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The Impossible Community

John P. Clark
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Author : John P. Clark
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441154514

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The Impossible Community confronts a critical moment when social and ecological catastrophe loom, the Left seems unable to articulate a response, and the Right is monopolizing public debates. This book offers a reformulation of anarchist social and political theory to develop a communitarian anarchist solution. It argues that a free and just social order requires a radical transformation of the modes of domination exercised through social ideology and institutional structures. Communitarian anarchism unites a universalist concern for social and ecological justice while recognizing the integrity and individuality of the person. In fact, anarchist principles of mutual aid and voluntary cooperation can already be seen in various contexts, from the rebuilding of New Orleans after Katrina to social movements in India. This work offers both a theoretical framework and concrete case studies to show how contemporary anarchist practice continues a long tradition of successfully synthetizing personal and communal liberation. This significant contribution will appeal not only to students in anarchism and political theory, but also to activists and anyone interested in making the world a better place.

The Impossible Community

John P. Clark
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Author : John P. Clark
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781629637785

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The Impossible Community confronts a critical moment when social and ecological catastrophes loom, the Left seems unable to articulate a response, and the Right controls public debates. This book offers a fresh and highly readable reformulation of anarchist social and political theory to develop a communitarian anarchist solution. In this stunningly original work, John P. Clark, author, lifelong activist, and one of the most fascinating anarchist luminaries of our time, skillfully argues that a free and just social order requires a radical transformation of the modes of domination exercised through social ideology, the social imaginary, the social ethos, and social institutional structures. Communitarian anarchism unites a universalist concern for social and ecological justice while recognizing the integrity and individuality of the person. The Impossible Community is a renewed examination of the anarchist principles of mutual aid and voluntary cooperation and provides convincingly lucid examples in various contexts, from the rebuilding of New Orleans after Katrina to social movements in South Asia. Ambitious in scope and compelling in its strength and imagination, The Impossible Community offers readers an accessible theoretical framework along with concrete case studies to show how contemporary anarchist practice continues a long tradition of successfully synthesizing personal and communal liberation. This provocatively innovative work will appeal not only to students of anarchism and political theory but also to activists and anyone interested in making the world a better place.

Impossible Democracy

Noel A. Cazenave
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Author : Noel A. Cazenave
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791479728

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Impossible Democracy by Noel A. Cazenave Pdf

Honorable Mention, 2008 Gustavus Myers Book Award, presented by the Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights in North America Impossible Democracy challenges the conventional wisdom that the War on Poverty failed, by exploring the unlikely success of its community action programs. Using two projects in Manhattan that were influential precursors of community action programs—the Mobilization for Youth and the Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited-Associated Community Teams—Noel A. Cazenave analyzes national and local conflicts in the 1960s over what the nature of community action should be. Fueled by the civil rights movement, activist social scientists promoted a model of community action that allowed for the use of social protest as an instrument of local reform. In addition, they advanced a more participatory view of how democracy should work, one that insisted local decision making not be left solely to elected officials and other powerful people, as traditionally done.

Hand-held Visions

DeeDee Halleck
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Author : DeeDee Halleck
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Television producers and directors
ISBN : 0823221016

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For almost forty years, DeeDee Halleck has been involved in a variety of projects that involve media making by "non-professionals." Her goal has been to develop a critical sense of the potential and limitations of mediated communication through practical exercises that generate a sense of both individual and non-hierarchical group power over the various apparati of media and electronic technology. Hand-Held Visions is a collection of essays, presentations, and lectures that she has written throughout this process. Halleck starts with a discussion of her own development as a teacher, producer, and an active participant in the struggle for media democracy. She gives the reader a historical first-person perspective on the community-based media movement and a sense of the determination and resolve that have enabled often fragile and much embattled organizations and individuals to survive in a climate dominated by global media corporations that are in direct opposition to their work.

Rules for Radicals

Saul Alinsky
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Author : Saul Alinsky
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307756893

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Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky Pdf

“This country's leading hell-raiser" (The Nation) shares his impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” First published in 1971 and written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.

Collective Dreams

Keally D. McBride
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Author : Keally D. McBride
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271032405

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How do we go about imagining different and better worlds for ourselves? Collective Dreams looks at ideals of community, frequently embraced as the basis for reform across the political spectrum, as the predominant form of political imagination in America today. Examining how these ideals circulate without having much real impact on social change provides an opportunity to explore the difficulties of practicing critical theory in a capitalist society. Different chapters investigate how ideals of community intersect with conceptions of self and identity, family, the public sphere and civil society, and the state, situating community at the core of the most contested political and social arenas of our time. Ideals of community also influence how we evaluate, choose, and build the spaces in which we live, as the author’s investigations of Celebration, Florida, and of West Philadelphia show.Following in the tradition of Walter Benjamin, Keally McBride reveals how consumer culture affects our collective experience of community as well as our ability to imagine alternative political and social orders. Taking ideals of community as a case study, Collective Dreams also explores the structure and function of political imagination to answer the following questions: What do these oppositional ideals reveal about our current political and social experiences? How is the way we imagine alternative communities nonetheless influenced by capitalism, liberalism, and individualism? How can these ideals of community be used more effectively to create social change?

Imagined Communities

Benedict Anderson
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Author : Benedict Anderson
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781683590

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What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and transformed by populist movements in nineteenth-century Europe. It became the rallying cry for anti-Imperialism as well as the abiding explanation for colonialism. In this scintillating, groundbreaking work of intellectual history Anderson explores how ideas are formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, and the way that they can make people do extraordinary things. In the twenty-first century, these debates on the nature of the nation state are even more urgent. As new nations rise, vying for influence, and old empires decline, we must understand who we are as a community in the face of history, and change.

Community Conversations

Paul Born
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Author : Paul Born
Publisher : BPS Books
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781927483152

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Full of informative and inspiring examples of collaboration, Community Conversations captures the essence of creating such conversations and offers ten practical techniques to host conversations in your community."--Pub. desc.

Impossible Dance

Fiona Buckland
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Author : Fiona Buckland
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780819570543

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Impossible Dance by Fiona Buckland Pdf

"Impossible Dance is a highly accessible, original and engaging account of the complex and often heavily theorized debates around the body, identity and community. Focusing on gay, lesbian and queer club culture in the 1990s New York City, this is the first book to bring together vital issues such as dance culture, queer community, sex culture, HIV identity and politics. Based on four years of field work, the book takes readers on a journey from the streets of New York City into the dance clubs and onto the dance floor. Detailed interviews with club-goers capture their perspectives on how they stage their self-fashioning through dancing. Fiona Buckland argues that such dancing embodies and rehearses a powerful political imagination, laying claim to the space and to one's body as queer."--Publishers Weekly

Kropotkin

Brian Morris
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Author : Brian Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1629635057

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The 19th century witnessed the growth of anarchist literature, which advocated a society based on voluntary cooperation without government authority. Although his classical writings on mutual aid and the philosophy of anarchism are still published today, Peter Kropotkin remains a neglected figure. A talented geographer and a revolutionary socialist, Kropotkin--often known as the anarchist prince--was one of the most important theoreticians of the anarchist movement. In Kropotkin: The Politics of Community, Brian Morris reaffirms with an attitude of critical sympathy the contemporary relevance of Kropotkin as a political and moral philosopher and as a pioneering social ecologist. Well-researched and wide-ranging, this volume not only presents an important contribution to the history of anarchism, but also offers insightful reflections on contemporary debates in political theory and ecological thought, analyzing such topics as anarchist communism, agrarian socialism, and integral education; modern science and evolutionary theory; the French Revolution and the modern state; and possessive individualism, terror, and war.

The Power of the Impossible

Erik S. Roraback
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Author : Erik S. Roraback
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785351501

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The Power of the Impossible by Erik S. Roraback Pdf

The Power of the Impossible surveys cultural figures from Spinoza to popular culture icon Ivan Lendl, to illuminate the challenge and problem of establishing a future-oriented world community and its conceptual intersection with heterogeneous forms of the creative life. 'This original, unorthodox study illuminates our current crises of community formation and creativity in ways unexpected but necessary.' Robert Appelbaum, Uppsala University

The Improbable Community

Bill Horne
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Author : Bill Horne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0971033714

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"We are all a little wild here with numerous projects of social reform," Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in 1840 about the spirit of his time. "Not a reading man but has a draft of a new community in his waistcoat pocket." Almost a century later, five idealists, similarly committed to social reform, founded a new community, Camp Woodland, in upstate New York inspired by the spirit of their time. Some founders were educators. Others contributed administrative talents to the camp's operations. All were committed to racial and social justice and cultural diversity. Well before the currency of the Civil Rights Movement, Camp Woodland introduced a racially and ethnically diverse group of campers and staff into a traditional, rural community and succeeded in having its progressive vision accepted and embraced by its neighbors. How was a camp like Woodland able to become part of the rural community in which it was located? How did it earn the trust and acceptance of its mountain neighbors? And how was it able to harmonize potentially incompatible cultures? The Improbable Community tells the story of this achievement and recounts the collection of folk music, folklore and history by Camp Woodland that was an outgrowth of the friendships it formed.

Police–Community Relations in Times of Crisis

Deuchar, Ross,Crichlow, Vaughn,Seth W. Fallik
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Author : Deuchar, Ross,Crichlow, Vaughn,Seth W. Fallik
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529210613

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Police–Community Relations in Times of Crisis by Deuchar, Ross,Crichlow, Vaughn,Seth W. Fallik Pdf

The deaths of Michael Brown and George Floyd at the hands of white police officers uncovered an apparent legitimacy crisis at the heart of American policing. Drawing on interviews with officers, offenders, practitioners and community members, this book explores policing changes in the ‘post-Ferguson’ era and informs future policing practice.

Liminal Dickens

Valerie Kennedy,Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou
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Author : Valerie Kennedy,Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443893992

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Liminal Dickens by Valerie Kennedy,Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou Pdf

Liminal Dickens is a collection of essays which cast new light on some surprisingly neglected areas of Dickens’s writings: the rites of passage represented by such transitional moments and ceremonies as birth/christenings, weddings/marriages, and death. Although a great deal of attention has been paid to the family in Dickens’s works, relatively little has been said about his representations of these moments and ceremonies. Similarly, although there have been discussions of Dickens’s religious beliefs, neither his views on death and dying nor his ideas about the afterlife have been analysed in any great detail. Moreover, this collection, arising from a conference on Dickens held in Thessaloniki in 2012, explores how Dickens’s preoccupation with these transitional phases reflects his own liminality and his varying positions regarding some main Victorian concerns, such as religion, social institutions, progress, and modes of writing. The book is composed of four parts: Part One concerns Dickens’s tendency to see birth and death as part of a continuum rather than as entirely separate states; Part Two looks at his unconventional responses to adolescence as a transitional period and to the marriage ceremony as an often unsuccessful rite de passage; Part Three analyses his partial divergence from certain widely held Victorian views about progress, evolution, sanitation, and the provisions made for the poor; and Part Four focuses on two of his novels which are seen as transgressing conventional genre boundaries.

The Obsessions of Georges Bataille

Andrew J. Mitchell,Jason Kemp Winfree
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Author : Andrew J. Mitchell,Jason Kemp Winfree
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1438428235

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The Obsessions of Georges Bataille by Andrew J. Mitchell,Jason Kemp Winfree Pdf

Considers Bataille’s work from an explicitly philosophical perspective.