Cultural Resistance Reader

Cultural Resistance Reader

contributions: Theodor Adorno, Matthew Arnold, Mikhail Bakhtin, Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, Hakim Bey, Andrew Boyd, Bertolt Brecht, John Clarke, Stuart Cosgrove, Malcolm Cowley, Ricardo Dominguez, Elaine Goodale Eastman, Friedrich Engels, Barbara Epstein, John Fiske, Thomas Frank, Mahatma Gandhi, Antonio Gramsci, Jason Grote, Stuart Hall, Kathleen Hanna, Dick Hebdige, Christopher Hill, Eric Hobsbawm, Abbie Hoffman, Richard Hoggart, John Jordan, Robin D.G. Kelley, Lawrence Levine, George Lipsitz, Karl Marx, Janice Radway, Jean Railla, Adolph L. Reed Jr., Simon Reynolds, Jerry Rubin, James C. Scott, Raymond Williams and Virginia Woolf

edited by Stephen Duncombe

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An invaluable scholarly resource and a tool for political activists

From the Diggers seizing St. George Hill in 1649 to Hacktivists staging virtual sit-ins in the 21st century, from the retributive fantasies of Robin Hoods to those of gangsta rappers, culture has long been used as a political weapon.
This expansive and carefully crafted reader brings together many of the classic texts that help to define culture as a tool of resistance. With illuminating introductions throughout, it presents a range of theoretical and historical writings that have influenced contemporary debate, providing tools for the reader’s own interventions.

466 pages

Verso, 2002