The End of the World as We Know It?
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The End of the World as We Know It? explores the origins and effects of the capitalist crisis that began in 2008. It moves on to examine the responses of both the dispossessed and the ruling classes to the catastrophe, giving special attention to student mobilizations around the world. Weaving together a global network of stories and analyses, editor Deric Shannon creates an outline of what real and effective opposition to the forces that are destroying our lives and our planet might look like. From solidarity networks to revolutionary unionism, student strikes, and ever-new forms of state and corporate control, The End of the World as We Know It? is a guide to the future of anticapitalist struggle
"Highly recommended reading for the contemporary dissident."-Ruth Kinna, author of A Beginner's Guide to Anarchism
"The End of the World As We Know It? will be an invaluable resource for students of political economy in our momentous times.... [it] offers an indispensable array of perspectives on the crisis in contemporary global capitalism, with an eye toward dismantling it." -Alessandro De Giorgi, author of Re-thinking the Political Economy of Punishment
"A must-read for those interested in navigating the turbulent waters of economic uncertainty, political instability, and global resistance. The contributors not only provide clear and accessible analyses but also, and more importantly, a range of thought-provoking proposals for change which challenge an increasingly unequal and unsustainable status quo." -Nathan Jun, Author of Anarchism and Political Modernity
"There is nothing more important for anticapitalists than providing sharp analysis and relevant answers to the problems of our time, rather than merely propagating noble ideals. Here is a book that lives up to the task." -Gabriel Kuhn, editor of All Power to the Councils! A Documentary History of the German Revolution of 1918-1919
"The contributions in The End of the World As We Know It? provide us with important lessons concerning the economic crisis and the attempts of working people to create a world worth living in." -Andrej Grubacic, author of Don't Mourn, Balkanize! Essays After Yugoslavia
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The End of the World As We Know It? Toward a Critical Understanding of the Present
Deric Shannon
PART 1. ORIGINS
1. From the Fall of Saigon to the Fall of Lehman
Paul Bowman
2. Interview with Noam Chomsky on the Origins of the Crisis and Methods of Resistance
Interview by Deric Shannon
3. Predatory Lending and the Twenty-First Century Recession: Preying on the American Dream and Reasserting Racialized Inequality
Davita Silfen Glasberg, Angie Beeman, and Colleen Casey
PART 2. EFFECTS
4. The End of Meaning, The Meaning of End (Some Thoughts from Greece)
Antonis Vradis
5. A Failure of Imagination: Human Rights Through Neo-liberalism, the Economic Crisis, and Austerity Policy
Harpreet K. Paul
6. Mechanisms of Power: Privilege and Racism as Exercised Through Economic Crisis
Ernesto Aguilar and Ayn Morgan
7. No Mancession: Crisis, Gender, Reproductive Labor, and the Commons
Gayge Operaista
8. Interview with Miguel Ángel Fernández on the CNT and Crisis in Spain
Interview and Translation by Dustin Shannon
9. Institutionalizing Crisis: The Case of Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina
Jasmin Mujanovic
10. The Puerto Rican Experiment: Crisis, Colonialism, and Popular Response
Jorell A. Meléndez Badillo
PART 3. THE RESPONSE OF THE DISPOSSESSED
11. Infiltrating the Mythology of American Empire: Media, History, and Occupy Wall Street
Mark Bray
12. Undoing the Reasonable Middle: Sexuality and Gender Movements in the Age of Crisis and Austerity
Abbey Volcano
13. Argentina's Movements Against Austerity and the Politics of Space
Marie Trigona
14. Austerity and Unions: A Case Study in the Canadian Union of Postal Workers
Nick Driedger
15. No Exit: Transforming Housing Through Solidarity and Resistance
Shane Burley
16. Circumscribed by Conditions They Did Not Create: The English Riots of August 2011
Christian Garland
17. Solidarity Networks as a Means of Building Resistance to Austerity
Matthew Adams
PART 4. THE RULING CLASS RESPONSE
18. Militant Reformism and the Prospects for Reforming Capitalism
Nate Hawthorne
19. States of Emergency: Green Capitalism and Transnational Resistance
Yesenia Barragán
20. Policing Dissent and Copping a Profit: Police and Austerity in the United States
Adam Quinn
21. Dimensions of Crisis in Greece
Chris Spannos
22. Insurgency Control: Tools of Repression in the Age of Austerity
Sean Parson and Luis A. Fernandez
23. Nationalism's Chilling Effect on Anti-austerity Movements: The Case of Israel's "Tent Protests"
Uri Gordon
24. Marikana: A Point of Rupture?
Benjamin Fogel
PART 5. EDUCATION AND THE STUDENT RESPONSE
25. Revolutionary Terrains and Higher Education in the U.S.
William Armaline and Abraham DeLeon
26. Interview with Québécois Student Organizer Jamie Burnett
Interview by Abbey Volcano
27. Necessary Steps in Tough Economic Times: New York Students Take to the Streets in the Wake of Occupy
Marianne LeNabat
28. An Interview with Rudy Amanda Hurtado Garcés, a Militant in the Colombian Anti-Neoliberal Movement
Interview and Translation by Yesenia Barragán and Mark Bray
29. Paths Written in Concrete: The Chilean Student Movement of 2012
Mónica Kostas, Scott Nikolas Nappalos, & Felipe Ramírez
CONCLUSION
The End of the World As We Know It? Toward a Critical Understanding of the Future
Deric Shannon
