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The Radical Bookstore
Examines how radical bookstores and similar spaces serve
as launching pads for social movements
How does social change happen? It requires an identified
problem, an impassioned and committed group, a catalyst, and a
plan. In this deeply researched consideration of seventy-seven
stores and establishments, Kimberley Kinder argues that activists
also need autonomous space for organizing, and that these spaces
are made, not found. She explores the remarkably enduring presence
of radical bookstores in America and how they provide
infrastructure for organizing-gathering places, retail offerings
that draw new people into what she calls \"counterspaces.\"
Kinder focuses on brick-and-mortar venues where owners approach
their businesses primarily as social movement tools. These may be
bookstores, infoshops, libraries, knowledge cafes, community
centers, publishing collectives, thrift stores, or art
installations. They are run by activist-entrepreneurs who create
centers for organizing and selling books to pay the rent. These
spaces allow radical and contentious ideas to be explored and
percolate through to actual social movements, and serve as
crucibles for activists to challenge capitalism, imperialism, white
privilege, patriarchy, and homophobia. They also exist within a
central paradox: participating in the marketplace creates tensions,
contradictions, and shortfalls. Activist retail does not end
capitalism; collective ownership does not enable a retreat from
civic requirements like zoning; and donations, no matter how
generous, do not offset the enormous power of corporations and
governments.
In this timely and relevant book, Kinder presents a necessary,
novel, and apt analysis of the role these retail spaces play in
radical organizing, one that demonstrates how such durable hubs
manage to persist, often for decades, between the spikes of public
protest.
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The politics of urban water : changing waterscapes in Amsterdam
\"Fifty years ago, urban waterfronts were industrial, polluted, and diseased. Today, luxury homes and shops line riverbanks, harbors, and lakes across Europe and North America. The visual drama of physical reconstruction makes this transition look swift and decisive, but reimaging water is a slow process, punctuated by small cultural shifts and informal spatial seizures that change the meaning of wet urban spaces. In The Politics of Urban Water, Kimberley Kinder explores how active residents in Amsterdam deployed their cityscape when rallying around these concerns, turning space into a vehicle for social reform. While market dynamics certainly contributed to the transformation of Amsterdam's shorelines, squatters, partiers, artists, historians, environmentalists, tourists, reporters, and government officials also played crucial roles in bringing waterscapes to life. Their interventions pulled water in new directions, connecting it to political discussions about affordable housing, cultural tolerance, climate change, and national identity. Over time, these political valences have become embedded in laws, norms, symbols, markets, and landscapes, bringing rich undercurrents of friction to urban shores. Amsterdam's development serves as both an inspiration and a cautionary tale for cities across Europe and North America where rapid new growth creates similar pressures and anxieties\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Politics of Urban Water
Fifty years ago, urban waterfronts were industrial, polluted, and diseased. Today, luxury homes and shops line riverbanks, harbors, and lakes across Europe and North America. The visual drama of physical reconstruction makes this transition look swift and decisive, but reimaging water is a slow process, punctuated by small cultural shifts and informal spatial seizures that change the meaning of wet urban spaces. InThe Politics of Urban Water, Kimberley Kinder explores how active residents in Amsterdam deployed their cityscape when rallying around these concerns, turning space into a vehicle for social reform.
While market dynamics certainly contributed to the transformation of Amsterdam's shorelines, squatters, partiers, artists, historians, environmentalists, tourists, reporters, and government officials also played crucial roles in bringing waterscapes to life. Their interventions pulled water in new directions, connecting it to political discussions about affordable housing, cultural tolerance, climate change, and national identity. Over time, these political valences have become embedded in laws, norms, symbols, markets, and landscapes, bringing rich undercurrents of friction to urban shores. Amsterdam's development serves as both an inspiration and a cautionary tale for cities across Europe and North America where rapid new growth creates similar pressures and anxieties.
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INTRODUCTION
Why and how do activists construct counterspaces? Is it enough to claim turf by squatting in abandoned buildings and hanging rebellious posters around a proverbial soapbox, or is activist placemaking more complex and multifunctional than that?
One person I asked was Leslie James Pickering. Pickering was a spokesperson for the Earth Liberation Front in the late 1990s when the FBI dubbed it their number one domestic terrorism priority. Today, Pickering is a small business owner in Upstate New York. It may seem like a big leap to go from being a suspected terrorist to running a mom-and-pop shop. But for
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Constructing Places for Contentious Politics
Lilia Rosas is a history buff. Her father was a cook, her mother was a housekeeper, and for a number of years Rosas was an anxious graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin. She was anxious because she was struggling financially. “I had run out of funding as a graduate student.” Rosas also struggled existentially. “What I had felt at the time … was alone and alienated.” Like many first-generation students of color navigating the “ivory tower,” Rosas was “becoming brighter [and] smarter” through her educational pursuits even if she did not necessarily “feel connected to those places”
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Supporting Public Protests from the Wings
On a spring day in 2017, Adii (no last name given) rushed into Revolution Books in Berkeley with a backpack slung over his shoulder. Without a word, he located a discretely stored folding table in the corner of the store, set it up, and began writing. Adii is not affiliated with the bookstore, but he hangs around a lot. He is African American, college-aged, and says he has always been “activist inclined.” As a child, he would ask his mother questions about society. “Why do I have to grow up and get a job and work for somebody, and why
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Reinventing Activist Bookstores in a Corporate Digital Age
Nell Taylor founded the Read/Write Library in 2006 as an anarchist-inspired tool for advancing radical inclusion. The library contains a limited selection of trade books and corporate newspapers, but most of the collection comes from more humble sources. This humble material includes self-published poems, novels, pamphlets, and zines. It includes community plans, oral histories, and neighborhood newsletters. There are literary magazines from high school students and state prison inmates. There are also self-published cookbooks from settlement houses and parish churches.¹ For Taylor, “These are the kinds of documents that normally wouldn’t survive” but that “matter for understanding the culture.”
The
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Claiming Spaces and Resources in Gentrifying Cities
Greg Newton, like many in the queer community, moved to New York to escape the stifling intolerance of Christian evangelicalism. “So many people come here specifically because it is a mecca for queers and has been for decades.” The Stonewall Inn, located a few blocks away, is the celebrated birthplace of the 1969 queer liberation movement. Another nearby landmark is the former location of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, the first explicitly queer bookstore in the country, which was founded two years before Stonewall in 1967.¹
Oscar Wilde closed in 2009. Walking past the former storefront, Newton and his partner
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Governing Safe Spaces That Restructure Public Speech
Kris Kleindienst started working at Left Bank Books in St. Louis¹ in 1974 when she was twenty-one years old. She was an English major, and she supported the bookstore’s political vision. “We didn’t carry books by Watergate Criminals. That was the first wave of government stuff that we were opposed to.” The bookstore was founded in 1969. As Kleindienst recalls, “Its focus in the beginning was a lot around anti-war stuff and civil rights stuff. And they sort of backed into feminism.” Backing into feminism was a way to bring different social groups together in a shared space. As a
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