movements

Mon 6.21.10| Divorced from Reality?

Barclay et al., Queer Mobilizations: LGBT Activists Confront the Law NYU Press, 2009

Ellen Ann Andersen, Out of the Closets & Into the Courts U. of Michigan Press, 2004

Is divorce a danger to marriage, or one of its key benefits? How is divorce framed differently in the legal and cultural arenas? And when are legal decisions favorable to a social movement actually counterproductive? Ellen Ann Andersen investigates the constraints under which movement activists, including proponents of marriage equality, operate.

Tues 4.27.10| Australian Angst; More Mueller

Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap Penguin, 2010

Turbulence

Turbulence Collective, What Would It Mean To Win? PM Press, 2010

In a sense, Christos Tsiolkas's new novel is a form of social commentary: about where Australia is now, what race and class dynamics there are like, and what's happened to bonds of family and community in the face of rampant materialism. And in the second of a two-part interview, Tadzio Mueller addresses the question of protest movement dialogue and strategizing.

Wed 2.10.10| C. Wright Mills Reconsidered

C. Wright Mills liked to think big. His analyses of power elites, white collar workplaces, the Cuban Revolution, and potential sources of radical social transformation were influential with thinkers, activists, and concerned citizens in many parts of the globe. Daniel Geary describes Mills's ideas and their impact on a number of social movements, especially the New Left.

Wed 9.09.09| C. Wright Mills Reconsidered

C. Wright Mills liked to think big. His analyses of power elites, white collar workplaces, the Cuban Revolution, and potential sources of radical social transformation were influential with thinkers, activists, and concerned citizens in many parts of the globe. Daniel Geary describes Mills's ideas and their impact on a number of social movements, especially the New Left.

Mon 6.15.09| Gay Liberation

Tommi Avicolli Mecca, ed., Smash the Church, Smash the State! The Early Years of Gay Liberation City Lights, 2009
Forty years to the month after the Stonewall Riots sparked the gay liberation movement, a new volume edited by Tommi Avicolli Mecca remembers the radical activism of the '60s and '70s and assesses the current state of LGBT organizing. Paola Bacchetta's essay recalls her involvement with a lesbian political group in Philadelphia.

Mon 4.06.09| Crime, Protest, Neoliberalism

Pamela Oliver, "Repression and Crime Control" Mobilization

Patrick Bond, "End of Neoliberalism? Sorry, Not Yet" ZSpace

Are crime and political dissent mutually exclusive? Or is crime control connected to the control and repression of political movements? Pamela Oliver considers these questions in the context of the Black urban riots of the 1960s and the ongoing mass incarceration of African Americans. Also, Patrick Bond comments on the global economic strategy announced at last week's G-20 summit.
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