The
greatest contribution of the New Left of the 1960s
was its determination to build a culture and politics
of popular participation at every level of society. A
radical conception of democracy, called participatory
democracy, inspired the movements for civil rights,
for world peace and human solidarity, and which
evolved in the following decade into a larger
movement for gender and sexual equality. It framed
the social and political debate, in terms of
community-centered democratic theory, that continues
to guide, and inspire, well into the 21st century.
As the
contributors to this anthology revisit the sixties to
identify its ongoing impact on North American
politics and culture, it becomes evident how this
legacy has blended with, and influenced today's
world-wide social movements, in particular, the
anti-globalization movement, and the 'Right to the
City' movement: the successes and failures of civil
society organisations as they struggle for a voice at
all levels of decision-making are examined, as are
the new movements of the urban disenfranchised--the
homeless, the alienation of youth, the elderly poor.
Apart
from evoking memories of past peace and freedom
struggles from those who worked on the social
movements of the 1960s, this work also includes a
number of essays from a rising generation of
intellectuals and activists, too young to have
experienced the 1960s firsthand, whose perspective
enables them to offer fresh insights and analyses.
Contributors
include: Dimitrios Roussopoulos, Andrea Levy, Anthony
Hyde, Jacques Martin, Mark Rudd, Katherina Haris,
Gregory Nevala Calvert, Natasha Kapoor, and Tom
Hayden.
"An
eclectic mix of memoir and commentary [that]
accents the legacies of the 1960s rebellious
youth, and the continuities of the political
dissent and oppositional challenges of that
decade."--Canadian
Dimension
(See full
review)
Table of Contents
DIMITRI ROUSSOPOULOS was a
prominent New Left activist in the 1960s, locally and
internationally. He continues to write and edit on
major issues while being a committed activist testing
theory with practice.
192
pages, 6x9,
Paperback
$19.99
13 digit ISBN: 978-1-155164-298-7
10 digit ISBN: 1-55164-298-0
Hardcover
$48.99
13 digit ISBN: 978-1-155164-299-4
10 digit ISBN: 1-55164-299-9
Cultural Studies /
Current Events
June
2007
