Ruth Reitan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3956152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Reitan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Reitan |
| SIGNATURE | REITAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Paradoxical Peace
How can one subscribe to forms of ethico-religious pacifism and revolutionary communism or anarchism simultaneously, let alone conceive of their adherents as comprising the same transnational social movement? The author explores this conundrum via a playful probing of her own paradoxes related to violence and peace, dualism and non-dualistic thinking, and activist engagement along with more contemplative and quiet reflection. It experiments with …
Global Activism
This comprehensive study traces the transnationalization of activist networks, analyzing their changing compositions and characters and examining the roles played by the World Social Forum in this process. Comparing four of the largest global networks targeting the 'neoliberal triumvirate' of the World Bank, the IMF and the World Trade Organization: the Jubilee anti-debt campaigners Via Campesina peasant farmers Our World Is Not For Sale and the …
Theorizing and Engaging the Global Movement
Coalescence of the Global Peace and Justice Movements
This work examines how the Alter-Globalization Movement has sustained a transnational presence throughout the ongoing cycle of contention that began in the mid-1990s, even as priorities, leaders, targets, claims, and frames have continuously evolved. It traces the ‘transnational coalescence’ process between the post-Seattle, anti-neoliberal movement and anti-war concerns triggered by the 9/11 attacks and George W. Bush's war on terror, and center…
Climate Change or Social Change? Environmental and Leftist Praxis and Participatory Action Research
This work seeks to advance and synthesize leftist political and environmental theory and enhance historical and contemporary understanding of environmental activism, especially related to the movement to halt climate change. We share findings from our participatory action research (PAR) on the internal dynamics and debates among the three main climate activist networks mobilizing at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meetin…
The Global Anti-War Movement Within and Beyond the World Social Forum
This article contributes to the ongoing activist debate over the nature and future of the World Social Forum as well as to scholarly reflection and theorization of the Forum as an open space versus a more action-oriented and partisan organization at the current stage of global struggles against neoliberalism and war. It does so by addressing whether and to what extent the WSF's organizational ethos of bounded diversity plus decentralization has f…
Global Activism
This comprehensive study traces the transnationalization of activist networks, analyzing their changing compositions and characters and examining the roles played by the World Social Forum in this process. Comparing four of the largest global networks targeting the 'neoliberal triumvirate' of the World Bank, the IMF and the World Trade Organization: the Jubilee anti-debt campaigners Via Campesina peasant farmers Our World Is Not For Sale and the …
A Global Civil Society in a World Polity, or Angels and Nomads Against Empire
Clifford Bob, The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media and International Activism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 254 pp. Richard J. F. Day, Gramsci Is Dead: Anarchist Currents in Newest Social Movements (London: Pluto, 2005), 262 pp. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in Age of Empire (New York: Penguin Press, 2004), 427 pp. Lisa Jordan and Peter van Tuijl, eds., NGO Accountability: Politics, Princi…
Who's Afraid of the Lion's Roar? Commentary on Grahame Thompson's ‘Exploring Sameness and Difference’
Human rights in U.S. policy
This article examines the disturbing trend away from human rights protection and promotion in post September 11 U.S. foreign and domestic policy. It argues that human rights, both abroad and at home, are under attack and advancements of the past decades are desperately being defended in the face of the Bush administration's war on terrorism. It attempts to gauge the breadth and depth of this assault on human rights by chronicling the downplaying …
Strategic Nonviolent Conflict in Kosovo
The popular struggle for autonomy and then independence waged in Kosovo throughout the last decade is analyzed within a Strategic Nonviolent Conflict framework. The degree to which the nonviolent movement's actions lessened totalitarianism and promoted democracy is then assessed. Reasons for the perceived failures of the nonviolent tactic and the ensuing rise of a violent approach are explored. Finally, the impact that the violent phase had on th…
Cuba, the Black Panther Party and the US Black Movement in the 1960s
During the 1960s strong ties of mutual support developed between the Black Panther Party and the revolutionary government of Cuba. These relations were also, however, often difficult and problematic. This paper argues that the problem stemmed from factional struggles among Cuba’s leadership. One faction, lead by Ernesto “Che” Guevara, urged support for all revolutionary movements, including the Black Panther Party. Another more moderate faction w…
Climate Change or Social Change? Environmental and Leftist Praxis and Participatory Action Research
This work seeks to advance and synthesize leftist political and environmental theory and enhance historical and contemporary understanding of environmental activism, especially related to the movement to halt climate change. We share findings from our participatory action research (PAR) on the internal dynamics and debates among the three main climate activist networks mobilizing at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meetin…
The Global Anti-War Movement Within and Beyond the World Social Forum
This article contributes to the ongoing activist debate over the nature and future of the World Social Forum as well as to scholarly reflection and theorization of the Forum as an open space versus a more action-oriented and partisan organization at the current stage of global struggles against neoliberalism and war. It does so by addressing whether and to what extent the WSF's organizational ethos of bounded diversity plus decentralization has f…
Theorizing and Engaging the Global Movement
Coalescence of the Global Peace and Justice Movements
This work examines how the Alter-Globalization Movement has sustained a transnational presence throughout the ongoing cycle of contention that began in the mid-1990s, even as priorities, leaders, targets, claims, and frames have continuously evolved. It traces the ‘transnational coalescence’ process between the post-Seattle, anti-neoliberal movement and anti-war concerns triggered by the 9/11 attacks and George W. Bush's war on terror, and center…
Cuba, the Black Panther Party and the US Black Movement in the 1960s
During the 1960s strong ties of mutual support developed between the Black Panther Party and the revolutionary government of Cuba. These relations were also, however, often difficult and problematic. This paper argues that the problem stemmed from factional struggles among Cuba’s leadership. One faction, lead by Ernesto “Che” Guevara, urged support for all revolutionary movements, including the Black Panther Party. Another more moderate faction w…
A Global Civil Society in a World Polity, or Angels and Nomads Against Empire
Clifford Bob, The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media and International Activism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 254 pp. Richard J. F. Day, Gramsci Is Dead: Anarchist Currents in Newest Social Movements (London: Pluto, 2005), 262 pp. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in Age of Empire (New York: Penguin Press, 2004), 427 pp. Lisa Jordan and Peter van Tuijl, eds., NGO Accountability: Politics, Princi…
Strategic Nonviolent Conflict in Kosovo
The popular struggle for autonomy and then independence waged in Kosovo throughout the last decade is analyzed within a Strategic Nonviolent Conflict framework. The degree to which the nonviolent movement's actions lessened totalitarianism and promoted democracy is then assessed. Reasons for the perceived failures of the nonviolent tactic and the ensuing rise of a violent approach are explored. Finally, the impact that the violent phase had on th…
Cuba, the Black Panther Party and the US Black Movement in the 1960s
During the 1960s strong ties of mutual support developed between the Black Panther Party and the revolutionary government of Cuba. These relations were also, however, often difficult and problematic. This paper argues that the problem stemmed from factional struggles among Cuba’s leadership. One faction, lead by Ernesto “Che” Guevara, urged support for all revolutionary movements, including the Black Panther Party. Another more moderate faction w…
Strategic Nonviolent Conflict in Kosovo
The popular struggle for autonomy and then independence waged in Kosovo throughout the last decade is analyzed within a Strategic Nonviolent Conflict framework. The degree to which the nonviolent movement's actions lessened totalitarianism and promoted democracy is then assessed. Reasons for the perceived failures of the nonviolent tactic and the ensuing rise of a violent approach are explored. Finally, the impact that the violent phase had on th…
Human rights in U.S. policy
This article examines the disturbing trend away from human rights protection and promotion in post September 11 U.S. foreign and domestic policy. It argues that human rights, both abroad and at home, are under attack and advancements of the past decades are desperately being defended in the face of the Bush administration's war on terrorism. It attempts to gauge the breadth and depth of this assault on human rights by chronicling the downplaying …
Who's Afraid of the Lion's Roar? Commentary on Grahame Thompson's ‘Exploring Sameness and Difference’
Global Activism
This comprehensive study traces the transnationalization of activist networks, analyzing their changing compositions and characters and examining the roles played by the World Social Forum in this process. Comparing four of the largest global networks targeting the 'neoliberal triumvirate' of the World Bank, the IMF and the World Trade Organization: the Jubilee anti-debt campaigners Via Campesina peasant farmers Our World Is Not For Sale and the …
A Global Civil Society in a World Polity, or Angels and Nomads Against Empire
Clifford Bob, The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media and International Activism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 254 pp. Richard J. F. Day, Gramsci Is Dead: Anarchist Currents in Newest Social Movements (London: Pluto, 2005), 262 pp. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in Age of Empire (New York: Penguin Press, 2004), 427 pp. Lisa Jordan and Peter van Tuijl, eds., NGO Accountability: Politics, Princi…
The Global Anti-War Movement Within and Beyond the World Social Forum
This article contributes to the ongoing activist debate over the nature and future of the World Social Forum as well as to scholarly reflection and theorization of the Forum as an open space versus a more action-oriented and partisan organization at the current stage of global struggles against neoliberalism and war. It does so by addressing whether and to what extent the WSF's organizational ethos of bounded diversity plus decentralization has f…
Global Activism
This comprehensive study traces the transnationalization of activist networks, analyzing their changing compositions and characters and examining the roles played by the World Social Forum in this process. Comparing four of the largest global networks targeting the 'neoliberal triumvirate' of the World Bank, the IMF and the World Trade Organization: the Jubilee anti-debt campaigners Via Campesina peasant farmers Our World Is Not For Sale and the …
Theorizing and Engaging the Global Movement
Coalescence of the Global Peace and Justice Movements
This work examines how the Alter-Globalization Movement has sustained a transnational presence throughout the ongoing cycle of contention that began in the mid-1990s, even as priorities, leaders, targets, claims, and frames have continuously evolved. It traces the ‘transnational coalescence’ process between the post-Seattle, anti-neoliberal movement and anti-war concerns triggered by the 9/11 attacks and George W. Bush's war on terror, and center…
Climate Change or Social Change? Environmental and Leftist Praxis and Participatory Action Research
This work seeks to advance and synthesize leftist political and environmental theory and enhance historical and contemporary understanding of environmental activism, especially related to the movement to halt climate change. We share findings from our participatory action research (PAR) on the internal dynamics and debates among the three main climate activist networks mobilizing at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meetin…
Paradoxical Peace
How can one subscribe to forms of ethico-religious pacifism and revolutionary communism or anarchism simultaneously, let alone conceive of their adherents as comprising the same transnational social movement? The author explores this conundrum via a playful probing of her own paradoxes related to violence and peace, dualism and non-dualistic thinking, and activist engagement along with more contemplative and quiet reflection. It experiments with …
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