{"product_id":"keywords-for-radicals","title":"Keywords for Radicals","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"An 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\u003e\"From 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 Pappé, 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","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48240402071810,"sku":"9781849352420","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0017\/0904\/7843\/files\/imageloader_641882ea-d31f-48d4-b48f-e77690f31394.jpg?v=1785502960","url":"https:\/\/thirdeyebag.com\/products\/keywords-for-radicals","provider":"Thirdeyebag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}