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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463726403321

Autore

Jeffries Fiona

Titolo

Nothing to lose but our fear / / Fiona Jeffries ; in conversation with Lydia Cacho [and eight others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Zed Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-85649-545-0

1-78360-184-1

1-78360-414-X

1-78360-416-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

Critique Influence Change

Disciplina

306.2

Soggetti

Fear - Social aspects

Social control

Government, Resistance to

Scholars

Journalists

Human rights workers

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; About the Author ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; Part I: Historicizing ; 1. Marcus Rediker: The Theatre and Counter-Theatre of Fear ; Political Formations ; Histories of Violence ; Pirate Ways of Knowing ; Violent Pedagogies ; Exemplary Punishment, Refusal of Fear ; Accumulating Bodies ; Laughing at Fear ; Reflections on the Violence of Abstraction ; 2. Silvia Federici: Remembering Resistance from the Witch Hunts to Alter-Globalization; Fear Needn't Paralyze You ; Movement, Solidarity, and Love ; Intimate Resistance

A Political Life in Motion Terrorizing Women ; The Divisions among Us ; Confronting Fear ; Part II: Theorizing ; 3. David Harvey: Indignant Cities ; Urban Unrest as an Impetus to Social Inquiry ; Spaces of Hope and



Fear ; Stories of Fear ; Fears of the Seen and the Unseen ; Suburban Fears ; Crisis Cycles ; Alliances of the Dispossessed and the Discontented ; 4. Nandita Sharma: Terror and Mercy at the Border ; An Initiation in Violence ; Alternative Routes ; Ideal Victims and Benevolent Rescuers ; Fear Nation ; Love and Fear ; No Borders, Global Democracy

5. John Holloway: We Are the Fragility of the System Asking We Walk ; Dignity against Fear ; Screaming in the Darkness ; Thinking through Crisis ; Living in the Subjunctive ; Fear's Antagonists ; Resonances ; Against and Beyond ; Dignity ; Fear and Debt ; Part III: Practicing; 6. Lydia Cacho: Dangerous Journalism ; Journeys in Lost Cities ; Impunity ; A Functional Dictatorship ; Fears of the Powerful ; 7. Sandra Moran: Feminist Indignation ; Power Over, Power To ; Indignation ; Legacy of War ; Resistance ; 8. Gustavo Esteva: Political Courage and the Strange Persistence of Hope ; Beginnings

Global Fear Coalitions of the Discontented ; Security without the Security State ; Political Courage ; Temporalities of Hope and Fear ; 9. Wendy Mendez: Remembering the Disappeared, Revealing Hidden Histories of Resistance ; Remembering ; Closing the Cycle of Death ; Women's Public Struggle against Fear ; Uncovering Histories ; De-militarizing the Mind ; Our Love Is Bigger Than Their Fear ; Letting the Walls Speak ; Fearless Speech ; Index ; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

A unique look at how the experience of fear prevents political change, with instructions and examples of how to overcome it from leading figures on the left.