Protest Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/protest/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:17:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Protest Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/protest/ 32 32 A Tale of Two Graduations https://www.publicbooks.org/a-tale-of-two-graduations/ Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:00:44 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57745 In their different ways, the People’s Graduations restored my belief in the university—not as an imprimatur of excellence or a factory of social mobility, but as a community of scholars devoted to freedom and truth.

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]]> Protest Pedagogy https://www.publicbooks.org/protest-pedagogy/ Thu, 05 Sep 2024 15:00:47 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57197 The encampments could be understood as masterful examples of project-based learning in civic engagement.

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]]> An Open Letter to Harvard: Concerning Protest & Palestine https://www.publicbooks.org/an-open-letter-to-harvard/ Thu, 16 May 2024 15:00:54 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56264 A group of disciplined students implore Harvard to demonstrate ethical forbearance and drop all of the dubious charges leveled against students who nonviolently protested for Palestine.

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]]> Capitalism Alone Is Not the Problem https://www.publicbooks.org/capitalism-alone-is-not-the-problem/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 15:00:46 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53782 Eleanor Catton’s "Birnam Wood" is a leftist novel filled with radicals who fail to exemplify their own ideals.

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]]> “Dignity Matters as Much as Material Needs”: Michèle Lamont on Recognition Claims and Understanding American Politics https://www.publicbooks.org/dignity-matters-as-much-as-material-needs-michele-lamont-on-recognition-claims-and-understanding-american-politics/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 15:00:48 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53450 “To recognize the existence of injuries requires the recognition of others and their dignity.”

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]]> The Protest Is Over—But Its Politics Remain https://www.publicbooks.org/the-protest-is-over-but-its-politics-remain/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 15:00:03 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53089 Ten years later, the Gezi Park protests continue to shape Turkish politics.

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]]> Chains of Domination, Chains of Solidarity: Benjamin L. McKean on Justice, Solidarity, Supply Chains https://www.publicbooks.org/chains-of-domination-chains-of-solidarity-benjamin-l-mckean-on-justice-solidarity-supply-chains/ Fri, 26 May 2023 15:00:03 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=52376 “For good or ill, freedom and solidarity and social justice are not things we can get quickly.”

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]]> Protesters of the World, Unite https://www.publicbooks.org/protesters-of-the-world-unite/ Wed, 15 Mar 2023 15:00:10 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=51545 Individual protests, like those in Hong Kong, may be defeated. But the global protest movement is only beginning.

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]]> The Best Classroom Is the Struggle https://www.publicbooks.org/teaching-students-about-american-empire/ Tue, 07 Jun 2022 15:00:46 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=48801 “As a historian and educator of college students, my experience teaching on US imperialism is one of disappointment.”

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]]> The Black Rebel Athlete: Spectacle and Protest https://www.publicbooks.org/the-black-rebel-athlete-spectacle-and-protest/ Wed, 06 Jan 2021 16:00:05 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=40378 As more and more protests make clear, the bodies of Black people playing sports are not outside history. Indeed, they never have been.

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