Rebecca Solnit

Beginning with the election of Donald Trump ("The Loneliest Man in the World") and expanding back and forth into American history, surveillance, violence against the individual, the denormalizing of misogyny and the rehumanizing of public space. The ultimate focus of the book is climate and feminist activism, bringing Solnit's trademark deep analysis to bear on a range of contemporary crises. And again, and spectacularly, she shows us how to hope.

National Book Award LonglistWinner of the Kirkus Prize for NonfictionWinner of the Foreword INDIE Editor's Choice Prize for Nonfiction "Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading." --The New Republic"Solnit's exquisite essays move between the political and the personal, the intellectual and the earthy." --ElleRebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books, including the international bestseller Men Explain Things to Me. Called "the voice of the resistance" by the New York Times, she has emerged as an essential guide to our times, through her incisive commentary on feminism, violence, ecology, hope, and everything in between. In this powerful and wide-ranging collection, Solnit turns her attention to battles over meaning, place, language, and belonging at the heart of the defining crises of our time. She explores the way emotions shape political life, electoral politics, police shootings and gentrification, the life of an extraordinary man on death row, the pipeline protest at Standing Rock, and the existential threat posed by climate change. The work of changing the world sometimes requires changing the story, the names, and inventing or popularizing new names and terms and phrases. Calling things by their true names can also cut through the lies that excuse, disguise, avoid, or encourage inaction, indifference, obliviousness in the face of injustice and violence.

In 1963 the waters began rising behind Glen Canyon Dam and 170 miles of the Colorado River slowly disappeared as the riverbed and surrounding canyons filled with water. Environmentalists considered it a disaster and mourned Glen Canyon as gone forever. The Sierra Club joined forces with photographer Eliot Porter to document what would be lost under the dam’s waters, resulting in the publication of the landmark 1963 photobook The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado. But in an unexpected victory that speaks to the pervasive disaster of climate change, the reservoir is now declining and the Colorado River is coming back. Photographers Byron Wolfe (born 1967) and Mark Klett (born 1952), along with writer Rebecca Solnit (born 1961), spent five years exploring the place as expectations and possibilities changed, and the river reemerged at the upper end of the reservoir. In dialogue with Porter’s book, Klett and Wolfe retraced the physical locations where Porter made his photographs, now often submerged by the reservoir’s waters. Solnit’s accompanying text meditates on the meanings and histories of the place, drawing from both the trio’s explorations and archival research. Drowned River is a book about climate change, about “the madness of the past and the terror of the future” (as Solnit puts it). But it is also a book about how photography can describe beauty and trouble simultaneously, and what it takes to understand a place and to come to terms with the changes we have set in motion.

Med essayet "Menn forklarer meg ting" ble Solnit et fenomen og det var med dette essayet begrepet mansplaining ble født. "Alle spørsmåls mor" er Solnits aktuelle oppfølger, der hun tar for seg forskjellige former for trakassering, undertrykkelse og taushet, og hvordan både kvinner og menn kan undertrykkes til å miste sin stemme.

Vi lever i en orolig tid när utvecklingen inom världspoli­tiken tycks absurd, klimatkata­stroflarmen ljuder allt högre och klyftorna i samhället bara blir djupare. Därför ger vi nu ut Rebecca Solnits klassiska aktivistbok Hopp som aldrig tidigare kommit på svenska. I Hopp fångar Rebecca Solnit de senaste 50 årens historia av aktivism och samhällelig förändring, från Berlinmurens fall till de världsomfattande demonstrationstågen mot kriget i Irak. Genom att lyssna till några av de senaste århundradets största tänkare, så som Woolf, Gandhi, Borges, Benjamin och Havel, formulerar Solnit en tidlös vision kring politisk förändring. För att orka fortsätta kämpa, menar Solnit, måste vi erkänna de enorma framsteg som gjorts tack vare enskilda personers engagemang, men också lära oss leva med att framtiden är osäker och att de direkta följderna av vårt handlande inte alltid är uppenbara. Hopp kräver handling och handling hopp och nu behövs denna samverkan mer än någonsin. Hopp (Hope in the dark) utkom första gången 2004. I de helt nyskrivna för­- och efteror­den berättar Solnit om bokens uppkomst och om vägen till framtidstro och handling i ett samhälle som kan kännas både osäkert och skrämmande. Ett storslaget läsäventyr Dagens ETC"högintressant läsning Dagens Nyheter"Rebecca Solnit skriver kraftfullt. Jag minns fortfarande hur jag nästan slogs till marken av Män förklarar saker för mig. Här, med Hopp, lyfts jag snarare mot himmelska höjder. Jag blir så lycklig av att läsa hennes funderingar om folkliga rörelser, revolutioner och kraft. Om förändring och titelns hopp. Helt uppfylld blir jag." Fiktiviteter.se

Following on from the success of Men Explain Things to Me comes a new collection of essays in which Rebecca Solnit opens up a feminism for all of us: one that doesn't stigmatize women's lives, whether they include spouses and children or not; that brings empathy to the silences in men's lives as well as the silencing of women's lives; celebrates the ways feminism has shifted in recent years to reclaim rape jokes, revise canons, and rethink our everyday lives.

"Jag skriver om hur den nyväckta feministrörelsen i Nordamerika och runt om i världen förvandlar samhället i snabb takt, inte bara i form av ändrade lagar. Den förändrar vår syn på samtycke, makt, rättigheter, kön, röst och representation. Den här rörelsen är en underbar motor för förändring, som framför allt leds av de unga, på universiteten, i sociala medier, på gatorna, och jag känner en enorm beundran för denna nya, orädda generation av feminister och människorättsaktivister som inte ber om ursäkt för sig själva. Lika stor är min rädsla för det bakslag som rörelsen har mött, ett bakslag som i sig bevisar att feminismen, som ett led i ett bredare frigörelseprojekt, är ett stort hot mot patriarkatet och status quo." I "Alla frågors moder" fördjupar Rebecca Solnit den analys av könsroller och maktförhållanden hon genomförde i sin redan klassikerstämplade bok Män förklarar saker för mig. Men hon skriver också om – till exempel – olika slag av tystnad, filmklassikern Jätten och frågan om vilka åttio böcker en kvinna absolut bör undvika att läsa. "Alla frågors moder" är kort sagt en mycket rörlig och nyfiken bok. Och som alltid hos Rebecca Solnit får läsaren rikligt med tankar och bilder att arbeta vidare med på egen hand.

In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting Lost takes in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting. Beautifully written, this book combines memoir, history and philosophy, shedding glittering new light on the way we live now.

Med essayet "Men explain things to me" ble Solnit et fenomen. Her satte hun ord på den lettere nedlatende og selvhøytidelige måten enkelte menn, men ikke så rent få, har en tendens til å ville øse av sine innsikter over et nært sagt hvilket som helst tema. Dette på tross av at det ikke finnes noen grunn til tro at kvinnen de snakker med ikke allerede er deres overmann, for ikke å si overkvinne, på området. Solnits beskrivelse ble etter hvert legendarisk, og med det var begrepet mansplaining født. Tittelessayet er ikonisk, og velskrevet humoristisk, men i denne lille men svært sterke samlingen essay slås det også an en mer alvorlig tone der mansplainingen bare skraper overflaten av dypere kvinnefiendtlige strukturer. Her viser Solnit fram den systematiske volden og trakasseringen av kvinner som viser seg i forskjellige typer maktutøvelse, om det dreier seg om unge kvinner som forsvinner i Mexico, campusvoldtekter, eller den franske toppolitikeren Strauss-Kahns overgrep på en svart stuepike på et hotellrom i New York.

En este conjunto de ensayos mordaces y oportunos sobre la persistente desigualdad entre mujeres y hombres y la violencia basada en el genero, Solnit cita su experiencia personal y otros ejemplos reales de como los hombres muestran una autoridad que no se han ganado, mientras que las mujeres han sido educadas para aceptar esa realidad sin cuestionarla. La autora narra la experiencia que vivio durante una cena en la que un desconocido sepuso a hablarle acerca de un libro increible que habia leido, ignorando el hecho de que ella misma lo habia escrito, a pesar de que se lo hicieron saber al principio de la conversacion. Al final resulto que ni siquiera habia leido el libro, sino una resena del New York Times. El termino mansplaining conjuga man ("hombre") y explaining ("explica"), en alusion a este fenomeno: cuando un hombre explica algo a una mujer, lo hace de manera condescendiente, porque, con independencia de cuanto sepa sobre el tema, siempre asume que sabe mas que ella. El concepto tiene su mayor expresion en aquellas situaciones en las que el hombre sabe poco y la mujer, por el contrario, es la "experta" en el tema, algo que, para la soberbia del primero, es irrelevante: el tiene algo que explicar y eso es lo unico que importa.

Med essayet "Men explain things to me" ble Solnit et fenomen. Her satte hun ord på den lettere nedlatende og selvhøytidelige måten enkelte menn, men ikke så rent få, har en tendens til å ville øse av sine innsikter over et nært sagt hvilket som helst tema. Dette på tross av at det ikke finnes noen grunn til tro at kvinnen de snakker med ikke allerede er deres overmann, for ikke å si overkvinne, på området. Solnits beskrivelse ble etter hvert legendarisk, og med det var begrepet mansplaining født. Tittelessayet er ikonisk, og velskrevet humoristisk, men i denne lille men svært sterke samlingen essay slås det også an en mer alvorlig tone der mansplainingen bare skraper overflaten av dypere kvinnefiendtlige strukturer. Her viser Solnit fram den systematiske volden og trakasseringen av kvinner som viser seg i forskjellige typer maktutøvelse, om det dreier seg om unge kvinner som forsvinner i Mexico, campusvoldtekter, eller den franske toppolitikeren Strauss-Kahns overgrep på en svart stuepike på et hotellrom i New York. Rebecca Solnit (f. 1961) er en amerikansk, historiker, aktivist, og forfatter av femten bøker om bla. landskap, miljø, kunst og politikk. Solnit regnes som en av verdens skarpeste essayister og kan med denne essaysamlingen tilføye feministisk ikon til merittlisten.

"The maps themselves are things of beauty...a document of its time, of our time." -Sadie Stein, New York Times "One is invited to fathom the many New Yorks hidden from history's eye...thoroughly terrific." -Maria Popova, Brain Pickings Nonstop Metropolis, the culminating volume in a trilogy of atlases, conveys innumerable unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative maps and informative essays. Bringing together the insights of dozens of experts-from linguists to music historians, ethnographers, urbanists, and environmental journalists-amplified by cartographers, artists, and photographers, it explores all five boroughs of New York City and parts of nearby New Jersey. We are invited to travel through Manhattan's playgrounds, from polyglot Queens to many-faceted Brooklyn, and from the resilient Bronx to the mystical kung fu hip-hop mecca of Staten Island. The contributors to this exquisitely designed and gorgeously illustrated volume celebrate New York City's unique vitality, its incubation of the avant-garde, and its literary history, but they also critique its racial and economic inequality, environmental impact, and erasure of its past. Nonstop Metropolis allows us to excavate New York's buried layers, to scrutinize its political heft, and to discover the unexpected in one of the most iconic cities in the world. It is both a challenge and homage to how New Yorkers think of their city, and how the world sees this capital of capitalism, culture, immigration, and more. Contributors: Sheerly Avni, Gaiutra Bahadur, Marshall Berman, Joe Boyd, Will Butler, Garnette Cadogan, Thomas J. Campanella, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Teju Cole, Joel Dinerstein, Paul La Farge, Francisco Goldman, Margo Jefferson, Lucy R. Lippard, Barry Lopez, Valeria Luiselli, Suketu Mehta, Emily Raboteau, Molly Roy, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Luc Sante, Heather Smith, Jonathan Tarleton, Astra Taylor, Alexandra T. Vazquez, Christina Zanfagna Interviews with: Valerie Capers, Peter Coyote, Grandmaster Caz, Grand Wizzard Theodore, Melle Mel, RZA

"The maps themselves are things of beauty...a document of its time, of our time." -Sadie Stein, New York Times "One is invited to fathom the many New Yorks hidden from history's eye...thoroughly terrific." -Maria Popova, Brain Pickings Nonstop Metropolis, the culminating volume in a trilogy of atlases, conveys innumerable unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative maps and informative essays. Bringing together the insights of dozens of experts-from linguists to music historians, ethnographers, urbanists, and environmental journalists-amplified by cartographers, artists, and photographers, it explores all five boroughs of New York City and parts of nearby New Jersey. We are invited to travel through Manhattan's playgrounds, from polyglot Queens to many-faceted Brooklyn, and from the resilient Bronx to the mystical kung fu hip-hop mecca of Staten Island. The contributors to this exquisitely designed and gorgeously illustrated volume celebrate New York City's unique vitality, its incubation of the avant-garde, and its literary history, but they also critique its racial and economic inequality, environmental impact, and erasure of its past. Nonstop Metropolis allows us to excavate New York's buried layers, to scrutinize its political heft, and to discover the unexpected in one of the most iconic cities in the world. It is both a challenge and homage to how New Yorkers think of their city, and how the world sees this capital of capitalism, culture, immigration, and more. Contributors: Sheerly Avni, Gaiutra Bahadur, Marshall Berman, Joe Boyd, Will Butler, Garnette Cadogan, Thomas J. Campanella, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Teju Cole, Joel Dinerstein, Paul La Farge, Francisco Goldman, Margo Jefferson, Lucy R. Lippard, Barry Lopez, Valeria Luiselli, Suketu Mehta, Emily Raboteau, Molly Roy, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Luc Sante, Heather Smith, Jonathan Tarleton, Astra Taylor, Alexandra T. Vazquez, Christina Zanfagna Interviews with: Valerie Capers, Peter Coyote, Grandmaster Caz, Grand Wizzard Theodore, Melle Mel, RZA

At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable book offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope. This exquisite work traces a history of activism and social change over the past five decades - from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the worldwide marches against the war in Iraq. Hope in the Dark is a paean to optimism in the uncertainty of the twenty-first century. Tracing the footsteps of the last century's thinkers - including Woolf, Gandhi, Borges, Benjamin and Havel - Solnit conjures a timeless vision of cause and effect that will light our way through the dark, and lead us to profound and effective political engagement.

"One of the Best Books of the 21st Century."--The Guardian"No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that's marked this new millennium."--Bill McKibben "An elegant reminder that activist victories are easily forgotten, and that they often come in extremely unexpected, roundabout ways."--The New YorkerA book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of radicals at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them--and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next. Now, with a moving new introduction explaining how the book came about and a new afterword that helps teach us how to hope and act in our unnerving world, she brings a new illumination to the darkness of 2016 in an unforgettable new edition of this classic book. Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of eighteen or so books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including the books Men Explain Things to Me and Hope in the Dark, both also with Haymarket; a trilogy of atlases of American cities; The Faraway Nearby;A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at Harper's and a regular contributor to the Guardian.

Rebecca Solnits essä "Män förklarar saker för mig" har redan fått något av en feministisk klassikerstatus. Denna vidräkning med självupptagna kulturmän som aldrig vill sluta prata och olika former av subtilt eller inte så värst subtilt kvinnoförtryck publicerades ursprungligen på TomDispatch.com 2008. Essän väckte ett starkt gensvar på nätet och ledde till att uttrycket "mansplaining" myntades. I föreliggande bok får essän sällskap av åtta besläktade texter av senare datum. Solnit tar här bland annat upp våldtäktsanklagelserna mot den dåvarande chefen för Internationella valuta­fonden, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 2011 och döds­skjutningarna på ett campus i Isla Vista i Kalifornien 2014. Men hon fördjupar sig också i bildkonst (Ana Teresa Fernández) och litteratur (Virginia Woolf). Det finns, skriver Solnit, "ett kontinuum som går från smärre olägenheter i samhället till nedtystande och dödligt våld". Vi skulle förstå våldet mot kvinnor bättre om vi hade mer av en helhetssyn på maktmissbruket i samhället och tydligare kunde urskilja det mönster som förenar kvinnoförakt, trakasserier, näthat, våldtäkter och mord. Solnits vill bidra till en sådan helhetssyn. Och gjuta mod i alla (kvinnor och män) som tror på och kämpar för en förändring till det bättre. Daidalos har av Solnit tidigare publicerat Gå vilse. En fälthandbok (2012) och Det avlägset nära (2014), associativa och vindlande och bitvis poetiska texter där platser och berättelser står i fokus. "Män talar, kvinnor förväntas lyssna. Rebecca Solnit visar kristallklart upp det maktspel som pågår, skriver Hanna Jedvik som läst en feministisk klassiker" /Göteborg-Posten

"Gå vilse" är en bok om ovisshet av många olika slag ? ovisshet om var man befinner sig i terrängen eller det egna livet. Den handlar också om ovissheten som konstnärligt verktyg och som historisk erfarenhet, om Yves Klein och hans märkliga blå färg och om nybyggardottern Mary Jemison och hennes långa liv bland indianerna. Och om mycket annat och många andra. Det är en bok om landskap inuti landskap, rum inuti rum. ?? Att aldrig gå vilse är att inte leva, att inte veta hur man går vilse leder till undergång, och någonstans i det terra incognita som ligger mittemellan finns ett liv där man upptäcker saker.? Rebecca Solnit (född 1961) är kulturkritiker och aktivist från San Francisco och har bland skrivit den uppmärksammade "Män förklarar saker för mig". "Solnits närvaro, öppenhet och förståelse är underbar, hon är som en generös vän, bara mycket smartare än du själv. Det är fantastisk läsning." /Jenny Maria Nilsson i Helsingborgs Dagblad "'Gå vilse' är inte en bok som coachar en på rätta vägen eller visar hur man hittar hem. Snarare en stimulerande och märkligt upplyftande plädering för terra incognita, det vi förbiser, inte vet, det obelysta och förlorade i historien." /Pia Bergström i Aftonbladet "Det här är förstås en fantastisk bok, på många sätt: den argumenterar varsamt, berikar, öppnar för idéer, uppslag." /Björn Kohlström i bloggen Bernur

The incomparable Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed, prizewinning books of nonfiction including Men Explain Things To Me, brings the same dazzling writing to the essays in The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness; hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "globally wide-ranging and topically urgent and the Boston Globe as "luminous and precise.". As the title suggests, the territory of Solnit's concerns is vast, and in her signature alchemical style she combines commentary on history, justice, war and peace, and explorations of place, art, and community, all while writing with the lyricism of a poet to achieve incandescence and wisdom. Gathered here are celebrated iconic essays along with little-known pieces that create a powerful survey of the world we live in, from the jungles of the Zapatistas in Mexico to the splendors of the Arctic. This rich collection tours places as diverse as Haiti and Iceland; movements like Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring; an original take on the question of who did Henry David Thoreau's laundry; and a searching look at what the hatred of country music really means. Solnit moves nimbly from Orwell to Elvis, to contemporary urban gardening to 1970s California macrame and punk rock, and on to searing questions about the environment, freedom, family, class, work, and friendship. It's no wonder she's been compared in Bookforum to Susan Sontag and Annie Dillard and in the San Francisco Chronicle to Joan Didion. The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness proves Rebecca Solnit worthy of the accolades and honors she's received. Rarely can a reader find such penetrating critiques of our time and its failures leavened with such generous heapings of hope. Solnit looks back to history and the progress of political movements to find an antidote to despair in what many feel as lost causes. In its encyclopedic reach and its generous compassion, Solnit's collection charts a way through the thickets of our complex social and political worlds. Her essays are a beacon for readers looking for alternative ideas in these imperiled times.

"This slim book--seven essays, punctuated by enigmatic, haunting paintings by Ana Teresa Fernandez--hums with power and wit."--Boston Globe"The antidote to mansplaining."--The Stranger"Feminist, frequently funny, unflinchingly honest and often scathing in its conclusions."--Salon"Solnit tackles big themes of gender and power in these accessible essays. Honest and full of wit, this is an integral read that furthers the conversation on feminism and contemporary society."--San Francisco Chronicle Top Shelf"Solnit [is] the perfect writer to tackle the subject: her prose style is so clear and cool."--The New Republic"The terrain has always felt familiar, but Men Explain Things To Me is a tool that we all need in order to find something that was almost lost."--National PostIn her comic, scathing essay, "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own hilariously awful encounters. This updated edition with two new essays of this national bestseller book features that now-classic essay as well as "#YesAllWomen," an essay written in response to 2014 Isla Vista killings and the grassroots movement that arose with it to end violence against women and misogyny, and the essay "Cassandra Syndrome." This book is also available in hardcover. Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of eighteen or so books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including the books Men Explain Things to Me and Hope in the Dark, both also with Haymarket; a trilogy of atlases of American cities; The Faraway Nearby;A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at Harper's and a regular contributor to the Guardian.