| Description |
1 online resource (1833 pages) |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
The Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice presents a comprehensive overview of the field with topics of varying dimensions, breadth, and length. This three-volume Encyclopedia is designed for readers to understand the topics, concepts, and ideas that motivate and shape the fields of activism, civil engagement, and social justice and includes biographies of the major thinkers and leaders who have influenced and continue to influence the study of activism. It offers multidisciplinary perspectives with contributions from the fields of education, communication studies, political science, leadership studies, social work, social welfare, environmental studies, health care, social psychology, and sociology. It also includes biography pieces indicating the concepts, ideas, or legacies of individuals and groups who have influenced current practice and thinking such as John Stuart Mill, Rachel Carson, Mother Jones, Martin Luther King, Jr., Karl Marx, Mohandas Gandhi, Nelson and Winnie Mandela, Dorothy Day, and Thomas Merton |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Social justice -- Encyclopedias.
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Social action -- Encyclopedias.
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Social movements -- Encyclopedias.
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Social problems -- Biography -- Encyclopedias.
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Social reformers -- Biography -- Encyclopedias.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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| Added Author |
Anderson, Gary L., 1948-
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Herr, Kathryn.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781412918121 |
| ISBN |
9781452265650 (electronic bk.) |
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1452265658 (electronic bk.) |
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