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  • The Wisdom of Donkeys

    Finding Tranquility in a Chaotic World

    by Andy Merrifield ...
    A literary ode to peace, presence, and fulfillment inspired by a walk taken with a most surprising creature."The demon of speed is often associated with forgetting, with avoidance . . . and slowness with memory and confronting," observes Milan Kundera in his novel Slowness. With that purpose in mind-a search for slowness and tranquility, Andy Merrifield sets out on a journey of the soul with a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Magical Marxism

    Subversive Politics and the Imagination

    by Andy Merrifield ...
    Series series Marxism and Culture
    *Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2012*Andy Merrifield breathes new life into the Marxist tradition.Magical Marxism demands something more of orthodox Marxism - something more interesting and liberating. It asks that we imagine a Marxism that moves beyond debates about class, the role of the state and the dictatorship of the proletariat. In escaping the formalist straitjacket of typical ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Urban Question

    by Andy Merrifield ...
    The New Urban Question is an exuberant and illuminating adventure through our current global urban condition, tracing the connections between radical urban theory and political activism.From Haussmann's attempts to use urban planning to rid 19th-century Paris of workers revolution to the contemporary metropolis, including urban disaster-zones such as downtown Detroit, Merrifield reveals how the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Roses for Gramsci

    by Andy Merrifield ...
    A remarkable personal journey through the life and writings of the great Sardinian Marxist, Antonio GramsciIn June 2023, author Andy Merrifield and his partner and their daughter moved from the UK to Rome, she to take a new job, he to get his creative juices flowing again, and both to begin a new life. A short time later, he visited Gramsci’s grave at the Non-Catholic Cemetery, home as well to the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Marx, Dead and Alive

    Reading "Capital" in Precarious Times

    by Andy Merrifield ...
    A contemporary interrogation of Marx’s masterworkKarl Marx saw the ruling class as a sorcerer, no longer able to control the ominous powers it has summoned from the netherworld. Today, in an age spawning the likes of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, our society has never before been governed by so many conjuring tricks, with collusions and conspiracies, fake news and endless sleights of the ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Main Street

    How a City's Heart Connects Us All

    by Mindy Thompson Fullilove ...
    Mindy Thompson Fullilove traverses the central thoroughfares of our cities to uncover the ways they bring together our communitiesAfter an 11-year study of Main Streets in 178 cities and 14 countries, Fullilove discovered the power of city centers to “help us name and solve our problems.” In an era of compounding crises including racial injustice, climate change, and COVID-19, the ability to rely ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Beyond Plague Urbanism

    by Andy Merrifield ...
    Our cities have been plagued by economic injustices and inequalities long before COVID-19 upended urban life everywhere. Beyond Plague Urbanism delves into this zone of urban pathology and asks what successive lockdowns and exoduses, remote work and small-business collapse, redundant office space and unaffordable living space portend for our society in cities? Andy Merrifield journeys ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Marxism and Urban Culture

    by Benjamin Fraser, Les Roberts, Malcolm Alan Compitello, Marc James Léger, Cayley Sorochan, Heather A. Vrana, Jeff Hicks, Kimberley DeFazio, Jelle Versieren, Brecht De Smet0, Manuel Yang1, Takeshi Haraguchi2, Kazuya Sakurada3 ...
    Marxism and Urban Culture is the first volume to reconcile social science and humanities perspectives on culture. Covering a range of global cities—Bologna, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mahalla al-Kubra, Mexico City, Montreal, Osaka, Strasbourg, Vienna—the contributions fuse political and theoretical concerns with analyses of urban cultural practices and ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • The Politics of the Encounter

    Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization

    by Andy Merrifield ...
    Series series
    The Politics of the Encounter is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and global social struggle. The city, writes Andy Merrifield, remains "important, virtually and materially, for progressive politics." And yet, he notes, more than forty years have passed since Henri Lefebvre advanced the powerful ideas that still undergird much of our thinking about ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Amateur

    The Pleasures of Doing What You Love

    by Andy Merrifield ...
    A radical manifesto about doing what you loveAndy Merrifield offers a passionate tribute to the revolutionary spirit of the amateur—a figure who thinks outside the box, takes risks, dreams the impossible dream, seeks independence, and carves out a new world. Merrifield celebrates such square pegs as Charles Baudelaire, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Edward Said, Guy Debord, Hannah Arendt, and Jane Jacobs, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Liquid Times

    Living in an Age of Uncertainty

    by Zygmunt Bauman ...
    The passage from ‘solid’ to ‘liquid’ modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting individuals with a series of challenges never before encountered. Social forms and institutions no longer have enough time to solidify and cannot serve as frames of reference for human actions and long-term life plans, so individuals have to find other ways to ... Read more

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  • Wasted Lives

    Modernity and Its Outcasts

    by Zygmunt Bauman ...
    The production of 'human waste' – or more precisely, wasted lives, the 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts – is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side-effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is characteristic of modernity.As long as large parts of the world remained wholly or partly unaffected by modernization, they were ... Read more

    $18.00 USD