Good morning,
I’m pleased to share my new book: Conform, Fail Repeat: How Power Distorts
Collective Action.
The book is available now in bookstores and through the publisher at:
https://btlbooks.com/book/conform-fail-repeat
On Friday November 10th, there will be an official launch as part of the Naked
Hearts Literary Festival in Toronto
https://www.facebook.com/events/866171910212341/
Conform, Fail, Repeat
How Power Distorts Collective Action
By Christopher Samuel<https://btlbooks.com/authors/view/christopher-samuel>
Anti-globalization activists have done little to slow capitalism’s global
march. Many of the gains made by decades of identity-based movements have been
limited to privileged subgroups. The lesson of these movements is clear:
struggle for change is essential, but the direction of change matters
considerably.
Like movements of the past, current social movements such as Black Lives
Matter, Idle No More, and the growing anti-Trump movement, must navigate a path
between reformism and radicalism, pragmatism and idealism, capture and
independence.
In Conform, Fail, Repeat, Christopher Samuel uses Pierre Bourdieu’s central
“thinking tools” to show how power and domination force movements into a no-win
choice between conformity and failure. With special attention to North American
LGBTQ politics and the G20 protests in Toronto, Conform, Fail, Repeat shows how
Bourdieu’s work can give movement observers as well as participants new tools
for tracking and avoiding the pitfalls of conformity and failure.
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Chris Samuel
Research Consultant
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