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Weaving together a diverse range of scholarly-activist
intersectional voices from around the world, Critical Animal
Studies and Activism: International Perspectives on Total
Liberation and Intersectionality co-edited by Anthony J. Nocella II
and Richard J. White makes a powerful contribution to knowledge and
understanding. It is essential reading for environmentalists,
animal advocates, social justice organizers, policy-makers, social
change-makers, and indeed for all those who care about the future
of this planet. This book spans many scholar disciplines and
activist social movements, and provides new insights to fundamental
debates surrounding inter-species justice, liberation, and
democracy. This critical theory for total liberation book expands
the understanding of one struggle one fight: for human freedom, for
animal rights, and for the liberation of the earth herself. Rooted
in a radical praxis, the book argues that those in academia that
claim critical animal studies, need to hit the streets with the
protesters and the protesters need to join the theoretical
conversations. Theory and practice and not binaries, but two pieces
of a larger goal. Read this book and use its arguments to take the
fight to smash capitalism, oppression, and domination in all its
forms!
How do activists learn radical politics? Does the increasing
neoliberalisation of education limit the possibilities of
transgressive pedagogies? And in what contexts have anarchist
geographers successfully shaped alternative pedagogic practices?
Pedagogy is central to geographical knowledge and represents one of
the key sites of contact where anarchist approaches can inform and
revitalize contemporary geographical thought. This book looks at
how anarchist geographers have shaped pedagogies that move towards
bottom-up, 'organic' transformations of societies, spaces,
subjectivities, and modes of organizing, where the importance of
direct action and prefigurative politics take precedence over
concerns about the state. Examining contemporary and historical
case studies across the world, from formal and informal contexts,
the chapters show the potential for new imaginaries of anarchist
geographies that will challenge and inspire geographers to travel
beyond the traditional frontiers of geographical knowledge.
The last two decades have seen a re-birth of practices and
principles that connect with the 'soul' of left-libertarianism,
although they may not explicitly engage with the anarchist
tradition. From practices of mapping and land-use planning to local
protests and transnational social movements, this book explores a
variety of case studies that trace the influences of, and
affinities between, anarchist and geographic practice. The chapters
explore the vast possibilities of inventive, exploratory
libertarian practices from contemporary and historic contexts
around the globe. They examine the ways in which various spatial
practices have been compatible with left-libertarian principles,
and explore the extent to which anarchists, neo-anarchists and
libertarian autonomists have animated these waves of protest and
forms of resistance. In an age that is desperately in need of
critical new directions, this volume shows that a serious (re)turn
toward anarchist thought and practice can challenge and inspire
geographers to travel beyond their traditional frontiers of
geographical praxis.
The last two decades have seen a re-birth of practices and
principles that connect with the 'soul' of left-libertarianism,
although they may not explicitly engage with the anarchist
tradition. From practices of mapping and land-use planning to local
protests and transnational social movements, this book explores a
variety of case studies that trace the influences of, and
affinities between, anarchist and geographic practice. The chapters
explore the vast possibilities of inventive, exploratory
libertarian practices from contemporary and historic contexts
around the globe. They examine the ways in which various spatial
practices have been compatible with left-libertarian principles,
and explore the extent to which anarchists, neo-anarchists and
libertarian autonomists have animated these waves of protest and
forms of resistance. In an age that is desperately in need of
critical new directions, this volume shows that a serious (re)turn
toward anarchist thought and practice can challenge and inspire
geographers to travel beyond their traditional frontiers of
geographical praxis.
Space is never a neutral 'stage' on which social actors play their
roles, sometimes cooperating with each other, sometimes struggling
against each other. Space has multiple and complex functions in the
development of social relations, it is a reference for
identity-building, a material condition for existence, and an
instrument of power. This book explores the ways in which space has
been used for resistance, especially in left-libertarian contexts.
From the early anarchist organizing efforts in the 19th century to
the contemporary social movements of the Mexican Zapatistas, the
chapters examine a range of cases to illustrate both the limits and
potentialities of utilizing space within anarchist practice. By
theorizing the production of anarchist spaces, the book aims to
foster new geographical imaginations that energetically cultivate
alternative practices to challenge the status quo. It shows that
spatial re-organization, spatial practices and spatial resources
are also a basic condition for human emancipation, autonomy and
freedom.
Space is never a neutral 'stage' on which social actors play their
roles, sometimes cooperating with each other, sometimes struggling
against each other. Space has multiple and complex functions in the
development of social relations, it is a reference for
identity-building, a material condition for existence, and an
instrument of power. This book explores the ways in which space has
been used for resistance, especially in left-libertarian contexts.
From the early anarchist organizing efforts in the 19th century to
the contemporary social movements of the Mexican Zapatistas, the
chapters examine a range of cases to illustrate both the limits and
potentialities of utilizing space within anarchist practice. By
theorizing the production of anarchist spaces, the book aims to
foster new geographical imaginations that energetically cultivate
alternative practices to challenge the status quo. It shows that
spatial re-organization, spatial practices and spatial resources
are also a basic condition for human emancipation, autonomy and
freedom.
How do activists learn radical politics? Does the increasing
neoliberalisation of education limit the possibilities of
transgressive pedagogies? And in what contexts have anarchist
geographers successfully shaped alternative pedagogic practices?
Pedagogy is central to geographical knowledge and represents one of
the key sites of contact where anarchist approaches can inform and
revitalize contemporary geographical thought. This book looks at
how anarchist geographers have shaped pedagogies that move towards
bottom-up, 'organic' transformations of societies, spaces,
subjectivities, and modes of organizing, where the importance of
direct action and prefigurative politics take precedence over
concerns about the state. Examining contemporary and historical
case studies across the world, from formal and informal contexts,
the chapters show the potential for new imaginaries of anarchist
geographies that will challenge and inspire geographers to travel
beyond the traditional frontiers of geographical knowledge.
Building upon anarchist critiques of racism, sexism, ableism and
classism, this collection of new essays melds anarchism with animal
advocacy in arguing that speciesism is an ideological and social
norm rooted in hierarchy and inequality. Rising from the
anarchist-influenced Occupy Movement, this book brings together
international scholars and activists from the fields of anarchist
and critical animal studies. The contributors challenge activists
and academics to look more critically into the causes of speciesism
and to take a broader view of peace, social justice and the nature
of oppression. Animal advocates have long argued that speciesism
will end if the humanity adopts a vegan ethic. This concept is
developed into the argument that the vegan ethic promises the most
change if it is also anti-capitalist and against all forms of
domination.
From The Birth of Tragedy on, Nietzsche worked to comprehend the
nature of the individual. Richard White shows how Nietzsche was
inspired and guided by the question of personal "sovereignty" and
how through his writings he sought to provoke the very sovereignty
he described. White argues that Nietzsche is a philosopher our
contemporary age must therefore come to understand if we are ever
to secure a genuinely meaningful direction for the future.
Profoundly relevant to our era, Nietzsche's philosophy addresses a
version of individuality that allows us to move beyond the
self-dispossession of mass society and the alternative of selfish
individualism--to fully understand how one becomes what one is. A
volume in the International Nietzsche Studies series, edited by
Richard Schacht
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