Catching History on the Wing
Title | Catching History on the Wing PDF eBook |
Author | A. Sivanandan |
Publisher | Pluto Press (UK) |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2008-09-20 |
Genre | History |
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Part of Pluto's 21st birthday series Get Political, which brings essential political writing in a range of fields to a new audience. A. Sivanandan is a highly influential thinker on race, racism, globalisation and resistance. Since 1972, he has been the director of the Institute of Race Relations and the editor of Race & Class, which set the policy agenda on ethnicity and race in the UK and worldwide. Sivanandan has been writing for over forty years and this is the definitive collection of his work. The articles selected span his entire career and are chosen for their relevance to today's most pressing issues. Included is a complete bibliography of Sivanandan’s writings, and an introduction by Colin Prescod (chair of the IRR), which sets the writings in context. This book is highly relevant to undergraduate politics students and anyone reading or writing on race, ethnicity and immigration.
A Different Hunger
Title | A Different Hunger PDF eBook |
Author | Ambalavaner Sivanandan |
Publisher | Pluto Press (UK) |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Political Science |
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A collection of Sivanandan's work charting the history of post war black struggles against British racism
Catching History on the Wing
Title | Catching History on the Wing PDF eBook |
Author | A. Sivanandan |
Publisher | Pluto Press (UK) |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2008-09-20 |
Genre | History |
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The definitive collection of A. Sivanandan's writing.
Race, Criminal Justice, and Migration Control
Title | Race, Criminal Justice, and Migration Control PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Bosworth |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0198814887 |
In an era of mass mobility, those who are permitted to migrate and those criminalised, controlled, and prohibited from migrating are heavily patterned by race. This volume places race at the centre of its analysis; 14 chapters examine, question, and explain the growing intersection between criminal justice and migration control.
Communities of Resistance
Title | Communities of Resistance PDF eBook |
Author | A. Sivanandan |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2019-11-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1788734580 |
‘There is no socialism after liberation, socialism is the process through which liberation is won.’ Each of the essays in Communities of Resistance acts as a critical reaffirmation of socialist politics as the context for questions of race and resistance. The left itself is under scrutiny here—from a black perspective. A series of powerful interventions covers many of the issues which have confronted radical politics in the 1980s: inner-city uprisings, the demand for black sections in the Labour Party, local government anti-racism, the move to a common European market. This collection included incisive critiques of contemporary Marxism (‘All that Melts into Air is Solid: The Hokum of “New Times” ’), of post-colonial development, and of the Eurocentric assessment of imperialism.
Left-Wing Melancholia
Title | Left-Wing Melancholia PDF eBook |
Author | Enzo Traverso |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2017-01-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0231543018 |
The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have thought about their past since. Throughout the twentieth century, argues Left-Wing Melancholia, from classical Marxism to psychoanalysis to the advent of critical theory, a culture of defeat and its emotional overlay of melancholy have characterized the leftist understanding of the political in history and in theoretical critique. Drawing on a vast and diverse archive in theory, testimony, and image and on such thinkers as Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and others, the intellectual historian Enzo Traverso explores the varying nature of left melancholy as it has manifested in a feeling of guilt for not sufficiently challenging authority, in a fear of surrendering in disarray and resignation, in mourning the human costs of the past, and in a sense of failure for not realizing utopian aspirations. Yet hidden within this melancholic tradition are the resources for a renewed challenge to prevailing regimes of historicity, a passion that has the power to reignite the dialectic of revolutionary thought.
Race, Class and the State
Title | Race, Class and the State PDF eBook |
Author | Ambalavaner Sivanandan |
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Release | 1978 |
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