Movements of Movements: Part 1: What Makes Us Move? (Challenging Empires, 4) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1629632406 ISBN 13: 9781629632407

Verlag: PM Press, 2018

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Our world today is not only a world in crisis but also a world in profound movement, with increasingly large numbers of people joining or forming movements: local, national, transnational, and global. The dazzling diversity of ideas and experiences recorded in this collection capture something of the fluidity within campaigns for a more equitable planet. This book, taking internationalism seriously without tired dogmas, provides a bracing window into some of the central ideas to have emerged from within grassroots struggles from 2006 to 2010. The essays here cross borders to look at the politics of caste, class, gender, religion, and indigeneity, and move from the local to the global.

What Makes Us Move?, the first of two volumes, provides a background and foundation for understanding the extraordinary range of uprisings around the world: Tahrir Square in Egypt, Occupy in North America, the indignados in Spain, Gezi Park in Turkey, and many others. It draws on the rich reflection that took place following the huge wave of creative direct actions that had preceded it, from the 1990s through to the early 2000s, including the Zapatistas in Mexico, the Battle of Seattle in the United States, and the accompanying formations such as Peoples’ Global Action and the World Social Forum.

Edited by Jai Sen, who has long occupied a central position in an international network of intellectuals and activists, this book will be useful to all who work for egalitarian social change—be they in universities, parties, trade unions, social movements, or religious organisations.

Contributors include Taiaiake Alfred, Tariq Ali, Daniel Bensaid, Hee-Yeon Cho, Ashok Choudhary, Lee Cormie, Jeff Corntassel, Laurence Cox, Guillermo Delgado-P, Andre Drainville, David Featherstone, Christopher Gunderson, Emilie Hayes, Francois Houtart, Fouad Kalouche, Alex Khasnabish, Xochitl Leyva Solano, Roma Malik, David McNally, Roel Meijer, Eric Mielants, Peter North, Shailja Patel, Emir Sader, Andrea Smith, Anand Teltumbde, James Toth, Virginia Vargas, and Peter Waterman.

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Jai Sen, associated with the India Institute for Critical Action: Centre in Movement (CACIM), is an activist, researcher, and author on and in movement. He has intensively engaged with the World Social Forum and contemporary emerging movements on a world scale, as moderator of the listserv WSM Discuss and as coeditor of several books including World Social Forum: Challenging Empires and World Social Forum: Critical Explorations.

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The Movements of Movements, Part 1

What Makes Us Move?

By Jai Sen

PM Press

Copyright © 2017 Jai Sen
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-62963-240-7

Contents

Acknowledgements and Credits, 
0 INVOCATIONS, 
What Moves Us Shailja Patel, 
The Movements of Movements: An Introduction and an Exploration Jai Sen, 
1 MOVEMENTSCAPES, 
From the Mountains of Chiapas to the Streets of Seattle: This Is What Democracy Looks Like David McNally, 
Anti-Systemic Movements and Transformations of the World-System, 1968-1989 Fouad Kalouche and Eric Mielants, 
Beyond Altermondialisme: Anti-Capitalist Dialectic of Presence André C Drainville, 
Storming Heaven: Where Has the Rage Gone? Tariq Ali, 
Being Indigenous: Resurgences Against Contemporary Colonialism Taiaiake Alfred and Jeff Corntassel, 
Indigenous Feminism and the Heteropatriarchal State Andrea Smith, 
Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Neo-Zapatista Social Movement Networks Xochitl Leyva Solano, 
2 THE MOVEMENTS OF MOVEMENTS: STRUGGLES FOR OTHER WORLDS, 
Dalits, Anti-Imperialist Consciousness, and the Annihilation of Caste Anand Teltumbde, 
Rethinking Self-Determination: Lessons from the Indigenous-Rights Discourse Jeff Corntassel, 
The Tapestry of Neo-Zapatismo: Origins and Development Xochitl Leyva Solano and Christopher Gunderson, 
Ecological Justice and Forest Rights Movements in India: State and Militancy-New Challenges Roma and Ashok Choudhary, 
Open Space in Movement: Reading Three Waves of Feminism Emilie Hayes, 
International Feminisms: New Syntheses, New Directions Virginia Vargas, 
Re-Creating the World: Communities of Faith in the Struggles for Other Possible Worlds Lee Cormie, 
Mahmoud Mohamed Taha: Islamic Witness in the Contemporary World François Houtart, 
Local Islam Gone Global: The Roots of Religious Militancy in Egypt and Its Transnational Transformation James Toth, 
Fighting for Another World: Yusuf al-'Uyairi and His Conceptualisation of Praxis and the Permanent Salafi Revolution Roel Meijer, 
The Networked Internationalism of Labour's Others Peter Waterman, 
From Anti-Imperialist to Anti-Empire: The Crystallisation of the Anti-Globalisation Movement in South Korea Cho Hee-Yeon, 
The Weakest Link? Neoliberalism in Latin America Emir Sader, 
The Return of Strategy Daniel Bensaïd, 
Localisation as Radical Praxis and the New Politics of Climate Change Peter North and David Featherstone, 
Refounding Bolivia: Exploring the Possibility and Paradox of a Social Movements State Guillermo Delgado-P, 
Forward Dreaming: Zapatismo and the Radical Imagination Alex Khasnabish, 
Afterword: Learning to Be Loyal to Each Other: Conversations, Alliances, and Arguments in the Movements of Movements Laurence Cox, 
Recommended Web Pages and Blogs, 
Notes on the Editors and Contributors, 
Index, 

CHAPTER 1

Proem

What Moves Us
Shailja Patel

Some moments
history comes to us and says:
What do you truly want?

We tremble.
Often we run.
From the terrifying possibility
that we could choose
movement.
That we could begin
exactly where we are
in all our screwed-up
imperfection.

Some days we stand
before our world
and the question
vibrates the air around us:
What do you choose?

This day?
This moment?
This
heartstopping
glorious
adventure?

There's strong like patriarchy
strong like institutions
strong like two-billion dollars a day
military occupations
spiked with genocide
anchored in neoliberal greed
buttressed by terror
designed to deliver
200-volt shocks
on contact.

Then there's the strength
of what flows.
Tears, grief, memory.
Blood, energy, breath.
Collective action.

The strength of what moves us
opens our throats
ignites our hips
unleashes our voices
puts the move back into movement
distils the motion from emotion.

Movement
strong as a river,
current of joyful resilience
wave and curl
crash and swirl
patterns that constantly change.

Movers who channel each day
the courage of divers
to plunge again
into this churning water.

Thankful
for what yields results
curious
about what does not.
Building lung capacity
to finally embrace
the wholeness of our struggles
exactly as they are.

Some moments, life asks of us:
What do you hope?

There's hope like a battleground
hope that's all soundbites
hope that rehashes a thousand manifestos.
What we intend, believe, imagine
what we propose and plan and dream
what we say, expect, pretend, how we think
things should look.

Then there's the truth on the ground.

What we show up for
each day
with our fearful, angry,
tired, clumsy selves.
With our complex, precious,
wounded, brilliant selves.

We grapple with the chasms
of all that's gone before.
Negotiate the heartbreak
of decades of betrayal.
Stretch our brains and wills
until we feel it,
to hard analysis
until we get it
unpack systems, structures, models
mine the data, map
the stories
'til we know
what works and what does not.
What truly
moves
us.

Some years, life comes to us and says:
What do you know?
Why we kept at it, for forty, fifty years.
Why we have never regretted it.

That this movement
Still moves us
In our guts, our hips, our hearts

That this laughter
this trust
this earned and tried and tested respect
is a house we have built,
brick by brick
and it will hold.

Some mornings life wakes us up
sets our hearts beating
sets our nerves thrumming
warns us
we're about to leap
into our iciest fear
our largest growth
our most piercing joy.
Some mornings,
We take a huge breath, say
Yes
to it all.

Some evenings, life wraps us round
in the softness of twilight,
asks:
What are you waiting for?

Truth.
Justice.
Reparation.
Healing.
In our lifetimes. In our
lifetimes. In
Our
Lifetimes.

Each day, love comes to us and says:
What will you show up for?
What, in the end, is the truth of your heart?
We answer with our bodies.

We show up
for the struggle.
We show up
for each other.
We show up
just as we are.
Precious, flawed
limited, magnificent
Human.

We show up
for change.
We choose
the power of movement.
We love
by showing up.

CHAPTER 2

The Movements of Movements:An Introduction and an Exploration1

Jai Sen

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

— Arundhati Roy

Movement, motion, is a fundamental facet, fact, of life; of all life processes. Indeed, in some ways it is life itself. It is the most fundamental characteristic of change.

Movement intrinsically involves the flow of energy; of power in the sense of shakti.

Movement links points, in space and in time. Power radiates.

In a sense therefore, all movement is about energy — about energy harnessed, energy expressed, energy experienced, energy directed — and all movement is therefore about power, understood in a generic...

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• Verlag: PM Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1629632406
• ISBN 13: 9781629632407
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 688
• Herausgeber: Sen Jai
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