Why Don't the Poor Rise Up? (eBook, ePUB)

Organizing the Twenty-First Century Resistance
Redaktion: Nangwaya, Ajamu; Truscello, Michael

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Each of these essays is a sharpened weapon for the battles looming large on the horizon." -George Ciccariello-Maher, author of Building the Commune

"Combining the most creative thought from the global North and South, Why Don't the Poor Rise Up? promises to be an indispensable resource for understanding why the new revolutionary movement of the 21st century will emerge from the ranks of the most marginalized by capitalism and colonialism." -Ajamu Baraka, editor of Black Agenda Report

Even 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 cofounder Alex Wilson, noted Italian theorist Franco "Bifo" Berardi, and nineteen other scholars and activists from around the world, 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.

Ajamu Nangwaya, Ph.D., is an educator at Seneca College with over twenty-five years of experience in community organizing and advocacy.

Michael Truscello, Ph.D., is an educator at Mount Royal University and author of the forthcoming book- The Infrastructure Society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AK Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849352796
• Artikelnr.: 47671023

Autorenporträt

Ajamu Nangwaya , Ph.D., is an educator at Seneca College. Ajamu has over 25 years of experience in community organizing and advocacy. He is a former VicePresident of CUPE Ontario, held leadership position in CUPE Local 3907, former member in CUPE Local 3902 and served as a VicePresident of CUPE Toronto District Council. He is currently an organizer with the Network for the Elimination of Police Violence. He is a columnist with Share newspaper. His writings have appeared in publications such as the Toronto Star, CounterPunch, Dissident Voice, Huffington Post, Rabble.ca, Pride newspaper, and Briarpatch magazine, the Black Agenda Report, Truthout, NOW Magazine and Pambazuka News. Michael Truscello , Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in English and General Education at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His academic interests include anarchism, the politics and poetics of infrastructure, petroculture, media studies, and technology studies. In 2013, he coedited a special issue of Anarchist Studies on "anarchism and technology” with Uri Gordon. In 2011, he produced the documentary film Capitalism Is The Crisis: Radical Politics in the Age of Austerity . He is the author of The Infrastructure Society (MIT Press, forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Why don't the poor rise up? ? Michael Truscello and Ajamu
Nangwaya
Section One
"The Psychology of Oppression and Emancipation"
1. 1.1 On The Spiritual Exploitation of the Poor-Nathan Jun
2. 1.2 Society Without Sociability: Late Notes about Margaret Thatcher and
Jean Baudrillard, Franco, Bifo, Berardi
3. 1.3 "They've turned the guns on the people!?: Towards Healing: Confronting
the Impacts of the Grenadian Revolution" -Kimalee Phillip
Section Two
"The Politics of Resistance in the Global South"
4. 2.1 Transpacific Affinities: Retracing Our Routes-Sarom Rho
5. 2.2 In Defense of the Territory of Life: A Look at Community Police
Territory in Guerrero through the Lens of Health -David Gomez Vazquez
6. 2.3 Resourcefull Organized Communities Undermine Systems of Domination: How
the Poor Rise Up in San Cristobal de las Casas -Erin Araujo
7. 2.4 Defeating Invisibility: Black Women and Resistance in Colombia -Charo
Mina-Rojas
8. 2.5 On Fire and the ?multiplications? of the Poor in Mathare, Nairobi-
Wangui Kimari
9. 2.6 Powers of the Uncivil: Notes From South Africa -Aragorn Eloff and Anna
Selmeczi
10. 2.7 Engendering Revolt in the Anglophone Caribbean -Ajamu Nangwaya
Section Three
"Fanning the Flames of Resistance in the Global North"
11. 3.1 Not Cooptation nor Charity: Challenges in AntiPoverty Organizing in
Canada and the US ? Lesley Wood
12. 3.2 Behind Right Wing Populism, A Failed Revolution ? Jordy Cummings
13. 3.3 Idle No More: Restorying Hemispheric Resistencia -Praba Pilar and Alex
Wilson
14. 3.4 Obstacles for Racialized and Poor People in Bureaucratic Institutions
Such as Universities -Ellie Adekur-Carlson
15. 3.5 Bread and Circuses: Jesus, WorldStar, Assata and George -Thandisizwe
Chimurenga
16. 3.6 From the Dead Level: Resistance of the Black Lumpenproletariat and
Working Poor -Kali Akuno
17. 3.7 The Counterinsurrectionary Force of the Color Line -Ben Brucato
18. 3.8 Cultivating the Radical Imagination in the North of the Americas- Alex
Khasnabish