Movement Engaged Publications
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Just Economics? Business Perspectives on Corporate Accountability and Democratizing the Economy
By Raluca Grosescu, John G. Dale, and Henry P. Rammelt
Routledge (September 2026)
This edited volume offers a fresh and critical perspective on how different business entities – from multinational corporations, to cooperatives, social enterprises, community wealth-building projects, activist hedge funds and Indigenous companies – envisage corporate accountability for human and ecological rights and how this connects to ideas and processes of democratizing the economy.
Taking an actor-focused approach and collecting interdisciplinary case studies of different industries across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin and North America since 1945, the book examines a wide range of business reactions to social and judicial critiques, as well as their attempts to weaken international and national accountability processes or foster progressive frameworks of social equality, and human and environmental rights. The volume challenges the idea of neoliberal hegemony as a stable condition and emphasizes the diversity and fragmentation of business responses to corporate accountability and the way they intersect with wider struggles for economic justice and democracy, nature’s rights, and ecological regeneration.
This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners in corporate accountability, human rights, social and environmental justice, democracy, and more broadly law, sociology, and political science.
Bleeding Hearts: From Passionate Activism to Violent Insurgency in Egypt
By Abdallah Hendawy
Roman & Littlefield/Lexington Books (October, 2021)
Bleeding Hearts: From Passionate Activism to Violent Insurgency in Egypt examines the wave of violence that broke out in Egypt in the aftermath of the 2013 military takeover against the country’s first democratically elected president. Abdallah Hendawy sheds light on stories of several political activists who abandoned their commitment to nonviolence and took up arms against the state. Through multiple interviews, ethnographic observations, field work, and qualitative data analysis, Hendawy challenges the dominant theoretical paradigms on radicalization that often attribute this complex phenomenon to ideological or religious beliefs. Hendawy thoroughly examines the tumultuous events that followed the 2013 military takeover and the journey of several radicalized individuals. He demonstrates how and why select Egyptian activists turned to violent tactics in the course of their political engagement.
The book ultimately concludes that repressive political environments, particularly the systematic authoritarian practices by state security agencies against political activists, are largely responsible for radicalization. Abusive state practices traumatized the activists and created a litany of unsettled grievances without recourse, giving rise to a formidable desire for revenge against those who violated them – both individuals and the institutions they represent. (Roman & Littlefield/Lexington Books, 2021)
The Transformation of Capacity in International Development: Afghanistan and Pakistan (1977–2017)
By Avideh K. Mayville
Anthem Sociological Perspectives on Human Rights and Development (November, 2019)
"The Transformation of Capacity in International Development” exposes the transformation of capacity building as a concept of practice within development through an examination of USAID’s work in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 1977 to 2017. It has implications for the future of rights-based approaches to development, the international management of global security threats and sustainability of donor investments.