{"product_id":"keywords-for-radicals-kelly-fritsch-9781849352420","title":"Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle","description":"\"An extraordinary volume that provides nothing less than a detailed cognitive mapping of the terrain for everyone who wants to engage in radical politics.\"--Slavoj Zizek, author of \u003ci\u003eLiving in the End Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eKeywords for Radicals\u003c\/i\u003e recognizes that language is both a weapon and terrain of struggle, and that all of us committed to changing our social and material reality, to making a world justice-rich and oppression-free, cannot drop words such as 'democracy, ' 'occupation, ' 'colonialism, ' 'race, ' 'sovereignty, ' or 'love' without a fight. --Robin D. G. Kelley, author of \u003ci\u003eFreedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"From its thought-provoking Introduction though its energizing accounts of the tensions underlying our most prized concepts, \u003ci\u003eKeywords for Radicals \u003c\/i\u003ewill be indispensable to any scholar or activist who is serious about critique and change.\"--Stephen Duncombe, editor of \u003ci\u003eCultural Resistance Reader\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A primer for a new era of political protest.\" --Jack Halberstam, author of \u003ci\u003eFemale Masculinity\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This keywords upgrade puts powerful weapons into revolutionaries' hands. Unexpected entries expand into new terrain.... Indispensable.\" --Jodi Dean, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Communist Horizon\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eKeywords \u003c\/i\u003e(1976), Raymond Williams devised a \"vocabulary\" that reflected the vast social transformations of the post-war period. He revealed how these transformations could be grasped by investigating changes in word usage and meaning. \u003ci\u003eKeywords for Radicals\u003c\/i\u003e--part homage, part development--asks: What vocabulary might illuminate the social transformations marking our own contested present? How do these words define the imaginary of today's radical left? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith insights from dozens of scholars and troublemakers, \u003ci\u003eKeywords for Radicals \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the words that shape our political landscape. Each entry highlights a term's contested variations, traces its evolving usage, and speculates about what its historical mutations can tell us. More than a glossary, this is a crucial study of the power of language and the social contradictions hidden within it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors include Patrick Bond, Silvia Federici, John Bellamy Foster, Joy James, Ilan Pappé, Justin Podur, Nina Power, Mab Segrest, and over forty others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKelly Fritsch \u003c\/b\u003eis a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eClare O'Connor \u003c\/b\u003eis a doctoral student in Communication at the University of Southern California.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA.K. Thompson \u003c\/b\u003eteaches social theory at Fordham University in New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelly Fritsch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1849352429\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781849352420\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e AK Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 6.00w x 1.70d","brand":"Kelly Fritsch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43989505376511,"sku":"9781849352420","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_453c74b6-a8d9-4db0-8bad-8d602c59bdf9.jpg?v=1683299896","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/keywords-for-radicals-kelly-fritsch-9781849352420","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}