Stephen Bird

Agitation with a Smile: Howard Zinn's Legacies and the Future of Activism Stephen Bird 1.º edición

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Foreword / Frances Fox Piven -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Agitation with a Smile: A Framework for Reassessing the Contributions of Howard Zinn / Stephen Bird, Adam Silver, Joshua C. Yesnowitz -- Interlude: Ludlow Massacre Song lyrics / Woody Guthrie -- Zinn as Historian and Public Intellectual -- Chapter 2. Legacies and Breakthroughs: The Long View on Zinnian History / Ambre Ivol, Paid Buhle -- Chapter 3. The US Left in Generational Perspective: A Study of Howard Zinn's Trajectory / Ambre Ivol -- Chapter 4. Thinking the Radical Public Intellectual: The Exemplar of Howard Zinn / Paul Reynolds -- Zinn in Theory -- Chapter 5. Against All Authority: Howard Zinn's Pragmatic Anarchism, Active Resistance, and Radical Democracy / Eric Boehme -- Chapter 6. The Forbidden Word: Howard Zinn as Anarchist / Ziga Vodovnik -- Chapter 7. Politics against the Law: Howard Zinn on Academic Freedom beyond the Academy / Christopher C. Robinson -- Interlude: Dear Diary A poem / Alix Olson -- Zinn in Practice -- Chapter 8. War Is a Condition in Need of a Cure / Patricia Moynagh -- Chapter 9. Howard Zinn: A Moral Example for G. I. Resistance / Ross Caputi -- Chapter 10. Archivists of Optimism: Zinn and the Arts / Alix Olson -- Interlude: Walking A poem / Martin Espada -- Zinn Today and Tomorrow -- Chapter 11. Two, Three, Many Zinns: Media Culture and the Dilemmas of Democratic Transformation / Edward P. Morgan -- Chapter 12. For Howard Zinn: The Things That Count and Cannot Be Counted / Irene Gendzier -- Chapter 13. Reassessing Zinn: Critical Reflections on a Scholar-Activist / Stephen Bird, Adam Silver, Joshua C. Yesnowitz -- Afterword: Howard Zinn's Legacy of Words and Action / Noam Chomsky -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Contributors.

Contributor Bio:  Bird, Stephen Stephen Bird is a professor of political science at Clarkson University, where he focuses on energy and environmental policy, with a concern for social justice. Contributor Bio:  Silver, Adam Adam Silver is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Emmanuel College. He specializes in American political institutions, political parties and organizations, campaign strategies, and electoral politics, social movements, and state and local politics. Contributor Bio:  Yesnowitz, Joshua Joshua C. Yesnowitz is a lecturer and doctoral candidate in political science at Boston University. "Contributors: " Frances Fox Piven, Noam Chomsky, Martin Espada, Irene Gendzier, Ambre Ivol, Paul Buhle, Paul Reynolds, Eric Boehme, iga Vodovnik, Christopher C. Robinson, Alix Olson, Patricia Moynagh, Ross Caputi, Edward P. Morgan, Stephen Bird, Adam Silver, and Joshua C. Yesnowitz