New Book

NEW FROM VERSO – THE ZAD AND NoTAV: Territorial Struggles and the Making of a New Political Intelligence

29th Jul 2017

NEW FROM VERSO

THE ZAD AND NoTAV 

Territorial Struggles and the Making of a New Political Intelligence

 

by Mauvaise Troupe

Translated by Kristin Ross

Introduction and notes by Kristin Ross

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2504-the-zad-and-notav

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Vivid account and reflection on two struggles that are at the heart of the contestation of neoliberal technocracy and the state

At a time of ever more accelerated and expanded development of natural and agricultural territory, in the aim of making targeted areas more profitable and controllable, there are inhabitants who oppose these projects with a firm, unwavering NO. This is the case in Notre-Dame-des-Landes in western France and in the Italian Susa Valley, where decades-long battles have been mounted against high-speed transport infrastructure, an airport for one, and a high-speed train (TAV) between Lyon and Turin for the other.

Each of these struggles embodies, with its own distinct style, original ways of merging life with combat. And they do so to such a degree that they are redesigning today the future of their respective regions and awakening immense hope outside of their own territories.

This book recounts these two histories-in-the-making and gives voice to their protagonists. It was born of the intuition that these experiences and the hypotheses that emerge from them should circulate at the same time as the slogans and the enthusiasm, to strengthen the will to resist.

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EBOOK:  June 2017 / 9781786634986 / £9.99 / $9.95 / $12.95 (CAN) 

THE ZAD AND NoTAV is available to buy on the Verso website at 40% off:

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2504-the-zad-and-notav

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