What Nudism Exposes situates the nudist movement within the social and cultural context of postwar Canada by considering how nudist practices and attitudes both departed from and reinforced mainstream values in changing times. In this perceptive, eminently readable book, Mary-Ann Shantz describes how nudists sought social approval as they participated in contemporary debates about childrearing, sexuality, and public nudity. Shantz explains the perspectives of the nudist movement while questioning its assumptions, particularly the defence of nudity as natural. What nudism ultimately exposes is how the body figures at the intersection of nature and culture, the individual and the social, the private and the public.
Автор: Jeffrey Shantz Название: Organizing Anarchy: Anarchism in Action ISBN: 900435915X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004359154 Издательство: Brill Цена: 24905.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Organizing Anarchy details the remarkable growth and diversity of anarchist organizational practice in a range of spheres of activity from community centers and social spaces to online activism to labor and workplace militancy—and beyond—over the first decades of the twenty-first century. These projects involve innovative approaches by which anarchists resist current forms of exploitation and oppression while building anarchist relations for the future post-capitalist world in the present. In direct action and solidarity they make anarchism real, rather than a beautiful goal. Organizing Anarchy critically examines the possibilities and problems facing attempts to build radical real world projects, which seek to pose effective challenges to capitalist forms of exploitation and control. The work also engages theoretical developments around these emerging political practices, particularly in terms of social movement theories that tend to downplay, overlook, or misunderstand anarchist movements and forms of organizing.
Описание: Capitalism as a global system barely allows the needs of the majority of the world's population to be met. Whether from an industrialized country such as the US or from South Africa, the need for an alternative can be felt all over the world. It is clear nowadays that, due to the non-democratic nature and inadequacies of capitalism, another system must take its place. Such a process has already begun through the cooperative movement, which this book examines along with other initiatives. Featuring essays by international scholars and activists from various spheres of the anti-capitalist left, the work features many examples from the north and the south, to cover both the historically-advanced and late capitalist economies. It discusses such initiatives as participatory economics, the Mondragon experience, worker cooperatives in Europe and Latin America, solidarity economy in South Africa, and more. Written in an accessible manner, Beyond Capitalism will be an invaluable resource for any student of social movements and political thought and for anyone looking for alternative to today's ongoing systemic crises.
Автор: Shantz Jeff Название: New Developments in Anarchist Studies ISBN: 0988234092 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780988234093 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4311.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Produced by the North American Anarchist Studies Network (NAASN), and edited by Jeff Shantz and pj lilley, this volume comprises papers from NAASN's 5th Conference La Red Norteamericana de Estudios Anarquistas / Le R seau Nord-Am ricain d' tudes Anarchistes]. Anarchism is experiencing a remarkable resurgence in the new millennium. Not only active in the streets across Turtle Island, growing interest in anarchist scholarship is perhaps unprecedented. This is reflected in the development of the North American Anarchist Studies Network (NAASN). Drawn from papers presented at the fifth NAASN conference in Surrey (on Coast Salish Territories), this collection shows the vitality of contemporary anarchist research and writing. TABLE OF CONTENTS // 1 - Anarchism from the Margins: Introducing New Developments in Anarchist Studies Jeff Shantz 2 - Social Capital In Anarchist Movements Dana M. Williams 3 - Marginalization of Anarchism within Mainstream Criminology: A Content Analysis Christopher Howell 4 - Sexuality, Assault, Police Infiltration and Foucault: Notes for Further Inquiry Dr. Michael Loadenthal 5 - Abolition Journal: Introduction & Manifesto Introduced by Brian Lovato & Eli Meyerhoff 6 - In Defense of Counterposed Strategic Orientations: Anarchism and Antiracism Jakub Burkowicz 7 - Anti-State Resistance On Stolen Land: Settler Colonialism, Settler Identity And The Imperative Of Anarchist Decolonization Adam Gary Lewis 8 - A Diversity of Media Tactics: Grassroots Autonomous Media in Montrea Sandra Jeppesen, Anna Kruzynski, Aaron Lakoff and Rachel Sarrasin-Collectif de recherche sur l'autonomie collective (CRAC) 9 - Radical Politics in a Conservative Capital: Anarchist Groups and Projects in Edmonton Robert Hlatky 10 - The Right to the City Begins on the Street Dr. Katherine Dunster 11 - Anarchist Surrealism & Canadian Apocalyptic Modernism: Allusive Political Praxis in Elizabeth Smart's "By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept" James Gifford 12 - Mesoamerica Resiste Excerpts from the companion guide to the graphic narrative The Beehive Design Collective APPENDIXES // Appendix 1: NAASN Statement of Purpose Appendix 2: NAASN5 Call for Papers (Fall, 2013) Appendix 3: NAASN5 Full Schedule + Forum on Indigenous Food Sovereignty + Surrey Anarchist Bookfair Appendix 4: A Few Words about Surrey Appendix 5: Indigenous Food Sovereignty Forum Appendix 6: Surrey Anarchist Bookfair Poster Appendix 7: Surrey Anarchist Bookfair Tablers
Описание: This is an age of crisis: economic, political, environmental, and social. Yet the nature of contemporary crisis is often misunderstood. Crisis, rather than being accidental or episodic - as is too often assumed - has been a regular feature of state practice in the neoliberal austerity regimes of contemporary capitalism. In this timely work Jeff Shantz gives special attention to the particular manufactured crises associated with austerity regimes and conditions of precarity within contemporary capitalism, and how Crisis States differ from other forms of state practice.Crisis is a powerful weapon of states and capital in the pursuit of accumulation, exploitation, and control. Engaging insights from anarchism and autonomous Marxism, Shantz lays bare the real nature and character of crisis as political and social pursuits of state and capital under precarious capitalism.Attention is also given to social resistance under crisis state conditions. Contemporary capitalism renders the oppressed and exploited precarious at the same time as opportunities are opened to render the system itself precarious. Understanding Crisis States and precarious capitalism is crucial in considering prospects for resistance.
Автор: Shantz Jeff Название: Commonist Tendencies: Mutual Aid Beyond Communism ISBN: 0615849784 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615849782 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3276.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: As capitalist societies in the twenty-first century move from crisis to crisis, oppositional movements in the global North have been somewhat stymied, confronted with the pressing need to develop organizational infrastructures that might prepare the ground for a real, and durable, alternative. More and more, the need to develop shared infrastructural resources - what Shantz terms "infrastructures of resistance" - becomes apparent. Ecological disaster, economic crisis, political austerity, and mass-produced fear and phobia all require organizational preparation - the common building of real world alternatives.There is, as necessary as ever, a need to think through what we, as non-elites, exploited, and oppressed, want and how we might get it. There is an urgency to pursue constructive approaches to meet common needs. For many, the constructive vision and practice for meeting social needs (individual and collective) is expressed as commonism - an aspiration of mutual aid, sharing, and common good or common wealth collectively determined. The term commonsim is a useful way to discuss the goals and aspirations of oppositional movements, because it returns to social struggle the emphasis on commonality - a common wealth - that has been lost in the histories of previous movements that subsumed the commons within mechanisms of state control, regulation, and accounting - namely communism.In the current context, commonism, and the desire for commons, speaks to collective expressions against enclosure, now instituted as privatization, in various realms. While the central feature of capitalism is the commodity - a collectively produced good controlled for sale by private entities claiming ownership - the central feature of post-capitalist societies is the commons. These counter-forces have always been in conflict throughout the history of capitalism's imposition. And this conflict has been engaged in the various spheres of human life, as mentioned above. Commonism, (and commonist struggles), is expressed in intersections of sites of human activity and sustenance: ecological, social, and ideational. Examples of ecological commonism include conservation efforts, indigenous land reclamations and re-occupations (and blockades of development), and community gardens, to name only a few. Social commons include childcare networks, food and housing shares, factory occupations, and solidarity economics (including but not limited to community cooperatives). Ideational commons include creative commons, opens source software, and data liberation (such as Anonymous and Wikileaks). This becomes procreative or constructive. It provides a spreading base for eco-social development beyond state capitalist control. It also moves movements from momentary spectacles or defensive stances or reactive "fightbacks." Commonism affirms and asserts different ways of doing things, of living, of interacting.This book engages various commonist tendencies. It examines communism, including overlooked or forgotten tendencies. It provides an exploration of primitive accumulation and mutual aid as elements of struggle. Attention is given to constructive aspects of commonist politics from self-valorization against capital to gift economies against the market. It finally speaks to the need of movements to build infrastructures of resistance that sustain struggles for the commons. Written by a longtime activist/scholar, this is a work that will be of interest to community organizers and activists as well as students of social movements, social change, and radical politics. It will be taken up by people directly involved in specific community movements as well as students in a range of disciplines (including sociology, politics, geography, anthropology, cultural studies, and social policy). There is no book that offers such a concise, readable discussion of the issues in the current context, with particular emphasis on anarchist intersections with communism.
Автор: Shantz Jeff Название: Radical Criminology 1 ISBN: 0615695876 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780615695877 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1207.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Radical Criminology, edited by Jeff Shantz Kwantlen Polytecnic University, Vancouver, British Columbia], is dedicated to bridging the gap between the academy and the global activist community, especially with regard to state violence, state-corporate crime, the growth of surveillance regimes, and the prison-industrial complex. More pointedly, the journal aims to be not simply a project of critique, but is also geared toward a praxis of struggle, insurgence, and practical resistance. Issue 1 includes: EDITORIAL: Radical Criminology: A Manifesto; FEATURES: Security Assemblages and Spaces of Exception: The Production of (Para-)Militarized Spaces in the U.S. War on Drugs by Markus Kienscherf; Contesting the 'Justice Campus': Abolitionist Resistance to Liberal Carceral Expansion by Judah Schept; Cooperation versus Competition in Nature and Society: The Contribution of Piotr Kropotkin to Evolution Theory by Urbano Fra Paleo; ART: We are coming . . . strong . . . unstoppable: A Global Balkans Interview with Belgrade Artist Milica Ruzicic; + Zrenjanin, Jugoremedija, 2004 (a note on the cover painting); Series of paintings on police brutality by Milica Ruzicic; INSURGENCIES: Repression, Resistance, and the Neocolonial Prison Nation: Notes on the 2010 Struggle of the California Prisoners' Hunger Strike by K. Kersplebedeb; Prison Expansionism, Media, and "Offender Pools": An Abolitionist Perspective on the Criminalization of Minorities in the Canadian Criminal Justice System by Steven Nguyen; BOOK REVIEWS: The Red Army Faction-A Documentary History. Vol. I: Projectiles for the People, by J. Smith and Andre Moncourt (Eds.), reviewed by Guido G. Preparata; Freedom Not Yet: Liberation and the Next World Order, by Kenneth Surin, reviewed by Jeff Shantz
Описание: Capitalism as a global system barely allows the needs of the majority of the world's population to be met. Whether from an industrialized country such as the US or from South Africa, the need for an alternative can be felt all over the world. It is clear nowadays that, due to the non-democratic nature and inadequacies of capitalism, another system must take its place. Such a process has already begun through the cooperative movement, which this book examines along with other initiatives. Featuring essays by international scholars and activists from various spheres of the anti-capitalist left, the work features many examples from the north and the south, to cover both the historically-advanced and late capitalist economies. It discusses such initiatives as participatory economics, the Mondragon experience, worker cooperatives in Europe and Latin America, solidarity economy in South Africa, and more. Written in an accessible manner, Beyond Capitalism will be an invaluable resource for any student of social movements and political thought and for anyone looking for alternative to today's ongoing systemic crises.
Contemporary Anarchist Criminology: Against Authoritarianism and Punishment offers a cutting-edge critical assessment of criminology by creating provocative discussions regarding business as usual in the criminal justice system. This exciting interdisciplinary book explores a diversity of topics that range from the construction of criminal law, to Lombroso, to deviant behavior, to prison abolition, to transformative justice, to restorative justice, to environmental justice, and to the prison industrial complex. Contemporary Anarchist Criminology is a must-read book for anyone looking for a serious critique of the criminal justice system, specifically for those in sociology, political science, criminology, peace and conflict studies, and criminal justice. Contemporary Anarchist Criminologyis not for the timid, but for those wanting to challenge and dismantle the current forms of domination, oppression, and injustice that frame and define the current system of justice.
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