Harsha Walia has played a central role in building some of North
America’s most innovative, diverse, and effective new movements.
That this brilliant organizer and theorist has found time to share her
wisdom in this book is a tremendous gift to us all.”—Naomi Klein,
author of _The Shock Doctrine_
Undoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse, lived
experiences of displacement, and movement-based practices into an
exciting new book. By reformulating immigrant rights movements within
a transnational analysis of capitalism, labor exploitation, settler
colonialism, state building, and racialized empire, it provides the
alternative conceptual frameworks of border imperialism and
decolonization. Drawing on the author’s experiences in No One Is
Illegal, this work offers relevant insights for all social movement
organizers on effective strategies to overcome the barriers and
borders within movements in order to cultivate fierce, loving, and
sustainable communities of resistance striving toward liberation. The
author grounds the book in collective vision, with short contributions
from over twenty organizers and writers from across North America.
HARSHA WALIA is a South Asian activist, writer, and popular educator
rooted in emancipatory movements and communities for over a decade.
Praise for _Undoing Border Imperialism_:
Border imperialism is an apt conceptualization for capturing the
politics of massive displacement due to capitalist neoglobalization.
Within the wealthy countries, Canada’s No One Is Illegal is one of
the most effective organizations of migrants and allies. Walia is an
outstanding organizer who has done a lot of thinking and can
write—not a common combination. Besides being brilliantly conceived
and presented, this book is the first extended work on immigration
that refuses to make First Nations sovereignty invisible.”—Roxanne
Dunbar Ortiz, author of _Indians of the Americas and Blood on the
Border_
Harsha Walia’s _Undoing Border Imperialism_ demonstrates that
geography has certainly not ended, and nor has the urge for people to
stretch out our arms across borders to create our communities. One of
the most rewarding things about this book is its
capaciousness—astute insights that emerge out of careful organizing
linked to the voices of a generation of strugglers, trying to find
their own analysis to build their own movements to make this world our
own. This is both a manual and a memoir, a guide to the world and a
guide to the organizer's heart.”—Vijay Prashad, author of _The
Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World_
This book belongs in every wannabe revolutionary’s war backpack. I
addictively jumped all over its contents: a radical mixtape of
ancestral wisdoms to present-day grounded organizers theorizing about
their own experiences. A must for me is Walia’s decision to infuse
this volume’s fight against border imperialism, white supremacy, and
empire with the vulnerability of her own personal narrative. This book
is a breath of fresh air and offers an urgently needed movement-based
praxis. _Undoing Border Imperialism_ is too hot to be sitting on
bookshelves; it will help make the revolution.”—Ashanti Alston,
Black Panther elder and former political prisoner
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ISBN
9781849351355
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
AK Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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