The history of disruption : social struggle in the Atlantic world /
The dominant story of movement politics has privileged some forms of historical struggle while obscuring others. This reveals the complicity of social movements in the very forces they have struggled against. This book interweaves the histories of disparate social struggles as expressed in food riot...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Brooklyn, New York :
Verso,
2024.
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| Summary: | The dominant story of movement politics has privileged some forms of historical struggle while obscuring others. This reveals the complicity of social movements in the very forces they have struggled against. This book interweaves the histories of disparate social struggles as expressed in food riots, Caribbean maroon communities, Atlantic pirates, secret societies and syndicalism, the student New Left, Black Power, radical feminism, operaismo and the Zapatistas into a history of politics as disruption. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781804293904 1804293903 |