This looks like a very interesting new book. The authors are inviting people to review it - journal editors, please consider getting in touch with them.
Take care,
Ant
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Subject: [anarchist.academics] Invitation to review or order new
book from Corporate Watch - Managing Democracy, Managing Dissent
To: [log in to unmask]
We are writing to inform you about a new book that Corporate Watch has
just published, entitled 'Managing Democracy, Managing Dissent:
Capitalism, Democracy and the Organisation of Consent'. The book is a
collection of twenty essays which collectively argue that genuine
democracy and capitalism exist in fundamental contradiction, and
explores
how this contradiction is sustained via propaganda, manipulation of
public
opinion, and the co-option, marginalisation and repression of dissent.
The
book was edited by Rebecca Fisher, a co-director of Corporate Watch, a
non-profit research and publishing co-operative, and is endorsed by
prominent radical thinkers such as Edward S. Herman and Silvia
Federici.
We think it will be extremely useful for your teaching and research.
The book has been produced at low-cost and since Corporate Watch does
not
have the means to distribute this book via commercial bookshops we are
seeking to publicise this book using our academic networks. To this end
we
are asking interested researchers and teachers to order copies of the
book
and to request that their institutions and libraries also order copies.
We
would also encourage you to consider adding this book to your course
reading lists. We think this would be an ideal addition to courses in
the
disciplines of political science and international relations, PPE,
sociology, public and social policy and more generally, critical theory
and critical social science.
We would also invite you to consider reviewing this book or passing
this
email to a colleague or a journal that might be interested in
publishing a
review.
We are happy to supply review copies for free on request. We are also
able
to supply inspection copies for a small fee of £2.00 to cover postage.
Please find full details of the book below. Please let me know at
[log in to unmask] if this is of interest to you.
Best wishes,
Rebecca Fisher
New book from Corporate Watch - 'Managing Democracy, Managing Dissent:
Capitalism, Democracy and the Organisation of Consent'
Edited by Rebecca Fisher
Available to purchase for £8.00 from the Corporate Watch shop -
http://corporatewatchshop.org/node/38
This ground-breaking new book from Corporate Watch examines how
current-day 'democracy' is carefully limited and managed to contain
dissent and engineer popular consent to the inequality, injustices and
anti-democratic nature of capitalism. Over the course of twenty essays,
the book explores the inherent contradiction between genuine democracy
and
corporate capitalism; the use propaganda systems to hide this
contradiction; the attempts to co-opt and neutralise NGOs and social
movements; the demonisation and repression of unco-opted dissent and
the
imperialist agendas behind so-called 'democracy promotion'.
These twenty essays have been written by academics, activists and
researchers, including David Cromwell and David Edwards from Media
Lens,
independent researchers Michael Barker and Edmund Berger, researchers
at
Corporate Watch and academics such as William I. Robinson and James
Petras.
Edwards S. Herman, co-author of 'Manufacturing Consent' (with Noam
Chomsky) has called it "an eye-opener".
Silvia Federici, author of 'Caliban and the Witch' and 'Revolution at
Point Zero' describes it as "a brave book" which "should not be
missed.?
Important topics covered include:
- An historical overview, by the book's editor Rebecca Fisher, of the
contradictions between democracy and capitalism, exploring the
development
of liberal democracy as a mechanism to both hide and enable the ongoing
expansion of capitalism and more recently, neoliberalism.
- An investigation by David Cromwell and David Edwards from Media Lens
into how the role of the mainstream media protects corporate and state
interests by ensuring that radical, challenging and systemically
critical
viewpoints are marginalised, excluded and delegitimated, helping to
create
as 'common sense' the acceptance of capitalist destruction.
- Sibille Merz explores how NGOs co-opt, neutralise and disarm radical
grassroots dissent through a case study of NGOs in Palestine, using her
own fieldwork.
- Professor Charles Thorpe's examination of the attempts by the
University
of California to legitimate the police repression of student protests
on
its campuses, providing an illuminating case-study of how repression of
dissent is justified using the rhetoric of democracy.
- Edmund Berger's extensive examination of the US organisations
involved
in so-called democracy promotion, including how these agents of
capitalist
imperialism have used the opportunity provided by the uprisings in
North
Africa and the Middle East to try and mould the emerging political
formations to suit neoliberal agendas.
More information, including the table of contents and the introduction,
is
available here: http://www.corporatewatch.org/democracy
Rebecca Fisher
Corporate Watch
c/o Freedom Press
Angel Alley
84b Whitechapel High Street
London, E1 7QX
+44 (0)207 426 0005
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