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Amidst war, economic meltdown, and ecological crisis, a “new spirit of radicalism is blooming” from New York to Cairo, according to Chris Dixon. In Another Politics, he examines the trajectory of efforts that contributed to the radicalism of Occupy Wall Street and other recent movement upsurges. Drawing on voices of leading organizers across the United States and Canada, he delivers an engaging presentation of the histories and principles that shape many contemporary struggles.
Dixon outlines the work of activists aligned with anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, and anti-oppression politics and discusses the lessons they are learning in their efforts to create social transformation. The book explores solutions to the key challenge for today’s activists, organizers, fighters, and dreamers: building a substantive link between the work of “against,” which fights ruling institutions, and the work of “beyond,” which develops liberatory alternatives.
- Sales Rank: #614862 in Books
- Published on: 2014-08-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .90" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 355 pages
Review
"An excellent distillation of what Dixon calls 'another politics, ' a shared political orientation that unites grassroots organizers working from similar principles in the United States and Canada across issue, movement, sector, strategy and identity. . . . Like a good organizing mentor, Dixon (and his interviewees) gives us insight without 'right' answers, helping to deepen our understanding of commonalities and remind us of the deep roots of the 'another politics' leftist lineage."--Andrew Willis Garces"Waging Nonviolence" (12/02/2014)"
"An invaluable snapshot of the North American left today. . . . To understand the state of the left in North America, in all its aspirations and its limitations, Another Politics is an important book."--Justin Podur"teleSUR" (12/16/2014)
"With such widespread challenges and injustice facing our society, combined with the shifting energies and momentum of people power, the 'another politics' Chris Dixon documents in Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements offers perhaps the most promising and exciting approaches to collectively addressing these problems while simultaneously moving us into the world in which we wish to live."--Greg MacDougall"Rabble" (03/19/2015)
"Gripping and politically productive . . . impressive and important . . . A compelling work of social and political theory."--Ted Rutland"Race & Class" (07/30/2015)
"One of the most engaging books on activism that I've read in a long time . . . Another Politics is inspiring and thought provoking without being naive. A must read for anyone into activism and grassroots politics."--E V E L Y N"We Were Raised By Wolves" (12/01/2015)
"Dixon is an extremely generous scholar as he weaves his text around interviews with movement participants. The book offers readers a meticulous account of these organizing cultures in addition to the thought processes, decision-making mechanisms, and application of historical reflections and theoretical concepts in a contemporary social movement."--Kevin Van Meter "Cultural Geographies "
From the Inside Flap
“Another Politics is a much needed and indispensable exploration of the roots of efforts to develop radical politics leading up to Occupy Wall Street and beyond. With the collaboration of dozens of those involved in this process, Chris Dixon provides guidance for transformational change.”
—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
“The product of a major research effort, based on more than two hundred interviews and conversations with organizers from contemporary social movements, Chris Dixon’s Another Politics is an invaluable book. It is a map to a new world of struggles and organizational forms, outside the logic of traditional political parties and unions, written with great clarity, insightfulness, and ability to listen to the new voices of our time. All those aspiring to be part of a broad process of social change should have Dixon’s book on their shelves.”
—Silvia Federici, author of Revolution at Point Zero and Caliban and the Witch
"Another Politics is an insightful, much-needed contribution to US and Canadian movements working for transformative change. Chris Dixon provides a clear framework for interpreting the methods being developed across our local experiments and contextualizes them in the longer trajectories from which they developed. Another Politics is revealing and energizing—it will be a great tool for scholars of social movements in activist reading groups and university classrooms. It will also help activists engaged in vibrant local work learn about each other’s projects and approaches. This book helps us understand what we’re doing, how we came to be doing it and why."
—Dean Spade, author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law
About the Author
Chris Dixon is an activist, writer, and educator who received a PhD from the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His writing has appeared in We Are Many: Reflections on Movement Strategy from Occupation to Liberation, Anarchist Studies, Clamor, the Earth First! Journal, Left Turn, Social Movement Studies, and Upping the Anti. He has been involved in transformative social movements for more than two decades.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Captures a Crucial Turning Point in Anti-Authoritarian Politics
By Jeremy Louzao
Skateboarding. I think skateboarding is the best analogy I can find for why I think this book is so important, why you should buy it and read it, and why you should engage the questions that it raises by talking with friends or forming a study group.
In the early days, before skateboarding was a sport, when it was just another childhood novelty, another slinky or pogo stick, there wasn't much that had to be said about it. The skateboarding "discourse" was mighty thin. Just throw together ramshackle roller-skate wheels and plywood, and find a smooth surface for some sidewalk surfing. But in the 80's--as so interestingly captured in retrospectives like Dogtown and Z-Boys--when a bunch of surf kids started putting in the extra time to explore the possibilities under their feet, and then in that transcendent moment when they realized they could go from just hugging the ground to actually rocketing into the air, everything changed. Skateboarding transformed into something different, and the vocabulary, the areas of interest and focus, the very understanding of what good or bad skateboarding was were completely reshaped. Flips and spins and gaps and railslides were thrown out there into the culture to be pondered, practiced, perfected. It turned out that the childhood novelty contained exquisite potential for demonstrating human grace and ingenuity.
I think that this book, Another Politics, documents a similar historical moment in the development of North American anti-authoritarian politics: the moment where many of us are realizing that our often dismissed movements really can defy society's gravity and launch us into freer air.
This book deftly shows how the last 25 plus years have seen the steady convergence of a variety of political threads--including the punk and peace movement pedigree of anarchist direct actions and organizing styles; the brilliant and innovative tidal wave of women of color feminism that has washed across the academy, the non-profit sector, and grassroots campaign initiatives; and the visionary call of prison abolitionists to imagine a world without jails. With time and experience, these movements have discovered their ability to evolve from being gadflies and nuisances, to winning small changes, to actually projecting and building new kinds of bottom-up people power. Right now we are in a thrilling time where we're starting to take ourselves more seriously as a legitimate political pole; we're starting to acknowledge that our wheels can leave the ground and do amazing things in the air. And, like a documentarian hanging out on the edges of graffitied swimming pools in 1980's California, Chris Dixon seems to be in just the right places at the right time to show us how the discourse is changing on the ground.
Just as skateboarding's aerial paradigm shift completely changed the way people understood the sport and talked to each other within it, the blossoming of what Dixon calls the anti-authoritarian current has led to a cascade of new questions, new vocabulary, and new ways of understanding success and failure. The greatest strength of Another Politics is how it distills numerous organizers' voices as they talk through their experiences of this shifting landscape. From the Bay Area to New Orleans, from Atlanta to Toronto, from New York City to Vancouver, we feel like witnesses to and participants in fiery living room conversations. Whether we are hearing reflections on grassroots responses to Hurricane Katrina or Superstorm Sandy, the mobilization of Sikh communities to resist deportations, or the youth organizers of Sista II Sista liberating their New York neighborhoods from violence, we get to see the somewhat raw and intimate hopes and doubts that accompany all the flashy public organizing work. We see person after person asking about care and mutual support within our movements; about questions of long-term strategy and how to better analyze who our enemy is (what Dixon condenses as the "four anti's"); about nuanced approaches to anti-authoritarian leadership; about the opportunities and traps of the "non-profit industrial complex;" about the search to build stable and nurturing "political homes;" and about sustaining our vision of a new world while staying grounded in the world as it is. In all of this, we are spared any heavy-handed prescriptive formulas and instead--especially in the final chapter--welcomed into the conversation.
Certainly, there are gaps in Dixon's coverage of these emerging dialogues. First is the book's own admission that it focuses almost exclusively on urban organizing. With some of the most promising experiments with grassroots organizing happening in the fields of Oregon, in the mining towns of Appalachia, and in rural communities all over the South, one really feels the need for a rurally-focused companion volume. Second, I think the book--presumably in the interest of highlighting the freshness of the modern anti-authoritarian current--distances itself a little too far from the legacy of capital-A Anarchism, and could have been further enriched by including more of the crucial reflections and contributions from anti-authoritarian movement corners like Z Magazine and Z-Net, Crimethinc Ex-Workers Collective, and the growing class-struggle anarchist milieu. Third, I found myself wishing that Dixon's interviews would have more thoroughly explored issues of repression and intentional movement de-stabilization, which will only get heavier as our movements gain headway. Fortunately, the book is humble and accessible enough to recognize where it falters, and opens space for others to fill in the gaps.
As far as I've tried to push the skateboarding analogy, there is one area where it completely falls apart: whereas skateboarding's airborne revelations and subsequent evolution turned it into an ever more specialized--and professionalized--pastime, the rise of anti-authoritarian politics depends on quite the opposite process. As the anti-authoritarian current finds its confidence and grows, it must open itself up to even more widespread participation, with even more of us weighing in on all the urgent and powerful questions of the day. It must belong to more than just Dixon and the 50+ people he interviewed in this book. It must belong to all of us.
The reason why I recommend this book so highly, then, is because Another Politics feels like precisely the kind of historical and theoretical primer that I think we need for more people to be able to lend their voices to the discussion.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Five Stars
By Darrel Hess
Stimulating and provocative.
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