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Oil has dominated our lives for the last century. It has given us warmth, progress, and life-threatening pollution. It has been a gift and is now a threat. It has started wars, ended wars, and infiltrated governments—in some cases, effectively become the government. And now oil's enduring mythology is facing a messy, complicated twilight. In "On oil," Don Gillmor, who(...)
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Oil has dominated our lives for the last century. It has given us warmth, progress, and life-threatening pollution. It has been a gift and is now a threat. It has started wars, ended wars, and infiltrated governments—in some cases, effectively become the government. And now oil's enduring mythology is facing a messy, complicated twilight. In "On oil," Don Gillmor, who(...)
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Oil has dominated our lives for the last century. It has given us warmth, progress, and life-threatening pollution. It has been a gift and is now a threat. It has started wars, ended wars, and infiltrated governments—in some cases, effectively become the government. And now oil's enduring mythology is facing a messy, complicated twilight. In "On oil," Don Gillmor, who worked as a roughneck on oil rigs during the seventies oil boom in Alberta, looks at how the industry has changed over the decades and illustrates the ways our dependence on oil has led to regulatory capture, in Canada and elsewhere, and contributed to armed conflict and war across the world. Gillmor documents the myriad ways that oil companies have misdirected environmental action and misinformed the public about climate concerns and illuminates where we went wrong—and how we might yet change course.
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Oil has dominated our lives for the last century. It has given us warmth, progress, and life-threatening pollution. It has been a gift and is now a threat. It has started wars, ended wars, and infiltrated governments—in some cases, effectively become the government. And now oil's enduring mythology is facing a messy, complicated twilight. In "On oil," Don Gillmor, who worked as a roughneck on oil rigs during the seventies oil boom in Alberta, looks at how the industry has changed over the decades and illustrates the ways our dependence on oil has led to regulatory capture, in Canada and elsewhere, and contributed to armed conflict and war across the world. Gillmor documents the myriad ways that oil companies have misdirected environmental action and misinformed the public about climate concerns and illuminates where we went wrong—and how we might yet change course.
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In November 2022, the first annual Alchemy Lecture took place at York University in Toronto, bringing four deep and agile writers from different geographies and disciplines into vibrant conversation on a topic of urgent relevance: humans and borders. Now, in these pages, that conversation is captured and expanded in insightful, passionate ways. Architect, artist, and(...)
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In November 2022, the first annual Alchemy Lecture took place at York University in Toronto, bringing four deep and agile writers from different geographies and disciplines into vibrant conversation on a topic of urgent relevance: humans and borders. Now, in these pages, that conversation is captured and expanded in insightful, passionate ways. Architect, artist, and(...)
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Borders, human itineraries, and all our relation. The alchemy lecture 1
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In November 2022, the first annual Alchemy Lecture took place at York University in Toronto, bringing four deep and agile writers from different geographies and disciplines into vibrant conversation on a topic of urgent relevance: humans and borders. Now, in these pages, that conversation is captured and expanded in insightful, passionate ways. Architect, artist, and urban theorist Dele Adeyemo (UK/Nigeria) calls attention to the complexity of Black infrastructures, questioning how “the environments that surround us condition the possibility of our being.” Poet Natalie Diaz (US/Mojave/Akimel O’otham) writes: “Like story, migration is the sensual movement of knowledge,” and asks, “What is the language we need to live right now?” Philosopher Nadia Yala Kisukidi (France) suggests there is no diasporic life “without the dynamics of fabulation, where we pass down, from generation to generation, the stories of our ancestors who walked barefoot for many months.” And cultural theorist Rinaldo Walcott (Canada) asks us to consider inheritances beyond white supremacist logics: “What might it mean to live a life, if we can’t risk desiring and working towards utopia?”
Borders, human itineraries, and all our relation. The alchemy lecture 1
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In November 2022, the first annual Alchemy Lecture took place at York University in Toronto, bringing four deep and agile writers from different geographies and disciplines into vibrant conversation on a topic of urgent relevance: humans and borders. Now, in these pages, that conversation is captured and expanded in insightful, passionate ways. Architect, artist, and urban theorist Dele Adeyemo (UK/Nigeria) calls attention to the complexity of Black infrastructures, questioning how “the environments that surround us condition the possibility of our being.” Poet Natalie Diaz (US/Mojave/Akimel O’otham) writes: “Like story, migration is the sensual movement of knowledge,” and asks, “What is the language we need to live right now?” Philosopher Nadia Yala Kisukidi (France) suggests there is no diasporic life “without the dynamics of fabulation, where we pass down, from generation to generation, the stories of our ancestors who walked barefoot for many months.” And cultural theorist Rinaldo Walcott (Canada) asks us to consider inheritances beyond white supremacist logics: “What might it mean to live a life, if we can’t risk desiring and working towards utopia?”
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October 2023
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The care economy
The care economy
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Care is the foundation of organic life. But its fate in the economy is precarious and uncertain. The labour of care is arduous and underpaid. Yet without it health and vitality are impossible. Care itself ends up leading a curious dual life. In our hearts it’s honoured as an irreducible good. But in the market it’s treated as a second class citizen – barely recognised in(...)
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Care is the foundation of organic life. But its fate in the economy is precarious and uncertain. The labour of care is arduous and underpaid. Yet without it health and vitality are impossible. Care itself ends up leading a curious dual life. In our hearts it’s honoured as an irreducible good. But in the market it’s treated as a second class citizen – barely recognised in(...)
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The care economy
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Care is the foundation of organic life. But its fate in the economy is precarious and uncertain. The labour of care is arduous and underpaid. Yet without it health and vitality are impossible. Care itself ends up leading a curious dual life. In our hearts it’s honoured as an irreducible good. But in the market it’s treated as a second class citizen – barely recognised in the relentless rush for productivity and wealth. How did we arrive in this dysfunctional place? And what can we do to change things? What would it mean to take health seriously as a societal goal? What would it take to adopt care as an organising principle in the economy? Tim Jackson sets out to tackle these questions in this timely and deeply personal book. His journey travels through the history of medicine, the economics of capitalism and the philosophical underpinnings of health. He unpacks the gender politics of care, revisits the birthplace of a universal dream and confronts the demons that prevent us from realising it.
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Care is the foundation of organic life. But its fate in the economy is precarious and uncertain. The labour of care is arduous and underpaid. Yet without it health and vitality are impossible. Care itself ends up leading a curious dual life. In our hearts it’s honoured as an irreducible good. But in the market it’s treated as a second class citizen – barely recognised in the relentless rush for productivity and wealth. How did we arrive in this dysfunctional place? And what can we do to change things? What would it mean to take health seriously as a societal goal? What would it take to adopt care as an organising principle in the economy? Tim Jackson sets out to tackle these questions in this timely and deeply personal book. His journey travels through the history of medicine, the economics of capitalism and the philosophical underpinnings of health. He unpacks the gender politics of care, revisits the birthplace of a universal dream and confronts the demons that prevent us from realising it.
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May 2025
May 2025
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Un désir démesuré d'amitié
Un désir démesuré d'amitié
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Comment parler d’amitié, raconter cette autre famille que l’on dit choisie et qui permet d’inventer de nouvelles formes de vie ? La narratrice part à la recherche de son passé et explore la multiplicité des liens à l’oeuvre dans son existence. Traversé de photographies inédites provenant d’archives queer, ce livre puissant et sensible est un roman de l’amitié, une(...)
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Comment parler d’amitié, raconter cette autre famille que l’on dit choisie et qui permet d’inventer de nouvelles formes de vie ? La narratrice part à la recherche de son passé et explore la multiplicité des liens à l’oeuvre dans son existence. Traversé de photographies inédites provenant d’archives queer, ce livre puissant et sensible est un roman de l’amitié, une(...)
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Un désir démesuré d'amitié
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Comment parler d’amitié, raconter cette autre famille que l’on dit choisie et qui permet d’inventer de nouvelles formes de vie ? La narratrice part à la recherche de son passé et explore la multiplicité des liens à l’oeuvre dans son existence. Traversé de photographies inédites provenant d’archives queer, ce livre puissant et sensible est un roman de l’amitié, une tentative pour dire la puissance politique de ce sentiment et sa force de réinvention. « Un désir démesuré d'amitié » interroge plus largement la question de la filiation : comment se composer une généalogie alternative, sauver de l’oubli les vies que la mémoire majoritaire dédaigne pour s’inscrire dans un récit non plus seulement intime mais collectif ? Car l’enquête menée ici est aussi destinée à d’autres : « Je me dis que quitte à s’inventer de nouvelles histoires de famille, autant les mettre en commun. »
Un désir démesuré d'amitié
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Comment parler d’amitié, raconter cette autre famille que l’on dit choisie et qui permet d’inventer de nouvelles formes de vie ? La narratrice part à la recherche de son passé et explore la multiplicité des liens à l’oeuvre dans son existence. Traversé de photographies inédites provenant d’archives queer, ce livre puissant et sensible est un roman de l’amitié, une tentative pour dire la puissance politique de ce sentiment et sa force de réinvention. « Un désir démesuré d'amitié » interroge plus largement la question de la filiation : comment se composer une généalogie alternative, sauver de l’oubli les vies que la mémoire majoritaire dédaigne pour s’inscrire dans un récit non plus seulement intime mais collectif ? Car l’enquête menée ici est aussi destinée à d’autres : « Je me dis que quitte à s’inventer de nouvelles histoires de famille, autant les mettre en commun. »
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August 2024
August 2024
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In 2020, the prominent Danish feminist Emma Holten read an article stating that women were a net ‘ deficit’ to society. Women took more than they gave, ‘ draining’ the public purse by giving birth and taking parental leave. They contributed less than their fair share in taxes, because they often worked part-time to look after other people at home, or held low-paid jobs in(...)
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In 2020, the prominent Danish feminist Emma Holten read an article stating that women were a net ‘ deficit’ to society. Women took more than they gave, ‘ draining’ the public purse by giving birth and taking parental leave. They contributed less than their fair share in taxes, because they often worked part-time to look after other people at home, or held low-paid jobs in(...)
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Deficit: How feminist economics can change our world
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In 2020, the prominent Danish feminist Emma Holten read an article stating that women were a net ‘ deficit’ to society. Women took more than they gave, ‘ draining’ the public purse by giving birth and taking parental leave. They contributed less than their fair share in taxes, because they often worked part-time to look after other people at home, or held low-paid jobs in the public sector. Denmark would be richer if women’ s lives looked more like men’ s, the economic experts concluded. A similar story is told around the globe. How did we get here? In "Deficit", Emma Holten traces how economic thinkers – from the Enlightenment onwards – created a value framework that overlooked and neglected ‘ women’ s work’ and acts of care. She reveals how the economic models that drive political decisions today are just as flawed, giving us unparalleled monetary wealth, but causing deep social harms that are hurting us all.
Deficit: How feminist economics can change our world
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In 2020, the prominent Danish feminist Emma Holten read an article stating that women were a net ‘ deficit’ to society. Women took more than they gave, ‘ draining’ the public purse by giving birth and taking parental leave. They contributed less than their fair share in taxes, because they often worked part-time to look after other people at home, or held low-paid jobs in the public sector. Denmark would be richer if women’ s lives looked more like men’ s, the economic experts concluded. A similar story is told around the globe. How did we get here? In "Deficit", Emma Holten traces how economic thinkers – from the Enlightenment onwards – created a value framework that overlooked and neglected ‘ women’ s work’ and acts of care. She reveals how the economic models that drive political decisions today are just as flawed, giving us unparalleled monetary wealth, but causing deep social harms that are hurting us all.
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March 2025
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Le capitalisme et la modernité seraient intrinsèquement liés à un racisme d’essence coloniale et à la domination de l’Occident sur le Sud global : tel est le postulat des décoloniaux. Face à une rationalité considérée comme eurocentrique, face à un système de pouvoir qui chercherait à maintenir les « non-Blancs » dans une position subalterne, ils prônent un retour aux(...)
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Le capitalisme et la modernité seraient intrinsèquement liés à un racisme d’essence coloniale et à la domination de l’Occident sur le Sud global : tel est le postulat des décoloniaux. Face à une rationalité considérée comme eurocentrique, face à un système de pouvoir qui chercherait à maintenir les « non-Blancs » dans une position subalterne, ils prônent un retour aux(...)
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Critique de la raison décoloniale : Sur une contre révolution intellectuelle
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Le capitalisme et la modernité seraient intrinsèquement liés à un racisme d’essence coloniale et à la domination de l’Occident sur le Sud global : tel est le postulat des décoloniaux. Face à une rationalité considérée comme eurocentrique, face à un système de pouvoir qui chercherait à maintenir les « non-Blancs » dans une position subalterne, ils prônent un retour aux formes de savoir et aux visions du monde des peuples indigènes. À l’heure où les théories décoloniales, nées en Amérique latine, gagnent du terrain dans les milieux universitaires et militants, les auteurs de ce livre, ancrés eux aussi dans ce continent, font entendre une autre voix. Ils démontrent comment ces théories propagent une lecture simpliste de l’histoire et des rapports de pouvoir, et comment leur focalisation sur les questions d’identité ethno-raciale relègue au second plan l’opposition pourtant fondamentale entre riches et pauvres. À l’horizon, une conviction : seul un anticolonialisme fondé sur une critique radicale du capitalisme permettra de sortir de cette impasse, en dépassant toute soif de revanche pour retrouver le contenu universel des luttes d’émancipation.
Critique de la raison décoloniale : Sur une contre révolution intellectuelle
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Le capitalisme et la modernité seraient intrinsèquement liés à un racisme d’essence coloniale et à la domination de l’Occident sur le Sud global : tel est le postulat des décoloniaux. Face à une rationalité considérée comme eurocentrique, face à un système de pouvoir qui chercherait à maintenir les « non-Blancs » dans une position subalterne, ils prônent un retour aux formes de savoir et aux visions du monde des peuples indigènes. À l’heure où les théories décoloniales, nées en Amérique latine, gagnent du terrain dans les milieux universitaires et militants, les auteurs de ce livre, ancrés eux aussi dans ce continent, font entendre une autre voix. Ils démontrent comment ces théories propagent une lecture simpliste de l’histoire et des rapports de pouvoir, et comment leur focalisation sur les questions d’identité ethno-raciale relègue au second plan l’opposition pourtant fondamentale entre riches et pauvres. À l’horizon, une conviction : seul un anticolonialisme fondé sur une critique radicale du capitalisme permettra de sortir de cette impasse, en dépassant toute soif de revanche pour retrouver le contenu universel des luttes d’émancipation.
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Ce « Petit dictionnaire » a été écrit à partir des années 1970 et se compose d’une cinquantaine d’entrées. Alice Ceresa resémantise une partie de notre vocabulaire quotidien pour proposer une vision philosophique et surtout organique du féminin. Elle repense non seulement des termes du champ sémantique du féminisme mais redéfinit aussi la biologie, la religion ou la(...)
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Ce « Petit dictionnaire » a été écrit à partir des années 1970 et se compose d’une cinquantaine d’entrées. Alice Ceresa resémantise une partie de notre vocabulaire quotidien pour proposer une vision philosophique et surtout organique du féminin. Elle repense non seulement des termes du champ sémantique du féminisme mais redéfinit aussi la biologie, la religion ou la(...)
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Petit dictionnaire de l'inégalité féminine
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Ce « Petit dictionnaire » a été écrit à partir des années 1970 et se compose d’une cinquantaine d’entrées. Alice Ceresa resémantise une partie de notre vocabulaire quotidien pour proposer une vision philosophique et surtout organique du féminin. Elle repense non seulement des termes du champ sémantique du féminisme mais redéfinit aussi la biologie, la religion ou la littérature. En s’emparant avec beaucoup d’originalité de la forme du dictionnaire, elle invente une structure à son image: libre et percutante. Sa prose est furieuse et son ton d’une ironie mordante. Parce qu’elle réfléchit le monde différemment, Ceresa nous invite à le remettre à notre tour en question. Publiée à titre posthume, cette œuvre audacieuse est traduite pour la première fois en français.
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Ce « Petit dictionnaire » a été écrit à partir des années 1970 et se compose d’une cinquantaine d’entrées. Alice Ceresa resémantise une partie de notre vocabulaire quotidien pour proposer une vision philosophique et surtout organique du féminin. Elle repense non seulement des termes du champ sémantique du féminisme mais redéfinit aussi la biologie, la religion ou la littérature. En s’emparant avec beaucoup d’originalité de la forme du dictionnaire, elle invente une structure à son image: libre et percutante. Sa prose est furieuse et son ton d’une ironie mordante. Parce qu’elle réfléchit le monde différemment, Ceresa nous invite à le remettre à notre tour en question. Publiée à titre posthume, cette œuvre audacieuse est traduite pour la première fois en français.
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June 2025
June 2025
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Fugitive Feminism
Fugitive Feminism
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Humanity has always excluded Others on the basis of race and gender. What happens to people who choose to flee, following in the footsteps of those who resisted enslavement? This audacious manifesto draws on the legacies of bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis and others to consider the ways in which Black women have been excluded from, struggled to achieve and opted(...)
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Humanity has always excluded Others on the basis of race and gender. What happens to people who choose to flee, following in the footsteps of those who resisted enslavement? This audacious manifesto draws on the legacies of bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis and others to consider the ways in which Black women have been excluded from, struggled to achieve and opted(...)
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Fugitive Feminism
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Humanity has always excluded Others on the basis of race and gender. What happens to people who choose to flee, following in the footsteps of those who resisted enslavement? This audacious manifesto draws on the legacies of bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis and others to consider the ways in which Black women have been excluded from, struggled to achieve and opted to reject the category of ‘human’. Sociologist Akwugo Emejulu argues that it is only through embracing the status of the ‘fugitive’ that Black women can determine their own liberation. ''Fugitive Feminism'' is a call for the collective process of speculative dialogue and a bold new model for action.
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Humanity has always excluded Others on the basis of race and gender. What happens to people who choose to flee, following in the footsteps of those who resisted enslavement? This audacious manifesto draws on the legacies of bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis and others to consider the ways in which Black women have been excluded from, struggled to achieve and opted to reject the category of ‘human’. Sociologist Akwugo Emejulu argues that it is only through embracing the status of the ‘fugitive’ that Black women can determine their own liberation. ''Fugitive Feminism'' is a call for the collective process of speculative dialogue and a bold new model for action.
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September 2025
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Grandma's story
Grandma's story
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The storyteller is the living memory of her time: at once an oracle, weaver, healer, warrior, witch, protectress, teacher and great mother. Her powers are to do with passing on – not only the stories but transmission itself: "what grandma began, granddaughter completes and passes on to be further completed." In contrast to the idea that a story is "just a story",(...)
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The storyteller is the living memory of her time: at once an oracle, weaver, healer, warrior, witch, protectress, teacher and great mother. Her powers are to do with passing on – not only the stories but transmission itself: "what grandma began, granddaughter completes and passes on to be further completed." In contrast to the idea that a story is "just a story",(...)
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Grandma's story
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The storyteller is the living memory of her time: at once an oracle, weaver, healer, warrior, witch, protectress, teacher and great mother. Her powers are to do with passing on – not only the stories but transmission itself: "what grandma began, granddaughter completes and passes on to be further completed." In contrast to the idea that a story is "just a story", pioneering postcolonial feminist theorist and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha recodes ideas about truth and fantasy to tell a different story about power, civilisation, history, medicine and magic. "Grandma’s Story" shows how creative speech is connected to women’s powers of enchantment, drawing upon and speaking with storytellers including Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Clarice Lispector, Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko and Zora Neale Hurston – all who may be known as ‘'she who breaks open the spell'’.
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The storyteller is the living memory of her time: at once an oracle, weaver, healer, warrior, witch, protectress, teacher and great mother. Her powers are to do with passing on – not only the stories but transmission itself: "what grandma began, granddaughter completes and passes on to be further completed." In contrast to the idea that a story is "just a story", pioneering postcolonial feminist theorist and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha recodes ideas about truth and fantasy to tell a different story about power, civilisation, history, medicine and magic. "Grandma’s Story" shows how creative speech is connected to women’s powers of enchantment, drawing upon and speaking with storytellers including Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Clarice Lispector, Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko and Zora Neale Hurston – all who may be known as ‘'she who breaks open the spell'’.
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September 2025
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''Pathways to Utopia'' explores how Brazil's ''Landless Workers Movement'' (''Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra", or MST), against all odds, has endured for forty years as one of the world's largest social movements—while transforming the way we understand the temporality of activism. Taking his cue from MST members and their generational struggle for land and(...)
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''Pathways to Utopia'' explores how Brazil's ''Landless Workers Movement'' (''Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra", or MST), against all odds, has endured for forty years as one of the world's largest social movements—while transforming the way we understand the temporality of activism. Taking his cue from MST members and their generational struggle for land and(...)
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Pathways to utopia: Time and transfomation in the Landless Workers Movemenet of Brazil
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''Pathways to Utopia'' explores how Brazil's ''Landless Workers Movement'' (''Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra", or MST), against all odds, has endured for forty years as one of the world's largest social movements—while transforming the way we understand the temporality of activism. Taking his cue from MST members and their generational struggle for land and justice, anthropologist Alex Ungprateeb Flynn reveals how the movement's longevity stems not only from its strong organization and collective vision but also from the productive tensions between established utopian ideals and emerging counter-utopian practices. Perceived by some as a shortcoming, this friction has proven to be a generative force, sparking creative gestures that reimagine social relations and ensuring the MST's adaptability in an ever-changing political landscape. Flynn chronicles the everyday lives of families navigating an extraordinary political reality over a fifteen-year period. At the heart of ''Pathways to Utopia'' is the realization that activism is not a momentary act but an ongoing, relational practice—one where even the smallest community actions reverberate, reshaping the very structures through which people seek to change the world.
Pathways to utopia: Time and transfomation in the Landless Workers Movemenet of Brazil
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''Pathways to Utopia'' explores how Brazil's ''Landless Workers Movement'' (''Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra", or MST), against all odds, has endured for forty years as one of the world's largest social movements—while transforming the way we understand the temporality of activism. Taking his cue from MST members and their generational struggle for land and justice, anthropologist Alex Ungprateeb Flynn reveals how the movement's longevity stems not only from its strong organization and collective vision but also from the productive tensions between established utopian ideals and emerging counter-utopian practices. Perceived by some as a shortcoming, this friction has proven to be a generative force, sparking creative gestures that reimagine social relations and ensuring the MST's adaptability in an ever-changing political landscape. Flynn chronicles the everyday lives of families navigating an extraordinary political reality over a fifteen-year period. At the heart of ''Pathways to Utopia'' is the realization that activism is not a momentary act but an ongoing, relational practice—one where even the smallest community actions reverberate, reshaping the very structures through which people seek to change the world.
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