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Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

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At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable work offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope. Tracing a history of activism and social change over the past five decades – including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Zapatista uprising in Mexico to Seattle in 1999, and the worldwide marches against the war in Iraq – Solnit proposes a vision of cause-and-effect relations that provides new grounds for political engagement. Solnit’s book is accessible and essential reading. Drawing from thinkers of the last century – including Woolf, Ghandi, Borges, Benjamin and Havel. She creates a manifesto for optimism for the twenty-first century and gives us all true reasons to never surrender.

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At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable work offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope. Tracing a history of activism and social change over the past five decades – including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Zapatista uprising in Mexico to Seattle in 1999, and the worldwide marches against the war in Iraq – Solnit proposes a vision of cause-and-effect relations that provides new grounds for political engagement. Solnit’s book is accessible and essential reading. Drawing from thinkers of the last century – including Woolf, Ghandi, Borges, Benjamin and Havel. She creates a manifesto for optimism for the twenty-first century and gives us all true reasons to never surrender.

 

Publisher: Canongate Books

Paperback

2016

ISBN: 9781782119074

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