Z Books
Recent Z Books
Gibler: Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt
Jan 07, 2009
Mexico Unconquered is an evocative report on the epic powers of violence and corruption in Mexico and the underdogs and rebels who put their lives on the line to build justice from the ground up.
Grubacic: Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History
Sep 01, 2008
Wobblies and Zapatistas offers the reader an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Andrej Grubacic is an anarchist from the Balkans. Staughton Lynd is a lifelong pacifist, influenced by Marxism. They meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that "my country is the world." Encompassing a Left libertarian perspective and an emphatically activist standpoint, these conversations are meant to be read in the clubs and affinity groups of the new Movement.
Gordon: Israel's Occupation
Aug 21, 2008
This first complete history of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip allows us to see beyond the smoke screen of politics in order to make sense of the dramatic changes that have developed on the ground over the past forty years. Looking at a wide range of topics, from control of water and electricity to health care and education as well as surveillance and torture, Neve Gordon's panoramic account reveals a fundamental shift from a politics of life—when, for instance, Israel helped Palestinians plant more than six-hundred thousand trees in Gaza and provided farmers with improved varieties of seeds—to a macabre politics characterized by an increasing number of deaths. Drawing attention to the interactions, excesses, and contradictions created by the forms of control used in the Occupied Territories, Gordon argues that the occupation's very structure, rather than the policy choices of the Israeli government or the actions of various Palestinian political factions, has led to this radical shift.
Giroux: Against the Terror of Neoliberalism: Politics Beyond the Age of ...
May 02, 2008
Neo-liberalism has become the most influential ideology of our times. It guides both Democratic and Republican policies and, increasingly, those of European and developing countries worldwide. In The Terror of Neoliberalism, influential cultural critic Henry Giroux assesses the impact of neoliberalism and points to better approaches to building real democracy. Neoliberalism, too commonly regarded an economic theory, is a complex of values, ideologies, and practices that work more broadly as a 'cultural field'.; Giroux argues that its cultural dimensions erode the public participation that is the very foundation of democratic life. Under neoliberal policies, Giroux shows, populations are increasingly denied the symbolic, educational, and economic capital necessary for engaged citizenship. Giroux assesses the impact of neoliberalism on the language of democracy, race, education, and the media, offering alternatives necessary to restore our democratic institutions. Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University, is the author of The Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond the Culture of Fear (Palgrave 2003).
Galeano: Book of Embraces (Norton Paperback)
Oct 12, 2007
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Galeano: Century of the Wind
Oct 12, 2007
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Galeano: Days and Nights of Love and War
Oct 12, 2007
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Georgakas: Detroit, I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution ...
Oct 12, 2007
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Galeano: Football in Sun and Shadow
Oct 12, 2007
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Georgakas: Left Face: A Sourcebook of Radical Arts Organizations
Oct 12, 2007
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Galeano: Sebastiao Salgado: An Uncertain Grace
Oct 12, 2007
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