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JUDITH BUTLER (1956) es una figura incómoda, a veces incomprendida y otras mal interpretada y aun instrumentalizada como diana de la polémica en el ámbito de campañas ideológicas, empezando por cuanto atañe a las cuestiones de género y la teoría crítica.

United States, early 1800’s. On a Maryland plantation, a young child is cruelly separated from his mother, setting the stage for the dehumanizing conditions of slavery that would define his early life. The brutal attempts to break Douglass's spirit only serve to strengthen his resolve to escape from that life. Despite the obstacles, the young boy is determined to educate himself, and he secretly learns to read and write.

It's an autobiographical work by the well-known social worker and Magsaysay award winner Prakash Amte. It talks about his struggles in helping the tribals of central and western India, move towards their up-liftment. Prakash Amte is the famous social activist and Gandhi ji's humble disciple, late Baba Amte's son.

10 women social reformers who fought to bring change in India

In 1894, a remarkably self-possessed American woman, with no formal education to speak of, stood before a British court seeking damages for libel from the trustees of the British Museum. It was yet another stop along the unpredictable route that was Victoria Woodhull’s life. Born dirt-poor in an obscure Ohio settlement, Woodhull was the daughter of an illiterate mother entranced by the fad of Mesmerism—a therapeutic pseudoscience—and a swindler father whose cons exploited his two daughters.

When a thoughtless tweet by Zelda la Grange unleashed a storm, she was asked: ‘Have you learnt nothing from Nelson Mandela?’ This book is her answer. Here she draws out his lessons on humility, respect, honesty, how to truly listen and what to do if you realise you have made a grave mistake, a lesson she herself had to learn the hard way.

தேசத்தந்தையாக விளங்கிய காந்தியின் அடியொற்றி சுதந்திர வேள்வியில் தன்னை அர்ப்பணித்துக்கொண்ட இரு இளைஞர்கள் - ஜவஹர்லால் நேருவும் சுபாஷ் சந்திர போஸும். இருவருக்குமே காந்தியிடம் கருத்து வேறுபாடுகள் இருந்த போதும், மக்கள் செல்வாக்கு எனும் கனி காந்தியிடம் தான் உள்ளது என்பதை உணர்ந்த நேரு அஹிம்சையை, ஒத்துழையாமையை ஆதரித்தார், சுதந்திர இந்தியாவின் முதல் பிரதமராகத் திகழ்ந்தார்.

కేవలం పాతిక సంవత్సరాలు మాత్రమే జీవించి, ఎప్పుడో నలబై ఏడేళ్ల క్రితమే హత్యకు గురైన జార్జి రెడ్డి పేరు వినగానే ఒక పోరాట స్పూర్తి, ఉద్వేగం గుండెల్లో వెల్లివిరుస్తాయి. ఉస్మానియా కేంద్రంగా జార్జి, అతని స్నేహితులు సాగించిన పోరాటం తెలుగునాట విప్లవ ప్రజాస్వామిక ఉద్యమాలకు కొత్త ఊపిరులూదింది. సునిశితమైన మేధ, సమాజాన్ని మార్చాలన్న తపన, ఆర్ధ్రమైన హృదయం, అంతులేని సాహసం వీటన్నింటి కలబోత అయిన జార్జి రెడ్డి విలక్షణ వ్యక్తిత్వాన్ని పాఠకుల ముందు ఆవిష్కరించే ప్రయత్నమే ఈ పుస్తకం.

எந்த ஒரு அநியாயத்திற்கும், அக்கிரமத்திற்கும் எல்லை உண்டு. இந்த சமுதாயத்தில் நடக்கும் சில அநீதிகளை நாம் கண்டும் காணாமலும் கடந்து போய்க்கொண்டு இருக்கிறோம். நம்மில் 90% பேர் அப்படித்தான் இருக்கிறார்கள். வெகு அரிதாக உள்ள 10% பேர் மட்டுமே துணிச்சலோடு முன்வந்து குரல் கொடுக்கிறார்கள். அந்த 10% பேரில் உள்ள ஒரு நான்கு பேரின் கதைதான் இந்த கோடு தாண்டாதே.

Stephen Kakfwi was born in a bush camp on the edge of the Arctic Circle in 1950. In a family torn apart by tuberculosis, alcohol, and the traumas endured by generations in residential school, he emerged as a respected Dene elder and eventually the Premier of the Northwest Territories. Kakfwi, schooled on civil rights and 1960s protest songs, dedicated himself to supporting chiefs in their claim to land that had been taken away from them and in their determination to seize control of the colonial political system.

Derek Black was raised to take over the White nationalist movement in the United States. Derek’s father, Don Black, was a former Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan and started Stormfront, the internet’s first White supremacist website—Derek built the kids’ page—and David Duke was a mentor. Racist hatred, though often wrapped up in respectability and American history, was all Derek knew. It was their inheritance, their community, their identity. Then, while in college in 2013, Derek publicly renounced White nationalism and apologized for their actions and the suffering that they had caused.

Millions of Christians know Tony Campolo as a popular speaker, best-selling author, parachurch leader, pastor, and counselor to a US president. But few know his personal faith journey—how throughout his life, existential encounters and unexplored ideas compelled him to continually reexamine and reform his theology.

Inspirada observadora y apasionada de la historia, Solnit es una de las críticas culturales más creativas, penetrantes y elocuentes que escriben hoy en día. En Esperanza en la oscuridad, su crítica más personal hasta la fecha, reflexiona sobre los logros cruciales, a menudo subestimados, de los activistas de base.

Few Americans covered as much ground as Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Born in 1823 to a family descended from Boston's Puritan founders, he attended Harvard, like all the men in his family, and prepared for the settled life of a minister. Instead, he rejected both privilege and convention, and embraced radical causes, attaching himself to nearly every major reform movement of the day, from women's rights to abolitionism. More than merely a fellow traveler, Higginson was a proponent of direct action.

«لم يُخلَق الإنسان ليعيش على اللحم، بل على الجذور والثمار».

Artist. Public intellectual. Political activist. James Baldwin was all of these and more. Raised in the slums of Depression-era Harlem in New York City, Baldwin would become an author and activist of international renown—one whose legacy has continued long beyond his death in 1987. Who was James Baldwin? How did he become the master of multiple literary genres and a champion for some of the era’s most notable political and social causes? And how is his influence still being felt today?

अभिजीत बनर्जी एक भारतीय मूल के अमरिकी इकोनॉमिस्ट हैं, जिन्होंने अपनी पत्नी एस्तर डुफ़्लो और माइकल क्रेमर के साथ दुनिया में गरीबी को मिटाने पर एक एक्सपेरिमेंटल अप्रोच के लिये नोबेल पुरस्कार जीता. अभिजीत ने एस्तर के साथ पुअर इकोनॉमिक्स नाम की किताब भी लिखी है, जिसमें उन्होंने अपनी इस अप्रोच को समझाया है. सुनिए इनकी असाधारण कहानी.

आइन्सटीन ने कहा था कि आगे आने वाली पीढ़ियों के लिए यह विश्वास करना मुश्किल होगा कि हाड़-माँस का ऐसा भी कोई शख़्स इस धरती पर कभी चला था. गाँधी अपने जीते-जी किंवदंति हो गये थे. पर यह बात विचित्र है कि भारत ने बस उनका नाम याद रखा, उनकी ज़िंदगी के संघर्ष, उनके मूल्यों, विचारों से वह खुद को लगातार दूर करत चला गया. आज इस बात की सख़्त ज़रूरत है कि गाँधी को फिर से तलाशा जाये. यह किताब उसी तलाश का और गाँधी के जीवन का एक संक्षिप्त, लेकिन क़रीबी लेखा-जोखा है.

विचार ही वह बीज है, जिससे बदलाव के वृक्ष उगते हैं. देश-दुनिया में जितनी क्रांतियाँ हुई हैं, उनकी कोंपलें विचारों से ही फूटी हैं. नोबेल शांति पुरस्कार विजेता श्री कैलाश सत्यार्थी के क्रांतिकारी विचारों ने समाज के हाशिए पर खड़े और विकास की परिधि से बाहर उन करोड़ों उपेक्षित बच्चों को आज दुनिया के केंद्र में लाकर खड़ा कर दिया है, जहाँ से उनकी आजादी और मुसकराहट का रास्ता खुलता है. श्री सत्यार्थी केवल एक बाल अधिकार कार्यकर्ता भर नहीं हैं, वे एक विचारक और दार्शनिक भी हैं. यह पुस्तक उनके ऐसे ही क्रांतिकारी विचारों और बदलाव के बोलों का संग्रह है.

On a March night in 2000, two deputy sheriffs serving a warrant were shot in Atlanta, Georgia. One was severely wounded while the other would die a day later. The shooting kicked off a large manhunt in search of the alleged cop killer. Four days later in Alabama, authorities found their man—Jamil Al-Amin. He was a Muslim leader with the title of Imam in the West End neighborhood of Atlanta. He was also the man formerly known as H. Rap Brown. He was a charismatic Black radical in the late '60s.