Movements of Movements

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Our world today is not only a world in crisis but also a world in profound movement, with increasing numbers of people joining or forming movements: local, national, transnational, and global. The dazzling diversity of ideas and experiences recorded in this collection captures something of the fluidity within campaigns for a more equitable planet. This book, taking internationalism seriously without tired dogmas, provides a bracing window into some of the central ideas to have emerged from within grassroots struggles from 2006 to 2010. The essays here cross borders to look at the politics of caste, class, gender, religion, and indigeneity, and move from the local to the global.

Rethinking Our Dance, the second of two volumes, offers a wide range of essays from frontline activists in Afghanistan, Argentina, Brazil, Niger, and Taiwan, as well as from Europe and North America that address the question, “What do we need to do in order to bring about justice and peace?” The Movements of Movements aims to make the bewildering range of contemporary movements more meaningful to the observer and also to be a space where global movements speak to each other.

This book will be useful to all who work for egalitarian social change—be they in universities, parties, trade unions, social movements, or religious organisations.

Contributors include Kolya Abramsky, Ezequiel Adamovsky, Ousseina Alidou, Samir Amin, Chris Carlsson, John Brown Childs, Lee Cormie, Anila Daulatzai, Massimo De Angelis, The Free Association, David Graeber, Josephine Ho, John Holloway, François Houtart, Jeffrey Juris, Michael Löwy, Tomás Mac Sheoin, Matt Meyer, Muto Ichiyo, Rodrigo Nunes, Michal Osterweil, Shailja Patel, Geoffrey Pleyers, Stephanie Ross, and Nicola Yeates.

Sujets

• Labor relations
• JUSTICE
• Capitalism
• Activism
• Ecology

Informations

• Publié par: PM Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781629633947
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Praise
This collection offers a thought-provoking opportunity to parse multiplicities and recent directions in global justice organizing. Sen s framing in this book sets us up to take stock of two decades of social and political movement in terms of dynamic motion: Not only as strategy and organization, but as kinaesthetic experience, embodied transformation through space and time. The nuanced, critical emphases on indigeneity, spirituality, gender, and ecology, rich with specificity and insight, locate us unmistakably in our present moment with its lessons gleaned of recent history and praxis, even while bringing us full circle to the themes introduced an unbelievable twenty years ago. We shall not be moved. We shall move. We shall keep moving.
-Maia Ramnath, teacher, writer, activist, and dancer/aerialist; author of Decolonizing Anarchism
An important contribution to a developing internationalism that doesn t assume that the North Atlantic left has all the answers for the rest of the world and which recognizes that emancipatory ideas and practices are often forged from below. Refreshingly free of tired dogmas, non-sectarian, taking internationalism seriously, and reaching back to 1968, the book provides a bracing window into some of the central ideas to have emerged from within movements in the sequence of struggle that unfolded from 2006 to 2010. This book will be useful for activists and intellectuals in movement-be they in universities, parties, trade unions, social movements, or religious organisations-around the world.
-Richard Pithouse, researcher and lecturer in politics, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Someone once suggested that movement cannot be thought, it has to be lived. In other words, social movements-the coming together in processes that build the power to bring about change-stem not from any kind of blueprint that can set out an ideal for the world we ought to live in, nor can there be a simple step-by-step guide on how to get there. At the same time, there can t be movement without a collective effort to understand the shared and embodied experiences that constitute it, along with the problems, concerns, and trajectories that arise in struggle. It s this kind of critical reflection that the authors assembled in this volume undertake, providing intelligent and engaged analyses that avoid any stifling dichotomies, whether between theory and practice, activism and academia, or indeed between thinking and feeling. Possible futures, right now in the making, become legible in how The Movements of Movements doesn t shy away from the complex and unsettling issues that shape our time, while thinking through struggles for social and ecological justice in the wider contexts of their past and present.
-Emma Dowling, Senior Researcher in Political Sociology at the Institute for Sociology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany

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The Movements of Movements, Part 2: Rethinking Our Dance
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Volume 5 in the OpenWord s Challenging Empires series
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Editor: Jai Sen
Contributing Editor: Peter Waterman
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To the dance of life
And the dance of movement
And to the warriors among us, past, present, and future;
And
To my Elainita (or Nina, as she is coming to be known), for the dance in her life, and towards her becoming a warrior too
*
Life moves on. Things have happened.
As was its companion volume, this book is dedicated to
Peter Waterman
(January 26 1936-June 17 2017)
Friend, compa er@, and fellow birthday bearer for the past thirty-five years, and co-editor for the past fifteen;
Labour internationalist, cyberian, feminist, and feisty and fearless, always. And to Peter s indomitable spirit and infectious humour-and to the optimism of his will. May those live on forever!
Also to the many other warriors who have walked on during these months and years, including contributors to these books
And to all those who are being arrested, tortured, and assassinated in our times
in these increasingly grim days across the world,
in the struggle for social and ecological justice across Mother Earth,
as the storms rise
as our dances rise
Contents
Acknowledgements and Credits
0 INVOCATIONS
Proem: Offering
Shailja Patel
Introduction: On Rethinking Our Dance: Some Thoughts, Some Moves
Jai Sen
3 INTERROGATING MOVEMENT, PROBLEMATISING MOVEMENT
Nothing Is What Democracy Looks Like: Openness, Horizontality, and the Movement of Movements
Rodrigo Nunes
Worlds in Motion: Movements, Problematics, and the Creation of New Worlds
The Free Association
Break Free! Engaging Critically with the Concept and Reality of Civil Society (Part 1)
Jai Sen
Believing in Exclusion: The Problem of Secularism in Progressive Politics
Anila Daulatzai
Is Global Governance Bad for East Asian Queers?
Josephine Ho
Incorporating Youth or Transforming Politics? Alter-Activism as an Emerging Mode of Praxis among Young Global Justice Activists
Jeffrey S Juris and Geoffrey Pleyers
The Antiglobalisation Movement: Coalition and Division
Tom s Mac Sheoin and Nicola Yeates
The Strategic Implications of Anti-Statism in the Global Justice Movement
Stephanie Ross
Negativity and Utopia in the Global Justice Movement
Michael L wy
The Global Moment: Seattle, Ten Years On
Rodrigo Nunes
Autonomous Politics and its Problems: Thinking the Passage from the Social to the Political
Ezequiel Adamovsky
Boundary as Bridge
John Brown Childs
Effective Politics or Feeling Effective?
Chris Carlsson
PR Like PRocess! Strategy from the Bottom Up
Massimo De Angelis
The Power of Words: Reclaiming and Reimagining Revolution and Non-Violence
Matt Meyer and Ousseina Alidou
Break Free! Engaging Critically with the Concept and Reality of Civil Society (Part 2)
Jai Sen
4 REFLECTIONS ON POSSIBLE FUTURES
Becoming-Woman ? Between Theory, Practice, and Potentiality
Michal Osterweil
The Asymmetry of Revolution
John Holloway
The Shock of Victory
David Graeber
Gathering Our Dignified Rage: Building New Autonomous Global Relations of Production, Livelihood, and Exchange
Kolya Abramsky
Towards the Autonomy of the People of the World: Need for a New Movement 449 of Movements to Animate People s Alliance Processes
Muto Ichiyo
Towards a Fifth International?
Samir Amin
The Lessons of 2011: Three Theses on Organisation
Rodrigo Nunes
We Still Exist
Fran ois Houtart
Afterword: Another World Is Inevitable but which Other World?
Lee Cormie
Notes on the Editors and Contributors
Index
Acknowledgements and Credits
Jai Sen
This book is the companion volume to its predecessor in the Challenging Empires series, The Movements of Movements, Part 1: What Makes Us Move? , and so much of what I say here will-and must-be similar. But this volume is also likely to be the last book I will compile and edit, after a decade and more (and eight or nine books). I have learned a lot in this time, and not only about compiling books, and so this is also a good time and a good place for me to bring things and thoughts together.
I want to start these acknowledgements by drawing on the work of someone who I now consider to be one of my mentors, Taiaiake Alfred, who has in turn also drawn on others-which is as it should be:
We gather together and see that the cycle of life continues. As human beings, we have been given the responsibility to live in balance and harmony with each other and with all of creation. So now, we bring our minds together as one as we give greetings and thanks to each other as People.
Now our minds are one.
We are thankful for our mother, the earth, for she gives us all that we need for life. She sustains and supports us as our feet move upon her. We are joyful in knowing that she continues to care for us as she has from the beginning of time. To our Mother, we send greetings and thanks.
Now our minds ar