Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the
Transition to a Post-Petrol World (Paperback)
by Kolya Abramsky (Editor)
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As the earth’s carrying capacity continues to be stressed, the
question of renewable energies is no longer whether, but when and by
whom. Climate change and peak oil have hit the mainstream. Kolya
Abramsky’s collection maps the world’s energy sector and shows how
addressing these challenges necessitates an analysis of our economic
priorities. Solutions must include massive shifts in our use of
technologies and, most importantly, a democratization of the economic
landscape based on broad new coalitions.
With four distinct sections—Oil Makes the World Go ‘Round; From Petrol
to Renewable Energies; Struggle Over Choice of Energy Sources and
Technologies; and Possible Futures—and over fifty essays from
approximately twenty countries, there’s nothing like Sparking a
Worldwide Energy Revolution to address our global energy crisis.
The different chapters bring together a wealth of organizational and
analytical experience from across the different branches of the energy
sector, both conventional and renewable. Contributors include the
following organizations and individuals: China Labour Bulletin (Hong
Kong/China), Energy Watch Group (Germany), Focus on the Global South
(Thailand), Integrated Sustainable Energy and Ecological Development
(India), Public Services International Research Unit (United Kingdom),
World Information Service on Energy (Netherlands), Preben Maegaard,
and Hermann Scheer.
Kolya Abramsky is a former secretariat of the World Wind Energy
Institute, based in Denmark, a pioneering country in renewable energy.
He is currently a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced
Studies on Science, Technology and Society in Austria, and is pursuing
a PhD in sociology at State University of New York, Binghamton.

Soil Not Oil: Climate Change, Peak Oil and Food Insecurity
Authored by: Vandana Shiva
9781876756727
Website: http://www.vandanashiva.org/
A must-read for anyone who takes the future of the planet seriously,
Soil Not Oil dares us to imagine a world where people matter more than
profits.

Vandana Shiva brilliantly reveals what connects humanity’s most urgent
crises—food insecurity, peak oil, and climate change—and why any
attempt to solve one without addressing the others will get us
nowhere. Condemning industrial biofuels and agriculture as recipes for
ecological and economic disaster, Shiva champions the small
independent farm instead. What we need most in a time of changing
climates and millions hungry, she argues, are sustainable,
biologically diverse farms that are more resistant to disease,
drought, and flood.

Bold and visionary, Soil Not Oil calls for a return to sound
agricultural principles and a world based on self-organisation,
community, and environmental justice.
AUTHOR DETAILS
Vandana Shiva is one of world’s best known speakers and writers on
environmental issues. Soil Not Oil, like her previous books, points
the direction for future discussion. Shiva has been invited to
Australia on a number of occasions and has participated in the World
Economic Forums in Davos, Switzerland and Melbourne. She is the author
of numerous books and monographs including Staying Alive (1989),
Monocultures of the Mind (1993) and Water Wars (2002).

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Intro: Triple Crisis, Triple Opportunity
1. Politics of Climate Change
2. Sacred Cow or Sacred Car
3. Food for Cars or People
4. Soil Not Oil
Conclusion: Unleashing Shakti: Our Power to Transform
REVIEWS
‘Irrepressible environmentalist Vandana Shiva is back, this time with
less of a clarion call and more of a war cry. Soil not oil begins
where a flood of recent books also start - how the global crises of
peak oil, climate change and rising food prices are symptomatic of
humankind’s spiritual malaise and both economic and ecological
bankruptcy’.
From New Agriculturist: http://www.new-ag.info/09/02/books.php

Eco-sufficiency and Global Justice: Women Write Political Ecology
Edited by Ariel Salleh
9781876756710
Website: http://www.ArielSalleh.net
As the twenty-first century faces a crisis of democracy and
sustainability, this book brings academics and alternative
globalisation activists into discussion.
Through studies of global neoliberalism, ecological debt, climate
change, and the ongoing devaluation of reproductive and subsistence
labour, these uncompromising essays by internationally distinguished
women thinkers expose the limits of current scholarship in political
economy, ecological economics, and sustainability science.
With in-depth analyses of climate change, MDGs, financial meltdown,
and new theoretical concepts for understanding humanity-nature links,
this books is essential reading for students of political economy,
ethics, global studies, sociology, women’s studies, geography and
environmental science.
"Inspired by the diversity and pluralism of ecofeminism [this book] is
a must read for anyone committed to building alternatives." –VANDANA
SHIVA, Director of the Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology,
New Delhi; author, activist, and winner of the Alternative Nobel
Prize.
"By far and away the best collection of ecological feminist writing I
have found." –RICHARD NORGAARD, Professor of Energy and Resources,
University of California, Berkeley
"The lessons from this outstanding book are clear. Economic and
ecological practices conducted by women and other marginalised
groupings must be recognised as a source of new theoretical
understandings, critical for social and environmental justice to be
achieved." –PETER DICKENS, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences,
University of Cambridge
"These new and incisive perspectives put forth a transformative agenda
for global justice. And in doing so, the collection draws all of us –
activists and academics – closer to a common political denominator in
the search for a true alternative to globalisation." –LIM LI CHING,
leading international biodiversity activist, Third World Network,
Kuala Lumpur
AUTHOR DETAILS
Ariel Salleh is a researcher in Political Science at the University of
Sydney, author of Ecofeminism as Politics (1997) and co-editor of the
influential international journal Capitalism Nature Socialism. Her
writings on ecology, feminism, development and ecology are widely
debated. She helped found The Greens in Australia and in 1992 worked
on the Earth Summit with Women’s and Environmental and Development
Organisation.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
1 - Ecological Debt : Embodied Debt
Ariel Salleh
Triangulating political ecology
The meta-industrial labour class

PART I - HISTORIES
Extract: Veronika Bennholdt Thomsen and Maria Mies,
The Subsistence Perspective

2 - The Devaluation of Women’s Labour
Silvia Federici
Population and the disciplining of women
Reproductive labour is natural and historical
Women’s productive labour as ‘non-work’
The invention of ‘femininity’ and the ‘housewife’
Sex, race, and class in the colonies

3 - Who is the ‘He’ of He Who Decides in Economic Discourse?
Ewa Charkiewicz
Economics as a seriality of truth games
How to train a wife to manage an estate
Sovereignty and patriarchy as dispositif
A national familial household
Sovereign capital and abandonment
Patria potestas, cura materna

4 - The Diversity Matrix: Relationship and Complexity
Susan Hawthorne
Living as part of the whole
Indigenous, feminist, and ecological economics
Particularity, concreteness, and place
Eco-social systems and ‘life’
Towards a wild economics

PART II - MATTER
Extract: Carolyn Merchant, Earthcare

5 - Development for Some is Violence for Others
Nalini Nayak
Fishing for export or livelihood?
Technologies of abandonment
Patriarchal cultures old and new

6 - Nuclearised Bodies and Militarised Space
Zohl de Ishtar
One bomb vapourised an entire island
Radioactive ecosystem: human guinea pigs
Nuclear pollution and cancer deaths
Economic, social, and cultural fallout
Crimes against humanity

7 - Women and Deliberative Water Management
Andrea Moraes and Ellie Perkins
Women, feminism, and NGOs
Ecofeminist and transformative leadership
Deliberative democracy in practice

PART III - GOVERNANCE
Extract: Hilkka Pietila, ‘Ontological Presuppositions’

8 - Mainstreaming Trade and Millennium Development Goals?
Gig Francisco and Peggy Antrobus
Engendering neoliberal policies
Between religious and economic fundamentalism
Equality and women’s empowerment
Poverty is embedded in gender relations

9 - Policy and the Measure of Woman
Marilyn Waring
Do women count for nothing?
Real life: alternative models
The Index of Sustainable Welfare (ISEW)
The Human Development Index (HDI)
The Genuine Progress Indicators (GPI)
People setting their own indicators
Interpreting data in non-monetary terms
The Alberta GPI

10 - Feminist Ecological Economics in Theory and Practice
Sabine U. O’Hara
Reclaiming neglected contexts
Making the invisible visible
Methods reflect power structures
Feminist ecological economics

PART IV - ENERGY
Extract: Teresa Brennan, Exhausting Modernity

11 - Who Pays for Kyoto Protocol? Selling Oxygen and Selling Sex
Ana Isla
Enclosing the forest to sell oxygen
Natural capital or superorganism?
The crisis of gatherers and small farmers
The crisis of women and children
Resisting narrow environmentalism

12 - How Global Warming is Gendered
Meike Spitzner
Common but differentiated responsibilities?
From procedural to substantive change
A chance for gender post 2012?

13 - Women and the Abuja Declaration for Energy Sovereignty
Leigh Brownhill and Terisa E. Turner
Neoliberal approaches to women and climate change
Gendered, ethnicised, class struggle
Women’s ‘gift’ to humanity
Big Oil and state violence
The Abuja Declaration

PART V - MOVEMENT
Extract: Vandana Shiva, Earth Democracy

14 Ecofeminist Political Economy and the Politics of Money
Mary Mellor
Dualist economics
The precarity of global capitalism
Why growth is made ‘an imperative’
Challenging the money system

15 - Saving Women: Saving the Commons
Leo Podlashuc
The semantics of savings
Community and autonomy
Savings as praxis
International mobilisation
Saving women
Conscientisation and empowerment

16 - From Eco-Sufficiency to Global Justice
Ariel Salleh
Reproductive labour as leverage
An embodied materialism
Capacity building for the global North

Direct Action: An Ethnography (Paperback)
by David Graeber (Author)
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Anthropologist David Graeber undertakes the first detailed
ethnographic study of the global justice movement. The case study at
the center of Direct Action is the organizing and events that led to
the one of the most dramatic and militant mass protests in recent
years-against the Summit of the Americas in Québec City. Written in a
clear, accessible style (with a minimum of academic jargon), this
study brings readers behind the scenes of a movement that has changed
the terms of debate about world power relations. From informal
conversations in coffee shops to large "spokescouncil" planning
meetings and tear gas-drenched street actions, Graeber paints a vivid
and fascinating picture.
Along the way, he addresses matters of deep interest to
anthropologists: meeting structure and process, language, symbolism
and representation, the specific rituals of activist culture, and much
more. Starting from the assumption that, when dealing with
possibilities of global transformation and emerging political forms, a
disinterested, "objective" perspective is impossible, Graeber writes
as both scholar and activist. At the same time, his experiment in the
application of ethnographic methods to important ongoing political
events is a serious and unique contribution to the field of
anthropology, as well as an inquiry into anthropology’s political
implications.
David Graeber is an anthropologist and activist who teaches at the
University of London. Active in numerous direct-action political
organizations, he has written for Harper’s Magazine and is the author
of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, Towards an Anthropological
Theory of Value, and Possibilities.

About the Author
David Graeber is an anthropologist and activist who currently teaches
at the University of London and has been active in direct-action
groups, including the Direct Action Network, People’s Global Action,
and Anti-Capitalist Convergence. He is the author of Fragments of an
Anarchist Anthropology, Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value,
and Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar.

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 Paperback: 600 pages
 Publisher: AK Press (September 1, 2009)
 Language: English
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 ISBN-13: 978-1904859796
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AK Press to Publish the Team Colors Collection ‘Uses of a Whirlwind’
in June 2010! Friends, Team Colors is pleased to announce that AK
Press will be publishing the collective’s first book, Uses of a
Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, and Contemporary Radical Currents in
the United States. The volume will be released June 2010 to coincide
with the US Social Forum in Detroit. “Will you join us in the middle
of a whirlwind?” This is the question Team Colors has asked
organizers, activists, artists, and theorists as we have sought to
understand the current composition and strength of radical movements
in the United States. In utilizing the metaphor of a whirlwind to
describe the myriad of struggles that are taking place currently and
those that have been blowing across the planet over the past decade,
Team Colors has conducted an inquiry and examination of movements in
the United States, which has resulted in the collection Uses of a
Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, and Contemporary Radical Currents in
the United States (Whirlwinds). Whirlwinds provides case studies,
movement strategies, theoretical analysis and interviews on radical
community organizing—toward making social change possible!
Contributors to Whirlwinds include Malav Kanuga | Bluestockings Books
& Activism Center, Direct Action to Stop the War, Roadblock Earth
First!, Industrial Workers of the World - Starbucks Workers Union,
Marina Karides | United States Social Forum Documentation Committee,
Student/Farmworker Alliance, Harmony Goldberg | Domestic Workers
United & Right to the City Alliance, Basav Sen, John Peck | Family
Farm Defenders, Brian Tokar, Benjamin Shepard, Julie Perini, Jen
Angel, Daniel Tucker | AREA Chicago, Maribel Casas-Cortes & Sebastian
Cobarrubias | Producciones Translocales, Michael Hardt & El Kilombo
Intergaláctico, George Caffentzis, Silvia Federici, Peter Linebaugh,
Chris Carlsson & others; interviews with Robin D.G. Kelley, Ashanti
Omowali Alston & Grace Lee Boggs; artwork by Kristine Virsis |
Justseeds Artists Cooperative. Team Colors, AK Press and many of the
Whirlwinds contributors will be present at the US Social Forum in
Detroit. Team Colors will also be visiting a number of cities across
the US in the summer of 2010 to speak about the collection and current
radical community organizing. Please contact teamcolors at
warmachines.info to bring the collective to your area. Survey: Making
the Collection Useful In seeking to construct a collection that is
useful to and utilized in radical community organizing efforts, Team
Colors has a short survey of questions to help shape Whirlwinds.
Please fill out the questionnaire below, return it to info at
whirlwinds.info, and share the survey with others involved in radical
community organizing and community-building work. Name: Organizational
Affiliation (if any): Email Address: City, State / Region: 1. What
organizations or projects do you participate in? How would you
characterize the work that you do? 2. What sources of information do
you use to find out about current radical movements? What books,
magazines, blogs, and other media do you access to understand power
relationships in society and how to overcome them? 3. What is missing
from current accounts of radical organizing and politics that you
would like to see in a collection such as Whirlwinds? 4. What
struggles and movements do you see as important to focus on in
Whirlwinds? 5. What role should a collection such as Whirlwinds play
in your organizing efforts? What would be useful for your own
organizing, and what is needed to strengthen radical community
organizing efforts in the United States?
Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of
Everyday Life Stevphen Shukaitis All power to the imagination? Over
the past forty years to invoke the imagination as a basis for radical
politics has become a cliché: a rhetorical utilization of ideas
already in circulation, invoking the mythic unfolding of this
self-institutionalizing process. But what exactly is radical
imagination? Drawing from autonomist politics, class composition
analysis, and avant-garde arts, Imaginal Machines explores the
emergence, functioning, and constant breakdown of the embodied forms
of radical imagination. What does it mean to invoke the power of the
imagination when it seems that the imagination has already seized
power through the power of the spectacle? Does any subversive
potentiality remain? Perhaps it is only honest to think in terms of a
temporally-bounded subversive power. It might be that imaginal
machines only work by breaking down. That is, their functioning is
only possible, paradoxically, by their malfunctioning. By reopening
the question of recuperation, the inevitable drive to integrate the
power of social insurgency back into the working of capital and the
state, we create possibilities for a politics continually
reconstituted against and through the dynamics of recuperation: to
keep open an antagonism without closure. “Imaginal Machines explores
with humor and wit the condition of art and politics in contemporary
capitalism. It reviews the potentials and limits of liberatory art
(from surrealism to Tom Waits) while charting the always-resurgent
creations of the collective imagination. Shukaitis exhibits a
remarkable theoretical breadth, bringing together the work of
Castoriadis, the Situationists, and autonomous Marxism to define a new
task for militant research: constructing imaginal machines that escape
capitalism. Imaginal Machines is truly a book that makes a path by
walking.” – Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witch: Women
the Body and Primitive Accumulation “If you have ever had someone say
to you, ‘okay it’s fine to criticize but what would you do?’ this is
the book for you. Shukaitis takes us on a raucous ride through
actually existing alternative organizations that are anarchic, loving,
fun, and best of all they work. We meet people and organizations who
imagine a completely different way of being together in the world. And
we are never far from a sophisticated theoretical travelogue as we
walk these roads with the author. What would you do? Try this, and
this, and this!” – Stefano Harney, Chair in Strategy, Culture, and
Organization, University of London Stevphen Shukaitis is an editor at
Autonomedia and lecturer at the University of Essex. He is the editor
(with Erika Biddle and David Graeber) of Constituent Imagination:
Militant Investigations // Collective Theorization (AK Press, 2007).
His research focuses on the emergence of collective imagination in
social movements and the changing compositions of cultural and
artistic labor. For more on his work and writing, see
http://stevphen.mahost.org. 256 pages, 6 x 9 US: $16 / UK: 12 ISBN
978-1-57027-208-0 Release date October 29th, 2009 Released by Minor
Compositions, London / New York / Port Watson Minor Compositions is a
series of interventions & provocations drawing from autonomous
politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of everyday
life. Minor Compositions is an imprint of Autonomedia
(http://www.autonomedia.org ) www.minorcompositions.info |info at
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Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization
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"Networking Futures is a terrific, deeply informed ethnographic
account of the origins and activities of the anti-corporate
globalization movement. Jeffrey S. Juris’s identity is as much that of
an activist who happens to be doing first-rate anthropology as vice
versa, and there is much for anthropologists to reflect on in the way
that this work is set up and narrated through these dual identities."
George Marcus, University of California, Irvine "Networking Futures is
one of the very first books to map in detail the multiple networks
that are challenging corporate globalization. Taking as a point of
departure an exemplary case–the Catalan anti-globalization movements
of the past decade–Jeffrey S. Juris moves on to chronicle the
collective struggles to construct not only an alternative vision of
possible worlds but the means to bring them about. Networking Futures
is a compelling portrait of the spirit of innovation that lies behind
an array of progressive mobilizations, from anarchist movements and
street protests to the World Social Forum. Based on a well-developed
notion of collaborative ethnography, it is also a wonderful example of
engaged scholarship: a much-needed alternative to academic work as
usual."–Arturo Escobar, author of Territories of Difference: Place,
Movements, Life, Redes "Jeffrey S. Juris gives us an illuminating
model for how to study networks from below using the tools of
ethnography. And in the process he reveals the extraordinary power (as
well as the challenges) of network organizing for social movements
today."–Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire and Multitude "Networking
Futures is a terrific, deeply informed ethnographic account of the
origins and activities of the anti-corporate globalization movement.
Jeffrey S. Juris’s identity is as much that of an activist who happens
to be doing first-rate anthropology as vice versa, and there is much
for anthropologists to reflect on in the way that this work is set up
and narrated through these dual identities."–George E. Marcus,
co-author of Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary

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Since the first worldwide protests inspired by Peoples’ Global Action
(PGA)—including the mobilization against the November 1999 World Trade
Organization meetings in Seattle—anti–corporate globalization
activists have staged direct action protests against multilateral
institutions in cities such as Prague, Barcelona, Genoa, and Cancun.
Barcelona is a critical node, as Catalan activists have played key
roles in the more radical PGA network and the broader World Social
Forum process. In 2001 and 2002, the anthropologist Jeffrey S. Juris
participated in the Barcelona-based Movement for Global Resistance,
one of the most influential anti–corporate globalization networks in
Europe. Combining ethnographic research and activist political
engagement, Juris took part in hundreds of meetings, gatherings,
protests, and online discussions. Those experiences form the basis of
Networking Futures, an innovative ethnography of transnational
activist networking within the movements against corporate
globalization.
In an account full of activist voices and on-the-ground detail, Juris
provides a history of anti–corporate globalization movements, an
examination of their connections to local dynamics in Barcelona, and
an analysis of movement-related politics, organizational forms, and
decision-making. Depicting spectacular direct action protests in
Barcelona and other cities, he describes how far-flung activist
networks are embodied and how networking politics are performed. He
further explores how activists have used e-mail lists, Web pages, and
free software to organize actions, share information, coordinate at a
distance, and stage “electronic civil disobedience.” Based on a
powerful cultural logic, anti–corporate globalization networks have
become models of and for emerging forms of radical, directly
democratic politics. Activists are not only responding to growing
poverty, inequality, and environmental devastation; they are also
building social laboratories for the production of alternative values,
discourses, and practices.
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 Publisher: Duke University Press (June 30, 2008)
 Language: English
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