The Importance of Movement Ecology

The book is theoretically drawing from several different moments in the history of the left, but practically I was trying to, to draw primarily from examples in the last decade. The audience in the global north has a tendency to pick these exotic subjects supposed to know from the global south and say these guys know the way. But there would be a risk in upholding examples from Brazil, I thought, precisely because of that tendency for that sort of thing to be interpreted in that way. It's something I discuss in the book, even that one of the ways in which the left has dealt with the disappearance of the hope for revolution or global systemic change is to always see revolution as something that's happening or is