Posted on March 20th, 2012 in AK Authors!, Events, Recommended Reading
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Maia Ramnath will be speaking on her recently released AK title Decolonizing Anarchism
March 30th 6:30pm
Silicon Valley De-Bug
701 Lenzen Ave
San Jose, CA 95112
As part of a West Coast tour NYC based author Maia Ramnath will present on her recently published book “Decolonizing Anarchism” by AK Press in San Jose. The event will include culture, discussion and preparation for organizing around May 1st in San Jose.
Decolonizing Anarchism examines the history of South Asian struggles against
colonialism and neocolonialism, highlighting lesser-known dissidents as
well as iconic figures. What emerges is an alternate narrative of
decolonization, in which liberation is not defined by the achievement of a
nation-state. Author Maia Ramnath suggests that the
anarchist vision of an alternate society closely echoes the concept of
total decolonization on the political, economic, social, cultural, and
psychological planes. Decolonizing Anarchism facilitates more than a
reinterpretation of the history of anticolonialism; it also supplies
insight into the meaning of anarchism itself.
“Maia Ramnath
offers a refreshingly different perspective on anticolonial movements in
India, not only by focusing on little-remembered anarchist exiles such
as Har Dayal, Mukerji and Acharya but more important, highlighting the
persistent trend that sought to strengthen autonomous local communities
against the modern nation-state. A superbly original book.”Partha
Chatterjee, author of Lineages of Political Society: Studies in
Post-colonial Democracy
“[Ramnath] audaciously reframes the
dominant narrative of Indian radicalism by detailing its explosive and
ongoing symbiosis with decolonial anarchism.”Dylan Rodriguez, author of
Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino
Condition
Maia Ramnath is a teacher, writer, activist, and
dancer/aerialist living in New York City. She is the author of The Haj
to Utopia: How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and
Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire in many ways a companion
volume to this one. She is currently a member of the Institute for
Anarchist Studies board and Historians against War steering committee. |
Posted on March 20th, 2012 in About AK, AK Authors!, AK News, Awards, Happenings, Recommended Reading, Uncategorized
Just received some fantastic news: Eric Stanley and Nat Smith’s Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex has been named a finalist for the 24th annual Lambda Literary Awards in TWO categories – GLBT Studies and Transgender Non-Fiction. We are absolutely thrilled!
Sponsored each year by the groundbreaking Lambda Literary Foundation, the awards celebrate achievement in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender writing in more than ten categories, including works from little indy publishers like us as well as self-published and digital works, and books published by major houses. The Lammys are quite an accomplishment, and we’re proud to have one of our books included in such great company!
Winners will be announced on June 4 in a ceremony in New York. Keep your fingers crossed for Captive Genders! And, we’d also like to plug Dean Spade’s The Normal Life, also a finalist for Transgender Non-Fiction, and a fanastic book from our friends at South End Press!
More about Captive Genders:
Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the enormity of the prison industrial complex. The first collection of its kind, Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current and former prisoners, activists, and academics to offer new ways for understanding how race, gender, ability, and sexuality are lived under the crushing weight of captivity. Through a politic of gender self-determination, this collection argues that trans/queer liberation and prison abolition must be grown together. From rioting against police violence and critiquing hate crimes legislation to prisoners demanding access to HIV medications, and far beyond, Captive Gender is a challenge for us all to join the struggle. (more…)
Posted on March 19th, 2012 in AK Authors!, Events
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Maia Ramnath will be speaking on her recently released AK title Decolonizing Anarchism
April 6th 8pm
Corazon del Pueblo
2003 E. 1st Street
Los Angeles, CA 90033
Join us and Maia Ramnath, author of “Decolonizing Anarchism: An
Antiauthoritarian History of India’s Liberation Struggle” for an evening that will
include a presentation and discussion of Decolonizing
Anarchism, finger food (maybe tostas too!), refreshments (donations welcomed), rad
literature, Decolonizing Anarchism books for sale and most importantly, idea-sharing
and chat time!
Decolonizing Anarchism examines the history of South Asian struggles against
colonialism and neocolonialism, highlighting lesser-known dissidents as
well as iconic figures. What emerges is an alternate narrative of
decolonization, in which liberation is not defined by the achievement of a
nation-state. Author Maia Ramnath suggests that the
anarchist vision of an alternate society closely echoes the concept of
total decolonization on the political, economic, social, cultural, and
psychological planes. Decolonizing Anarchism facilitates more than a
reinterpretation of the history of anticolonialism; it also supplies
insight into the meaning of anarchism itself.
“Maia Ramnath
offers a refreshingly different perspective on anticolonial movements in
India, not only by focusing on little-remembered anarchist exiles such
as Har Dayal, Mukerji and Acharya but more important, highlighting the
persistent trend that sought to strengthen autonomous local communities
against the modern nation-state. A superbly original book.”Partha
Chatterjee, author of Lineages of Political Society: Studies in
Post-colonial Democracy
“[Ramnath] audaciously reframes the
dominant narrative of Indian radicalism by detailing its explosive and
ongoing symbiosis with decolonial anarchism.”Dylan Rodriguez, author of
Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino
Condition
Maia Ramnath is a teacher, writer, activist, and
dancer/aerialist living in New York City. She is the author of The Haj
to Utopia: How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and
Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire in many ways a companion
volume to this one. She is currently a member of the Institute for
Anarchist Studies board and Historians against War steering committee. |
Posted on March 19th, 2012 in AK Authors!, Events
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Maia Ramnath will be speaking on her recently released AK title Decolonizing Anarchism April 1st 7pm at the Holdout in Oakland, CA. It’s also a benefit for the Institute for Anarchist Studies!
Holdout
2313 San Pablo Ave
Oakland, CA 94612
Decolonizing Anarchism examines the history of South Asian struggles against
colonialism and neocolonialism, highlighting lesser-known dissidents as
well as iconic figures. What emerges is an alternate narrative of
decolonization, in which liberation is not defined by the achievement of a
nation-state. Author Maia Ramnath suggests that the
anarchist vision of an alternate society closely echoes the concept of
total decolonization on the political, economic, social, cultural, and
psychological planes. Decolonizing Anarchism facilitates more than a
reinterpretation of the history of anticolonialism; it also supplies
insight into the meaning of anarchism itself.
“Maia Ramnath
offers a refreshingly different perspective on anticolonial movements in
India, not only by focusing on little-remembered anarchist exiles such
as Har Dayal, Mukerji and Acharya but more important, highlighting the
persistent trend that sought to strengthen autonomous local communities
against the modern nation-state. A superbly original book.”Partha
Chatterjee, author of Lineages of Political Society: Studies in
Post-colonial Democracy
“[Ramnath] audaciously reframes the
dominant narrative of Indian radicalism by detailing its explosive and
ongoing symbiosis with decolonial anarchism.”Dylan Rodriguez, author of
Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino
Condition
Maia Ramnath is a teacher, writer, activist, and
dancer/aerialist living in New York City. She is the author of The Haj
to Utopia: How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and
Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire in many ways a companion
volume to this one. She is currently a member of the Institute for
Anarchist Studies board and Historians against War steering committee. |
Posted on March 19th, 2012 in About AK, AK Authors!, AK Book Excerpts, Recommended Reading
We’re still recovering from our exciting weekend at Left Forum (full reportback forthcoming!) but just a quick post to let you know that we just received the first advance cases of Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion, edited by Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank! It looks just fantastic … the cover is by Tim Simons of Front Group Design, and it’s really incredibly striking.
This collection is both impressive and timely. It’s is a scathing indictment of the Obama presidency from the best writers on the American Left. A view of Obama’s policies from the trenches: the compromises, the backstabbing, the same old imperial ambitions. From the sell-outs to big oil and the nuclear industry to his continuation of savage Bush-era policies in the CIA’s global network of secret prisons, our hope is that this book will outrage the politically naive, delight the critical, and inspire those looking for an alternative to the dismal politics of lesser evilism. As Emma Goldman said, “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” Let this book stand as a painful reminder to those who think anything less than social struggle will net tangible gain.
Below you’ll find a sneak peek at the Table of Contents … and here’s a link to preorder your copy today. Cases of books are on their way to California right now, and we’ll mail out preorders just as soon as they arrive!
Prelude: Barack Obama, Changeling
Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank
Marketing Hope
Kevin Alexander Gray
Obama’s Money Cartel
Pam Martens
A Kettle of Hawks
Jeremy Scahill
Obama’s Israel Problem
Joshua Frank
From Oscar Grant to Barack Obama
Ron Jacobs
AIG and the System
Jeffrey St. Clair
Orwell in Baghdad
Chris Floyd
A Redneck View of Obamarama
Joe Bageant
Obama and Abortion Rights
Sharon Smith
From State Secrets to Wiretaps
Sibel Edmonds
(more…)
Posted on March 14th, 2012 in Events
Stop by the AK Press tables at one of our favorite events of the year!
You can see the full speaker schedule online at: http://bayareaanarchistbookfair.wordpress.com/
AK Press authors speaking at this year’s bookfair are:
Cindy Milstein (Anarchism and its Aspirations)
Jeffrey St. Clair & Joshua Frank (Hopeless)
Nat Smith (Captive Genders)
Maia Ramnath (Decolonizing Anarchism)
Deric Shannon (The Accumulation of Freedom)
George Katsiaficas (The Subversion of Politics)
Posted on March 14th, 2012 in Events
Stop by our tables in the exhibition area to say hi and check out all the latest and greatest AK Press releases!
Also be sure to check out these panels featuring AK Press authors.
A full listing of this year’s panels and events is available online at: http://www.leftforum.org/2012/schedule.
Posted on March 14th, 2012 in Events
Gender Barred is a 3-day colloquium sponsored by the Women’s Resources Center in collaboration with a variety of campus units and community organizations that challenges students to examine the relationships between interlocking systems of oppression and the prison-industrial complex (PIC).
Check out this Captive Genders reading and talk-back with Eric Stanley, Chris Vargas, and Erica Meiners! The full schedule of the colloqium is available online at http://illinois.edu/calendar/list/4159.
Posted on March 14th, 2012 in Events
Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the enormity of the prison industrial complex. In the first collection of its kind, Captive Genders editors Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current and former prisoners, activists, and academics to offer new ways for understanding how race, gender, ability, and sexuality are lived under the crushing weight of captivity. Through a politic of gender self-determination, this collection argues that trans/queer liberation and prison abolition must be grown together. From rioting against police violence and critiquing hate crimes legislation to prisoners demanding access to HIV medications, and far beyond, Captive Genders is a challenge for us all to join the struggle.
Join editor Eric A. Stanley and contributor Yasmin Nair for a book reading, signing, and discussion!
Posted on March 14th, 2012 in Events
Learn about some of the themes of our new book The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics, at this talk with editor Deric Shannon! Deric will give a presentation and lead a discussion on anarchist analyses of capitalism and propositions for a world free of oppression, domination, and the institutionalization of coercive social control. Do we have to accept living in a society divided between the wealthy few and the wanting many? Must people starve? Is the state eternal? Does the world need cops, prisons, bosses, and politicians? How do economic hierarchies intersect with things like racism, sexism, rigid gender roles, compulsory monogamy, and heteronormativity? Do we have to live like this? Are other worlds possible? What kinds of alternatives have anarchists put forward and how do we propose to get there? This event will be a great chance to learn more about (and discuss!) anarchism, economics, and the fight for accumulating freedom in a world currently organized for hierarchy, coercion, and control.
