Steve Crawshaw
The Power of Protest and Mischief
Price: £16.99
Imprint: LOM ART
Publication date: 02/02/2017
ISBN: 9781910552308
Subject: Non-Fiction
Category: Culture
Binding: Hardback
Size: 246 x 189 mm
Extent: 128 pages
Illustration: Over 100 colour photographs
Territorial Rights: World (All Languages)
Edition Status: Out of Print
Imprint: LOM ART
Publication date: 02/02/2017
ISBN: 9781782435624
Subject: Non-Fiction
Category: Culture
Size: EPUB 2
Extent: 128 pages
Illustration: Over 100 colour photographs
Territorial Rights: World
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Enquire nowA wonderfully crafted work about the protest and activism shaping our world
Independent
When a totalitarian society faces creative protests, it is like ice meeting fire... Street Spirit is a relevant and powerful book for our times
Ai Weiwei, Foreword
Full of wonderful and entertaining stories of the power to create change
Bianca Jagger
In Street Spirit, Steve Crawshaw distills decades of wisdom, experience and optimism from around the world. This potent cocktail will be feared by tyrants everywhere - but to all those who will brandish it proudly or read it in the dark, he brings light, hope and ammunition for people-led change
Shami Chakrabarti, author of On Liberty
A lovely book, wonderful stories, fascinating... In a world worried about too many isms, a bright antidote
Lyse Doucet, Chief International Correspondent, BBC
If you care about something deeply, your mind and your body will take you to the streets and force you to organize, to be political, to protest and to fight. This is a condition as basic and natural for a human being as love - and that's why Steve Crawshaw's book matters
Nadya Tolokonnikova, founding member of Pussy Riot
A fantastic book
Srdja Popovic, Serb activist and author, Blueprint for Revolution
When a totalitarian society faces creative protests, it is like ice meeting fire ... Street Spirit is a relevant and powerful book for our times
With a foreword by the artist Ai Weiwei
Includes over 100 colour images with detailed commentary
Author Steve Crawshaw is an experienced journalist, author and human rights advocate, who has witnessed many instances of street protest, worked at Human Rights Watch and is Director of the Office of the Secretary General at Amnesty International
Steve Crawshaw is Director of the Office of the Secretary General at Amnesty International, which he joined as international advocacy director in 2010. From 2002 to 2010, he was UK director and UN advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. He joined the Independent at launch in 1986, where he reported on the eastern European revolutions, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Balkan wars. He is co-author with John Jackson of Small Acts of Resistance: How Courage, Tenacity and Ingenuity Can Change the World, preface by Václav Havel. His previous books were Easier Fatherland: Germany and the Twenty-First Century and Goodbye to the USSR: The Collapse of Soviet Power.
