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Rowan Cahill | April 28, 2026
Rowan Cahill offers details and a short overview of his latest book Cold War Kid: Resisting the Vietnam War to be launched 29 May 2026 at Gleebooks in Sydney, register for free in the blog post's link.
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Posts Tagged ‘social movements’
Beyond Molotovs
Inés Durán Matute | Francisco De Parres Gómez | October 1, 2024
In an anticapitalist spirit, the book Beyond Molotovs. A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies is a collection of 50 first-hand accounts from activists, collectives, movements, artists and scholars from around the world, showing us the creativity to subvert authoritarian ideologies.
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The Silences of Dispossession
Sakshi Aravind | November 14, 2023
Mercedes Biocca’s The Silences of Dispossession: Agrarian Change and Indigenous Politics in Argentina provides excellent accounts of Indigenous participation in and resistance to the dispossession by the capitalist and neoliberal apparatuses of accumulation and elimination.
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The Catalan social and solidarity economy
Emma Lees | April 12, 2022
In Catalonia, in recent years, a myriad of enterprises and organisations have emerged which prioritise putting people, planet, and social justice at the centre of their socio-economic activity, rather than capital and profit-maximisation. This phenomenon is referred to in Catalonia as the [...]
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The Politics of Permaculture
Terry Leahy | September 7, 2021
Permaculture, it might be said, is notorious on the left for its anti-political standpoint. Mollison’s Global Gardener 1991 documentary TV series shows him strolling across a misty paddock, reflecting on his realisation that political protests achieved little. Instead, he suggests, planting [...]
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What are Social Movements in Latin America?: Response to Readers
Ronaldo Munck | December 17, 2020
Once a book is written it no longer ‘belongs’ to the author so I will not respond defensively to the thoughtful readers in this forum. Rather, I will join them in seeking to take the debate on social movements forward, conscious that often the students of social movement are also activists. [...]
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Mapping the Mosaic of Latin American Social Movements
Sam Halvorsen | December 3, 2020
Ronaldo Munck’s latest book, Social Movements in Latin America, is a welcome addition to the Anglophone literature. For several decades social movements have been one of the most characteristic features of Latin America’s political and cultural landscape. Despite some early works – such as [...]
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Challenging Social Movements in Latin America
Pablo Pozzi | November 26, 2020
Ronaldo Munck’s latest book, Social Movements in Latin America, is a welcome addition to an ongoing discussion on protest movements in the twenty-first century. As stated in the Introduction, Munck seeks to avoid the pitfalls in what he terms “the universal validity for what is sometimes [...]
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