#NoDAPL Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.

 

Join Arundhati Roy and Nick Estes for an urgent and timely conversation on the present crisis, resistance, and the meaning of freedom. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Co-presented by Haymarket Books and Elliott Bay Book Company, with the support of Tasveer, this event is to celebrate the release of Arundhati Roy’s new book of essays, Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. Order your copy of Azadi from Elliott Bay: https://www.elliottbaybook.com/book/9... The chant of "Azadi!"—Urdu for "Freedom!"—is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it also became the chant of millions on the streets of India against the project of Hindu Nationalism. Even as Arundhati Roy began to ask what lay between these two calls for Freedom—a chasm or a bridge?—the streets fell silent. Not only in India, but all over the world. The coronavirus brought with it another, more terrible understanding of Azadi, making a nonsense of international borders, incarcerating whole populations, and bringing the modern world to a halt like nothing else ever could. In this series of electrifying essays, Arundhati Roy challenges us to reflect on the meaning of freedom in a world of growing authoritarianism. The essays include meditations on language, public as well as private, and on the role of fiction and alternative imaginations in these disturbing times. The pandemic, she says, is a portal between one world and another. For all the illness and devastation it has left in its wake, it is an invitation to the human race, an opportunity, to imagine another world. Arundhati Roy studied architecture in New Delhi, where she now lives. She is the author of the novels The God of Small Things, for which she received the 1997 Booker Prize, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. A collection of her essays from the past twenty years, My Seditious Heart, was recently published by Haymarket Books. Her latest book is Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. Nick Estes is a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. He is an Assistant Professor in the American Studies Department at the University of New Mexico. In 2014, he co-founded The Red Nation, an Indigenous resistance organization. For 2017-2018, Estes was the American Democracy Fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. Estes is the author of the book Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance and he co-edited Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement, which draws together more than thirty contributors, including leaders, scholars, and activists of the Standing Rock movement. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can also order Arundhati's other books from Elliott Bay: The God of Small Things: https://www.elliottbaybook.com/book/9... The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: https://www.elliottbaybook.com/book/9... My Seditious Heart: https://www.elliottbaybook.com/book/9... Azadi: https://www.elliottbaybook.com/book/9... Get Nick Estes' books from Elliott Bay: Our History is the Future: https://www.elliottbaybook.com/book/9... Standing with Standing Rock: https://www.elliottbaybook.com/book/9... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About the co-sponsors. Tasveer is a 501(c)(3) South Asian social justice arts nonprofit organization based in Seattle. Our mission is to educate, empower, and engage our community and inspire social change through films, art, and storytelling. Find more info about them here: https://tasveer.org/ Located in the heart of Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, The Elliott Bay Book Company is a full service bookstore, home to over 150,000 titles, set on cedar shelves in a multi-level, inviting unique atmosphere. Visit their webstore here: https://www.eliottbaybook.com Haymarket Books is an independent, radical, non-profit publisher. Every dollar we take in from book sales and donations goes directly to support our project of publishing books for changing the world—a project has never been more necessary or more urgent. We need your help to continue to do the work. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our continuing to do this important work. ---------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to our YouTube channel and like this video Twitter: @haymarketbooks Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/haymarketbooks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/haymarketbo...