false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166054168m/9775.jpg 9775 1 <p>"The scale of what Roy surveys is staggering. Her pointed indictment is devastating."-<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></p> <p>"Reading Arundhati Roy is how the peace movement arms itself. She turns our grief and rage into courage."-Naomi Klein, author of <i>No Logo</i></p> <p>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, <i>Democracy Now!</i> 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 Booker Prize-winning novel <i>The God of Small Things</i>, Roy discusses the need for social movements to contest the occupation of Iraq and the reduction of "democracy" to elections with no meaningful alternatives allowed. She explores the dangers of the "NGO-ization of resistance," shows how governments that block nonviolent dissent in fact encourage terrorism and examines the role of the corporate media in marginalizing oppositional voices.</p> <p><b>Arundhati Roy</b> is the author of the novel <i>The God of Small Things</i>, for which she was awarded the Booker Prize in 1997. Roy has also published four essay collections: <i>An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire</i>, <i>War Talk</i>, <i>Power Politics</i> and <i>The Cost of Living</i> and is the subject of <i>The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Interviews with Arundhati Roy</i>, edited by David Barsamian. Roy received the 2002 Lannan Award for Cultural Freedom from the Lannan Foundation. Trained as an architect, Roy lives in New Delhi, India.</p> 12565 1 11 2004 Public Power in the Age of Empire (Open Media) total:47|5:16|4:25|3:5|2:0|1:1| 47 196 90 4 4 0 true false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 15 10:22:37 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 15 10:28:43 -0700 2007 You don't actually need to g...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 09 20:29:45 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 20:56:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 21 17:59:01 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 21:21:43 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Sun May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Fri Jun 15 06:49:40 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 15 06:51:14 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Sun Nov 15 11:37:42 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 11:37:42 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 26 20:58:44 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 20:58:47 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 22 13:39:22 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 13:39:22 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 20 14:05:08 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 14:05:08 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Oct 19 23:38:53 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 23:38:53 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 16 16:26:45 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 16:26:45 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 22 09:58:30 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 09:58:30 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 25 12:55:45 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 12:55:45 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Aug 05 12:00:16 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 12:00:23 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jul 24 09:55:29 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 09:55:29 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jul 22 13:04:01 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 13:04:01 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Jul 18 07:12:13 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 07:12:13 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jul 17 11:07:06 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 11:07:06 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jul 17 07:26:35 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 07:26:35 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jun 21 20:42:58 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 20:42:58 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun May 31 08:48:47 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 08:49:03 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=9775