new book on violence and social movement organizing

[Discussion list for COMM-ORG]

[ed:  congrats to Kathleen on the new book.]

From: "Staudt, Kathleen" <kstaudt at utep.edu>

I think readers would be interested in the book.   Below is a little 
description. Thanks, Kathy
 
Violence and Activism at the Border analyzes femicide, domestic 
violence, and
 > transnational anti-violence social movement networking and activism 
on both
 > sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.  The book is framed in terms of 
gender power
 > relations, globalization on the border, and the grounded analysis of
 > institutions, both civil society organizations and comparative law
 > enforcement institutions.  Kathleen Staudt draws both on participant
 > observation in the bi-national Coalition Against Violence and on 
surveys and
 > workshops with a representative sample of women aged 15-39 in 
collaboration
 > with a large non-governmental health organization in northern 
Mexico.  Among
 > comments on the back cover, S. Laurel Weldon calls the book "enormously
 > valuable, rich, and original...moving the margin to the center," and 
Cynthia
 > Enloe says the book "shows why paying close and nuanced attention to 
violence
 > and organizing against it reveals so much about both gritty urban 
politics
 > and sprawling globalization."
 > http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/stavio.html
 >
 >