Georgi Stone

Broschiertes Buch

In the Land of Squats

self discovery in a city of uprising

Beschreibung

When a young Australian couple, Liz and Matt, arrive in London to find adventure in a new world, they are very soon inducted into the squatting community. Set in the late 1970s in pre-Thatcher London, at a time of the anti-establishment punk movement, radical feminism, economic disparity, and armed conflict in Northern Ireland, these are volatile times, ripe for activist revolution. Determined to keep her eyes and mind open to the world in all its raw beauty and brutality, Liz comes face-to-face through her work and her own life experience, with the stark reality of male violence. To survive, she must access deep inner resilience that becomes both her strength and her vulnerability. Influenced by evolving feminist perspective and activism, Liz strives to find her role and voice in a world where increasingly she feels in every way out-of-place. As her heart disengages, she must find a way to reconcile her past before she can embrace the choices for her future. Only then will she know her own identity and feel an integrated sense of self in the world. This leaves her relationship, friendships and even her work in a continual state of flux and jeopardy. In a chequered landscape of love, betrayal, sexual ambiguity, violence, rebellion, activism and self discovery, Liz emerges to put together the fragmented pieces of herself in this autobiographical account of three years in 1970s London as she emerges to find her own identity. Each of the twelve chapters in this book highlights a story theme and a related poem.

Autor

GEORGI STONE grew up in Perth Western Australia where she graduated in psychology in 1977. She travelled and worked overseas for a few years in the trades and in women's refuge and rape crisis services, then returned to Australia in 1980, continuing employment throughout Australia in the women's refuges and rape crisis centre, as well as a government-funded women's carpentry project to maintain these services.In the 1990s, disillusioned with clinical and drug-based approaches to healing, she completed post-graduate studies in Drama Therapy and Expressive Arts Therapy, which utilised psychotherapeutic techniques in drama, dance, art, sound, writing, and ritual. She incorporated this in her counselling and therapy, then went on to design and facilitate workshops and therapy programs. On the country property where she had listened to the granite as a child, she built an open plan house of granite and recycled timber where the old asbestos cottage had burnt down. This place came to host many a community gathering, ritual and workshop. Her work has been motivated by grassroots activist radical feminism and an interest in the esoteric and quantum sciences. Studies in Herbal Medicine, Energy Healing, Naturopathy and Remedial Massage have complimented her work in alternative therapy. She has a daughter Hannah born by home birth in 1994.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Georgi Stone
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 353g
• ISBN-13: 9780648215813
• ISBN-10: 0648215814
• Artikelnr.: 58461252