Nothing to Lose But Our Fear
Resistance in Dangerous Times
by Fiona Jeffries, Marcus Rediker, Silvia Federici, David Harvey, Nandita Sharma, John Halloway, Lydia Cacho, Sandra Moran, Gustavo Esteva, and Wendy Mendez
Description
Since the global financial crisis, the right has sought to profit from people’s proliferating fears. But starting in 2010, mass protests against authoritarianism and manufactured scarcity began to rumble across the aggrieved streets and plazas of Tunis, Cairo, Athens, Madrid, New York City, Istanbul, and Mexico City, and have continued to unfold across the world. “The wall of fear came down!” protesters repeatedly exclaimed to media covering the protests in Tahrir Square.
As these uprisings gathered momentum, a systemic critique of the use of fear as a tool of social control grew louder and louder. While the scale of these new uprisings may be unprecedented, the sentiment is not unique to our time. Nothing to Lose but Our Fear brings together an international group of scholars and activists and asks them how can we think critically and act productively in a world awash in fear. Their conversations with Fiona Jeffries provoke consideration of the often hidden histories of people’s emancipatory practices and offer reflections that can help us understand the current global uprising against fear in new ways.
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World rights held.
Rights sold: English, German
Endorsements
“An eloquent and urgent book. Fiona Jeffries has assembled some of our planet’s most important thinkers, who help us figure out the present in order to imagine a better future.”
– Greg Grandin, author of The Empire of Necessity
"Multi-faceted, insightful, global: Fiona Jeffries’ conversations with some of our best contemporary theorists, activists, historians (and frequently all three at once) confront fear head-on and come out fighting. In-depth conversations tackle some of the thorniest topics confronting activists and theorists today: how best to understand the state? How best to fight against it? What types of global thinking and resistance can help us to think—and act—otherwise."
– Nina Power, author of One-Dimensional Woman
Reviews
"Jeffries has assembled the words of this impressive group of thinkers in Nothing to Lose But Our Fear to offer valuable insights into the ways fear is mobilized by neoliberal, patriarchal states around the globe, as well as how fear rallies individuals to act together in resistance."--Briarpatch Magazine
Author Biography
Fiona Jeffries holds a PhD in Communication Studies and is presently a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Policy Studies on Culture and Communities at Simon Fraser University.
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Between the Lines
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781771131704
- Publication Country or regionCanada
- FormatPaperback
- Pages208
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2015
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