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Public Power in the Age of Empire
In her major address to the 99th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association on August 16, 2004, "Public Power in the Age of Empire," broadcast nationally on C-Span Book TV and on Democracy Now! and Alternative Radio, writer Arundhati Roy brilliantly examines the limits to democracy in the world today. Bringing the same care to her prose that she brought to her...more
Paperback, 64 pages
Published
November 2nd 2004
by Seven Stories Press
(first published November 1st 2004)
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Are 'democracies' still democratic? Are governments accountable to the people who elect them? These are some of the questions that Arundhati Roy asks in her brief but insightful speech (this little book is the transcription, and can also be found free online). We live in an Age of Empire, she argues, characterised by economic colonialism and the repression of resistance.
Using Indian and American governments as her main examples, Roy discusses the ways in which governments can manipulate the peo...more
Using Indian and American governments as her main examples, Roy discusses the ways in which governments can manipulate the peo...more
This book is the text of a speech that Roy gave to the American Sociological Association. It's brief and to the point, and deals with the nature of public power when 'power' is really more violence used by government and property held by multinational corporations.
You don't actually need to get the book. The full speech is available free online at http://www.democracynow.org/static/Ar...
I think perhaps some of the most provocative lines for me were these:
"No government's condemnation of terroris...more
You don't actually need to get the book. The full speech is available free online at http://www.democracynow.org/static/Ar...
I think perhaps some of the most provocative lines for me were these:
"No government's condemnation of terroris...more
Short, and entirely worth the read. I'm giving it four stars because I don't remember it well enough to give it five (I read it in a post-malarial haze of generalized existential sensitivity to how fucked up this world is, when you get right down to it), but I do remember thinking that this speech got right to the heart of the matter and made the point in the way it needed to be made.
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Direct and concise assessment of western imperialism in the 21st century and its effect on "democracy/democracies" around the world.
A thoughtful, intelligent look at the effects of modern western imperialism on the world, with particular insight to its effects in India. This opportunity to see from a different perspective just what capitalism, neoliberalism and the War on Terror can do to a society highlights the importance of resistance everywhere.
This one says it all.
A brilliant and inspiring speech.
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Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer who writes in English and an activist who focuses on issues related to social justice and economic inequality. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things, and has also written two screenplays and several collections of essays.
For her work as an activist she received the Cultural Freedom Prize awarded by the Lannan Foundation in 2002.
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For her work as an activist she received the Cultural Freedom Prize awarded by the Lannan Foundation in 2002.
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“Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe. ”
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