Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities (Paperback)

from eldang

Meh. Actually that's not quite fair. I wish I'd read this when it first came out, because it would have saved me several years in getting a sense of what the nebulous-sounding global social justice movements that spawned things like the Seattle WTO protests were about. But reading it in 2018 I f...

from PDCRead

For centuries people have revolted over the control that the state or other powerful individuals have tried to exert over the people. People can only be told what to do so much. I Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit concentrates on the past five decades of activism against the state about all manner...

from rivkat

Another short book of essays centering on the theme of being hopeful, not because victory is guaranteed but because the future is dark and thus much is possible.

from Evelyn.B

A great book to start off an new year with hope. As someone who wasn't paying much attention to politics in the 90's and 2000's (seeing as I was born in '95 and caught up with things like learning how to read, and elementary school crushes) I didn't grasp all the content of this book like an adu...

from eldang

Meh. Actually that's not quite fair. I wish I'd read this when it first came out, because it would have saved me several years in getting a sense of what the nebulous-sounding global social justice movements that spawned things like the Seattle WTO protests were about. But reading it in 2018 I fo...