Every year, Human Rights Watch endorses select First Run films that promote awareness of human rights abuses taking place worldwide. Now, First Run Features is offering seven HRW Select titles in one box set. Each disc includes film notes by HRW experts as well as bonus films, filmmaker interviews and more.
“The book’s brilliant thesis is that the Western authors need a social movement theory-paradigm to reveal the dynamics of the ongoing political and cultural movements in the Muslim world…. the book is a very good contribution to Islamism.” — M. A. Khan, Emory University, Choice, July 2004
Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach (Indiana Series in Middle East Studies)
Joel Spring received his Ph.D. in educational policy studies from the University of Wisconsin. He is currently a Professor at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His great-great-grandfather was the first Principal Chief of the Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory and his grandfather, Joel S. Spring, was a local district chief at the time Indian Territory became Oklahoma. He currently teaches at Queens College of the City University of New York. His major research interests are history of education, multicultural education, Native American culture, the politics of education, global education, and human rights education. He is the author of over twenty books and the most recent are How Educational Ideologies are Shaping Global Society; Education and the Rise of the Global Economy; The Universal Right to Education: Justification, Definition, and Guidelines; Globalization and Educational Rights; and Educating the Consumer Citizen: A History of the Marriage of Schools, Advertising, and Media.
