Another Politics: Talking across Today's Transformative Movements - Softcover

Dixon, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520279026 ISBN 13: 9780520279025

Publisher: University of California Press, 2014

Synopsis

Amidst war, economic meltdown, and ecological crisis, a “new spirit of radicalism is blooming” from New York to Cairo, according to Chris Dixon. In Another Politics, he examines the trajectory of efforts that contributed to the radicalism of Occupy Wall Street and other recent movement upsurges. Drawing on voices of leading organizers across the United States and Canada, he delivers an engaging presentation of the histories and principles that shape many contemporary struggles.

Dixon outlines the work of activists aligned with anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, and anti-oppression politics and discusses the lessons they are learning in their efforts to create social transformation. The book explores solutions to the key challenge for today’s activists, organizers, fighters, and dreamers: building a substantive link between the work of “against,” which fights ruling institutions, and the work of “beyond,” which develops liberatory alternatives.

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From the Inside Flap:

“Another Politics is a much needed and indispensable exploration of the roots of efforts to develop radical politics leading up to Occupy Wall Street and beyond. With the collaboration of dozens of those involved in this process, Chris Dixon provides guidance for transformational change.”
―Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

“The product of a major research effort, based on more than two hundred interviews and conversations with organizers from contemporary social movements, Chris Dixon’s Another Politics is an invaluable book. It is a map to a new world of struggles and organizational forms, outside the logic of traditional political parties and unions, written with great clarity, insightfulness, and ability to listen to the new voices of our time. All those aspiring to be part of a broad process of social change should have Dixon’s book on their shelves.”
―Silvia Federici, author of Revolution at Point Zero and Caliban and the Witch

"Another Politics is an insightful, much-needed contribution to US and Canadian movements working for transformative change.  Chris Dixon provides a clear framework for interpreting the methods being developed across our local experiments and contextualizes them in the longer trajectories from which they developed.  Another Politics is revealing and energizing―it will be a great tool for scholars of social movements in activist reading groups and university classrooms.  It will also help activists engaged in vibrant local work learn about each other’s projects and approaches.  This book helps us understand what we’re doing, how we came to be doing it and why."
―Dean Spade, author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law

About the Author:

Chris Dixon is an activist, writer, and educator who received a PhD from the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His writing has appeared in We Are Many: Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation, Anarchist Studies, Clamor, the Earth First! Journal, Left Turn, Social Movement Studies, and Upping the Anti. He has been involved in transformative social movements for more than two decades.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0520279026
• ISBN 13: 9780520279025
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 355