“Harsha Walia has played a central role in building some of North America’s most innovative; diverse; and effective new movements. That this brilliant organizer and theorist has found time to share her wisdom in this book is a tremendous gift to us all.â€Â—Naomi Klein; author of The Shock DoctrineUndoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse; lived experiences of displacement; and movement-based practices into an exciting new book. By reformulating immigrant rights movements within a transnational analysis of capitalism; labor exploitation; settler colonialism; state building; and racialized empire; it provides the alternative conceptual frameworks of border imperialism and decolonization. Drawing on the author’s experiences in No One Is Illegal; this work offers relevant insights for all social movement organizers on effective strategies to overcome the barriers and borders within movements in order to cultivate fierce; loving; and sustainable communities of resistance striving toward liberation. The author grounds the book in collective vision; with short contributions from over twenty organizers and writers from across North America.Harsha Walia is a South Asian activist; writer; and popular educator rooted in emancipatory movements and communities for over a decade.Praise for Undoing Border Imperialism:“Border imperialism is an apt conceptualization for capturing the politics of massive displacement due to capitalist neoglobalization. Within the wealthy countries; Canada’s No One Is Illegal is one of the most effective organizations of migrants and allies. Walia is an outstanding organizer who has done a lot of thinking and can write—not a common combination. Besides being brilliantly conceived and presented; this book is the first extended work on immigration that refuses to make First Nations sovereignty invisible.â€Â—Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz; author of Indians of the Americas and Blood on the Border“Harsha Walia’s Undoing Border Imperialism demonstrates that geography has certainly not ended; and nor has the urge for people to stretch out our arms across borders to create our communities. One of the most rewarding things about this book is its capaciousness—astute insights that emerge out of careful organizing linked to the voices of a generation of strugglers; trying to find their own analysis to build their own movements to make this world our own. This is both a manual and a memoir; a guide to the world and a guide to the organizer's heart.â€Â—Vijay Prashad; author of The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World“This book belongs in every wannabe revolutionary’s war backpack. I addictively jumped all over its contents: a radical mixtape of ancestral wisdoms to present-day grounded organizers theorizing about their own experiences. A must for me is Walia’s decision to infuse this volume’s fight against border imperialism; white supremacy; and empire with the vulnerability of her own personal narrative. This book is a breath of fresh air and offers an urgently needed movement-based praxis. Undoing Border Imperialism is too hot to be sitting on bookshelves; it will help make the revolution.â€Â—Ashanti Alston; Black Panther elder and former political prisonerIn Oakland; California on March 24; 2015 a fire destroyed the AK Press warehouse along with several other businesses. Please consider visiting the AK Press website to learn more about the fundraiser to help them and their neighbors.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Very useful book!By Daniel KesterI took this book with me on a recent (May 2013) trip to Poland. My main interest was visiting Holocaust sites; and this book was invaluable. It covers all the major camps (Auschwitz; Treblinka; Belzec; Sobibor; Majdanek) as well as many lesser known ones such as Chelmno; Trawniki; and Izbica. In addition to the camps; it covers many of the cities that were important Jewish population centers: Warsaw; Krakow; Lodz; Lublin; Zamosc; among others.For each site the author discusses the history of the place; what happened there; travel information (i.e. how to get there; hours; website); and what to see when there. He includes a level of detail that would be hard to find elsewhere. For example; in the city of Lublin I was able to find the building; now a school; where the administration of the Holocaust in Poland took place; the building where the railroad offices where (from where bureaucrats arranged to send a couple million people to death camps); and even found out that my hotel had been the headquarters of the German civil administration. This is in addition to the major pre-war Jewish sites. I found a similar level of detail in the many other places that I visited. Since many of the Holocaust related places in Poland have little or no posted information; this book became my "tour guide."I have not found any other in-print book that focuses on travel to Holocaust sites. So for anyone interested in this; this book is definitely worth getting.My only complaint is that the book could have used more maps. For many places directions are given through text; where a map would have been much more useful.On my Poland trip I also had along Martin Gilbert's excellent book; Holocaust Journey; which describes a trip he took through Poland; the Czech Republic; and Germany. The Gilbert book had many more maps; plus it included many smaller places not covered by Winstone. However it only includes places that Gilbert visited; the Winstone book is far more complete; plus it covers all of Europe. But for visiting Poland; I would highly recommend having both books along.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. ReviewBy Julia A CouchI am very pleased with my order. This book will make an excellent reference book to go along with all of my books that are about the Holocaust.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. 5 starsBy So Many BooksI used this book to assist in the writing of my master's thesis. Very informative and highly readable. This book not only mentions the major Holocaust sites like Auschwitz; it also mentions some of the lesser known sites.
