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Author: Ray Acheson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield International
Dimensions:
Width: 14.70cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 22.60cm
Weight: 0.667kg
ISBN: 9781786614896
ISBN 10: 1786614898
Pages: 438
Publication Date: 25 June 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
This is a fascinating and much-needed dive into the ICAN movement and the history of Anti-Nuclear protest from the 60s and 70s to present day. A key strength to this story is the centrality of the author to the events reported, offering readers a pleasing participant observation angle to the events. --Kate Hudson, General Secretary for Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Activist Written from the perspective of an activist who is intimately involved in the process of shifting the discourse of nuclear weapons from deterrence and national security to humanitarian considerations, this book is an excellent case study on how interests, identities, and norms can change--how these are socially constructed. The material from the author's interviews with diplomats and activists provide essential strategies for effective campaigning--Kristen P. Williams, Clark University
Ray Acheson shows us in gritty detail how nuclear weapons have been sustained by the workings of patriarchal masculinity, expert exclusivity, corporate profit, diplomatic complicity, political cynicism and false narratives of security. Then she reveals how each has been effectively challenged by ICAN, an innovative, women-led global social justice movement. This is a book for every IR course, every social justice and gender politics course. On every page I learned something new.--Cynthia Enloe, Clark University; author of The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire This is a fascinating and much-needed dive into the ICAN movement and the history of Anti-Nuclear protest from the 60s and 70s to present day. A key strength to this story is the centrality of the author to the events reported, offering readers a pleasing participant observation angle to the events. --Kate Hudson, General Secretary for Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Activist
Author Information
Ray Acheson is currently director of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’s disarmament program in New York City. Ray leads the organization’s work on stigmatizing war and violence, advocating and organizing for disarmament, and raising feminist perspectives on militarism and weapons. Ray represents WILPF within the International Steering Group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. Ray has been awarded the 2020 Nuclear Free Future Award and the 2018 UN Women Metro New York Champion of Change prize.
