Rebecca Solnit
Biographic Data
| ID | 4491147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Solnit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Solnit |
| SIGNATURE | SOLNIT R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice
"The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice is a community manifesto of essays, poems, recipes, and art describing people who stepped up in the absence of government leadership. In March 2020, when the US government failed to provide personal protective equipment in the face of COVID-19, the Auntie Sewing Squad emerged to meet a critical need--sewing masks--and to critique the US government failure to protect t…
Hope in the Dark
When the first edition of Hope in the Dark was published in mid-2004 it gained an instant cult audience. Many readers were so inspired by Solnit's book that they bought multiple copies to give to friends. This new, significantly expanded edition covers, among other things, the political territory of America and the world after George Bush's re-election. Acclaimed author Rebecca Solnit draws on her life as a writer and activist, on the events of o…
Unfathomable City
Journal Article Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas Get access By Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. 166 pp. Cloth, $49.95, Paper, $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Page 158, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw022 Published: 01 June 2016
Savage Dreams
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 founda…
Unfathomable City
Hope in the Dark
Storming the Gates of Paradise
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 year…
Storming the gates of paradise
Storming the Gates of Paradise
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 year…
Unfathomable City
Journal Article Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas Get access By Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. 166 pp. Cloth, $49.95, Paper, $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Page 158, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw022 Published: 01 June 2016
Savage Dreams
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 founda…
Storming the Gates of Paradise
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 year…
Storming the gates of paradise
Hope in the Dark
Unfathomable City
Savage Dreams
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 founda…
Unfathomable City
Journal Article Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas Get access By Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. 166 pp. Cloth, $49.95, Paper, $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 103, Issue 1, June 2016, Page 158, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw022 Published: 01 June 2016
Hope in the Dark
When the first edition of Hope in the Dark was published in mid-2004 it gained an instant cult audience. Many readers were so inspired by Solnit's book that they bought multiple copies to give to friends. This new, significantly expanded edition covers, among other things, the political territory of America and the world after George Bush's re-election. Acclaimed author Rebecca Solnit draws on her life as a writer and activist, on the events of o…
The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice
"The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice is a community manifesto of essays, poems, recipes, and art describing people who stepped up in the absence of government leadership. In March 2020, when the US government failed to provide personal protective equipment in the face of COVID-19, the Auntie Sewing Squad emerged to meet a critical need--sewing masks--and to critique the US government failure to protect t…
Art (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (2 works) · History (2 works) · Human ecology (2 works) · Human Ecology (2 works) · Kultur (2 works) · Landscape assessment (2 works) · Landschaft (2 works) · Political ecology (2 works)