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Under Three Flags: Anarchism And The Anti-Colonial Imagination
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Benedict Anderson |
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In this sparkling new work, Benedict Anderson provides a radical recasting of themes from Imagined Communities, his classic book on nationalism, through an exploration of fin-de-siècle politics and culture that spans the Caribbean, Imperial Europe and the South China Sea. A jeweled pomegranate packed with nitroglycerine is primed to blow away Manila's 19th century colonial elite at the climax o...
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McLibel: The Storgy of Two People Who Wouldn't Say McSorry
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Franny Armstrong (Director) |
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MLibel is the true story of a postman and a gardener who took on McDonald's and wouldn't say "McSorry". In what became the longest trial in English legal history, the "McLibel 2" represented themselves against McDonald's $19 million legal team.
In this entertaining documentary, every aspect of the corporation's business is cross-examined: from junk food and McJobs, to animal cruelty, environmen...
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Caravan/Prague: The Uneasy Road to Change
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Zack Winestine (Director) |
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A bicycle caravan - with the theme, "Money or Life" - travels 500 miles across Europe to join protests in Prague against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.Ê The goal is to create a mobile utopian community which will be a living counter-example to the values of these powerful financial institutions.Ê The landscape is beautiful, and bicycles possess their own poetry.Ê But it's not always easy fun...
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Social Murder and Other Shortcomings of Conservative Economics
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Ian Hudson and Robert Chernomas |
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Corporate power is one of the strongest forces shaping our world. More than half of the top 100 economic entities today are private corporations. With their immense size comes commensurate influence, to the point where corporations are able to wreak social and environmental destruction with few serious consequences. Yet, amazingly, this subject is essentially absent from the study of economics.
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Upping The Anti: A Journal Of Theory And Action
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An excellent attempt to engage, address, and discuss the unresolved questions and dynamics within the struggles of anti-capitalism, anti-oppression, and anti-imperialism - while moving beyond the party building of the sectarian left, and the dead end of social democracy. The debut issue comes out strong, with lengthy interviews with Grace Lee Boggs and Ward Churchill; an extended essay on autonomist Marxism;...
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In Praise Of Barbarians: Essays Against Empire
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Mike Davis |
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Mike Davis attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers such contemporary idols as Mel Gibson and Howard Dean, debates with Tom Frank about "what's the matter with America," unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system, visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the U.S.-Mexico border, predicts ...
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Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire
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David Graeber |
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"If anthropology consists of making others logically compelling in their own cultural settings and intellectually revealing of the human condition, then David Graeber is the consumate anthropologist. Not only does he accomplish this profound feat, he redoubles it by the critical task—now more urgent than ever—of making the possibilities of other people's worlds the basis for understanding our own...
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Planet Of Slums
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Mike Davis |
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According to the united nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, even economic growth. Davis portrays a ...
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The No-Nonsense Guide To International Development
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Maggie Black |
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The excellent short introduction traces the history of development from its post-colonial beginnings, and examines the relationship between development and economic growth, the impact development has had on the living conditions of the poor and on the environment, and whether development will have a specific role in the future, or whether it will simplly subsumed under the concept of globalization.
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The No-Nonsense Guide To World Poverty
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Jeremy Seabrook |
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Why are so many people poor in a world that's richer than ever before? Seabrook summarizes his celebrated work on the meaning of poverty, drawing on the experience of poor people themselves in both rich and poor societies. He concludes that the opposite of poverty is not wealth but 'sufficiency'. The relatively poor majority of the world's people do not aim to be rich, but to be safe. Economic growth will ne...
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