Rebecca Solnit
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| Title | : | Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power |
| Author | : | Rebecca Solnit |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 176 pages |
| Published | : | August 31st 2010 by Canongate Books (first published April 1st 2004) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Writing. Essays. Politics. History. Feminism. Social Issues. Activism. Social Movements. Social Justice |
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At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable work offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope. Tracing a history of activism and social change over the past five decades - including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Zapatista uprising in Mexico to Seattle in 1999, and the worldwide marches against the war in Iraq - Solnit proposes a vision of cause-and-effect relations that provides new grounds for political engagement. Solnit's book is accessible and essential reading. Drawing from thinkers of the last century - including Woolf, Ghandi, Borges, Benjamin and Havel. She creates a manifesto for optimism for the twenty-first century and gives us all true reasons to never surrender.Define Books Conducive To Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
| Original Title: | Hope in the Dark ASIN B002VM7FRQ |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.05 From 6010 Users | 859 ReviewsPiece About Books Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
I picked up this book because I needed a breath of something positive in this anxiety-filled time of racial tension and bullying political craziness. Solnit's language is always lyrical and her insights bright and spot-on. What surprised me most about this book is how relevant it still is, given it was published in 2004. Bush was still in office, the Iraq war still going, all hell breaking loose, but her vision is larger. She begins with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, moves through the3.5 stars. If the 2016 election left you feeling despair, this book is for you. It was originally written at another time many people felt despair - during the 2003 discussion of WMD in Iraq. But Solnit covers so much more ground than just what to when you don't agree with your elected officials. She offers hope in the ability of every individual to make change. She says, To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on your futures, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is
Thanks so much to Haymarket Books for making this available for free a few weeks ago. It was what I needed in the aftermath of the election, to get both riled up and stay hopeful. (Also has one of the best definitions of NAFTA I've run across.)And to quote Dumbledore, who doesn't figure here but has the line that resonates the most: hope can be found in the darkest of places, if one only turns on the light.
I found this a rather disappointing and disjointed book, that depressed me more than it gave me hope. Maybe because it was written pre-Trump and a lot of the hopeful thing she says just seem more and more naive with each day. Yes, she gives some examples of hope campaigning and fighting for the right things can change and move, and how we often can't see the impact our positive actions have right away. But overall it was just a reminder of how big the beast is we're up against. Especially when
First reading:I really needed this. Solnit's essays have always been good for my soul. This collection is timely (timeless?) and relevant and helped a lot lot lot.Second reading:It's remarkable what a different experience it was to read this book after a very full year of activism -- like a second-full-time-job-very-full-year of activism. First time through, I needed hope and I found reassurance in this book. This time around, I saw so many graceful ways to encourage my fellow activists to stay
In response to the election results, Rebecca Solnit has made this book available for free download for the next four days:https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/..."Tracing a history of activism and social change over the past decades - including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Zapatista uprising in Mexico to Seattle in 1999, and the worldwide marches against the war in Iraq, this title proposes a vision of cause-and-effect relations that provides grounds for political engagement."
Solnit strikes again! Right to my heart. I think she's committed to progressive movement building for the same reason as me: love. Not anger, but love, and really, hope, because we're in this not so that we have something to do, but because we think we're on to something; that there are some wild possibilities.Solnit wrote this before the Obama campaign, before there was that added discursive element to the word hope. Hope is a departure point for her, a meaning for her to describe her personal
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