The End of the World as We Know It? (eBook)

INTRODUCTION
The End of the World As We Know It? Toward a Critical Understanding of the Present
Deric Shannon

PART 1. ORIGINS

1. From the Fall of Saigon to the Fall of Lehman
Paul Bowman

2. Interview with Noam Chomsky on the Origins of the Crisis and Methods of Resistance
Interview by Deric Shannon

3. Predatory Lending and the Twenty-First Century Recession: Preying on the American Dream and Reasserting Racialized Inequality
Davita Silfen Glasberg, Angie Beeman, and Colleen Casey

PART 2. EFFECTS

4. The End of Meaning, The Meaning of End (Some Thoughts from Greece)
Antonis Vradis

5. A Failure of Imagination: Human Rights Through Neo-liberalism, the Economic Crisis, and Austerity Policy
Harpreet K. Paul

6. Mechanisms of Power: Privilege and Racism as Exercised Through Economic Crisis
Ernesto Aguilar and Ayn Morgan

7. No Mancession: Crisis, Gender, Reproductive Labor, and the Commons
Gayge Operaista

8. Interview with Miguel Ángel Fernández on the CNT and Crisis in Spain
Interview and Translation by Dustin Shannon

9. Institutionalizing Crisis: The Case of Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina
Jasmin Mujanovic

10. The Puerto Rican Experiment: Crisis, Colonialism, and Popular Response
Jorell A. Meléndez Badillo

PART 3. THE RESPONSE OF THE DISPOSSESSED

11. Infiltrating the Mythology of American Empire: Media, History, and Occupy Wall Street
Mark Bray

12. Undoing the Reasonable Middle: Sexuality and Gender Movements in the Age of Crisis and Austerity
Abbey Volcano

13. Argentina’s Movements Against Austerity and the Politics of Space
Marie Trigona

14. Austerity and Unions: A Case Study in the Canadian Union of Postal Workers
Nick Driedger

15. No Exit: Transforming Housing Through Solidarity and Resistance
Shane Burley

16. Circumscribed by Conditions They Did Not Create: The English Riots of August 2011
Christian Garland

17. Solidarity Networks as a Means of Building Resistance to Austerity
Matthew Adams

PART 4. THE RULING CLASS RESPONSE

18. Militant Reformism and the Prospects for Reforming Capitalism
Nate Hawthorne

19. States of Emergency: Green Capitalism and Transnational Resistance
Yesenia Barragán

20. Policing Dissent and Copping a Profit: Police and Austerity in the United States
Adam Quinn

21. Dimensions of Crisis in Greece
Chris Spannos

22. Insurgency Control: Tools of Repression in the Age of Austerity
Sean Parson and Luis A. Fernandez

23. Nationalism’s Chilling Effect on Anti-austerity Movements: The Case of Israel’s “Tent Protests”
Uri Gordon

24. Marikana: A Point of Rupture?
Benjamin Fogel

PART 5. EDUCATION AND THE STUDENT RESPONSE

25. Revolutionary Terrains and Higher Education in the U.S.
William Armaline and Abraham DeLeon

26. Interview with Québécois Student Organizer Jamie Burnett
Interview by Abbey Volcano

27. Necessary Steps in Tough Economic Times: New York Students Take to the Streets in the Wake of Occupy
Marianne LeNabat

28. An Interview with Rudy Amanda Hurtado Garcés, a Militant in the Colombian Anti-Neoliberal Movement
Interview and Translation by Yesenia Barragán and Mark Bray

29. Paths Written in Concrete: The Chilean Student Movement of 2012
Mónica Kostas, Scott Nikolas Nappalos, & Felipe Ramírez

CONCLUSION
The End of the World As We Know It? Toward a Critical Understanding of the Future
Deric Shannon