The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same
Title | The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffery R. Webber |
Publisher | Haymarket Books |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 2017-02-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1608467457 |
Throughout the 2000s Latin America transformed itself into the leading edge of anti-neoliberal resistance in the world. What is left of the Pink Tide today? What is their relationship to the explosive social movements that propelled them to power? As China's demand slackens for Latin American commodities, will governments continue to rely on natural resource extraction? In an accessible and penetrating volume, Jeffery Webber examines the most important questions facing the Latin American left today.
Analyzing Oppression
Title | Analyzing Oppression PDF eBook |
Author | Ann E. Cudd |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0195187431 |
Analyzing Oppression presents a new, integrated theory of social oppression, which tackles the fundamental question that no theory of oppression has satisfactorily answered: if there is no natural hierarchy among humans, why are some cases of oppression so persistent? Cudd argues that the explanation lies in the coercive co-opting of the oppressed to join in their own oppression. This answer sets the stage for analysis throughout the book, as it explores the questions of how and why the oppressed join in their oppression. Cudd argues that oppression is an institutionally structured harm perpetrated on social groups by other groups using direct and indirect material, economic, and psychological force. Among the most important and insidious of the indirect forces is an economic force that operates through oppressed persons' own rational choices. This force constitutes the central feature of analysis, and the book argues that this force is especially insidious because it conceals the fact of oppression from the oppressed and from others who would be sympathetic to their plight. The oppressed come to believe that they suffer personal failings and this belief appears to absolve society from responsibility. While on Cudd's view oppression is grounded in material exploitation and physical deprivation, it cannot be long sustained without corresponding psychological forces. Cudd examines the direct and indirect psychological forces that generate and sustain oppression. She discusses strategies that groups have used to resist oppression and argues that all persons have a moral responsibility to resist in some way. In the concluding chapter Cudd proposes a concept of freedom that would be possible for humans in a world that is actively opposing oppression, arguing that freedom for each individual is only possible when we achieve freedom for all others.
In the Red Corner
Title | In the Red Corner PDF eBook |
Author | Mike Gonzalez |
Publisher | Haymarket Books |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2019-07-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1608469166 |
José Carlos Mariátegui (1894-1930) is widely recognized across Latin America as one of the most important and innovative Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century. Yet his life and work are largely unknown to the English-speaking world. In this gripping political biography—the first written in English—Mike Gonzalez introduces readers to the inspiring life and thought of the Peruvian socialist.
Algorithms of Oppression
Title | Algorithms of Oppression PDF eBook |
Author | Safiya Umoja Noble |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2018-02-20 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1479837245 |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the power of algorithms -- A society, searching -- Searching for Black girls -- Searching for people and communities -- Searching for protections from search engines -- The future of knowledge in the public -- The future of information culture -- Conclusion: algorithms of oppression -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Title | Pedagogy of the Oppressed PDF eBook |
Author | Paulo Freire |
Publisher | |
Pages | 153 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780140225839 |
Social Reproduction Theory
Title | Social Reproduction Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Tithi Bhattacharya |
Publisher | Pluto Press (UK) |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Capitalism |
ISBN | 9780745399881 |
Crystallizing the essential principles of social reproductive theory, this anthology provides long-overdue analysis of everyday life under capitalism. It focuses on issues such as childcare, healthcare, education, family life, and the roles of gender, race, and sexuality--all of which are central to understanding the relationship between exploitation and social oppression. Tithi Bhattacharya brings together some of the leading writers and theorists, including Lise Vogel, Nancy Fraser, and Susan Ferguson, in order for us to better understand social relations and how to improve them in the fight against structural oppression.
End of History and the Last Man
Title | End of History and the Last Man PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Fukuyama |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 2006-03-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1416531785 |
Ever since its first publication in 1992, the New York Times bestselling The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. "Profoundly realistic and important...supremely timely and cogent...the first book to fully fathom the depth and range of the changes now sweeping through the world." —The Washington Post Book World Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated with a new afterword, The End of History and the Last Man is a modern classic.