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Released 2011-12-15
Moving the idea of sovereignty beyond the narrow confines of the nation-state, beyond the concept of a power one either has or lacks, this paradigm-shifting work examines the new ways colonized peoples resist current forms of domination, placing both their subjugation and their resistance within broader contemporary political contexts. A valuable contribution to this debate around indigenous conceptions of sovereignty, Sovereign Acts goes further than legal frameworks, to investigate the relationships between sovereignty, gender, sexuality, representation, and the body.
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Dean Spade
Released 2011-11-11
Normal Life is the highly anticipated full-length book debut by Dean Spade, heralded as a deeply influential voice on trans and queer liberation struggles. Setting forth a politic that goes beyond the quest for mere legal inclusion, Spade illustrates how and why we must seek nothing less than the radical transformations justice and liberation require.
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Ching-In Chen (Editor), Jai Dulani (Editor), and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Editor); Andrea Smith (preface)
Released 2011-05-01
The extent of the violence affecting our communities is staggering. But to effectively resist violence out there, we must challenge how it is reproduced—often by those we call friend, lover, ally—right where we live. This collection offers potentially life-saving alternatives for survivor safety while holding perpetrators accountable while building a revolution where no one is left behind.
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Seema Kazi
Released 2011-01-01
Breaking the long silence on one of the most dangerously misunderstood crises of our time, Kazi boldly holds up a mirror in one hand and a warning in the other: The world may continue to ignore Kashmir, but only at our peril.
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Vandana Shiva
Released 2010-11-01
“Vandana Shiva is one of the world's most prominent radical scientists . . . in Staying Alive she defines the links between ecological crises, colonialism, and the oppression of women. It is a scholarly and polemical plea for the rediscovery of the ‘feminine principle’ in human interaction with the natural world, not as a gender-based quality, rather an organizing principle, a way of seeing the world.” —The Guardian
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Vandana Shiva
Released 2010-08-01
Biopiratería (Biopiracy) charts the impacts of globalized, corporate agriculture on small farmers, the environment, and the food we eat. Since the original English-language publication, Shiva has successfully fought to overturn Monsanto’s seed patents and help create a global food movement. Examining the politics of genetically engineered seeds, patents on life, and aquaculture in an increasingly “go green” economy, this classic book will continue to inform our understanding of what sustainability really means.
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Vandana Shiva
Released 2010-08-01
Vandana Shiva reveals how many of the most important conflicts of our time, most often camouflaged as ethnic or religious wars, are in fact conflicts over scarce but vital natural resources. Using her remarkable knowledge of science and society, the globally renowned physicist and ecowarrior analyzes the historical erosion of communal water rights. Whether it’s the international water trade, damming, mining, or aquafarming, Shiva exposes the destruction of the earth and the disenfranchisement of the world's poor—and demands nothing less than the full restoration of our natural rights to a precious common good.
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Eli Clare; Dean Spade (afterword)
Released 2009-08-01
With an updated tenth-anniversary edition, this groundbreaking publication of Exile & Pride offers an intersectional framework for understanding how our bodies actually experience the daily hydraulics of oppression, power, and resistance. Eli’s intelligence and wit illuminate his ruminations on cerebral palsy, child abuse, nature, gender, sexuality, and class.
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George Monbiot
Released 2009-03-01
Climate change is the greatest problem facing our world. Is the problem too big? Is it too late? In Heat, one of the world's leading environmental activists proves with rigorous analysis—and great passion—that there is a way forward. Now in the long-awaited paperback.
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Vandana Shiva
Released 2008-10-01
In Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva brilliantly reveals what connects humanity’s most urgent crises—food insecurity, peak oil, and climate change—and why any attempt to solve one without addressing the others will get us nowhere.
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Frank B. Wilderson, III
Released 2008-08-01
A literary tour de force sure to spark fierce debate in both America and South Africa, Incognegro radically retells a personal and political story most Americans think we already know—not just about South Africa, but about us. Winner of the 2008 American Book Award/Before Columbus Foundation.
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Scott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew
Released 2008-07-01
Educates city dwellers on how to create locally-based, ecologically sustainable communities, providing instructions on all types of urban production and conservation, including worm composting, humanure, rainwater collection, and raising chickens. Toolbox for Sustainable City Living is a must-read for anyone committed to creating sustainable communities in urban environments.
(This Toolbox is an outgrowth of Radical Urban Sustainability Training.)
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Jamie Bissonette
Released 2008-04-05
After the Attica massacre awoke peoples' consciousness around the world, Massachusetts prisoners, working with 1530 civilian volunteers, won control of the operation of a maximum-security prison. When the Prisoners Ran Walpole brings this vital history to life, revealing what can happen when there is public will for change and trust that the incarcerated can achieve it. Their story is both proof of their deep humanity and hope for abolition.
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Released 2007-10-01
**Special Climate Justice Offer** Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed harvests the work and ideas produced by thousands of communities around the world. Collectively engaged activists offer viable solutions for reversing perhaps the worst food crisis faced in human history.
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Robert Jensen
Released 2007-09-01
At once alarming and thought-provoking, Getting Off asks tough but crucial questions about pornography, manhood, and the way toward genuine social justice.
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Kristian Williams
Released 2007-08-01
More than a history of police brutality, Our Enemies in Blue examines the centrality of violence to everyday policing. From slave patrols to “community policing,” Williams traces the evolution of the modern police force as a violent guard of the social order.
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Released 2007-05-01
An essential intervention into the understanding of race and space. Black Geographies maps the political development and origins of black spaces from the middle passage to dancehall and hip hop.
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Dana Frank
Released 2007-05-01
Banana workers are waging a quiet revolution in Latin American labor organizing by making women's issues central. Their successes disrupt the popular image of the Latin American woman worker as a passive bystander and offer a new model for international labor solidarity.
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George Monbiot
Released 2007-04-23
Climate change is the greatest problem facing our world. Is the problem too big? Is it too late? In Heat, one of the world's leading environmental activists proves with rigorous analysis—and great passion—that there is a way forward.
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Released 2007-04-01
Beyond questioning the effectiveness of nonviolent resistance How Nonviolence Protects the State argues that an insistence on only nonviolent tactics reinforces state power. In chapters such as “Nonviolence is Racist” and “Nonviolence is Patriarchal” Peter Gelderloos passionately calls for activist to look beyond easy answers and to mount a real challenge to power. Not a call to arms, but a call to realize that armed resistance cannot be dismissed out-of-hand.
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INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Released 2007-03-01
Urgent and visionary, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded is an unbeholden exposé of the “nonprofit industrial complex” and its quietly devastating role in managing dissent.
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South End Press Collective (editors); Afterword by Joy James
Released 2007-02-01
Short and accessible, this anthology, featuring such voices as Common Ground, INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, Suheir Hammad, Jordan Flaherty, and Ross Gelbspan, takes readers beyond the Superdome. It explores the complexity of this turning point in US history as representative of the nation’s direction and priorities.
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Jane Jeong Trenka (Editor), Julia Chinyere Oparah (Editor), and Sun Yung Shin (Editor)
Released 2006-10-10
Moving beyond personal narrative, these transracially adopted writers from around the world tackle difficult questions about how to survive the racist and ethnocentric worlds they inhabit, what connects the countries relinquishing their children to the countries importing them, why poor families of color have their children removed rather than supported—about who, ultimately, they are. In their inquiry, they unseat conventional understandings of adoption politics, ultimately reframing the controversy as a debate that encompasses human rights, peace, and reproductive justice.
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INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Released 2006-10-10
Springing from the work of the nation's largest grassroots multiracial feminist organization, this collection expands understandings about violence against women, clarifying how violence operates through race, class, gender, and nationality, and exposing the state's role in condoning and furthering violence.
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Vijay Prashad and Teo Ballvé; Editors
Released 2006-10-10
Vital changes are taking place in the political and social landscape of Latin America. From the pages of the well-respected NACLA Report we receive the riventing reports of 28 observers who map the struggles and victories, covering 11 countries from Argentina to Mexico. All who are interested in resisting globalization should be paying attention.
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Sovereign Acts (paperback original)
Frances Negrón-MuntanerReleased 2011-12-15
Moving the idea of sovereignty beyond the narrow confines of the nation-state, beyond the concept of a power one either has or lacks, this paradigm-shifting work examines the new ways colonized peoples resist current forms of domination, placing both their subjugation and their resistance within broader contemporary political contexts. A valuable contribution to this debate around indigenous conceptions of sovereignty, Sovereign Acts goes further than legal frameworks, to investigate the relationships between sovereignty, gender, sexuality, representation, and the body.
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Normal Life (Paperback original)
Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of LawDean Spade
Released 2011-11-11
Normal Life is the highly anticipated full-length book debut by Dean Spade, heralded as a deeply influential voice on trans and queer liberation struggles. Setting forth a politic that goes beyond the quest for mere legal inclusion, Spade illustrates how and why we must seek nothing less than the radical transformations justice and liberation require.
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The Revolution Starts at Home (Paperback original)
Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist CommunitiesChing-In Chen (Editor), Jai Dulani (Editor), and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Editor); Andrea Smith (preface)
Released 2011-05-01
The extent of the violence affecting our communities is staggering. But to effectively resist violence out there, we must challenge how it is reproduced—often by those we call friend, lover, ally—right where we live. This collection offers potentially life-saving alternatives for survivor safety while holding perpetrators accountable while building a revolution where no one is left behind.
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In Kashmir (Paperback original)
Gender, Militarization, and the Modern Nation-StateSeema Kazi
Released 2011-01-01
Breaking the long silence on one of the most dangerously misunderstood crises of our time, Kazi boldly holds up a mirror in one hand and a warning in the other: The world may continue to ignore Kashmir, but only at our peril.
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Staying Alive (Paperback original)
Women, Ecology and DevelopmentVandana Shiva
Released 2010-11-01
“Vandana Shiva is one of the world's most prominent radical scientists . . . in Staying Alive she defines the links between ecological crises, colonialism, and the oppression of women. It is a scholarly and polemical plea for the rediscovery of the ‘feminine principle’ in human interaction with the natural world, not as a gender-based quality, rather an organizing principle, a way of seeing the world.” —The Guardian
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Biopiratería (Paperback original)
El Saqueo de la Naturaleza y del ConocimientoVandana Shiva
Released 2010-08-01
Biopiratería (Biopiracy) charts the impacts of globalized, corporate agriculture on small farmers, the environment, and the food we eat. Since the original English-language publication, Shiva has successfully fought to overturn Monsanto’s seed patents and help create a global food movement. Examining the politics of genetically engineered seeds, patents on life, and aquaculture in an increasingly “go green” economy, this classic book will continue to inform our understanding of what sustainability really means.
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Las Guerras del Agua (Paperback original)
Privatización, Contaminación y LucroVandana Shiva
Released 2010-08-01
Vandana Shiva reveals how many of the most important conflicts of our time, most often camouflaged as ethnic or religious wars, are in fact conflicts over scarce but vital natural resources. Using her remarkable knowledge of science and society, the globally renowned physicist and ecowarrior analyzes the historical erosion of communal water rights. Whether it’s the international water trade, damming, mining, or aquafarming, Shiva exposes the destruction of the earth and the disenfranchisement of the world's poor—and demands nothing less than the full restoration of our natural rights to a precious common good.
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Exile & Pride (paperback original)
Disability, Queerness, and LiberationEli Clare; Dean Spade (afterword)
Released 2009-08-01
With an updated tenth-anniversary edition, this groundbreaking publication of Exile & Pride offers an intersectional framework for understanding how our bodies actually experience the daily hydraulics of oppression, power, and resistance. Eli’s intelligence and wit illuminate his ruminations on cerebral palsy, child abuse, nature, gender, sexuality, and class.
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Heat (Paperback)
How to Stop the Planet From BurningGeorge Monbiot
Released 2009-03-01
Climate change is the greatest problem facing our world. Is the problem too big? Is it too late? In Heat, one of the world's leading environmental activists proves with rigorous analysis—and great passion—that there is a way forward. Now in the long-awaited paperback.
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Soil Not Oil (paperback original)
Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate CrisisVandana Shiva
Released 2008-10-01
In Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva brilliantly reveals what connects humanity’s most urgent crises—food insecurity, peak oil, and climate change—and why any attempt to solve one without addressing the others will get us nowhere.
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Incognegro
A Memoir of Exile and ApartheidFrank B. Wilderson, III
Released 2008-08-01
A literary tour de force sure to spark fierce debate in both America and South Africa, Incognegro radically retells a personal and political story most Americans think we already know—not just about South Africa, but about us. Winner of the 2008 American Book Award/Before Columbus Foundation.
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Toolbox for Sustainable City Living (paperback original)
A Do-It-Ourselves GuideScott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew
Released 2008-07-01
Educates city dwellers on how to create locally-based, ecologically sustainable communities, providing instructions on all types of urban production and conservation, including worm composting, humanure, rainwater collection, and raising chickens. Toolbox for Sustainable City Living is a must-read for anyone committed to creating sustainable communities in urban environments.
(This Toolbox is an outgrowth of Radical Urban Sustainability Training.)
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When the Prisoners Ran Walpole (paperback original)
A True Story in the Movement for Prison AbolitionJamie Bissonette
Released 2008-04-05
After the Attica massacre awoke peoples' consciousness around the world, Massachusetts prisoners, working with 1530 civilian volunteers, won control of the operation of a maximum-security prison. When the Prisoners Ran Walpole brings this vital history to life, revealing what can happen when there is public will for change and trust that the incarcerated can achieve it. Their story is both proof of their deep humanity and hope for abolition.
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Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed (paperback original)
Vandana Shiva (Editor), Carlo Petrini (Contributor), and Michael Pollan (Contributor)Released 2007-10-01
**Special Climate Justice Offer** Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed harvests the work and ideas produced by thousands of communities around the world. Collectively engaged activists offer viable solutions for reversing perhaps the worst food crisis faced in human history.
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Getting Off (paperback original)
Pornography and the End of MasculinityRobert Jensen
Released 2007-09-01
At once alarming and thought-provoking, Getting Off asks tough but crucial questions about pornography, manhood, and the way toward genuine social justice.
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Our Enemies in Blue
Police and Power in America (Revised Edition)Kristian Williams
Released 2007-08-01
More than a history of police brutality, Our Enemies in Blue examines the centrality of violence to everyday policing. From slave patrols to “community policing,” Williams traces the evolution of the modern police force as a violent guard of the social order.
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Black Geographies and the Politics of Place
Katherine McKittrick (Editor) and Clyde Woods (Editor)Released 2007-05-01
An essential intervention into the understanding of race and space. Black Geographies maps the political development and origins of black spaces from the middle passage to dancehall and hip hop.
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El Poder de las Mujeres Es Poder Sindical (paperback original)
La Transformación de los Sindicatos Bananeros en América LatinaDana Frank
Released 2007-05-01
Banana workers are waging a quiet revolution in Latin American labor organizing by making women's issues central. Their successes disrupt the popular image of the Latin American woman worker as a passive bystander and offer a new model for international labor solidarity.
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Heat (cloth)
How to Stop the Planet From BurningGeorge Monbiot
Released 2007-04-23
Climate change is the greatest problem facing our world. Is the problem too big? Is it too late? In Heat, one of the world's leading environmental activists proves with rigorous analysis—and great passion—that there is a way forward.
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How Nonviolence Protects the State (paperback original)
Peter GelderloosReleased 2007-04-01
Beyond questioning the effectiveness of nonviolent resistance How Nonviolence Protects the State argues that an insistence on only nonviolent tactics reinforces state power. In chapters such as “Nonviolence is Racist” and “Nonviolence is Patriarchal” Peter Gelderloos passionately calls for activist to look beyond easy answers and to mount a real challenge to power. Not a call to arms, but a call to realize that armed resistance cannot be dismissed out-of-hand.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial ComplexINCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Released 2007-03-01
Urgent and visionary, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded is an unbeholden exposé of the “nonprofit industrial complex” and its quietly devastating role in managing dissent.
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What Lies Beneath
Katrina, Race, and the State of the NationSouth End Press Collective (editors); Afterword by Joy James
Released 2007-02-01
Short and accessible, this anthology, featuring such voices as Common Ground, INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, Suheir Hammad, Jordan Flaherty, and Ross Gelbspan, takes readers beyond the Superdome. It explores the complexity of this turning point in US history as representative of the nation’s direction and priorities.
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Outsiders Within (Paper)
Writing on Transracial AdoptionJane Jeong Trenka (Editor), Julia Chinyere Oparah (Editor), and Sun Yung Shin (Editor)
Released 2006-10-10
Moving beyond personal narrative, these transracially adopted writers from around the world tackle difficult questions about how to survive the racist and ethnocentric worlds they inhabit, what connects the countries relinquishing their children to the countries importing them, why poor families of color have their children removed rather than supported—about who, ultimately, they are. In their inquiry, they unseat conventional understandings of adoption politics, ultimately reframing the controversy as a debate that encompasses human rights, peace, and reproductive justice.
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Color of Violence (Paper)
The INCITE! AnthologyINCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Released 2006-10-10
Springing from the work of the nation's largest grassroots multiracial feminist organization, this collection expands understandings about violence against women, clarifying how violence operates through race, class, gender, and nationality, and exposing the state's role in condoning and furthering violence.
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Dispatches from Latin America (Paperback original)
On the Frontlines Against NeoliberalismVijay Prashad and Teo Ballvé; Editors
Released 2006-10-10
Vital changes are taking place in the political and social landscape of Latin America. From the pages of the well-respected NACLA Report we receive the riventing reports of 28 observers who map the struggles and victories, covering 11 countries from Argentina to Mexico. All who are interested in resisting globalization should be paying attention.
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