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Wind, water, fire and molten rock constantly tear apart and resculpt the natural world we live in, and people have always struggled to create structures that will permanently establish their existence on the land. For more than four decades, Frank Gohlke has committed his camera lens to documenting that fraught relationship between people and place, and this retrospective(...)
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Wind, water, fire and molten rock constantly tear apart and resculpt the natural world we live in, and people have always struggled to create structures that will permanently establish their existence on the land. For more than four decades, Frank Gohlke has committed his camera lens to documenting that fraught relationship between people and place, and this retrospective(...)
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December 2007, New Mexico, Texas
December 2007, New Mexico, Texas
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Accommodating Nature: the photographs of Frank Gohlke
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Wind, water, fire and molten rock constantly tear apart and resculpt the natural world we live in, and people have always struggled to create structures that will permanently establish their existence on the land. For more than four decades, Frank Gohlke has committed his camera lens to documenting that fraught relationship between people and place, and this retrospective collection of his work by curator John Rohrbach reveals how people carve out their spaces, accommodating nature. Published by the Amon Carter Museum and the Center for American Places.
Accommodating Nature: the photographs of Frank Gohlke
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Wind, water, fire and molten rock constantly tear apart and resculpt the natural world we live in, and people have always struggled to create structures that will permanently establish their existence on the land. For more than four decades, Frank Gohlke has committed his camera lens to documenting that fraught relationship between people and place, and this retrospective collection of his work by curator John Rohrbach reveals how people carve out their spaces, accommodating nature. Published by the Amon Carter Museum and the Center for American Places.
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December 2007, New Mexico, Texas
December 2007, New Mexico, Texas
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Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. Storming the Gates of Paradise, an anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years, takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.-Mexican border, from San Francisco to London, from open sky to(...)
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Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. Storming the Gates of Paradise, an anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years, takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.-Mexican border, from San Francisco to London, from open sky to(...)
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Storming the gates of paradise: Landscapes for politics
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Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. Storming the Gates of Paradise, an anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years, takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.-Mexican border, from San Francisco to London, from open sky to the deepest mines, and from the antislavery struggles of two hundred years ago to today's street protests. The nearly forty essays collected here comprise a unique guidebook to the American landscape after the millennium–not just the deserts, skies, gardens, and wilderness areas that have long made up Solnit's subject matter, but the social landscape of democracy and repression, of borders, ruins, and protests. She ventures into territories as dark as prison and as sublime as a broad vista, revealing beauty in the harshest landscape and political struggle in the most apparently serene view. Her introduction sets the tone and the book's overarching themes as she describes Thoreau, leaving the jail cell where he had been confined for refusing to pay war taxes and proceeding directly to his favorite huckleberry patch. In this way she links pleasure to politics, brilliantly demonstrating that the path to paradise has often run through prison.
Storming the gates of paradise: Landscapes for politics
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Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. Storming the Gates of Paradise, an anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years, takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.-Mexican border, from San Francisco to London, from open sky to the deepest mines, and from the antislavery struggles of two hundred years ago to today's street protests. The nearly forty essays collected here comprise a unique guidebook to the American landscape after the millennium–not just the deserts, skies, gardens, and wilderness areas that have long made up Solnit's subject matter, but the social landscape of democracy and repression, of borders, ruins, and protests. She ventures into territories as dark as prison and as sublime as a broad vista, revealing beauty in the harshest landscape and political struggle in the most apparently serene view. Her introduction sets the tone and the book's overarching themes as she describes Thoreau, leaving the jail cell where he had been confined for refusing to pay war taxes and proceeding directly to his favorite huckleberry patch. In this way she links pleasure to politics, brilliantly demonstrating that the path to paradise has often run through prison.
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May 2008, Berkeley
May 2008, Berkeley
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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''Hollow City'' surveys San Francisco's transformation—skyrocketing residential and commercial rents that are driving out artists, activists, nonprofit organizations and the poor; the homogenization of the city's architecture, industries and population; the decay of its public life; and the erasure of its sites of civic memory.
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''Hollow City'' surveys San Francisco's transformation—skyrocketing residential and commercial rents that are driving out artists, activists, nonprofit organizations and the poor; the homogenization of the city's architecture, industries and population; the decay of its public life; and the erasure of its sites of civic memory.
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Hollow city: the siege of San Francisco and the crisis of American urbanism
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''Hollow City'' surveys San Francisco's transformation—skyrocketing residential and commercial rents that are driving out artists, activists, nonprofit organizations and the poor; the homogenization of the city's architecture, industries and population; the decay of its public life; and the erasure of its sites of civic memory.
Hollow city: the siege of San Francisco and the crisis of American urbanism
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''Hollow City'' surveys San Francisco's transformation—skyrocketing residential and commercial rents that are driving out artists, activists, nonprofit organizations and the poor; the homogenization of the city's architecture, industries and population; the decay of its public life; and the erasure of its sites of civic memory.
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November 2018
November 2018
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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In this collection, Solnit turns her attention to battles over meaning, place, language, and belonging at the heart of the defining crises of our time. She explores the way emotions shape political life, electoral politics, police shootings and gentrification, the life of an extraordinary man on death row, the pipeline protest at Standing Rock, and the existential threat(...)
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In this collection, Solnit turns her attention to battles over meaning, place, language, and belonging at the heart of the defining crises of our time. She explores the way emotions shape political life, electoral politics, police shootings and gentrification, the life of an extraordinary man on death row, the pipeline protest at Standing Rock, and the existential threat(...)
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Call them by their true names: American crises (and essays)
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In this collection, Solnit turns her attention to battles over meaning, place, language, and belonging at the heart of the defining crises of our time. She explores the way emotions shape political life, electoral politics, police shootings and gentrification, the life of an extraordinary man on death row, the pipeline protest at Standing Rock, and the existential threat posed by climate change. The work of changing the world sometimes requires changing the story, the names, and inventing or popularizing new names and terms and phrases. Calling things by their true names can also cut through the lies that excuse, disguise, avoid, or encourage inaction, indifference, obliviousness in the face of injustice and violence.
Call them by their true names: American crises (and essays)
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In this collection, Solnit turns her attention to battles over meaning, place, language, and belonging at the heart of the defining crises of our time. She explores the way emotions shape political life, electoral politics, police shootings and gentrification, the life of an extraordinary man on death row, the pipeline protest at Standing Rock, and the existential threat posed by climate change. The work of changing the world sometimes requires changing the story, the names, and inventing or popularizing new names and terms and phrases. Calling things by their true names can also cut through the lies that excuse, disguise, avoid, or encourage inaction, indifference, obliviousness in the face of injustice and violence.
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September 2018
September 2018
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How exactly has San Francisco's urban landscape changed in the hundred years since the earthquake and cataclysmic firestorms that destroyed three-quarters of the city in 1906? For this rephotography project, bringing past and present into dynamic juxtaposition, photographer Mark Klett has gone to the same locations pictured in forty-five historic photographs taken in the(...)
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How exactly has San Francisco's urban landscape changed in the hundred years since the earthquake and cataclysmic firestorms that destroyed three-quarters of the city in 1906? For this rephotography project, bringing past and present into dynamic juxtaposition, photographer Mark Klett has gone to the same locations pictured in forty-five historic photographs taken in the(...)
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March 2006, San Francisco
March 2006, San Francisco
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After the ruins 1906 and 2006 : rephotographing the San Francisco earthquake and fire
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How exactly has San Francisco's urban landscape changed in the hundred years since the earthquake and cataclysmic firestorms that destroyed three-quarters of the city in 1906? For this rephotography project, bringing past and present into dynamic juxtaposition, photographer Mark Klett has gone to the same locations pictured in forty-five historic photographs taken in the days following the 1906 earthquake and fires and precisely duplicated each photograph's vantage point. The result is a comparison that challenges our preconceptions about time, history, and culture. This publication accompanies an exhibition at The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006 features a vivid essay by noted environmental historian Philip Fradkin on the events surrounding and following the 1906 earthquake, which he describes as "the equivalent of an intensive, three-day bombing raid, complete with many tons of dynamite that acted as incendiary devices." A lyrical essay by acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit considers the meaning of ruins, resurrection, and the evolving geography and history of San Francisco.
After the ruins 1906 and 2006 : rephotographing the San Francisco earthquake and fire
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How exactly has San Francisco's urban landscape changed in the hundred years since the earthquake and cataclysmic firestorms that destroyed three-quarters of the city in 1906? For this rephotography project, bringing past and present into dynamic juxtaposition, photographer Mark Klett has gone to the same locations pictured in forty-five historic photographs taken in the days following the 1906 earthquake and fires and precisely duplicated each photograph's vantage point. The result is a comparison that challenges our preconceptions about time, history, and culture. This publication accompanies an exhibition at The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006 features a vivid essay by noted environmental historian Philip Fradkin on the events surrounding and following the 1906 earthquake, which he describes as "the equivalent of an intensive, three-day bombing raid, complete with many tons of dynamite that acted as incendiary devices." A lyrical essay by acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit considers the meaning of ruins, resurrection, and the evolving geography and history of San Francisco.
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March 2006, San Francisco
March 2006, San Francisco
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An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit ("the voice of the resistance"—New York Times), climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment. "Not too late" brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific, social, and emotional dimensions of the most(...)
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An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit ("the voice of the resistance"—New York Times), climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment. "Not too late" brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific, social, and emotional dimensions of the most(...)
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Not too late: Changing the climate Story from Despair to Possibility
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An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit ("the voice of the resistance"—New York Times), climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment. "Not too late" brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific, social, and emotional dimensions of the most urgent issue human beings have ever faced. Accessible, encouraging, and engaging, it's an invitation to everyone to understand the issue more deeply, participate more boldly, and imagine the future more creatively. In concise, illuminating essays and interviews, "Not too late" features the voices of Indigenous activists, such as Guam-based attorney and writer Julian Aguon; climate scientists, among them Jacquelyn Gill and Edward Carr; artists, such as Marshall Islands poet and activist Kathy Jeñtil-Kijiner; and longtime organizers, including "The Tyranny of Oil" author Antonia Juhasz and Emergent Strategy author adrienne maree brown.
Not too late: Changing the climate Story from Despair to Possibility
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An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit ("the voice of the resistance"—New York Times), climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment. "Not too late" brings strong climate voices from around the world to address the political, scientific, social, and emotional dimensions of the most urgent issue human beings have ever faced. Accessible, encouraging, and engaging, it's an invitation to everyone to understand the issue more deeply, participate more boldly, and imagine the future more creatively. In concise, illuminating essays and interviews, "Not too late" features the voices of Indigenous activists, such as Guam-based attorney and writer Julian Aguon; climate scientists, among them Jacquelyn Gill and Edward Carr; artists, such as Marshall Islands poet and activist Kathy Jeñtil-Kijiner; and longtime organizers, including "The Tyranny of Oil" author Antonia Juhasz and Emergent Strategy author adrienne maree brown.
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April 2023
April 2023
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Environment and environmental theory
Environment and environmental theory
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In this sequel to her enduring bestseller ''Hope in the Dark'', Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. Despite the forces seeking to turn back the clock on history, change is not a possibility; it is an inevitability. The changes amount to nothing less than dismantling an old civilization and building a new one, whose newness is often(...)
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In this sequel to her enduring bestseller ''Hope in the Dark'', Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. Despite the forces seeking to turn back the clock on history, change is not a possibility; it is an inevitability. The changes amount to nothing less than dismantling an old civilization and building a new one, whose newness is often(...)
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The beginning comes after the end: Notes on a world of change
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In this sequel to her enduring bestseller ''Hope in the Dark'', Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. Despite the forces seeking to turn back the clock on history, change is not a possibility; it is an inevitability. The changes amount to nothing less than dismantling an old civilization and building a new one, whose newness is often the return of the old ways and wisdoms. In this rising worldview, interconnection is a core idea and value. But because the transformation is obscured within a longer arc of history, its scale is seldom recognized. While the white nationalist and authoritarian backlash drives individualism and isolation, this new world embraces antiracism, feminism, a more expansive understanding of gender, environmental thinking, scientific breakthroughs, and Indigenous and non-Western ideas, pointing toward a more interconnected, relational world.
The beginning comes after the end: Notes on a world of change
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In this sequel to her enduring bestseller ''Hope in the Dark'', Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. Despite the forces seeking to turn back the clock on history, change is not a possibility; it is an inevitability. The changes amount to nothing less than dismantling an old civilization and building a new one, whose newness is often the return of the old ways and wisdoms. In this rising worldview, interconnection is a core idea and value. But because the transformation is obscured within a longer arc of history, its scale is seldom recognized. While the white nationalist and authoritarian backlash drives individualism and isolation, this new world embraces antiracism, feminism, a more expansive understanding of gender, environmental thinking, scientific breakthroughs, and Indigenous and non-Western ideas, pointing toward a more interconnected, relational world.
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April 2026
April 2026
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Beginning with an essay about a three-hundred-year-old violin and what it can tell us about forests, abundance, and climate, and ending with on about a prisoner dreaming of seeing the ocean, ''No Straight Road Takes You There'' deftly bridges the political and the literary, offering unique insights, nuanced understanding, and inspiration for the challenging work ahead. In(...)
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Beginning with an essay about a three-hundred-year-old violin and what it can tell us about forests, abundance, and climate, and ending with on about a prisoner dreaming of seeing the ocean, ''No Straight Road Takes You There'' deftly bridges the political and the literary, offering unique insights, nuanced understanding, and inspiration for the challenging work ahead. In(...)
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No straight road takes you there: essays for uneven terrain
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Beginning with an essay about a three-hundred-year-old violin and what it can tell us about forests, abundance, and climate, and ending with on about a prisoner dreaming of seeing the ocean, ''No Straight Road Takes You There'' deftly bridges the political and the literary, offering unique insights, nuanced understanding, and inspiration for the challenging work ahead. In her latest essay collection, the award-winning author explores climate change, feminism, democracy, hope, and power and its abuse. Throughout she asks us to heed the stories we tell or have been told, and the ways those stories can be, or should be changed. Solnit offers a reappraisal of the value of indirect consequences, an embrace of unpredictability, slowness, and imperfection in the politics of how to change the world.
No straight road takes you there: essays for uneven terrain
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Beginning with an essay about a three-hundred-year-old violin and what it can tell us about forests, abundance, and climate, and ending with on about a prisoner dreaming of seeing the ocean, ''No Straight Road Takes You There'' deftly bridges the political and the literary, offering unique insights, nuanced understanding, and inspiration for the challenging work ahead. In her latest essay collection, the award-winning author explores climate change, feminism, democracy, hope, and power and its abuse. Throughout she asks us to heed the stories we tell or have been told, and the ways those stories can be, or should be changed. Solnit offers a reappraisal of the value of indirect consequences, an embrace of unpredictability, slowness, and imperfection in the politics of how to change the world.
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May 2025
May 2025
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Inside out
Inside out
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A meditation on the dilemmas and desires for home that combines the writings of art critic and cultural historian Rebecca Solnit with painter Stefan Kürten’s lush images of domestic interiors, buildings and landscapes. Solnit reflects on emotional privatization, real-estate fetishism, and aesthetic pleasure, while Kürten’s paintings of stale bourgeois interiors and(...)
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A meditation on the dilemmas and desires for home that combines the writings of art critic and cultural historian Rebecca Solnit with painter Stefan Kürten’s lush images of domestic interiors, buildings and landscapes. Solnit reflects on emotional privatization, real-estate fetishism, and aesthetic pleasure, while Kürten’s paintings of stale bourgeois interiors and(...)
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Contemporary Art Monographs
Contemporary Art Monographs
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October 2006, San Francisco, New York
October 2006, San Francisco, New York
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Inside out
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A meditation on the dilemmas and desires for home that combines the writings of art critic and cultural historian Rebecca Solnit with painter Stefan Kürten’s lush images of domestic interiors, buildings and landscapes. Solnit reflects on emotional privatization, real-estate fetishism, and aesthetic pleasure, while Kürten’s paintings of stale bourgeois interiors and suburban homes project a dogged attempt to make life perfect, at least on the surface. His armchairs, teapots and planter boxes suggest that we are living in a peculiar state of safety and bliss. Together, the text and images question the equation of ideal houses with ideal lives, the images that shape our perception of childhood, and our notion of a fulfilled adulthood.
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A meditation on the dilemmas and desires for home that combines the writings of art critic and cultural historian Rebecca Solnit with painter Stefan Kürten’s lush images of domestic interiors, buildings and landscapes. Solnit reflects on emotional privatization, real-estate fetishism, and aesthetic pleasure, while Kürten’s paintings of stale bourgeois interiors and suburban homes project a dogged attempt to make life perfect, at least on the surface. His armchairs, teapots and planter boxes suggest that we are living in a peculiar state of safety and bliss. Together, the text and images question the equation of ideal houses with ideal lives, the images that shape our perception of childhood, and our notion of a fulfilled adulthood.
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October 2006, San Francisco, New York
October 2006, San Francisco, New York
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Qui a été historiquement réduit au silence, et pourquoi ? Comment les femmes et les minorités sont-elles parvenues à récupérer, ou non, leur parole ? En quoi un changement politique est-il avant tout un changement de récit ?Pour répondre à ces questions, Rebecca Solnit balaye un grand nombre de sujets, de l'histoire des droits civiques et de l'esclavage à la culture du(...)
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Qui a été historiquement réduit au silence, et pourquoi ? Comment les femmes et les minorités sont-elles parvenues à récupérer, ou non, leur parole ? En quoi un changement politique est-il avant tout un changement de récit ?Pour répondre à ces questions, Rebecca Solnit balaye un grand nombre de sujets, de l'histoire des droits civiques et de l'esclavage à la culture du(...)
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La mère de toutes les questions
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Qui a été historiquement réduit au silence, et pourquoi ? Comment les femmes et les minorités sont-elles parvenues à récupérer, ou non, leur parole ? En quoi un changement politique est-il avant tout un changement de récit ?Pour répondre à ces questions, Rebecca Solnit balaye un grand nombre de sujets, de l'histoire des droits civiques et de l'esclavage à la culture du viol dans les campus américains, en passant par la masculinité toxique.On retrouve ici la vivacité d'esprit de l'auteure, son opiniâtreté à déjouer tout ce qui, dans la culture, dans les institutions, dans la sphère publique, entend amoindrir la parole des femmes et réduire leur place. Rebecca Solnit met au jour les normes sous-jacentes contenues dans nos discours.
La mère de toutes les questions
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Qui a été historiquement réduit au silence, et pourquoi ? Comment les femmes et les minorités sont-elles parvenues à récupérer, ou non, leur parole ? En quoi un changement politique est-il avant tout un changement de récit ?Pour répondre à ces questions, Rebecca Solnit balaye un grand nombre de sujets, de l'histoire des droits civiques et de l'esclavage à la culture du viol dans les campus américains, en passant par la masculinité toxique.On retrouve ici la vivacité d'esprit de l'auteure, son opiniâtreté à déjouer tout ce qui, dans la culture, dans les institutions, dans la sphère publique, entend amoindrir la parole des femmes et réduire leur place. Rebecca Solnit met au jour les normes sous-jacentes contenues dans nos discours.
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May 2019
May 2019
