Product Description: In the form of demonstrations, social movements, guerrilla warfare, and internet "hacktivism," political dissidents or "counterpublics" challenge the state and assert themselves upon the public stage. At stake in such engagements are profound issues of political and economic redistribution, individual and collective rights, political legitimacy, social stability, and identity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: To understand the welfare policy debates of the last half of the 20th century, the various images of poor people that were present must be considered. This work explores these images and the policy debates of the retrenchment era, recounting the ways in which images of the poor appeared...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)