Agitation with a smile : Howard Zinn's legacies and the future of activism / edited by Stephen Bird, Adam Silver, and Joshua C. Yesnowitz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bird, Stephen, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010--Political and social views.

Zinn, Howard.

Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010--Criticism and interpretation.

Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010.

Social movements.

Criticism and interpretation.

Political and social views.

Physical Description:

xiii, 274 pages : illustration ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, [2013]

Summary:

Agitation with a Smile offers a reappraisal of Howard Zinn's influential political thought and situates his work in a contemporary context, looking toward the nature of activist scholarship and political dissent in the future. This is the first book to provide a substantive account and assessment of Zinn's philosophy and approach to collective action and, to a larger extent, democracy. The text is neither fawning nor unduly critical, unlike many discussions of Zinn in popular culture. Rather, the contributors to this book engage the various complexities and tensions present throughout Zinn's work and subject them to a twenty-first-century assessment. Offering a multidisciplinary and international approach, the book is a valuable guide to a new generation of scholars and activists in gauging the lasting relevance and legacy of Zinn's scholarship, ideals, concepts, and methodology. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Agitation with a Smile: A Framework for Reassessing the Contributions of Howard Zinn / Stephen Bird Bird, Stephen, Adam Silver Silver, Adam, Joshua C. Yesnowitz Yesnowitz, Joshua C. 1

Interlude: "Ludlow Massacre" Song lyrics / Woody Guthrie Guthrie, Woody 19

Zinn as Historian and Public Intellectual

Chapter 2 Legacies and Breakthroughs: The Long View on Zinnian History / Ambre Ivol Ivol, Ambre, Paid Buhle Buhle, Paid 22

Chapter 3 The US Left in Generational Perspective: A Study of Howard Zinn's Trajectory / Ambre Ivol Ivol, Ambre 35

Chapter 4 Thinking the Radical Public Intellectual: The Exemplar of Howard Zinn / Paul Reynolds Reynolds, Paul 51

Zinn in Theory

Chapter 5 Against All Authority: Howard Zinn's Pragmatic Anarchism, Active Resistance, and Radical Democracy / Eric Boehme Boehme, Eric 68

Chapter 6 The Forbidden Word: Howard Zinn as Anarchist / Ziga Vodovnik Vodovnik, Ziga 81

Chapter 7 Politics against the Law: Howard Zinn on Academic Freedom beyond the Academy / Christopher C. Robinson Robinson, Christopher C. 97

Interlude: "Dear Diary" A poem / Alix Olson Olson, Alix 109

Zinn in Practice

Chapter 8 War Is a Condition in Need of a Cure / Patricia Moynagh Moynagh, Patricia 114

Chapter 9 Howard Zinn: A Moral Example for G.I. Resistance / Ross Caputi Caputi, Ross 127

Chapter 10 Archivists of Optimism: Zinn and the Arts / Alix Olson Olson, Alix 142

Interlude: "Walking" A poem / Martín Espada Espada, Martín 156

Zinn Today and Tomorrow

Chapter 11 Two, Three, Many Zinns: Media Culture and the Dilemmas of Democratic Transformation / Edward P. Morgan Morgan, Edward P. 160

Chapter 12 For Howard Zinn: The Things That Count and Cannot Be Counted / Irene Gendzier Gendzier, Irene 177

Chapter 13 Reassessing Zinn: Critical Reflections on a Scholar-Activist / Stephen Bird Bird, Stephen, Adam Silver Silver, Adam, Joshua C. Yesnowitz Yesnowitz, Joshua C. 188.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781612051819

1612051812

9781612051826

1612051820

OCLC:

759916658