Ends of Resistance - Making and Unmaking Democracy

About the author

Alix Olson is an assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Emory University’s Oxford College. Before her academic career, she toured internationally as a spoken word artist. Olson is the editor of Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution (2007) and is a widely published poet.

Alex Zamalin is professor of Africana studies and political science at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. He is the author of six books, including Struggle on Their Minds: The Political Thought of African American Resistance (2017) and Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism (2019), also with Columbia University Press.

Summary

Alix Olson and Alex Zamalin offer a clear-eyed critical account of how neoliberalism has redefined resistance to thwart social movements and consolidate power.

Product details

• Authors: Alix Olson, Alix Zamalin Olson, Olson Alix, Alex Zamalin, Zamalin Alex
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.01.2024
• EAN: 9780231204996
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20499-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Social and cultural history, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Political science and theory, Pressure groups & lobbying, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, political science; philosophy