| Description |
277 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Mainstream media like the New York Times and The Economist have recently posed the question: Why don't the poor rise up?, uneasily amazed that capitalism hasn't met with greater resistance. In the context of unparalleled global wealth disparity, ecological catastrophe, and myriad forms of structural oppression, this vibrant collection offers a reassessment of contemporary obstacles to mass mobilization, as well as examples from around the world of poor people overcoming those obstacles in inspiring and instructive new ways. With contributions from Idle No More organizer Alex Wilson, noted Italian autonomist Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, Cooperation Jackson organizer Kali Akuno, Cape Town-based anarchists Aragorn Eloff and Anna Selmeczi, and sixteen other scholars and activists from around the world, including a Foreword by Affiong Limene Affiong, Nigerian co-founder of Moyo wa Taifa, a Pan-Afrikan Women's Solidarity Network, Why Don't the Poor Rise Up? presents a truly global range of perspectives that explore the question of revolution, its objective and subjective prerequisites, and its increasing likelihood in our time" -- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Dedication -- Foreword: Organising in the twenty-first century / Affiong Limene Affiong -- Introduction: Why don't the poor rise up? / Michael Truscello and Ajamu Nangwaya -- The global north. Idle no more: grounding the corrientes of hemispheric resistencia / Prabat Pilar and Alex Wilson ; An American exception: the counter-insurrectionary function of the color line / Ben Brucato ; Until we win: black labor and liberation in the disposable era / Kali Akuno ; Some thoughts on white supremacy and Jesus as bread and circuses / Thandisizwe Chimurenga ; Organizing with solidarity in mind: notes on social movement unionism and critical equity work / Ellie Adekur Carlson ; Trump, the alt right, and the new state of exception / Jordy Cummings ; Not co-optation nor charity: anti-poverty organizing in Canada and the U.S. / Lesley Wood ; Cultivating the radical imagination in the North of the Americas / Alex Khasnabish ; On the spiritual exploitation of the poor / Nathan Jun ; Society without sociability: late notes about Margaret Thatcher and Jean Baudrillard / Franko "Bifo" Berardi -- The global south. Engendering revolt in the anglophone Caribbean: organizing the oppressed for self-emancipation / Ajamu Nangwaya ; Resource-full organized communities undermine systems of domination: how the poor rise up in San Cristabal de las Casas / Erin Araujo ; In defense of the territory of life: a look into the territory of the community police in Guerrero / David Gómez Vazquez ; On fire and the "multiplications" of the poor in Mathare, Nairobi / Wangui Kimari ; Critical consciouness as an act of culture: an illustration from Sudan / Gussai H. Sheikheldin ; Powers of the uncivil: notes from South Africa / Aragorn Eloff and Anna Selmeczi -- Contributors -- Index. |
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Poor -- Political activity.
(OCoLC)fst01071131
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Protest movements. (OCoLC)fst01079826
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Politischer Protest (DE-588)4229763-1
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Equality.
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Poverty -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01074134
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Poverty -- Social aspects.
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Globalisierung (DE-588)4557997-0
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Armut (DE-588)4002963-3
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Ungerechtigkeit (DE-588)4061729-4
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Protest movements.
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Equality. (OCoLC)fst00914456
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| Local Subject |
Poor people -- Political activity.
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Poor people -- Social conditions.
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| Subject |
Poor -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst01071151
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Poor -- Political activity.
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Poor -- Social conditions.
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Soziale Situation (DE-588)4077575-6
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| Added Author |
Truscello, Michael, editor.
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Nangwaya, Ajamu, editor.
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| Added Title |
Why do not the poor rise up? |
| ISBN |
9781849352789 (paperback) |
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184935278X (paperback) |
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