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The Feminist Killjoy Handbook [图书] 谷歌图书
作者: Sara Ahmed Basic Books 2023 - 10
A renowned feminist thinker argues we need to get in the way of happiness, our own and other people’s, to build a more just world  Do you refuse to laugh at offensive jokes? Have you ever been accused of ruining dinner by pointing out your companion’s sexist comment? Are you often told to stop being so “woke”? If so, you might be a feminist killjoy—and this handbook is for you. In this book, feminist theorist Sara Ahmed shows how killing joy can be a radical world-making project.  Presenting sharp analysis of literature, film, and influential feminist works, and drawing on her own experiences as a queer feminist scholar-activist of color, Ahmed reveals the invaluable lessons of the feminist killjoy, from the importance of asking questions to the power of the eye roll. The Feminist Killjoy Handbook offers an outstretched hand to feminist killjoys everywhere and an essential intellectual guide to the transformative power of getting in the way. 
Sexed Up [图书] 谷歌图书
作者: Julia Serano Basic Books 2022
"When the mainstream transgender rights movement was still a glimmer on the horizon, Julia Serano's smash-hit manifesto Whipping Girl revolutionized the way we think about gender. With the movement for trans rights now at the center of our cultural debates, Julia Serano returns with a groundbreaking exploration of what it means to be sexualized. We tend to think of sexualization-that is, when people are reduced to their sexual bodies-as an issue that only affects women. But, as Serano deftly reveals, society sexualizes everyone along dehumanizing double standards, to disastrous effects. She shows how a predator-and-prey dynamic leads straight men to both admire and deride their partners, how bisexuals are stereotyped as "greedy," and how trans people are maligned as "entrappers" of cisgender people. Along the way, she unpacks why queerness is thought of as contagious, how people of color are sexualized to justify violence against them, and more broadly, how sexualization harms us all. Julia Serano confronts these arbitrary social rules, showing us that they're not natural or innate but instead are constructed. She then reveals powerful new ways to resist, by affirming consent and redefining courtship, so that we can forge life-affirming values for future generations. Written with an activist's passion, a scientist's meticulous research, and a bisexual trans woman's wealth of lived experiences, Sexed Up provides a breath of fresh air for seasoned activists and newcomers alike. Engaging, lively, and provocative, written with a persuasive blend of personal anecdotes and scientific evidence, Sexed Up shows us why Julia Serano remains an unmatched voice leading us toward necessary change"--
A Feminist Theory of Violence [图书] 谷歌图书
作者: Françoise Vergès Pluto Press 2022
The mainstream conversation surrounding gender equality is a repertoire of violence: harassment, rape, abuse, femicide. These words suggest a cruel reality. But they also hide another reality: that of gendered violence committed with the complicity of the State. In this book, Françoise Vergès denounces the carceral turn in the fight against sexism. By focusing on 'violent men', we fail to question the sources of their violence. There is no doubt as to the underlying causes: racial capitalism, ultra-conservative populism, the crushing of the Global South by wars and imperialist looting, the exile of millions and the proliferation of prisons - these all put masculinity in the service of a policy of death. Against the spirit of the times, Françoise Vergès refuses the punitive obsession of the State in favour of restorative justice.'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y. Davis
***Winner of an English PEN Award 2022***
The mainstream conversation surrounding gender equality is a repertoire of violence: harassment, rape, abuse, femicide. These words suggest a cruel reality. But they also hide another reality: that of gendered violence committed with the complicity of the State. In this book, Françoise Vergès denounces the carceral turn in the fight against sexism. By focusing on 'violent men', we fail to question the sources of their violence. There is no doubt as to the underlying causes: racial capitalism, ultra-conservative populism, the crushing of the Global South by wars and imperialist looting, the exile of millions and the proliferation of prisons - these all put masculinity in the service of a policy of death. Against the spirit of the times, Françoise Vergès refuses the punitive obsession of the State in favour of restorative justice.
Anarcho-Indigenism [图书] 谷歌图书
作者: Clifton Ariwakehte Nicholas / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Pluto Press 2023 - 09
"Anarchists have much to learn from Indigenous struggles for decolonization. [A] thought-provoking collection" Lesley J. Wood, Professor, York University, Toronto "Vigorously affirming anarchism's plurality, the authors make a powerful case for the reconfiguration of anticolonial struggle" Ruth Kinna, Professor, Loughborough University As early as the end of the nineteenth century, anarchists such as Peter Kropotkin and Élisée Reclus became interested in Indigenous peoples, many of whom they saw as societies without a state or private property, living a form of communism. Thinkers such as David Graeber and John Holloway have continued this tradition of engagement with the practices of Indigenous societies, while Indigenous activists coined the term 'anarcho-indigenism', in reference to a long history of (often imperfect) collaboration between anarchists and Indigenous activists, over land rights and environmental issues, including recent high profile anti-pipeline campaigns. Anarcho-Indigenism is a dialogue between anarchism and Indigenous politics. In interviews, the contributors reveal what Indigenous thought and traditions and anarchism have in common, without denying the scars left by colonialism. They ultimately offer a vision of the world that combines anti-colonialism, feminism, ecology, anti-capitalism and anti-statism. Francis Dupuis-Déri is a Professor of Political Science and a member of the Institut de Recherches et d'études Féministes at the Université du Québec à Montréal. He is the author of several books such as Who's Afraid of the Black Blocs?. Benjamin Pillet is a translator and community organizer, with a PhD in Political Thought from the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Queering Anarchism [图书] 谷歌图书
作者: Deric Shannon / J. Rogue AK Press 2013 - 01
“A much-needed collection that thinks through power, desire, and human liberation. These pieces are sure to raise the level of debate about sexuality, gender, and the ways that they tie in with struggles against our ruling institutions.”?Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Outlaw Woman“Against the austerity of straight politics, Queering Anarchism sketches the connections between gender mutiny, queer sexualities, and anti-authoritarian desires. Through embodied histories and incendiary critique, the contributors gathered here show how we must not stop at smashing the state; rather normativity itself is the enemy of all radical possibility.”—Eric A. Stanley, co-editor of Captive GendersWhat does it mean to "queer" the world around us? How does the radical refusal of the mainstream codification of GLBT identity as a new gender norm come into focus in the context of anarchist theory and practice? How do our notions of orientation inform our politics?and vice versa? Queering Anarchism brings together a diverse set of writings ranging from the deeply theoretical to the playfully personal that explore the possibilities of the concept of "queering," turning the dominant, and largely heteronormative, structures of belief and identity entirely inside out. Ranging in topic from the economy to disability, politics, social structures, sexual practice, interpersonal relationships, and beyond, the authors here suggest that queering might be more than a set of personal preferences?pointing toward the possibility of an entirely new way of viewing the world.Contributors include Jamie Heckert, Sandra Jeppesen, Ben Shepard, Ryan Conrad, Jerimarie Liesegang, Jason Lydon, Susan Song, Stephanie Grohmann, Liat Ben-Moshe, Anthony J. Nocella, A.J. Withers, and more.Deric Shannon, C.B. Daring, J. Rogue, and Abbey Volcano are anarchists and activists who work in a wide variety of radical, feminist, and queer communities across the United States.
凯列班与女巫 [图书] 谷歌图书 豆瓣 Goodreads
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
9.3 (35 个评分) 作者: [意]西尔维娅·费代里奇 译者: 龚瑨 上海三联书店 2023 - 5
编辑推荐
◎一部资本主义过渡时期的妇女身体史
◎以女性视角对话马克思主义的代表作,探讨资本原始积累背景下性别与再生产的重磅作品
◎马克思主义女权主义经典著作,补全《资本论》缺失的女性视角。清华大学夏莹、严飞,南京大学蓝江、杨乔喻,弗吉尼亚理工大学倪湛舸等众学者诚挚推荐 !
学者推荐
非常值得一读……使我们能够更好地理解现代父权制、民族国家的崛起以及从封建主义到资本主义的过渡时期之间的密切关系。
——《卫报》
一部开创性的作品……费代里奇已经成为……新一代女权主义者的关键人物。
——雷切尔•库什纳,《火星俱乐部》作者
在描述对妇女发起的国家恐怖行为之可憎时,费代里奇写下了一本真正属于我们时代的书。既不妥协,也不傲慢。《凯列班与女巫》传达出一贯的无偏见和一位全球学者所拥有的高尚品格。它既是有关被恢复记忆的充满激情的作品,也是一记历史之锤。
——彼得•莱恩博,多伦多大学教授
本书在将猎杀女巫放入资本主义社会成长的历史过程中,完成了对现代的资本主义祛魅化成长历程的呈现。视角独特而富有感染力。理论在此获得了它的肉身化的表达,不仅具有独特的性别视角,同时更让现代性的批判充满了一种切身之痛。资本主义的诞生与发展正是在这一切身之痛当中完成自身合理化的推进。
——夏莹,清华大学哲学系教授
《凯列班与女巫》通过对女巫问题的追溯,补上了长期以来被马克思主义和其他理论忽略的向资本主义过渡过程中缺失的女性历史的一环。费代里奇让我们明白,在现代性的发展过程中,对女性的压迫,构成了资本主义原始积累的血腥基础,揭开这个奥秘,才能真正为女性主义找到一个反抗的裂隙。
——蓝江,南京大学哲学系教授
教会对巫术的镇压与资本市场的兴起和民族国家的构建相辅相成,是现代社会崛起的基石。猎巫运动以女性主导的社会组织力量和民间知识为打击目标,旨在规训女性身体,将其排斥在有偿劳动之外,被困于新建的家庭空间,从事无报酬的社会再生产劳动。猎巫、贩奴以及对自然的剥削共同构成了被传统马克思主义忽视的资本原始积累真相。《凯列班与女巫》不仅为我们展示了性别、种族、生态和宗教等诸多范畴在全球资本主义历史中的复杂交织,更是提醒我们分析重建渗透在日常生活方方面面的权力关系。
——倪湛舸,弗吉尼亚理工大学宗教与文化系副教授
在宗主国与殖民地之间的文化权力关系中,凯列班象征着对殖民者的反抗和对命运的改变。在15 至18 世纪,当有超过十万的平民女子因被指控为女巫而处死,更多的女性站起来,通过妇女运动试图摧毁资本主义制度所要求的社会规训,重新夺回对性、身体、劳动的控制。费代里奇向我们展示出,每一位独立勇敢的女性,在破除猎巫的进程中,用自己的身体推动起历史的变革。
——严飞,清华大学社会学系副教授
内容简介
本书围绕一个核心问题展开:如何解释欧洲近代初期数十万“女巫”被处死?为什么资本主义的兴起与针对妇女的战争同时发生?全书分为五个部分:15世纪前农民和工人的日常斗争;土地私有化和扩张的人口政策带来的影响;机械身体观的兴起;欧洲大陆的大规模猎巫;猎巫策略在美洲的重演与当地妇女的反击。
通过回顾这段300年的历史,费代里奇表明:猎巫运动是资本主义对于社会再生产合理化的过程体现,它为现代社会组织的两个核心原则即劳动能力和自我所有权提供了必要支撑。换言之,对女性生育和身体的控制(以攻击女巫为代表)是资本主义实现原始积累的关键步骤。
费代里奇以女性视角对话马克思的原始积累学说和福柯的身体理论,对于传统历史叙事和理论范式构成了强有力的挑战。
Practical Anarchism [图书] 谷歌图书
作者: Scott Branson Pluto Press 2022
You may not realise it, but you are probably already practicing anarchism in your daily life. From relationships to school, work, art, even the way you organise your time, anarchism can help you find fulfilment, empathy and liberation in the everyday.



From the small questions such as 'Why should I steal?' to the big ones like 'how do I love?', Scott Branson shows that anarchism isn't only something we do when we react to the news, protest or even riot. With practical examples enriched by history and theory, these tips will empower you to break free from the consumerist trappings of our world.



Anarchism is not just for white men, but for everyone. In reading this book, you can detach from patriarchal masculinity, norms of family, gender, sexuality, racialisation, individual responsibility and the destruction of our planet, and replace them with ideas of sustainable living, with ties of mutual aid, and the horizon of collective liberation.
Changing Anarchism: Anarchist Theory and Practice in a Global Age [图书] Goodreads
Manchester University Press 2005 - 1
The massive protests against globalization in recent years have rekindled interest in anarchism. Changing Anarchism sets out to reposition anarchist theory and practice by documenting contemporary anarchist practice and providing a viable analytical framework for understanding it.The contributions here, from both academics and activists, raise challenging and sometimes provocative questions about the complex nature of power and resistance to it. The areas covered include: sexuality and identity; psychological dependency on technology; libertarian education; religion and spirituality; protest tactics; mental health and artistic expression; and the ongoing "metaphorical wars" against drugs and terror. This collection epitomizes the rich diversity that exists within contemporary anarchism as well as demonstrating its ongoing relevance as a sociological tool.
Free Women of Spain [图书] 谷歌图书
作者: Martha A. Ackelsberg AK Press 2005
Cowards don't make history; and the women of Mujeres Libres (Free Women) were no cowards. Courageous enough to create revolutionary change in their daily lives, Mujeres Libres mobilized over 20,000 women into an organized network to strive for community, education, and equality for women -during the Spanish Revolution. Martha Ackelsberg writes a comprehensive study of Mujeres Libres, intertwining interviews with the women themselves and analysis connecting them with modern feminist movements. Martha Ackelsberg is a professor of government and a member of the Women's Studies Program Committee at Smith College, where she teaches courses in political theory, urban politics, political activism and feminist theory. She has contributed to a variety of anthologies on women's political activism in the United States.
Anarchism and the Black Revolution [图书] 谷歌图书
作者: Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin Pluto Press 2021
"A powerful - even startling - book...Its analysis of police violence and the threat of fascism are as important now as they were at the end of the 1970s." - Peter James Hudson, Black Agenda Report In a time of movements like Black Lives Matter and concepts like anti-racism, it's more important than ever to look at earlier movements for lessons and inspiration. Anarchism and the Black Revolution is must reading for activists and academics alike. Anarchism and the Black Revolution first connected Black radical thought to anarchist theory in 1979. Now amidst a rising tide of Black political organizing, this foundational classic written by a key figure of the Civil Rights movement is republished with a wealth of original material for a new generation. Anarchist theory has long suffered from a whiteness problem. This book places its critique of both capitalism and racism firmly at the center of the text. Subjects include: *Capitalism and racism: an analysis of white supremacy
*Anarchism defined
*Anarchist versus Marxist
*Capitalism, the state, and private property
*The anarchist case against representative government
*Anarchism and the black revolution
*And more! Making a powerful case for the building of a Black revolutionary movement that rejects sexism, homophobia, militarism and racism, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin counters the lies and distortions about anarchism spread by its left-wing and right-wing opponents alike. New material for this edition includes an interview with writer and activist William C. Anderson, as well as new essays, and a contextualizing biography of the author's inspiring life.
Anarchic Agreements [图书] 谷歌图书
作者: Ruth Kinna / Alex Prichard PM Press 2022 - 11
A new world is possible and not just in our hearts. Anarchic Agreements is a quintessential field guide for the revolution, answering the practical questions often left out of works of political theory and philosophy. How do leaderless groups organize? How might they create constitutions, balance power and write protocols? How do group cultures and institutions maintain coalitions? This urgent and inspiring how-to is the product of more than twenty years of research. Designed explicitly for everyday use, it contains lived examples, illustrations throughout, and text from current horizontally organized constitutions. These documents illustrate the never-ending process of developing community and keeping collaborations alive in the fairest ways possible. Written by dedicated anarchist scholars and organizers, and based on the widely popular Anarchic Agreements pamphlet series, this book facilitates grassroots activism and provides methods to improve and streamline decision making. It is an inspiring celebration of the novel, complex and flexible constitutions Anarchists have created over time. This book shows how to realize another world, collectively without domination, while leaving the future open to infinite other possibilities.
Theorizing Contemporary Anarchism: Solidarity, Mimesis and Radical Social Change [图书] Goodreads
Bloomsbury Academic 2017 - 1
The turn of the Millennium demonstrated a fully-fledged revival and fusion of various left-wing social movements with differing agendas. Movements for women's, black, indigenous, LGTB and animal liberation as well as ecological, anti-nuclear and anti-war groups unified against the global capital. Considering the diverse emphases of these movements, is there a philosophical framework that could help us understand their nature and their modes of operation in the 21st century?

This book provides a set of conceptual tools offering a theoretical model of 'slow' social transformation, a modality of social change that explicitly differs from the irruptive model of a revolution or a paradigm-changing event. Instead, it proposes the two concepts of mimetic contagion and solidarity with singularity which allow us to understand what is currently happening in the activist milieu. By bringing together some of today's most important thinkers, including Butler, Girard, Badiou, and Sloterdijk this book suggests a philosophical lens to look at the alternative living projects that contemporary left-wing activists undertake in practice. At the heart of their projects lie the pressing concerns that these contemporary philosophers currently debate.

Breaking from the conceptual apparatus of the Marxian tradition, Theorizing Contemporary Anarchism instead takes Hegelian concepts and feeds them through the thought of contemporary theorists in order to form an original, productive, and inclusive scaffold with which to understand today's world of social and political movements.
Who's Afraid of Gender? [图书] 谷歌图书
作者: Judith Butler Knopf Canada 2024 - 03


Inflamed by the rhetoric of public figures, the "anti-gender ideology movement" has sought to nullify reproductive justice, undermine protections against sexual and gender violence, and strip trans and queer people of their right to pursue a life without fear of violence. Here, Judith Butler, the groundbreaking thinker whose iconic Gender Trouble redefined how we understand gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on "gender" that have become central to right-wing movements today.
Who's Afraid of Gender? examines how "gender" has become a phantasm for emerging authoritarian regimes, fascist formations, and trans-exclusionary feminists. In this vital, courageous book, Butler illuminates the concrete ways in which this phantasm of gender collects and displaces anxieties and fears of destruction, resulting in a movement that demonizes struggles for equality, fuels aggressive nationalism, and leaves millions of people vulnerable to subjugation.
An essential intervention into one of the most fraught issues of our moment, Who's Afraid of Gender? is a bold call to refuse the alliance with authoritarian movements and to make a broad coalition with all those who fight against injustice. Imagining new possibilities for freedom and solidarity, Butler offers us a hopeful work of social and political analysis that is both timely and timeless—a book whose verve and rigor only they could deliver.
The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political [图书] Goodreads
Verso 2020 - 2
“Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today." – Cornel West

“Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time.” – J. M. Bernstein

Judith Butler’s new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice that emanates from a calm region of the soul, or as an individualist ethical relation to existing forms of power. But, in fact, nonviolence is an ethical position found in the midst of the political field. An aggressive form of nonviolence accepts that hostility is part of our psychic constitution, but values ambivalence as a way of checking the conversion of aggression into violence. One contemporary challenge to a politics of nonviolence points out that there is a difference of opinion on what counts as violence and nonviolence. The distinction between them can be mobilized in the service of ratifying the state’s monopoly on violence.  

Considering nonviolence as an ethical problem within a political philosophy requires a critique of individualism as well as an understanding of the psychosocial dimensions of violence. Butler draws upon Foucault, Fanon, Freud, and Benjamin to consider how the interdiction against violence fails to include lives regarded as ungrievable. By considering how “racial phantasms” inform justifications of state and administrative violence, Butler tracks how violence is often attributed to those who are most severely exposed to its lethal effects. The struggle for nonviolence is found in movements for social transformation that reframe the grievability of lives in light of social equality and whose ethical claims follow from an insight into the interdependency of life as the basis of social and political equality.
自我解释学的起源 [图书] Eggplant.place 豆瓣
L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi: Conférences prononcées à Dartmouth College, 1980
8.0 (9 个评分) 作者: [法]米歇尔·福柯 译者: 潘培庆 拜德雅 | 西南师范大学出版社 2018 - 6
-编辑推荐-
☆福柯晚期讲座集第二本,拜德雅持续增量中!☆
• 从古希腊时期德尔斐“认识你自己”的箴言,到基督教于4-5世纪所发展出的一种新的自我技术——“述说自己”,再到现代科学对自我的探查,西方文明对于自我本质的追究从未间断。
• 福柯注意到自我的形成和演变史中所蕴含的中断,而这正是福柯在这两次演讲中试图揭示的由基督教的诞生而导致的重大变化,这一变化甚至决定了后来西方自我文化的发展方向,影响所及,直至当下。至此现代自我、现代主体得以诞生。
• 关于自我和主体的思想是福柯理论中一以贯之的内容。自我如何形成,使用了什么技术是他一直追问的议题。福柯在达特茅斯学院的这两次讲演,简明扼要,不失为进入其主体理论的一篇导言。
-内容简介-
本书收录了米歇尔·福柯于1980年11月17日和24日在达特茅斯学院所作的两次演讲:“真相和主体性”与“基督教和坦白”。
此外,两篇与这些演讲同时的文字也收录其中。
第一篇根据同年10月23日在伯克利分校所举行的公开讨论会整理而成,福柯在讨论会上谈及了坦白、自我技术等话题,并回答了相关提问。
第二篇来自迈克尔·贝斯于同年11月3日对福柯的采访。
The Dawn of Everything [图书] 谷歌图书
作者: David Graeber / David Wengrow McClelland & Stewart 2021 - 10
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with professor of comparative archaeology David Wengrow to deliver a trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.

For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could only be achieved by sacrificing those original freedoms, or alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. Graeber and Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself.

Drawing on path-breaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what's really there. If humans did not spend 95% of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? What was really happening during the periods that we usually describe as the emergence of "the state"? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume.

The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.
Socialist Feminism [图书] 豆瓣
作者: Frieda Afary Pluto Press 2022 - 10
What is socialist feminism and why is it needed to fight the global rise of authoritarianism and fascism? Frieda Afary brings the insights gained through her study of feminist philosophy, her international activism and her work in community education as a public librarian in Los Angeles, offering a bold new vision of an alternative to capitalism, racism, sexism, heterosexism and alienation.
Socialist Feminism: A New Approach reclaims theories of women's oppression through a return to humanism, enriched by social reproduction theories, Black feminist intersectionality, abolitionism, queer theories, Marxist-Humanism and the author's own experiences as an Iranian American feminist, scholar and activist.
She looks at global developments in gender relations since the 1980s, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the distinct features of twenty-first century authoritarianism and current struggles against it, drawing out lessons for revolutionary theorising, organising and international solidarity including the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements.
This book also contains a study guide which transforms it into a useful pedagogical tool for teachers and activists.
Disaster Anarchy [图书] 谷歌图书
作者: Rhiannon Firth Pluto Press 2022
Anarchists have been central in helping communities ravaged by disasters, stepping in when governments wash their hands of the victims. Looking at Hurricane Sandy, Covid-19, and the social movements that mobilized relief in their wake, Disaster Anarchy is an inspiring and alarming book about collective solidarity in an increasingly dangerous world. As climate change and neoliberalism converge, mutual aid networks, grassroots direct action, occupations, and brigades have sprung up in response to this crisis with considerable success. Occupy Sandy was widely acknowledged to have organized relief more effectively than federal agencies or NGOs, and following Covid-19 the term 'mutual aid' entered common parlance. However, anarchist-inspired relief has not gone unnoticed by government agencies. Their responses include surveillance and co-option, extending at times to violent repression involving police brutality. Arguing that disaster anarchy is one of the most important political phenomena to emerge in the 21st century, Rhiannon Firth shows through her research on and within these movements that anarchist theory and practice are needed to protect ourselves from the disasters of our unequal and destructive economic system.Anarchists have been central in helping communities ravaged by disasters, stepping in when governments wash their hands of the victims. Looking at Hurricane Sandy, Covid-19, and the social movements that mobilised relief in their wake, Disaster Anarchy is an inspiring and alarming book about collective solidarity in an increasingly dangerous world. As climate change and neoliberalism converge, mutual aid networks, grassroots direct action, occupations and brigades have sprung up in response to this crisis with considerable success. Occupy Sandy was widely acknowledged to have organised relief more effectively than federal agencies or NGOs, and following Covid-19 the term 'mutual aid' entered common parlance. However, anarchist-inspired relief has not gone unnoticed by government agencies. Their responses include surveillance, co-option, extending at times to violent repression involving police brutality. Arguing that disaster anarchy is one of the most important political phenomena to emerge in the twenty-first century, Rhiannon Firth shows through her research on and within these movements that anarchist theory and practice is needed to protect ourselves from the disasters of our unequal and destructive economic system.
Constructing Worlds Otherwise [图书] 谷歌图书
作者: Raúl Zibechi AK Press 2024 - 04
A new collection from one of Latin America's most dynamic radical thinkers—in the tradition of Frantz Fanon and Eduardo Galeano.
Constructing Worlds Otherwise sets itself against the recolonization of Latin America by one-dimensional, ethnocentric perspectives that permeate the North American left and block fundamental social change in the Global South. In a provocative mix of polemic and on-the-ground analysis, Raúl Zibechi argues that it is time for radicals in the Global North to learn from the people their governments have colonized and oppressed for centuries. Through a survey of the most marginalized voices across Latin America—feminists, the Indigenous, people of African descent, and inhabitants of urban favelas and shantytowns—he introduces the Anglo world to a range of critical perspectives and new forms of struggle. For Zibechi, real change comes from “societies in movement,” the people already fighting for their survival using egalitarian and traditional models of world-building, without the state, without official representatives, and without vanguards of political experts. His book contributes to global geographies of autonomous and anti-state thinking, with Zibechi placing his work in conversation with the ideological theorist of Kurdish resistance, Abdullah Öcalan, for a rich and dynamic survey of global movements of decolonization. Now more urgent than ever, this translation by George Ygarza Quispe comes at a time when the global left—struggling to expand its vision in a time of climate chaos and rising authoritarianism—finds itself at an impasse, desperate to animate and renew its critical imaginary.
创建日期: 2023年12月5日