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Power Politics
Arundhati Roy
Pages: 192Edition: Updated Edition
ISBN: 0-89608-668-2
Format: paper
Release Date: 2002-01-01
This book is also available in cloth
Arundhati Roy, the internationally acclaimed author
of The God of Small Things, explores the politics of writing
and the human and environmental costs of development in Power Politics.
Roy challenges the idea that only experts can speak out on such urgent
matters as nuclear war, the privatization of India’s power supply by Enron—now
the center of a major national controversy over its corrupt business practices—
and the construction of monumental dams in India, which will dislocate millions
of people. “If [Roy] continues to upset the globalization applecart like
a Tom Paine pamphleteer, she will either be greatly honored or thrown in jail,”
wrote Pawl Hawken in Wired Magazine.
When the US responded to the unconscionable attacks of September 11 by preparing to wage a war on Afghanistan, Roy wrote an internationally acclaimed essay, “The Algebra of Infinite Justice,” calling on the world not to use violence against innocent people in Afghanistan. After the war began, she wrote another powerful challenge to the war, “War is Peace.” The essays were printed around the world and were discussed on ABC's Nightline, in Newsweek, and in the New York Times. The expanded edition of Power Politics includes the fully annotated versions of “The Algebra of Infinite Justice” and “War is Peace.”
Power Politics was a Book Sense 76 featured choice for November and December 2001 and was a Los Angeles Times “Discoveries” selection in October 2001.
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Table of Contents
Maps
1
The Ladies Have Feelings, So…Shall We Leave It to the Experts?
2
Power Politics: The Reincarnation of Rumpelstiltskin
3
On Citizens' Rights to Express Dissent
4
The Algebra of Infinite Justice
5
War is Peace
Glossary
Arundhati Roy
Click here to view Arundhati Roy's full Author PageArundhati Roy's novel The God of Small Things was awarded the Booker Prize in 1997. It sold over 6,000,000 copies worldwide and has been translated into over 20 languages. The recipient of the 2002 Lannan Foundation Prize for Cultural Freedom, she was also granted the 2006 Sahitya Akademi Award for her book The Algebra of Infinite Justice, but refused the award to protest Indian governmental actions. Her nonfiction books include An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire (South End Press, 2004); War Talk (South End Press, 2003); Power Politics (South End Press, 2002); and The Cost of Living (Modern Library, 1998); and she discusses international politics further in The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Interviews with Arundhati Roy, with David Barsamian (South End Press, 2004). She lives in New Delhi, India.