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The Entangled Activist - Learning to Recognise the Master's Tools (Paperback)
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The Entangled Activist - Learning to Recognise the Master's Tools (Paperback)
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"I'd been an activist for years. I'd marched, protested, blocked
the road, been arrested. I'd exposed how banks and tax havens fuel
corruption, poverty and environmental destruction. I'd launched a
campaign that rewrote the laws on secret company ownership in
dozens of countries. My research had contributed to the cluster
munitions ban and a treaty to control the arms trade. But despite
these efforts, my discomfort about activism was growing. Was I part
of the problem too?" The Entangled Activist is the story of how
activism is entangled in the problems it seeks to solve, told by a
hard-hitting campaigner who through personal experience -- as well
as extensively researched psycho-social enquiry -- comes to look at
activism very differently. After years of thinking that her task
was to 'get the bastards,' campaigner, writer and reporter Anthea
Lawson came to see that activism often emerges from the same
troubles it is trying to fix, and that its demons, including
hypocrisy, saviourism, burnout and treating other people badly, can
be a gateway to understanding the depth of what really needs to
change. Drawing on her own experience, critical analysis and
interviews with leading activists, Lawson looks under the surface
of our attempts to change the world to offer a timely and
eye-opening vision for transformative work. By considering how
unexamined shadows and assumptions get in the way of
well-intentioned activist goals, and how those at the forefront of
sociopolitical change are often caught up in the very systems and
ideologies they seek to change, Lawson dismantles hierarchies that
have shaped the field for too long. The Entangled Activist is a
profound call to acknowledge our entanglement with the world. To
those who are worried about the state of things but are skeptical
of 'activism', it offers possibilities for action that go beyond
righteousness and reactivity. And to activists who so want to help,
it mindfully unearths a different starting place, one where
transforming ourselves is unwaveringly part of transforming the
world.
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