Nothing to lose but our fear / Fiona Jeffries in conversation with Lydia Cacho, Gustavo Esteva, Silvia Federici, David Harvey, John Holloway, Wendy Mendez, John Holloway, Wendy Mendez, Sandra Moran, Marcus Rediker, and Nandita Sharma
Front Cover -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Historicizing -- 1. Marcus Rediker: The Theatre and Counter-Theatre of Fear -- Political Formations -- Histories of Violence -- Pirate Ways of Knowing -- Violent Pedagogies -- Exemplary Punishment, Refusal of Fear -- Accumulating Bodies -- Laughing at Fear -- Reflections on the Violence of Abstraction -- 2. Silvia Federici: Remembering Resistance from the Witch Hunts to Alter-Globalization -- Fear Needn't Paralyze You -- Movement, Solidarity, and Love -- Intimate Resistance -- A Political Life in Motion -- Terrorizing Women -- The Divisions among Us -- Confronting Fear -- Part II: Theorizing -- 3. David Harvey: Indignant Cities -- Urban Unrest as an Impetus to Social Inquiry -- Spaces of Hope and Fear -- Stories of Fear -- Fears of the Seen and the Unseen -- Suburban Fears -- Crisis Cycles -- Alliances of the Dispossessed and the Discontented -- 4. Nandita Sharma: Terror and Mercy at the Border -- An Initiation in Violence -- Alternative Routes -- Ideal Victims and Benevolent Rescuers -- Fear Nation -- Love and Fear -- No Borders, Global Democracy -- 5. John Holloway: We Are the Fragility of the System -- Asking We Walk -- Dignity against Fear -- Screaming in the Darkness -- Thinking through Crisis -- Living in the Subjunctive -- Fear's Antagonists -- Resonances -- Against and Beyond -- Dignity -- Fear and Debt -- Part III: Practicing -- 6. Lydia Cacho: Dangerous Journalism -- Journeys in Lost Cities -- Impunity -- A Functional Dictatorship -- Fears of the Powerful -- 7. Sandra Moran: Feminist Indignation -- Power Over, Power To -- Indignation -- Legacy of War -- Resistance -- 8. Gustavo Esteva: Political Courage and the Strange Persistence of Hope -- Beginnings -- Global Fear -- Coalitions of the Discontented
Security without the Security State -- Political Courage -- Temporalities of Hope and Fear -- 9. Wendy Mendez: Remembering the Disappeared, Revealing Hidden Histories of Resistance -- Remembering -- Closing the Cycle of Death -- Women's Public Struggle against Fear -- Uncovering Histories -- De-militarizing the Mind -- Our Love Is Bigger Than Their Fear -- Letting the Walls Speak -- Fearless Speech -- Index -- Back Cover
Summary
A unique look at how the experience of fear prevents political change, with instructions and examples of how to overcome it from leading figures on the left
Notes
Includes index
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 9, 2015)
