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Uses of a Whirlwind
Uses of a Whirlwind is not your father's book on social movements, harping back to another time and another world, as so many works on radicalism are inclined to do. This essay collection offers valuable accounts and analyses of how contemporary movements are responding to the dizzying era of neoliberalism so many of us are continually trying to understand better. The Team Colors...
Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six
It's been a little over five years that Hurricane Katrina unwittingly conspired with certain corporations, the US and various Louisiana government agencies to change the face of the city of New Orleans forever. The pictures of death and destruction and the sense of disbelief colored with occasional outrage may still be reasonably fresh in the national memory. Yet, as far as the...
Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future
Re-imagining our cities is the best chance we have to create prosperity, lower our carbon emissions, and save what’s left of the natural world. Today’s urban sustainability experts widely believe this to be true, yet many still debate how we should go about creating cities that are ecologically and socially sound. Author Matt Hern helps expand the discussion with his new book, Common Ground ...
Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future
Freud's final book, Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), compares the complexity of the individual psyche to Rome, Eternal City of layers and layers of architecture, history and experience, a city whose “long and copious past [has created] an entity...in which nothing that has once come into existence will have passed away and all the earlier phases of development continue to exis...
Come Hell or High Water: A Handbook on Collective Process Gone Awry
Mahatma Gandhi famously urged his followers to “be the change you want to see in the world.” It sounds so simple: Be kind, listen well, mediate conflicts, and treat all living things with respect. But as anyone who has ever worked in a community or civic organization knows, power plays are common and Gandhi’s counsel is easy to ignore. Delfina Vannucci and Richard...
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