
Mobilising Classics
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The classic texts that comprise the focal point for each chapter were selected by the contributors, many of whom straddle the boundaries of academia and activism. Each essay provides an account of the contributor's personal encounters with the text, opens up the key mobilising ideas and considers how the text has the potential invigorate the political imagination of contemporary oppositional politics.
This book will be of interest to students in the social sciences, especially sociology and Irish studies and will appeal to those interested or involved in political activism of any variety. -- .
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1. Opening Up Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man. Bernadette McAliskey
2. Opening Up William Thompson's Practical Education for the South of Ireland. Eileen O'Carroll
3. Opening Up James Connolly's Labour in Irish History. Fintan Lane
4. Opening Up Robert Tressel's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. Rosie Meade
5. Opening Up Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. Fiona Dukelow
6. Opening Up Thomas Szasz's The Myth of Mental Illness. Orla McDonnell
7. Opening Up Kwame Ture and Charles Hamilton's Black Power: The Politics of Liberation. Robbie McVeigh
8. Opening Up Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Mark Garavan
9. Opening Up Ivan Illich's Tools for Conviviality. Orla O'Donovan
10. Opening Up Adrienne Rich's On Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence. Tina O'Toole
11. Opening Up the Brundtland Committee's Our Common Future. Hilary Tovey
Concluding Remarks. Fiona Dukelow and Orla O'Donovan -- .
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