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The end of the world as we know it? : crisis, resistance, and the age of austerity /
"The End of the World as We Know It? explores the origins and effects of the capitalist crisis that began in 2008. It moves on to examine the responses of both the dispossessed and the ruling classes to the catastrophe, giving special attention to student mobilizations around the world. Weaving...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland ; Edinburgh ; Baltimore :
AK Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 space
- Austerity and Unions
- No Exit
- Circumscribed by Conditions They Did Not Create
- 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 Burnett
- Necessary Steps in Tough Economic Times
- Interview With Rudy Amanda Hurtado Garcés
- Paths Written in Concrete
- The End of the World as We Know It?