This book investigates the way that corporations are strategically shaping children to be under-aged hyperconsumers as well as the submissive employees and uncritical citizens of the future.Sharon Beder shows how marketers and advertisers are targeting ever younger children in a relentless campaign, transforming children's play into a commercial opportunity and taking advantage of childish anxieties. Beder investigates the corporate relations and ideals that infiltrate every aspect of our lives. She presents an alarming picture of how a child's social development -- through education, health care and nutrition -- has become an ordered conveyor belt of consumerist conditioning. Focusing on education in particular, Beder explains how businesses are taking control of more and more aspects of schooling, not only for profit but to erode state schooling and promote business values. Similarly, she shows how 'difficult' children are taught from an early age that pharmaceuticals can be used to discipline them or to make them 'happy'.

This Little Kiddy Went to Market: The Corporate Capture of Childhood

Business & Money

Beder, Sharon

Varney, Wendy

Gosden, Richard

Biography & History

Pluto Press

This stunning book of photos captures the graffiti and art that has transformed Israel's wall into a living canvas of resistance and solidarity.Featuring the work of artists including Banksy, Ron English, Blu and others, as well as Palestinian artists and activists, these photos express outrage, compassion, and touching humour. They illustrate the wall's toll on lives and livelihoods, showing the hardship it has brought to tens of thousands of people, preventing their access to work, education and vital medical care.Mixed with the photos are portraits and vignettes, offering a heartfelt and inspiring account of a people determined to uphold their dignity in the face of profound injustice.

Against the Wall: The Art of Resistance in Palestine

History

Parry, William

Middle East

Hollow Hegemony: Rethinking Global Politics, Power and Resistance

David Chandler explores the concept of 'global ideology' and how it impacts on conflict, security and development policy-making, explaining why 'the global' is such a damaging construction and exposing the political vacuum at the heart of common perceptions of global politics. He argues that the pre-eminence of the global, whether in terms of global governance, global security or global resistance, is predicated on a lack rather than a presence. It is the lack of clear sites and articulations of power, the lack of clear security threats and the lack of clear political programmes or movements of resistance that drives the concept of international relations in global terms.This wide-ranging analysis is a perfect antidote for students frustrated with the abundant but vague literature on globalisation.

CHANDLER, DAVID

Nonviolence Speaks: Communicating Against Repression (The Hampton Press Communication Series)

This book addresses the power of popular nonviolent action against repression, aggression, and oppression. A crucial aspect to effective nonviolent action is communication. Activists need to be able to contact each other and to mobilize support from other parts of the world. However, within the nonviolence literature, communication has been almost entirely neglected, while within the communication literature, nonviolent action is seldom mentioned. This is the first major study to focus on the joint dynamics of nonviolence and communication. Three case studies are examined: the popular action that forced the resignation of Indonesian President Suharto in 1998, the successful people's resistance to the Soviet coup in 1991, and the successful internationally coordinated campaign against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment in 1988. In each case, special attention is given to the role of communication in the struggle. Attention is then turned to theory. Surveys are made of nonviolence and communication theories, probing for insights relevant to the nonviolence-communication nexus. Gradually a model for analyzing people's communication is developed. The insights from theory are then used to prose a set of steps by which activist groups can analyze communication and develop effective communication strategies

Politics & Social Sciences

MARTIN, Brian

Social Sciences

Hampton Pr

Martin and Varney (U. of Wollongong, Australia) explain how communication can be used to support popular nonviolent action to challenge systems of power, and to make nonviolence a more effective method of struggle. Some of the material has been published in articles. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

This Little Kiddy Went to Market investigates the way that corporations are targeting younger children with a barrage of advertising and marketing designed to turn them into hyperconsumers who define themselves by what they have rather than who they are. The book argues that school reforms, driven by corporate needs, are largely to blame. It begins by analysing school reforms in English-speaking nations - such as the UK, North America, Australia and New Zealand - and uncovers the ways in which business coalitions have persuaded governments to turn schools into competing business enterprises which suit corporate ends rather than the interests of their children.

UNSW Press

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Books by Varney, Wendy

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This Little Kiddy Went to Market: The Corporate Capture of Childhood

Against the Wall: The Art of Resistance in Palestine

Hollow Hegemony: Rethinking Global Politics, Power and Resistance

Nonviolence Speaks: Communicating Against Repression (The Hampton Press Communication Series)

Nonviolence Speaks: Communicating Against Repression (The Hampton Press Communication Series)

This Little Kiddy Went to Market: The Corporate Capture of Childhood