REVOLT : Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization
Language: English Publication details: New York Picador 2021/01/01Edition: 1Description: 516ISBN:- 9781529031867
- 303.482 EYA/RE
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Revolt is an eloquent and provocative challenge to the prevailing wisdom about the rise of nationalism and populism. With a vibrant and informed voice, Nadav Eyal illustrates how modern globalisation is not sustainable. He contends that the collapse of the current world order is not so much about the imbalance between technological achievement and social progress or the breakdown of liberal democracy as it is about a passion to upend and destroy power structures that have become hollow, corrupt, or simply unresponsive to urgent needs. Eyal illuminates the benign and malignant forces that have so rapidly transformed our economic, political and cultural realities, shedding light not only on the economic and cultural revolution that has come to define our time but also on the counterrevolution waged by those it has marginalised and exploited. With a mixture of journalistic narrative, penetrating vignettes and original analysis, Revolt shows that the left and right have much in common. Eyal tells stories of distressed Pennsylvania coal miners, anarchist communes on the outskirts of Athens, a Japanese town with collapsing fertility rates, neo-Nazis in Germany and Syrian refugee families whom he accompanied from the shores of Greece to their destination in Germany. Into these reports from the present Eyal weaves lessons from the past, from the opium wars in China to colonialist Haiti to the Marshall Plan. With these historical ties, he shows that the revolts' roots have always been deep and strong, and that rather than seeing current uprisings as part of a passing phenomenon, we should recognise that revolt is the new status quo.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translated from the Hebrew.
Introduction: The death of an age -- An attack on a newspaper -- Showering twice a month -- The globalization wars -- The land of the last elephants -- "We refuse to die" -- The rebellion's harbingers -- Talking with Nationalists -- A Nazi revival -- The middle-class mutinies -- Anarchists with Ferraris -- Disappearing children -- "Humankind Is the Titanic" -- Faces of Exodus -- An experiment and its costs -- Rivers of blood. -- A subject of the empire speaks -- "My mother was murdered here" -- The anti-globalizer -- The implosion of truth -- The battle for progress -- A new story.
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