Activism!: Direct Action, Hacktivism And The Future Of Society; Author: Jordan, Tim; Paperback

Author: Jordan, Tim
Foci; Paperback; 8 Illustrations
164 pages
Published: May 2002
Reaktion Books Ltd
ISBN: 1861891229

A compelling account of activist politics and alternative political and cultural movements.Many schools of thought assert that we have never been more politically apathetic. Tim Jordans Activism! refutes this, showing how civil disobedience is currently dominating the political landscape. In our fast-changing, high-tech culture, the single-issue movements of the past are continually questioned, and traditional political battles have been replaced by the collective practices of a new activism. Jordan introduces the citizens of DIY culture: eco-activists, animal liberators, ravers, neo-fascists, anti-abortionists, squatters, and hacktivists. In his view, activism comprises a new ethics for the 21st century. /Tim Jordan teaches in the Department of Sociology at the Open UA compelling account of a new, collective type of activism which has replaced traditional, single-issue political protests. Presenting an account of a new, collective type of activism, this text examines all types of activism - from animal liberationists to neo-facist agitators - and proposes that this new activism will create the ethical values of our future society.