
A Beginner's Guide to Building Better Worlds
Ideas and Inspiration from the Zapatistas
Policy Press
1st Edition
Published on 31. May 2022
Book
Hardback
188 pages
978-1-4473-6213-5 (ISBN)
Description
This ambitious book offers radical alternatives to conventional ways of thinking about the planet's most pressing challenges, ranging from alienation and exploitation to state violence and environmental injustice.
Bridging real-world examples of resistance and mutual aid in Zapatista territory with big-picture concepts like critical consciousness, social reproduction and decolonisation, the authors encourage readers to view themselves as co-creators of the societies they are a part of - and 'be Zapatistas wherever they are'.
Written by a diverse team of first-generation authors, this book offers an emancipatory set of anti-colonial ideas related to both refusing liberal bystanding and collectively constructing better worlds and realities.
Bridging real-world examples of resistance and mutual aid in Zapatista territory with big-picture concepts like critical consciousness, social reproduction and decolonisation, the authors encourage readers to view themselves as co-creators of the societies they are a part of - and 'be Zapatistas wherever they are'.
Written by a diverse team of first-generation authors, this book offers an emancipatory set of anti-colonial ideas related to both refusing liberal bystanding and collectively constructing better worlds and realities.
More details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bristol University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
15 s/w Abbildungen
15 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4473-6213-5 (9781447362135)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Levi Gahman | Nasha Mohamed | Filiberto Penados
A Beginner's Guide to Building Better Worlds
Ideas and Inspiration from the Zapatistas
E-Book
05/2022
1st Edition
Policy Press
€41.99
Available for download

Levi Gahman | Nasha Mohamed | Filiberto Penados
A Beginner's Guide to Building Better Worlds
Ideas and Inspiration from the Zapatistas
E-Book
05/2022
1st Edition
Policy Press
€248.99
Available for download

Levi Gahman | Nasha Mohamed | Filiberto Penados
A Beginner's Guide to Building Better Worlds
Ideas and Inspiration from the Zapatistas
Book
05/2022
1st Edition
Policy Press
€40.50
Shipment within 15-20 days
Persons
Levi Gahman is Reader at the University of Liverpool, affiliate with the University of the West Indies and former human rights observer. He focuses on anticolonial praxis, environmental defence and engaged movement research.
Shelda-Jane Smith is Lecturer at the University of Liverpool and has a focus on the social and political determinants of physical-mental health. She is also a community volunteer with the Merseyside Caribbean Centre.
Filiberto Penados is a Maya activist-scholar focusing on Indigenous future-making. He is President of the Julian Cho Society and adviser to the Toledo Alcaldes Association and Belize National Indigenous Council.
Nasha Farhannah Mohamed is a University of the West Indies graduate and independent researcher from Trinidad and Tobago focusing on foreign languages (Spanish, French, Arabic) and postcolonial literature.
Atiyah Afifah Mohamed is an independent researcher, Spanish teacher, Geography tutor and local volunteer in Trinidad and Tobago. Her community service work focuses on homelessness and the underprivileged.
Johannah-Rae Reyes is an intersectional feminist activist who has worked with CAISO, Womantra, Amnesty International and the Community of the Deaf. She has done advocacy and solidarity work in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Mexico.
Shelda-Jane Smith is Lecturer at the University of Liverpool and has a focus on the social and political determinants of physical-mental health. She is also a community volunteer with the Merseyside Caribbean Centre.
Filiberto Penados is a Maya activist-scholar focusing on Indigenous future-making. He is President of the Julian Cho Society and adviser to the Toledo Alcaldes Association and Belize National Indigenous Council.
Nasha Farhannah Mohamed is a University of the West Indies graduate and independent researcher from Trinidad and Tobago focusing on foreign languages (Spanish, French, Arabic) and postcolonial literature.
Atiyah Afifah Mohamed is an independent researcher, Spanish teacher, Geography tutor and local volunteer in Trinidad and Tobago. Her community service work focuses on homelessness and the underprivileged.
Johannah-Rae Reyes is an intersectional feminist activist who has worked with CAISO, Womantra, Amnesty International and the Community of the Deaf. She has done advocacy and solidarity work in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Mexico.
Author
University of Liverpool
independent researcher
Julian Cho Society
WOMANTRA
independent researcher
University of Liverpool
Content
1. Introduction: From Liberal Bystanding to Emancipatory Praxis
2. A World Where Many Worlds Fit
3. The Coloniser's Model/Neoliberal State of the World
4. Modernity-Coloniality and Indigenous Realities
5. Dispossession, Extractivism, and Violence
6. Critical Consciousness and Praxis
7. Political Education and Radical Pedagogy
8. Gender Justice and Social Reproduction
9. Health, Food Sovereignty, Solidarity Economies
10. The Battle for the Soul of Education
2. A World Where Many Worlds Fit
3. The Coloniser's Model/Neoliberal State of the World
4. Modernity-Coloniality and Indigenous Realities
5. Dispossession, Extractivism, and Violence
6. Critical Consciousness and Praxis
7. Political Education and Radical Pedagogy
8. Gender Justice and Social Reproduction
9. Health, Food Sovereignty, Solidarity Economies
10. The Battle for the Soul of Education