{"id":184,"date":"2012-03-05T12:04:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T12:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/?p=184"},"modified":"2013-11-23T17:23:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T17:23:20","slug":"bread-and-roses-award-for-radical-publishing-2012-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2012 Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are happy to announce the shortlist for the ARB’s first ever Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. For more information, please visit the Bread and Roses website: http:\/\/www.bread-and-roses.co.uk\/<\/a>
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The shortlist consists of seven books:<\/p>\n

\"\" ‘Counterpower: Making Change Happen\u2019 by Tim Gee<\/strong>
\nNew Internationalist, \u00a39.99<\/strong><\/p>\n

What makes some campaigns succeed while others fail? In this accessible primer on power and rebellion, Tim Gee encourages us to think critically about the forces at work in struggles as diverse as the women’s suffrage movement and the Arab Spring. Counterpower provides today’s activists with inspiration for the future.<\/p>\n

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\n\"\"\u2018Debt: The First 5,000 Years\u2019 by David Graeber
\nMelville House, \u00a321.99 (Hardback)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contrary to the fairytales told in economic textbooks, human beings didn\u2019t start with barter, discover money, and then develop credit systems. In fact, as anarchist and anthropologist David Graeber argues in this wide-ranging work, drawing on a vast panoply of evidence, exactly the reverse is true. Moreover \u2013 and whether we recognise it or not – debt has been at the heart of our political and moral systems ever since. ——————————————————————————————–<\/p>\n

\"\"\u2018Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt’s Revolution as it Unfolded, in the Words of the People Who Made it\u2019 edited by Nadia Idle and Alex Nunns
\nOR Books, \u00a38.00<\/strong><\/p>\n

The story of the Egyptian uprising \u2013 through the toppling of Mubarak \u2013 by the people who made it, told in 140-or-fewer-character Tweets. Editors Nadia Idle and Alex Nunns have created an inspiring and coherent narrative that not only explains the evolving strategies of both sides but also allows the participants\u2019 personalities to shine through.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2018Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class\u2019 by Owen Jones
\nVerso, \u00a314.99<\/strong><\/p>\n

In order to deflect blame from their own role in increasing inequality and decreasing social mobility, Britain\u2019s political and media elites have wilfully promoted the notion of the working class as an object of fear and ridicule. Expertly researched and highly topical, Owen Jones\u2019 book is already a bestseller in radical bookshops around the UK.
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\"\"\u2018Magical Marxism\u2019 by Andy Merrifield
\nPluto Press, \u00a317.99<\/strong><\/p>\n

Urban theorist Andy Merrifield imagines a Marxism that moves beyond the stale debates about class and the role of the state, drawing inspiration from \u2013 and connections between – The Invisible Committee\u2019s \u2018The Coming Insurrection\u2019, Guy Debord\u2019s \u2018Society of the Spectacle\u2019 and Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez\u2019s \u2018Hundred Years of Solitude\u2019. Highly readable.<\/p>\n

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\"\"\u2018Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent\u2019 by Laurie Penny
\n<\/strong>Pluto Press, \u00a312.99<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whether filing a report from inside a police kettle in Whitehall or analysing the feminist implications of Stieg Larsson’s \u2018The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo\u2019, Laurie Penny’s writing is always sharp as a knife. Angry and articulate, this is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand and engage with the new generation of UK activists.<\/p>\n

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\"\"\u2018Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World\u2019 by Nicholas Shaxson
\nVintage, <\/strong> <\/strong>\u00a38.99<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nicholas Shaxson\u2019s expos\u00e9 of the mechanics of tax havens reveals a collusion between governments and the wealthy that perverts democracy, sidesteps the law, and leaves the poorest paying the price. Clear, gripping and incendiary, this is an essential primer for anyone trying to understand today\u2019s global economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are happy to announce the shortlist for the ARB’s first ever Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. For more information, please visit the Bread and Roses website: http:\/\/www.bread-and-roses.co.uk\/ The shortlist consists of seven books: ‘Counterpower: Making Change Happen\u2019 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bread-roses-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radicalbooksellers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}