Storming the Gates of Paradise
Landscapes for Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8074020 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Solnit (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Pages | 429 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-18 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Storming the Gates of Paradise (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/9780520941786 |
| OpenAlex | W4239340747 |
| ISBN | 9780520941786 |
| Open Library | OL29696014M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
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
Art · Art history · Paradise · American Sports and Literature · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Human ecology · Human Ecology · Kultur · Landscape assessment · Landschaft · Political ecology · politics and government · Politik · united states
“Putting the cult in cultivate ”
Water in the Wilderness
Contemporary Environmental Art in China
Been-heres vs. come-heres” and other identities and ideologies along the rural–urban interface
Signs of the Sky, Signs of the Times
Chaps and Scowls”
Cultivating a dark haecceity
Symposium The Dismal (Delusional and Dangerous) “Science” of Economics and the “Capture” of Public Administration
Recommended Books
Wilderness to wasteland in the photography of the American west
Terrifying prospects and resources of hope
Commentary
The past is all before us
The Arithmetic of Compassion
The Death of Great Ships
Synchronising retail and space
| Citations per year | 0.94 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2021 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |