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This elegantly written and charmingly illustrated book offers a series of reflections on the way lessons learned from angling can be applied to political activism and vice versa. Patience, preparation and precision are needed both to catch fish and build a movement. An avid fisherman in his youth, Steve Duncombe put down his rod nearly forty years ago, picking up, instead, a bullhorn and a placard to begin organizing community groups, mobilizing marches, staging direct actions, walking picket lines, and being arrested for civil disobedience more times than he can remember. Over the past decade, he has traveled the globe training activists to think more like artists and artists to think more like activists. Looking for a physical retreat and mental break during the pandemic of 2020 Duncombe took up fishing again. After so many decades away from sport, he had to re-teach himself how to fish and approached the practice with what Zen masters call Beginner's Mind. With no recent experience to fall back on, every fish successfully caught or line hopelessly snarled provided a clear lesson. With hours spent doing little more than casting and retrieving — actually catching fish being a fraction of the time spent fishing — he had plenty of time to think about the lessons he was learning. One of the things he thought a lot about was activism. Fishing, he discovered, has a lot to teach about the art of activism. The Activist Angler brings together these lessons in an engaging journey from the street to the beach and back. The format is simple: one refection on fishing followed by another on what might be learned and applied to activism with each accompanied by an illustration. Topics range from telling fish stories and the trap of activist nostalgia, to the impossibility of thinking like a fish yet the necessity of understanding one's audience, with detours through meditations on self-care, catch-and-release, and taking responsibility for the human cost of one's political actions.

Marginada por la reflexión, presentada por los medios de comunicación como un evento caótico y escurridizo, la revuelta es un tema incandescente en el escenario global. Aunque se encienda, se apague, se vuelva a propagar, la revuelta no es un evento efímero, sino que es una transición anárquica que se produce en el proceso de liberación de la arquitectura política. A través de la revuelta podemos vislumbrar lo que sucede'afuera', más allá del orden estatocéntrico, en torno a las protegidas fronteras del espacio público; podemos abrir brechas, cuestionar el statu quo, denunciar la injusticia, cuestionar'lo dado'. En este elogio de la revuelta, Donatella Di Cesare aborda sus diversos aspectos políticos y filosóficos, ofrece una interpretación política de la máscara, del ocultar el rostro para mostrarse un sujeto, y el desafío que supone para el Estado y la economía desencarnada. La prestigiosa filósofa revela en El tiempo de la revuelta las enormes asimetrías sociales, pone al descubierto la disparidad de fuerzas que configuran los límites de la polis, denuncia la vigilancia planetaria y se pregunta por los fenómenos'afuera'del Estado, por la revolución perdida y por la resistencia.

A Book that Transformed America Civil Disobedience was Thoreau's first published book and continues to transform American discourse. It is unusual for its symbolism and structure, its criticism of Christian institutions, and its many-layered storytelling. The ideas presented in this essay have influenced some of the most powerful and influential people in history, including Martin Luther King Jnr, Leo Tolstoy, President John F. Kennedy and Ernest Hemingway. It was a seminal piece of work in the shaping of Gandhi's three decade-long non-violent revolution against British-occupied India.

What is the difference between civil and uncivil disobedience? How can illegal protest be compatible with a democratic regime based on the rule of law? Is Edward Snowden a civil disobedient? This book follows the philosophical debate around these and other issues, showing how the notion of civil disobedience has evolved from a form of passive resistance against injustice, to an active way to engage with the political life of the community. The author presents the major contributions in political and legal philosophy, ranging from John Rawls'seminal account in 1971,to the recent views advanced by Kimberley Brownlee, David Lefkowitz and William Smith. In the last chapter, the author proposes a novel account of civil disobedience, able to meet some of the unresolved challenges. The author argues that, to make sense of civil disobedience, we should expand our conception of political obligation, so to include acts that, despite being illegal, may reveal the agent's civility.

Este libro explora la dimensión ética de las resistencias ejercidas contra el biopoder. Hacia una ética en la era del biopoder analiza tres fenómenos específicos (la norma, la sexualidad y el gobierno) articulados por los mecanismos de control y regulación del biopoder en los que se desarrollan resistencias que ejecutan prácticas éticas. Puntualmente, el libro estudia la dimensión ética de los siguientes tres casos de resistencia: el movimiento fourierista y anarquista del siglo xix, que se enfrentó a los mecanismos de normalización del dispositivo carcelario; el movimiento gay de las décadas de los setenta y los ochenta, que luchó en contra del dispositivo de sexualidad; y la deserción del Ejército de los Estados Unidos durante las guerras de Afganistán e Irak, en la que existe un combate frente a diversos mecanismos de gobierno.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American philosopher and naturalist best known for writing Walden and Civil Disobedience. This version of Thoreaus Civil Disobedience includes a table of contents.

Civil Disobedience and the Politics of Identity is an attempt to provide criteria for when it is both morally necessary and politically expedient to break with civic harmony social cohesion in the name of a higher social justice.