{"product_id":"keywords-for-radicals-the-contested-vocabulary-of-late-capitalist-struggle-paperback","title":"Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKelly Fritsch\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eClare O'Connor\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eA. K. Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn extraordinary volume that provides nothing less than a detailed cognitive mapping of the terrain for everyone who wants to engage in radical politics.--Slavoj Zizek, author of \u003ci\u003eLiving in the End Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eKeywords for Radicals\u003c\/i\u003e recognizes that language is both a weapon and terrain of struggle, and that all of us committed to changing our social and material reality, to making a world justice-rich and oppression-free, cannot drop words such as 'democracy, ' 'occupation, ' 'colonialism, ' 'race, ' 'sovereignty, ' or 'love' without a fight. --Robin D. G. Kelley, author of \u003ci\u003eFreedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom its thought-provoking Introduction though its energizing accounts of the tensions underlying our most prized concepts, \u003ci\u003eKeywords for Radicals \u003c\/i\u003ewill be indispensable to any scholar or activist who is serious about critique and change.--Stephen Duncombe, editor of \u003ci\u003eCultural Resistance Reader\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A primer for a new era of political protest.\" --Jack Halberstam, author of \u003ci\u003eFemale Masculinity\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This keywords upgrade puts powerful weapons into revolutionaries' hands. Unexpected entries expand into new terrain.... Indispensable.\" --Jodi Dean, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Communist Horizon\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eKeywords \u003c\/i\u003e(1976), Raymond Williams devised a vocabulary that reflected the vast social transformations of the post-war period. He revealed how these transformations could be grasped by investigating changes in word usage and meaning. \u003ci\u003eKeywords for Radicals\u003c\/i\u003e--part homage, part development--asks: What vocabulary might illuminate the social transformations marking our own contested present? How do these words define the imaginary of today's radical left? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith insights from dozens of scholars and troublemakers, \u003ci\u003eKeywords for Radicals \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the words that shape our political landscape. Each entry highlights a term's contested variations, traces its evolving usage, and speculates about what its historical mutations can tell us. More than a glossary, this is a crucial study of the power of language and the social contradictions hidden within it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors include Patrick Bond, Silvia Federici, John Bellamy Foster, Joy James, Ilan Papp , Justin Podur, Nina Power, Mab Segrest, and over forty others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKelly Fritsch \u003c\/b\u003eis a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eClare O'Connor \u003c\/b\u003eis a doctoral student in Communication at the University of Southern California.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA.K. Thompson \u003c\/b\u003eteaches social theory at Fordham University in New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKelly Fritsch: Kelly Fritsch researches, writes, and teaches about biopolitics, disability, technoscience, feminist theory, and anti-capitalist struggles. She is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in Women and Gender Studies and the Technoscience Research Unit at the University of Toronto. Her work appears in \u003ci\u003eBriarpatch Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eFoucault Studies\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHealth, Culture, and Society\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eDisability Studies Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e. Between 2008 and 2012, she served on the Editorial Committee of \u003ci\u003eUpping The Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action, \u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eClare O'Connor is a Los Angeles-based writer and activist. She is a doctoral student in Communication at the University of Southern California, and is former Coordinator of the Public Interest Research Group at the University of Toronto and co-founder of Toronto-based activist training program Tools for Change. Her publications include the chapter What Moves Us Now? The Contradictions of 'Community' in \u003ci\u003eWhose Streets? The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest\u003c\/i\u003e and contributions to \u003ci\u003eBriarpatch Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. Between 2008 and 2012, she served on the Editorial Committee of \u003ci\u003eUpping The Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action, \u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eAK Thompson got kicked out of high school in 1992 for publishing an underground newspaper called \u003ci\u003eThe Agitator\u003c\/i\u003e and has been an activist, writer, and social theorist ever since. Currently teaching social theory at Fordham University, his publications include \u003ci\u003eBlack Bloc, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent\u003c\/i\u003e (2010) and \u003ci\u003eSociology for Changing the World: Social Movements\/Social Research\u003ci\u003e (2006). Between 2005 and 2012, he served on the Editorial Committee of \u003ci\u003eUpping The Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 350\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.7 x 8.5 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 03, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760175350048,"sku":"9781849352420","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1f8b4ba81bcd9fb1ef8feb60841a42f4.webp?v=1780173612","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/keywords-for-radicals-the-contested-vocabulary-of-late-capitalist-struggle-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}