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The End of the World as We Know It? : Crisis, Resistance, and the Age of Austerity
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shannon, Deric.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Millennialism.
- Political parties--United States.
- Social conflict--United States.
- Capitalism.
- Financial crises.
- Recessions.
- Local Subjects:
- Millennialism.
- Political parties--United States.
- Social conflict--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (743 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : AK Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Neither austerity nor reform will save us. Real alternatives mean real change.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Dedication; Contents; Snapshots of the Crisis, Austerity, and the Movements Against; PART 1: THE CRISIS; From The Fall of Saigon to the Fall of Lehman; Interview With Noam Chomsky; Predatory Lending and the Twenty-First Century Recession; PART 2: EFFECTS; The End of Meaning, The Meaning of End; A Failure of Imagination; Mechanisms of Power; No Mancession; Interview With Miguel Ángel Fernández; Institutionalizing Crisis; The Puerto Rican Experiment; PART 3: THE RESPONSE OF THE DISPOSSESSED; Infiltrating the Mythology of American Empire; Undoing the Reasonable Middle
- Argentina's Movements Against Austerity and the politics of spaceAusterity and Unions; No Exit; Circumscribed by Conditions They Did Not Create[1]; Solidarity Networks as a Means of Building Resistance to Austerity; PART 4: THE RULING CLASS RESPONSE; Militant Reformism and the Prospects for Reforming Capitalism; States of Emergency; Policing Dissent and Copping a Profit; Dimensions of Crisis in Greece; Insurgency Control; Nationalism's Chilling Effect On Anti-Austerity Movements; Marikana; PART 5: EDUCATION AND THE STUDENT RESPONSE; Revolutionary Terrains and Higher Education in the US
- Interview With Québécois Student Organizer Jamie BurnettNecessary Steps in Tough Economic Times; Interview With Rudy Amanda Hurtado Garcés; Paths Written in Concrete; The End of the World as We Know It?; Contributor Bios; Index; Advance Praise; Copyright; About AK Press
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9781849351874
- 1849351872
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