Agitation with a Smile (eBook, ePUB)

Howard Zinn's Legacies and the Future of Activism
Redaktion: Bird, Stephen; Yesnowitz, Joshua C.; Silver, Adam

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Agitation with a Smile offers a reappraisal of Howard Zinn's political thought and situates his efforts in a contemporary context, looking toward the nature of activism and dissent in the future. This is the first book to provide a substantive account and assessment of Zinn's philosophy and approach to collective action and, to a larger extent, democracy. The contributors to this book explore the most effective mechanisms by which to arouse public support for seemingly radical positions and how current technological advancements may alter our perception of Zinn's activism. The book is a valuable guide to a new generation of activists and scholars of politics in gauging the lasting relevance and legacy of Zinn's ideals, concepts, and methodology. The text is neither fawning nor unduly critical, unlike many discussions of Zinn in popular culture. Rather, the contributors engage the various complexities and tensions present throughout Zinn's work and subject them to contemporary assessment. This is a multidisciplinary and international approach to Howard Zinn's intellectual and activist canon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317264026
• Artikelnr.: 49352753

Autorenporträt

Stephen Bird, Adam Silver, Joshua C. Yesnowitz

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Agitation with a Smile
Stephen Bird
Adam Silver
Joshua C. Yesnowitz; Chapter 2 Ludlow Massacre; Part 1 Zinn as Historian and Public Intellectual; Chapter 3 Legacies and Breakthroughs
Ambre Ivol
Paul Buhle; Chapter 4 The US Left in Generational Perspective
Ambre Ivol; Chapter 5 Thinking the Radical Public Intellectual
Paul Reynolds; Part 2 Zinn in Theory; Chapter 6 Against All Authority
Eric Boehme; Chapter 7 The Forbidden Word
iga Vodovnik; Chapter 8 Politics against the Law
Christopher C. Robinson; Chapter 9 Dear Diary
Alix Olson; Part 3 Zinn in Practice; Chapter 10 War Is a Condition in Need of a Cure
Patricia Moynagh; Chapter 11 Howard Zinn
Ross Caputi; Chapter 12 Archivists of Optimism
Alix Olson; Chapter 13 Walking
Martín Espada; Part 4 Zinn Today and Tomorrow; Chapter 14 Two
Three
Many Zinns
Edward P. Morgan; Chapter 15 For Howard Zinn
Irene Gendzier*I want to thank the three editors of this volume-Joshua Yesnowitz
Stephen Bird
and Adam Silver-for their initiative and commitment to its publication. I also wish to thank some of those former students at Boston University and friends of Howard Zinn who sent testimony of their appreciation on the occasion of the memorial for Zinn organized by members of the BU Political Science Department and other faculty on March 27
2010
including José Velasco Cruz
from Mexico; Rachid Tlemcani
from Algeria; Bill Hansen
from Nigeria; and Danny Schechter
from New York.; Chapter 16 Reassessing Zinn
Stephen Bird
Adam Silver
Joshua C. Yesnowitz; afterword Afterword
Noam Chomsky;