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Public Power in the Age of Empire

By Arundhati Roy

By Arundhati Roy

By Arundhati Roy

By Arundhati Roy

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Nov 02, 2004 | ISBN 9781583226827

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Jan 04, 2011 | ISBN 9781609802943

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    About Public Power in the Age of Empire

    In her major address to the 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association on August 16, 2004, “Public Power in the Age of Empire,” broadcast nationally on C-Span Book TV and on Democracy Now! and Alternative Radio, writer Arundhati Roy brilliantly examines the limits to democracy in the world today. Bringing the same care to her prose that she brought to her Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things, Roy discusses the need for social movements to contest the occupation of Iraq and the reduction of “democracy” to elections with no meaningful alternatives allowed. She explores the dangers of the “NGO-ization of resistance,” shows how governments that block nonviolent dissent in fact encourage terrorism, and examines the role of the corporate media in marginalizing oppositional voices.

    About Public Power in the Age of Empire

    In her major address to the 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association on August 16, 2004, “Public Power in the Age of Empire,” broadcast nationally on C-Span Book TV and on Democracy Now! and Alternative Radio, writer Arundhati Roy brilliantly examines the limits to democracy in the world today. Bringing the same care to her prose that she brought to her Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things, Roy discusses the need for social movements to contest the occupation of Iraq and the reduction of “democracy” to elections with no meaningful alternatives allowed. She explores the dangers of the “NGO-ization of resistance,” shows how governments that block nonviolent dissent in fact encourage terrorism, and examines the role of the corporate media in marginalizing oppositional voices.

    Product Details

    Category: Domestic Politics | 1950 – Present Military History

    Paperback | $7.95
    Published by Seven Stories Press
    Nov 02, 2004 | 64 Pages | 4-1/4 x 6-3/4 | ISBN 9781583226827

    Category: Domestic Politics | 1950 – Present Military History

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by Seven Stories Press
    Jan 04, 2011 | 64 Pages | ISBN 9781609802943
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    Praise

    “The scale of what Roy surveys is staggering. Her pointed indictment is devastating.” –The New York Times Book Review

    “Reading Arundhati Roy is how the peace movement arms itself. She turns our grief and rage into courage.” –Naomi Klein, author of No Logo

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