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Gå vilse. En fälthandbok
AvRebecca Solnit
Pocket, Svenska, 2016
4,2 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(16)
89 kr
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"Gå vilse" är en bok om ovisshet av många olika slag ? ovisshet om var man befinner sig i terrängen eller det egna livet. Den handlar också om ovissheten som konstnärligt verktyg och som historisk erfarenhet, om Yves Klein och hans märkliga blå färg och om nybyggardottern Mary Jemison och hennes långa liv bland indianerna. Och om mycket annat och många andra. Det är en bok om landskap inuti landskap, rum inuti rum. ??Att aldrig gå vilse är att inte leva, att inte veta hur man går vilse leder till undergång, och någonstans i det terra incognita som ligger mittemellan finns ett liv där man upptäcker saker.? Rebecca Solnit (född 1961) är kulturkritiker och aktivist från San Francisco och har bland skrivit den uppmärksammade "Män förklarar saker för mig". "Solnits närvaro, öppenhet och förståelse är underbar, hon är som en generös vän, bara mycket smartare än du själv. Det är fantastisk läsning." /Jenny Maria Nilsson i Helsingborgs Dagblad "'Gå vilse' är inte en bok som coachar en på rätta vägen eller visar hur man hittar hem. Snarare en stimulerande och märkligt upplyftande plädering för terra incognita, det vi förbiser, inte vet, det obelysta och förlorade i historien." /Pia Bergström i Aftonbladet "Det här är förstås en fantastisk bok, på många sätt: den argumenterar varsamt, berikar, öppnar för idéer, uppslag." /Björn Kohlström i bloggen Bernur
Beginning Comes After the End
Notes on a World of Change
AvRebecca Solnit
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
192 kr
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'An old world is dying; a new world is being born; now is the time of monsters' Antonio GramschiSolnit maps the extraordinary revolution of ideas and rights that we've experienced over the last fifty years, which has profoundly changed our world. In recognising the interdependent and symbiotic relationships in nature and among humans, this revolution is beginning to overturn capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy and the human domination of nature - despite the best efforts of the old world to fight back. From one of the most significant thinkers of our day, The Beginning Comes After the End is a culmination of years of activism and offers a unique perspective on our politics and our humanity, to give hope in difficult times and to urgently remind us that the power to change the world is within our reach.
Män förklarar saker för mig
AvRebecca Solnit
Pocket, Svenska, 2016
4,2 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(25)
89 kr
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Rebecca Solnits essä "Män förklarar saker för mig" har redan fått något av en feministisk klassikerstatus. Denna vidräkning med självupptagna kulturmän som aldrig vill sluta prata och olika former av subtilt eller inte så värst subtilt kvinnoförtryck publicerades ursprungligen på TomDispatch.com 2008. Essän väckte ett starkt gensvar på nätet och ledde till att uttrycket "mansplaining" myntades. I föreliggande bok får essän sällskap av åtta besläktade texter av senare datum. Solnit tar här bland annat upp våldtäktsanklagelserna mot den dåvarande chefen för Internationella valutafonden, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 2011 och dödsskjutningarna på ett campus i Isla Vista i Kalifornien 2014. Men hon fördjupar sig också i bildkonst (Ana Teresa Fernández) och litteratur (Virginia Woolf). Det finns, skriver Solnit, "ett kontinuum som går från smärre olägenheter i samhället till nedtystande och dödligt våld". Vi skulle förstå våldet mot kvinnor bättre om vi hade mer av en helhetssyn på maktmissbruket i samhället och tydligare kunde urskilja det mönster som förenar kvinnoförakt, trakasserier, näthat, våldtäkter och mord. Solnits vill bidra till en sådan helhetssyn. Och gjuta mod i alla (kvinnor och män) som tror på och kämpar för en förändring till det bättre. Daidalos har av Solnit tidigare publicerat Gå vilse. En fälthandbok (2012) och Det avlägset nära (2014), associativa och vindlande och bitvis poetiska texter där platser och berättelser står i fokus. "Män talar, kvinnor förväntas lyssna. Rebecca Solnit visar kristallklart upp det maktspel som pågår, skriver Hanna Jedvik som läst en feministisk klassiker" /Göteborg-Posten
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
AvRebecca Solnit
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
249 kr
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Hope In The Dark
Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
AvRebecca Solnit
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
141 kr
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At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable book offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope. This exquisite work traces a history of activism and social change over the past five decades - from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the worldwide marches against the war in Iraq. Hope in the Dark is a paean to optimism in the uncertainty of the twenty-first century. Tracing the footsteps of the last century's thinkers - including Woolf, Gandhi, Borges, Benjamin and Havel - Solnit conjures a timeless vision of cause and effect that will light our way through the dark, and lead us to profound and effective political engagement.
The Beginning Comes After the End
Notes on a World of Change
AvRebecca Solnit
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
247 kr
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Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century.In this sequel to her enduring bestseller Hope in the Dark, Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. Despite the forces seeking to turn back the clock on history, change is not a possibility; it is an inevitability.The changes amount to nothing less than dismantling an old civilization and building a new one, whose newness is often the return of the old ways and wisdoms. In this rising worldview, interconnection is a core idea and value. But because the transformation is obscured within a longer arc of history, its scale is seldom recognized.While the white nationalist and authoritarian backlash drives individualism and isolation, this new world embraces antiracism, feminism, a more expansive understanding of gender, environmental thinking, scientific breakthroughs, and Indigenous and non-Western ideas, pointing toward a more interconnected, relational world.
Men Explain Things to Me
AvRebecca Solnit
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
99 kr
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Published as a standalone on International Woman's Day, the essay that became a touchstone of the feminist movement and inspired the term 'mansplaining', with an afterword on its originsThis famous and influential essay, which describes the time when, at a party, a man explained to Rebecca Solnit the argument of her own book, inspired the term 'mansplaining' and established Solnit as a vital figure of the feminist movement, and one of the leading thinkers of our time. Fierce, incisive and funny, it exposes the inherent sexism of our patriarchal culture.
Wanderlust : att gå till fots
AvRebecca Solnit
Häftad, Svenska, 2019
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
256 kr
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"Det är en av de behagligaste och mest bildande läsupplevelserna jag har haft" /Sinziana Ravini i GP Att gå till fots är inte bara att förflytta sig från en punkt till en annan. Det är också att ingå i ett sammanhang, befinna sig mitt i ett konkret och påtagligt landskap, ta del av alla de processer som ständigt pågår runt omkring en. Och det kan dessutom vara ett sätt att tänka och känna, eftersom själva gåendet har en egendomlig förmåga att stimulera våra sinnen och minnen och ge oss perspektiv också på sådant som inte finns där och då. Rebecca Solnits "Wanderlust" undersöker vad det innebär – och har inneburit – att gå till fots genom världen och vad författare, konstnärer, tänkare och andra har haft att säga om den saken. Solnit knyter till exempel an till antikens ständigt i rörelse stadda filosofer och låter oss följa med romantikens poeter på deras vandringar genom dramatiska och undersköna landskap. Men Wanderlust är också en ur fotgängarperspektiv skriven bok om surrealisternas outtömliga Parismiljöer och spelmanins neonglittrande Las Vegas. Det handlar om kulturhistoria i rymligast tänkbara bemärkelse – och om en genomtänkt kritik av vårt nuvarande och på många sätt inkapslade och inkapslande livsmönster. Själva gåendet kan dessutom, framhåller Solnit, få en subversiv kollektiv dimension. Protestmarscher handlar ju inte heller bara om att förflytta sig från en punkt till en annan. Wanderlust är en bok som intar en central position i Solnits författarskap genom att förena den mer associativa och personliga reflektionsformen i "Gå vilse" och "Det avlägset nära" med de makt- och kulturkritiska resonemangen och den politiska analysen i Män förklarar saker för mig och andra av hennes böcker.
Hopp
AvRebecca Solnit
Inbunden, Svenska, 2017
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
207 kr
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Vi lever i en orolig tid när utvecklingen inom världspolitiken tycks absurd, klimatkatastroflarmen ljuder allt högre och klyftorna i samhället bara blir djupare. Därför ger vi nu ut Rebecca Solnits klassiska aktivistbok Hopp som aldrig tidigare kommit på svenska.

I Hopp fångar Rebecca Solnit de senaste 50 årens historia av aktivism och samhällelig förändring, från Berlinmurens fall till de världsomfattande demonstrationstågen mot kriget i Irak. Genom att lyssna till några av de senaste århundradets största tänkare, så som Woolf, Gandhi, Borges, Benjamin och Havel, formulerar Solnit en tidlös vision kring politisk förändring. För att orka fortsätta kämpa, menar Solnit, måste vi erkänna de enorma framsteg som gjorts tack vare enskilda personers engagemang, men också lära oss leva med att framtiden är osäker och att de direkta följderna av vårt handlande inte alltid är uppenbara. Hopp kräver handling och handling hopp och nu behövs denna samverkan mer än någonsin.

Hopp (Hope in the dark) utkom första gången 2004. I de helt nyskrivna för- och efterorden berättar Solnit om bokens uppkomst och om vägen till framtidstro och handling i ett samhälle som kan kännas både osäkert och skrämmande.

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"högintressant läsning Dagens Nyheter

"Rebecca Solnit skriver kraftfullt. Jag minns fortfarande hur jag nästan slogs till marken av Män förklarar saker för mig. Här, med Hopp, lyfts jag snarare mot himmelska höjder. Jag blir så lycklig av att läsa hennes funderingar om folkliga rörelser, revolutioner och kraft. Om förändring och titelns hopp. Helt uppfylld blir jag."
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A Paradise Built in Hell
The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
AvRebecca Solnit
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
146 kr
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How do we respond to disaster? What expressions of care and solidarity might we find among the debris? A Paradise Built in Hell is a study of five major disasters - the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Halifax explosion of 1917, the Mexico City earthquake of 1985, the 9/11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina - and the expressions of altruism, generosity and resourcefulness that emerged in the wake of these tragedies. The result is a sweeping history of some of the foundational events in the modern history of North America, and a meditation on community: challenging us to look afresh at society, and what these models of local, collaborative politics might look like carried through into everyday life.
Wanderlust
A History of Walking
AvRebecca Solnit
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
145 kr
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'Radical, humane, witty' Alain de Botton 'Magisterial' Will Self, GuardianExplore historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers in this profound and diverting modern classic.What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together numerous stories to create a new way of looking at one of humanity's most fundamental and expressive acts. Arguing that walking as history means walking for pleasure and for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit homes in on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from the philosophers of ancient Greece to the poets of the Romantic Age, from the perambulations of the Surrealists to the ascents of mountaineers. With profiles of some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction - from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Rousseau to Argentina's Mother of the Plaza de Mayo, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja - Wanderlust takes us on an unforgettable journey and shows how walking can affect the body, the imagination, and the world around us.'One of those rare, quirky, rather lovable books that makes you look anew at something so familiar ... Solnit winningly traces the shifting cultural significance of putting one foot in front of another' Daily Telegraph
Faraway Nearby
AvRebecca Solnit
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
133 kr
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A reissue of this inspiring and heartbreaking memoir about family, empathy and the stories we tell about ourselves and othersGifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was given three boxes of ripening apricots, fruit from a neglected tree that her mother, gradually succumbing to memory loss, could no longer tend to.In this courageous, heartbreaking memoir, Solnit draws from this unexpected inheritance, weaving her own story into fairy tales and the lives of others. Encompassing the Marquis de Sade and Mary Shelley, explorers and monsters, a library of water in Iceland, and the depths of the Grand Canyon, The Faraway Nearby is a meditation on family, empathy, and the art of storytelling from a writer of limitless talent and imagination.
No Straight Road Takes You There
Essays for Uneven Terrain
AvRebecca Solnit
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
215 kr
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This book's title, No Straight Road Takes You There, is an evocation and a declaration. Highways tend to be built across the easy routes and flat places, or the landscape is cleared away - logged, graded, levelled, tunnelled through - but to stick to these roads is to miss what else is out there. In her writing and activism, Rebecca Solnit has sought the pathless places in order to celebrate indirect and unpredictable consequences, and to embrace slowness and imperfection, which, she argues, are key to understanding the possibilities of change.In her latest essay collection, the award-winning writer explores responses to the climate crisis, as well as reflections on women's rights, the fight for democracy, the trends in masculinity, and the rise of the far right in the West. Incantatory and poetic, positive and engaging, these essays argue for the long-term view and the power of collective action, making a case for seeding change wherever possible, and offering us all a path out of the wilderness.
Hågkomster av min icke-existens
AvRebecca Solnit
Inbunden, Svenska, 2020
220 kr
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”Att vara en ung kvinna är att ställas inför sin egen utplåning på ett oändligt antal sätt eller att fly från den eller vetskapen om den, eller allt detta på en gång. ’En vacker kvinnas död är obestridligen det mest poetiska ämnet i världen’, sa Edgar Allan Poe, som knappast kan ha sett det ur kvinnornas perspektiv, de kvinnor som hellre vill leva. Jag försökte undvika att vara ämnet för någon annans poesi och att bli dödad, jag försökte hitta en egen poetik, utan kartor, utan vägvisare, utan särskilt mycket att gå efter.” Rebecca Solnits självbiografiska essä "Hågkomster av min icke-existens" handlar om hennes liv i San Francisco och de upplevelser och erfarenheter som förvandlade henne från en ung och osäker nittonåring till en inflytelserik radikal röst. Det är alltså Solnits väg till bildkonsten, litteraturen, aktivismen och – inte minst – feminismen vi får följa. Men boken är också en undersökning av hur vardagliga förändringar nästan omärkligt kan påverka våra liv och sammanhang i grunden. Den svarta stadsdel där Solnit lyckades hitta en billig lägenhet gentrifierades i takt med att hon fick upp ögonen för gentrifieringens och exkluderingens destruktiva mekanismer. Hon fick också och högst konkret lära sig hur utsatt och isolerad en kvinna kan vara i ett samhälle som konsekvent förminskar och förnedrar kvinnor, som om kvinnor per definition saknar betydelse. Solnit låter – som så ofta i författarskapet – olika teman flätas in i varandra och viktiga sammanhang framträda lite i taget, via iakttagelser, minnesbilder och associationer. Men "Hågkomster av min icke-existens" kastar dessutom ett intressant ljus över själva arbetsmetoden, Solnits mångsidiga och improvisatoriska form av berättande. Rebecca Solnit, född 1961 och bosatt i San Francisco, är författare, journalist och politisk aktivist. Daidalos har av Solnit tidigare publicerat "Gå vilse. En fälthandbok" (2012), "Det avlägset nära" (2014), "Män förklarar saker för mig" (2015), "Wanderlust" (2017), "Alla frågors moder" (2017) och "Kalla dem vid deras rätta namn" (2019).
Orwell's Roses
AvRebecca Solnit
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
145 kr
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE'I loved this book... An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times' Margaret Atwood 'Outside my work the thing I care most about is gardening' George Orwell In 1936 Orwell planted roses at his cottage in Hertfordshire. Over eighty years later Rebecca Solnit encounters them, and is inspired to explore a different side to the great writer and activist to the one we know so well. Following his journey from the coal mines of England to taking up arms in the Spanish Civil War, and his explosive critiques of Stalin and authoritarianism, here Solnit finds a more hopeful Orwell. And in her dialogue with the author and his fascination with nature, she makes unexpected connections with the colonial legacy of the flower garden, discovers photographer Tina Modotti's extraordinary roses, and reveals Stalin's strange obsession with growing lemons in impossibly cold conditions.A fresh reading of a towering figure of the twentieth century, Orwell's Roses finds solace and solutions for the political and environmental challenges we face today, and is a remarkable reflection on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance. 'Luminous...It is efflorescent, a study that seeds and blooms, propagates thoughts, and tends to historical associations' New Statesman 'A genuinely extraordinary mind, whose curiosity, intelligence and willingness to learn seem unbounded' Irish Times
Infinite City
A San Francisco Atlas
AvRebecca Solnit
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
306 kr
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What makes a place? "Infinite City", Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers, cartographers, and twenty-two gorgeous color maps, each of which illuminates the city and its surroundings as experienced by different inhabitants, Solnit takes us on a tour that will forever change the way we think about place. She explores the area thematically - connecting, for example, Eadweard Muybridge's foundation of motion-picture technology with Alfred Hitchcock's filming of "Vertigo". Across an urban grid of just seven by seven miles, she finds seemingly unlimited landmarks and treasures - butterfly habitats, queer sites, murders, World War II shipyards, blues clubs, Zen Buddhist centers. She roams the political terrain, both progressive and conservative, and details the cultural geographies of the Mission District, the culture wars of the Fillmore, the South of Market world being devoured by redevelopment, and much, much more.Breathtakingly original, this atlas of the imagination invites us to search out the layers of San Francisco that carry meaning for us - or to discover our own infinite city, be it Cleveland, Toulouse, or Shanghai. Contributors include: Cartographers - Ben Pease and Shizue Seigel; Designer - Lia Tjandra; Artists - Sandow Birk, Mona Caron, Jaime Cortez, Hugh D'Andrade, Robert Dawson, Paz de la Calzada, Jim Herrington, Ira Nowinski, Alison Pebworth, Michael Rauner, Gent Sturgeon and Sunaura Taylor; Writers and researchers - Summer Brenner, Adriana Camarena, Chris Carlsson, Lisa Conrad, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Paul La Farge, Genine Lentine, Stella Lochman, Aaron Shurin, Heather Smith and Richard Walker; and, Additional cartography - Darin Jensen, Robin Grossinger and Ruth Askevold, as well as San Francisco Estuary Institute.
River of Shadows
Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
AvRebecca Solnit
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
150 kr
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In 1872, Eadward Muybridge - a British photographer, who had landed in California during the Gold Rush - captured images of high-speed movement. These photographs would go on to lay the foundations for motion pictures, changing the west coast of America, and the world, forever. River of Shadows is both a bold and original biography of a true pioneer - his trailblazing work, and his complicated life - and a portrait of America on the threshold of modernity. Drawing lines from Muybridge's invention to Hollywood and Silicon Valley, Rebecca Solnit explores how this remarkable breakthrough has shaped the world today.
Wanderlust
A History of Walking
AvRebecca Solnit
E-bok
Engelska, 2001
96 kr
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A passionate, thought provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Men Explain Things to Me Drawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores--Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers. She profiles some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction--from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Jane Austen''s Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton''s Nadja--finding a profound relationship between walking and thinking and walking and culture. Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world.
Men Explain Things to Me
And Other Essays
AvRebecca Solnit
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
145 kr
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A landmark, incendiary collection from one of the leading essayists working today.Inspiring everyone from radical activists to Beyoncé Knowles, Rebecca Solnit's essay 'Men Explain Things to Me' has become a touchstone of the feminist movement and established her as one of the leading thinkers of our time. Here it is collected along with the best of Solnit's feminist writings. From French sex scandals to the nuclear family, rape culture to mansplaining, Virginia Woolf to colonialism, these essays are a fierce and incisive exploration of the issues that a patriarchal culture will not necessarily acknowledge as 'issues' at all. With grace, wit and energy, and in the most exquisite and inviting of prose, Rebecca Solnit proves herself a vital leading figure of the feminist movement and a radical, humane thinker. 'Solnit is a compelling writer with a glorious turn of phrase' Evening Standard
Alla frågors moder
AvRebecca Solnit
Inbunden, Svenska, 2017
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
228 kr
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"Jag skriver om hur den nyväckta feministrörelsen i Nordamerika och runt om i världen förvandlar samhället i snabb takt, inte bara i form av ändrade lagar. Den förändrar vår syn på samtycke, makt, rättigheter, kön, röst och representation. Den här rörelsen är en underbar motor för förändring, som framför allt leds av de unga, på universiteten, i sociala medier, på gatorna, och jag känner en enorm beundran för denna nya, orädda generation av feminister och människorättsaktivister som inte ber om ursäkt för sig själva. Lika stor är min rädsla för det bakslag som rörelsen har mött, ett bakslag som i sig bevisar att feminismen, som ett led i ett bredare frigörelseprojekt, är ett stort hot mot patriarkatet och status quo." I "Alla frågors moder" fördjupar Rebecca Solnit den analys av könsroller och maktförhållanden hon genomförde i sin redan klassikerstämplade bok Män förklarar saker för mig. Men hon skriver också om – till exempel – olika slag av tystnad, filmklassikern Jätten och frågan om vilka åttio böcker en kvinna absolut bör undvika att läsa. "Alla frågors moder" är kort sagt en mycket rörlig och nyfiken bok. Och som alltid hos Rebecca Solnit får läsaren rikligt med tankar och bilder att arbeta vidare med på egen hand.
Infinite Cities
A Trilogy of Atlases—San Francisco, New Orleans, New York
AvRebecca Solnit,Joshua Jelly-Schapirom. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
505 kr
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"The maps themselves are things of beauty."—The New York Times Explore the hidden histories of San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York with this brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas. From Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Snedeker, and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. In the past decade, Rebecca Solnit—aided by local writers, artists, historians, urbanists, ethnographers, and cartographers—has compiled three stunning atlases that have radically changed the way we think about place. Each atlas provides a vivid, complex look at the multi-faceted nature of a city as experienced by its different inhabitants, replete with the celebrations and contradictions that make up urban life. This three-volume paperback set contains: The original, gorgeously designed atlases—Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas; Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas; and Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas Three new and updated, full-color, fold-out posters for each city, including the popular “City of Women” mapA new and thoughtful essay by Rebecca Solnit reflecting on the project ten years after the publication of the first atlas A stunning collection, this boxed set is a perfect treasury of imagination and insight, a rich people’s history of these infinite cities.
Field Guide To Getting Lost
AvRebecca Solnit
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
136 kr
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With a new afterword by the authorIn her map to loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. Meandering eclectically through memory and mortality, Hitchcock movies and heartbreak, Solnit's beloved account of staying off the beaten path sheds glittering new light on the way we live now.
Paradise Built in Hell
The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster
AvRebecca Solnit
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
211 kr
Wanderlust
A History of Walking
AvRebecca Solnit
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
213 kr
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A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's Roses Drawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores--Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers. She profiles some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction--from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja--finding a profound relationship between walking and thinking and walking and culture. Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world.
The Faraway Nearby
AvRebecca Solnit
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
258 kr
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Orwell's Pleasures
AvGeorge Orwell,Rebecca Solnit
Inbunden, Engelska, 2027
194 kr
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In the winter of 1945-6, George Orwell was recently widowed, in poor health and living in bombed-out London under the deprivations of rationing – yet in this unpromising context, he wrote a series of essays celebrating the small joys of everyday life. This new anthology, edited by Rebecca Solnit, challenges the dominant image of Orwell as the austere author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. He instead emerges as an enthusiast of English cooking; a lover of gardening and the countryside; a leisurely pub drinker; an observer of the elm tree and blackbird’s song; a devotee of murder mystery novels and ‘good bad books’.These essays were not escapist for Orwell; rather, they deepened his political commitments. Attending to the world through the senses, trusting your own judgement and valuing ordinary joys are ways of preserving individuality and humanity in the face of propaganda, totalitarianism and despair. These small pleasures, far from trivial, became for Orwell fortifications of the self.
Storming the Gates of Paradise
Landscapes for Politics
AvRebecca Solnit
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
231 kr
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Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. "Storming the Gates of Paradise", an anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years, takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.-Mexican border, from San Francisco to London, from open sky to the deepest mines, and from the antislavery struggles of two hundred years ago to today's street protests. The nearly forty essays collected here comprise a unique guidebook to the American landscape after the millennium - not just the deserts, skies, gardens, and wilderness areas that have long made up Solnit's subject matter, but the social landscape of democracy and repression, of borders, ruins, and protests.She ventures into territories as dark as prison and as sublime as a broad vista, revealing beauty in the harshest landscape and political struggle in the most apparently serene view.Her introduction sets the tone and the book's overarching themes as she describes Thoreau, leaving the jail cell where he had been confined for refusing to pay war taxes and proceeding directly to his favorite huckleberry patch. In this way she links pleasure to politics, brilliantly demonstrating that the path to paradise has often run through prison. These startling insights on current affairs, politics, culture, and history, always expressed in Solnit's pellucid and graceful prose, constantly revise our views of the otherwise ordinary and familiar. Illustrated throughout, "Storming the Gates of Paradise" represents recent developments in Solnit's thinking and offers the reader a panoramic world view enriched by her characteristically provocative, inspiring, and hopeful observations.
Infinite City
A San Francisco Atlas
AvRebecca Solnit
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
264 kr
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What makes a place? "Infinite City", Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers, cartographers, and twenty-two gorgeous color maps, each of which illuminates the city and its surroundings as experienced by different inhabitants, Solnit takes us on a tour that will forever change the way we think about place. She explores the area thematically - connecting, for example, Eadweard Muybridge's foundation of motion-picture technology with Alfred Hitchcock's filming of "Vertigo". Across an urban grid of just seven by seven miles, she finds seemingly unlimited landmarks and treasures - butterfly habitats, queer sites, murders, World War II shipyards, blues clubs, Zen Buddhist centers. She roams the political terrain, both progressive and conservative, and details the cultural geographies of the Mission District, the culture wars of the Fillmore, the South of Market world being devoured by redevelopment, and much, much more.Breathtakingly original, this atlas of the imagination invites us to search out the layers of San Francisco that carry meaning for us - or to discover our own infinite city, be it Cleveland, Toulouse, or Shanghai. Contributors include: Cartographers - Ben Pease and Shizue Seigel; Designer - Lia Tjandra; Artists - Sandow Birk, Mona Caron, Jaime Cortez, Hugh D'Andrade, Robert Dawson, Paz de la Calzada, Jim Herrington, Ira Nowinski, Alison Pebworth, Michael Rauner, Gent Sturgeon and Sunaura Taylor; Writers and researchers - Summer Brenner, Adriana Camarena, Chris Carlsson, Lisa Conrad, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Paul La Farge, Genine Lentine, Stella Lochman, Aaron Shurin, Heather Smith and Richard Walker; and, Additional cartography - Darin Jensen, Robin Grossinger and Ruth Askevold, as well as San Francisco Estuary Institute.
Unfathomable City
A New Orleans Atlas
AvRebecca Solnit,Rebecca Snedeker
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
276 kr
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Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this book is a brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, one that provides a vivid, complex look at the multi-faceted nature of New Orleans, a city replete with contradictions. More than twenty essays assemble a chorus of vibrant voices, including geographers, scholars of sugar and bananas, the city's remarkable musicians, prison activists, environmentalists, Arab and Native voices, and local experts, as well as the coauthors' compelling contributions. Featuring 22 full-color two-page-spread maps, Unfathomable City plumbs the depths of this major tourist destination, pivotal scene of American history and culture and, most recently, site of monumental disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill. The innovative maps' precision and specificity shift our notions of the Mississippi, the Caribbean, Mardi Gras, jazz, soils and trees, generational roots, and many other subjects, and expand our ideas of how any city is imagined and experienced.Together with the inspired texts, they show New Orleans as both an imperiled city - by erosion, crime, corruption, and sea level rise - and an ageless city that lives in music as a form of cultural resistance. Compact, lively, and completely original, Unfathomable City takes readers on a tour that will forever change the way they think about place.
Savage Dreams
A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West
AvRebecca Solnit
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
238 kr
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"A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book."--Larry McMurtry In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants. A century later--in 1951--and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site. It was called a nuclear testing program, but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin. In this foundational book of landscape theory and environmental thinking, Rebecca Solnit explores our national Eden and Armageddon and offers a pathbreaking history of the west, focusing on the relationship between culture and its implementation as politics. In a new preface, she considers the continuities and changes of these invisible wars in the context of our current climate change crisis, and reveals how the long arm of these histories continue to inspire her writing and hope.

Rebecca Solnit – författare

Gå vilse. En fälthandbok

Beginning Comes After the End

Män förklarar saker för mig

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Hope In The Dark

The Beginning Comes After the End

Men Explain Things to Me

Wanderlust : att gå till fots

Hopp

A Paradise Built in Hell

Wanderlust

Faraway Nearby

No Straight Road Takes You There

Hågkomster av min icke-existens

Orwell's Roses

Infinite City

River of Shadows

Wanderlust

Men Explain Things to Me

Alla frågors moder

Infinite Cities

Field Guide To Getting Lost

Paradise Built in Hell

Wanderlust

The Faraway Nearby

Orwell's Pleasures

Storming the Gates of Paradise

Infinite City

Unfathomable City

Savage Dreams