This book will be published in June 2002. No more details as yet available.

Many schools of thought assert that Western culture has never been more politically apathetic. Tim Jordan's Activism! refutes this claim. In his powerful polemic, Jordan shows how acts of civil disobedience have come to dominate the political landscape. Because we inhabit such a quickly changing, high-tech and fragmented culture, the single-issue political movements and stable, conservative authorities of the past are continually being questioned. Traditional political battles have been replaced by the popular, collective practices of a new political activism. From Europe to the USA, from Australia to South America, from the Left to the Right, Jordan introduces us to the citizens who make up d-i-y culture: eco-activists, animal liberators, neo-fascists, ravers, anti-abortionists, squatters, hunt saboteurs and hacktivists. In his view, activism comprises a new ethics of living for the 21st century.

Tim Jordan teaches in the Department of Sociology at the Open University, London.

The author's previous book is _Cyberpower_, for which Amazon has 18 sample pages available at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415170788

_Activism! Direct Action, Hacktivism and the Future of Society_