Uprising of the Fools

2017 Religion

Author : Vikash Singh
Release : 2017
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book Uprising of the Fools written by Vikash Singh. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kanwar is India's largest annual religious pilgrimage. Millions of participants gather sacred water from the Ganga and carry it across hundreds of miles to dispense as offerings in Śiva shrines. These devotees--called bhola, gullible or fools, and seen as miscreants by many Indians--are mostly young, destitute men, who have been left behind in the globalizing economy. But for these young men, the ordeal of the pilgrimage is no foolish pursuit, but a means to master their anxieties and attest their good faith in unfavorable social conditions. Vikash Singh walked with the pilgrims of the Kanwar procession, and with this book, he highlights how the procession offers a social space where participants can prove their talents, resolve, and moral worth. Working across social theory, phenomenology, Indian metaphysics, and psychoanalysis, Singh shows that the pilgrimage provides a place in which participants can simultaneously recreate and prepare for the poor, informal economy and inevitable social uncertainties. In identifying with Śiva, who is both Master of the World and yet a pathetic drunkard, participants demonstrate their own sovereignty and desirability despite their stigmatized status. Uprising of the Fools shows how religion today is not a retreat into tradition, but an alternative forum for recognition and resistance within a rampant global neoliberalism.

The Uprising

2008-05-27 Political Science

Author : David Sirota
Release : 2008-05-27
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 289/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Uprising written by David Sirota. This book was released on 2008-05-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An All-Access Pass to the Populist Insurrection Brewing Across the Country Job outsourcing. Perpetual busy signals at government agencies. Slashed paychecks. Stolen elections. A war without end, fatally mismanaged. Ordinary Americans on both the Right and Left are tired of being disenfranchised by corrupt politicians of both parties and are organizing to change the status quo. In his invigorating new book, David Sirota investigates whether this uprising can be transformed into a unified, lasting political movement. Throughout the course of American history, uprisings like the one we are seeing now have given birth to powerful movements to end wars, protect workers, and expand civil rights, so the prospect of today’s uprising turning into a full-fledged populist movement terrifies Wall Street and Washington. In The Uprising, Sirota takes us far from the national media spotlight into the trenches where real change is happening—from the headquarters of the most powerful third party in America to the bowels of the U.S. Senate; from the auditorium of an ExxonMobil shareholder meeting to the quasi-military staging area of a vigilante force on the Mexican border. This is vital, on-the-ground reporting that immerses us in the tumultuous give-and-take of politics at its most personal. Sirota also offers a biting critique of our politics. He shows how the uprising is, at its core, a reaction to faux “bipartisanship” in the nation’s capital—the “bipartisanship” whereby Republican and Democratic lawmakers join together in putting the agenda of corporate interests above all those of ordinary citizens. Ultimately, Sirota reminds us that the Declaration of Independence, “America’s original uprising manifesto,” says that governments “derive their powers from the consent of the governed.” Irreverent and insightful, The Uprising shows how the governed have stopped consenting and have started taking action.

Uprising

2012-02-14 Political Science

Author : John Nichols
Release : 2012-02-14
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 066/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Uprising written by John Nichols. This book was released on 2012-02-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 11, 2011, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker announced he would strip collective bargaining rights from public employees and teachers. In response, people rose up in mass protest, and Wisconsin became a reference point for a renewal of labor militancy and radical politics. These protests elicited extensive national media coverage, and drew more attention from the general public than any American labor struggle in decades. John Nichols's Uprising traces the roots of this struggle -- which has faced legislative disappointments, legal challenges, and dramatic electoral twists and turns -- and in the process reveals how Scott Walker rose to national prominence and went on to become a frontrunner in the Republican race for the nomination in 2016. At a time when public services are under assault from corporate privatizers and billionaire political donors, the public repudiation of Walker's efforts (and the shadowy interests like the Koch Brothers behind them) has translated into a broader challenge to corporate America, Wall Street, the far Right, and its media echo chamber.

The American Revolution: From the Rejection of the Stamp Act Until the Final Victory

2019-01-18 History

Author : John Fiske
Release : 2019-01-18
Genre : History
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Download or read book The American Revolution: From the Rejection of the Stamp Act Until the Final Victory written by John Fiske. This book was released on 2019-01-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition offers you a complete overview of the American history before the great revolution, the wars after the uprising, and the impact of the revolution itself. This meticulously edited book includes all the documents which are crucial for the history of USA before and after the Revolution and the works that influenced the revolutionary thinking. Contents: The History of the American Revolution: The Beginnings The Crisis The Continental Congress Independence First Blow at the Centre Second Blow at the Centre Saratoga The French Alliance Valley Forge Monmouth and Newport War on the Frontier War on the Ocean A Year of Disasters Benedict Arnold Yorktown Key Speeches and Documents: First Charter of Virginia (1606) Second Charter of Virginia (1609) Mayflower Compact (1620) Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639) Of Plymouth Plantation (1630-1651) The Stamp Act (1765) Declaration of Rights and Grievances (1765) Virginia Resolutions Against the Stamp Act (1765) Glorious News, Boston, Friday 11 O'clock, 16th May 1766 Quartering Act of 1765 Townshend Act (1767) Continental Association (1774) Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry (1775) Thanksgiving Proclamations (1776, 1777, 1782, 1789) Common Sense (1776) Declaration of Independence (1776) Articles of Confederation (1777) Constitution (1787)

The Revolution Series The Uprising

2019-03-11 Fiction

Author : George Nougat
Release : 2019-03-11
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 915/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Revolution Series The Uprising written by George Nougat. This book was released on 2019-03-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 2666, somewhere called Sapagna, a black sting named Exeus Wildfred stands the new national champion after defeating his opponent in the arena of Mentrish, the capital city of the nation. After achieving such a deed, convinced of being following the right path towards eternal glory, Exeus will have to face a series of contradictory situations that will make him hesitate about whether to be overcome by his ambition or by his sincerest feelings and emotions.\r Welcome to George Nougat’s fictional world; a world ruled by lust, hubris, class inequality, brutality, vice and sexism where the only way to survive is to prove yourself better than the rest. Let yourselves be deceived by the different plots that give substance to this story, and identify with some of the principles that define the Sapagnist society.

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