{"product_id":"9780522854855","title":"Demanding The Impossible","description":"Author: Sylvia Lawson\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780522854855\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Melbourne University Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Feb 2012\u003cbr\u003ePages: 336\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombining elements of fiction, history, reportage and analysis, Sylvia Lawson examines the way the spirit of wartime resistance resurfaced in Paris in the insurrection of May 1968, when a rare unity of intellectuals and industrial workers woke a complacent society.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n She chronicles moments of resistance: the story of intrepid Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was murdered for her opposition to the Russian oppression of Chechnya; the highly contentious Northern Territory Intervention and Aboriginal dispossession; East Timorese and West Papuan resistance to Indonesian domination.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n Resistance is about more than protest in the streets; it's about writing and art-making, music and filming, and not least about the way ordinary people keep going.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n As the Arab Spring unfolds and the Occupy Wall Street initiative has spread round the world, a resistant tradition has been actively inherited: the right to protest and rebel against greed and injustice, to claim public space, to recreate the active, convivial city.","brand":"Print on demand - Ships in 1 to 3 months","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47241763225758,"sku":"HPC-9780522854855","price":54.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780522854855.jpg?v=1780360858","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780522854855","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}