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Zusatztext “The movements documented in this volume succeeded in shutting cities down through tremendous shows of force. And when you shut down a city! you can actually stop capital accumulation … Until we start building a truly democratic society! we will continue to see our good ideas co-opted by capital.” From the foreword by David Harvey Praise for Marina Sitrin's Horizontalism : "This book is riveting! moving! and profoundly important for those who want to know what revolution in our time might look like."—Rebecca Solnit Praise for Dario Azzellini's Ours to Master and Own : "The most substantial and comprehensive work on workers' control and self-management today."—Gary Younge! Nation Informationen zum Autor Marina Sitrin is a Visiting Scholar at the CUNY Graduate Center. She holds a PhD in Global Sociology and JD in International Women's Human Rights. She is the author of Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina (AK Press) Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina (Zed Books), the co-author of T hey Can't Represent US: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy (Verso Books). Her work focuses on social movements and justice, specifically looking at new forms of social organization, such as autogestión , horizontalidad , prefigurative politics and new affective social relationships. Dario Azzellini is an assistant professor at the Institute for Sociology at the Johannes Kepler University in Austria. He has published several books, among them The Business of War , about the privatization of military services. He edited, with Immanuel Ness, Ours to Master and to Own . His latest film documentary Comuna Under Construction (2010) examines self administration in Venezuela. David Harvey teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of many books, including Social Justice and the City , The Condition of Postmodernity , The Limits to Capital , A Brief History of Neoliberalism , Spaces of Global Capitalism , and A Companion to Marx's Capital . Klappentext Drawing on interviews with key activists from across the world, this intriguing new book explores how global movements are putting forward a radical new conception of democracy. Zusammenfassung How the new global movements are putting forward a radical conception of democracy. ...
About the author
Marina Sitrin is a Visiting Scholar at the CUNY Graduate Center.
She holds a PhD in Global Sociology and JD in International Women's Human Rights. She is the author of
Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina (AK Press)
Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina (Zed Books), the co-author of T
hey Can't Represent US: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy (Verso Books).
Her work focuses on social movements and justice, specifically looking at new forms of social organization, such as
autogestión,
horizontalidad, prefigurative politics and new affective social relationships.
