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Herbert Marcuse examined the subjective and material conditions of radical social change and developed the "Great Refusal," a radical concept of "the protest against that which is." The editors and contributors to the exciting new volume┬áThe Great Refusal┬áprovide an analysis of contemporary social movements around the world with particular reference to Marcuse''s revolutionary concept. The book also engages-and puts Marcuse in critical dialogue with-major theorists including Slavoj ┼╜i┼╛ek and Michel Foucault, among others. The chapters in this book analyze different elements and locations of the contemporary wave of struggle, drawing on the work and vision of Marcuse in order to reveal, with a historical perspective, the present moment of resistance. Essays seek to understand recent uprisings-such as the Zapatistas in Mexico, the Arab Spring, and the Occupy movement-in the context of Marcuse''s powerful conceptual apparatus.The Great Refusal┬áalso charts contemporary social movements against global warming, mass incarceration, police brutality, white supremacy, militarization, technological development, and more, to provide insights that advance our understanding of resistance today.Contributors include: Kevin B. Anderson, Stanley Aronowitz, Joan Braune, Jenny Chan, Angela Y. Davis, Arnold L. Farr, Andrew Feenberg, Michael Forman, Christian Fuchs, Stefan Gandler, Christian Garland, Toorjo Ghose, Imaculada Kangussu, George Katsiaficas, Douglas Kellner, Sarah Lynn Kleeb, Filip Kovacevic, Lauren Langman, Heather Love, Peter Marcuse, Martin J. Beck Matušt├¡k, Russell Rockwell, AK Thompson, Marcelo Vieta, and the editors.

Herbert Marcuse examined the subjective and material conditions of radical social change and developed the "Great Refusal," a radical concept of "the protest against that which is." The editors and contributors to the exciting new volume┬áThe Great Refusal┬áprovide an analysis of contemporary social movements around the world with particular reference to Marcuse''s revolutionary concept. The book also engages-and puts Marcuse in critical dialogue with-major theorists including Slavoj ┼╜i┼╛ek and Michel Foucault, among others. The chapters in this book analyze different elements and locations of the contemporary wave of struggle, drawing on the work and vision of Marcuse in order to reveal, with a historical perspective, the present moment of resistance. Essays seek to understand recent uprisings-such as the Zapatistas in Mexico, the Arab Spring, and the Occupy movement-in the context of Marcuse''s powerful conceptual apparatus.The Great Refusal┬áalso charts contemporary social movements against global warming, mass incarceration, police brutality, white supremacy, militarization, technological development, and more, to provide insights that advance our understanding of resistance today.Contributors include: Kevin B. Anderson, Stanley Aronowitz, Joan Braune, Jenny Chan, Angela Y. Davis, Arnold L. Farr, Andrew Feenberg, Michael Forman, Christian Fuchs, Stefan Gandler, Christian Garland, Toorjo Ghose, Imaculada Kangussu, George Katsiaficas, Douglas Kellner, Sarah Lynn Kleeb, Filip Kovacevic, Lauren Langman, Heather Love, Peter Marcuse, Martin J. Beck Matušt├¡k, Russell Rockwell, AK Thompson, Marcelo Vieta, and the editors.

Provides compelling and probing case studies of economic problems and public housing plights in Albuquerque, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix and San Antonio. This book also provides brief histories of each city - all of which expanded dynamically between 1935 and 1965 - and how they responded to slums under the Housing Acts of 1937, 1949, and 1954.

Based on more than a decade of research, this book charts the evolution of Sunset Park - with a densely concentrated working - poor and racially diverse immigrant population - from the late 1960s to its current status as one of New York City's most vibrant neighborhoods.

Focuses on the wave of environmental activism and grassroots movements that swept through America's older, industrial cities during late 1960s and early 1970s. This book offers incisive case studies of Baltimore, St Louis, and Chicago to show how urban activism developed as an impassioned response to a host of racial, and political conflicts.

How Catholic religious activism shaped the language and outcome of San Francisco's debates about over the common good and the public interest

Offers an analytic framework to show how the process of candidate selection often limits the participation of women in various Latin American countries

Shows the complex relationship between Vietnamese in the diaspora and those back at the homeland.

How race, gender, and sexuality were re-imagined in the interwar encounters of Asians and Americans

A revised edition of the classic story of race and power, set in Chicago during the 1980s, when this most political of cities elected its first black mayor

A radical critique of a new phase of capitalism grounded in corporate power and its exploitation of technological creativity

Shedding new light on the political socialization of American women

A significant revision of a classroom mainstay for the twenty-first century

How New York's mayor's urban development plans rely on a blending of Moses and Jacobs

The "Mahapuranas" embody the received tradition of Hindu mythology. This anthology contains fresh translations of these myths. It includes chapters such as: "Origins"; "Seers, Kings and Supernaturals"; "Krsna," "Visnu," and "Siva"; and, "The Goddess" that presents stories of the wives and lovers of the gods, as well as of Kali, the battle goddess.

A newly updated account of the struggle for disability rights in the U.S.

Defines and changes perceptions of ethnic identity. This book invokes gender, generation, class, religion, language, and the dramatic political changes of the 1940s in South Asia and the United States to show how individual and group perceptions of ethnic identity have changed among Punjabi Mexican Americans in rural California.

How environmental activism in youth shapes political engagement and citizenship for Laotian American women

A multidisciplinary conversation on the state of the American Dream

A new generation of scholars addresses the current themes and questions in interpreting American history

An introduction to the themes of a still-evolving American ethnic literature

How the interests of Seattle and Japanese immigrants were linked in the processes of urban boosterism before World War II

New Deal photographs reveal the inexorable "pull of the city" even as they lament the demise of rural America