, and the social movements that comprise them, characterise emergent forms of trans-national political agency. The authors argue that the role of key geographical concepts of space, place and scale are crucial to an understanding of the operational dynamics of such networks. Such an analysis challenges key current assumptions in the literature about the emergence of a global civil society.

Global justice networks: Geographies of transnational solidarity (Perspectives on Democratic Practice)

Cumbers, Andrew

Business & Money

Manchester University Press

Space Invaders argues for the importance of a radical geographic perspective in enabling us to make sense of protests and social movements around the world. Under conditions of increasing global economic inequalities, we are witnessing the flourishing of grassroots people's movements fighting for improved rights. Whether it be the alter-globalisation mobilisations of the turn of the century, the flurry of Occupy protests, or the current wave of anti-austerity mobilisations taking place, there is a geographical logic to all forms of protest whether that be through transforming landscapes, occupying enemy territory or developing solidarity and communication networks. Paul Routledge takes a primarily auto-ethnographical perspective, drawing upon his extensive experience over the past thirty years working with various forms of protest in Europe, Asia and Latin America, to provide an account of how a radical geographical imagination can inform our understanding and the prosecution of protest.

Space Invaders: Radical Geographies of Protest (Radical Geography)

Sociology

Pluto Press

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Madam Speaker: The life of Betty Boothroyd

Terrains of Resistance: Nonviolent Social Movements and the Contestation of Place in India

Entanglements of Power: Geographies of Domination/Resistance (Critical Geographies)

Gordon Brown : The Biography

Mandy: The unauthorised biography of Peter Mandelson

Gordon Brown: The biography

Mandy: The Unauthorised Biog of Peter Mandelson

Global justice networks: Geographies of transnational solidarity (Perspectives on Democratic Practice)

Space Invaders: Radical Geographies of Protest (Radical Geography)

Space Invaders: Radical Geographies of Protest (Radical Geography)