Abstract: Welcome to our twelfth year of JSR! When we began the journal, we thought that since there was no other publication devoted to the interdisciplinary study of radicalism, there must be an audience. We were right. Today, the terrain has dramatically changed for scholarly journals, nearly all access for which is online. When we began, this was not the case. But we have continued to adapt to the changing conditions, and as a result, JSR continues to thrive through ever-increasing online access and thousands of downloads a year from around the world.This issue begins with two articles on North American radicalism. The first, called “‘God Has Opened the Eyes of the People’: Religious Rhetoric and the Upper Canada ... Read More Keywords: Church and state; Canada; Trump, Donald,; New York (N.Y.); Japanese; Japan; Immigrants; Student movements; Education, Higher; Neoliberalism; Right to education PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Is not revolution in such a case a bible duty' Is not the whole scripture, given for our use and example, full of authorities for revolt against wicked rulers' We know that it is.Radical journalist William Lyon Mackenzie printed the call to arms and distributed copies outside of Toronto, Upper Canada on December 1, 1837. The call decried abuses of executive power and offered hope of “a government founded upon the eternal heaven-born principle of the Lord Jesus Christ.”1 Over the next few days, Mackenzie and a small circle of supporters spread the word about an armed march on Toronto to seize the city’s armory, arrest the lieutenant-governor, and declare a provisional government. This attempted revolutionary course ... Read More Keywords: Church and state; Canada; Trump, Donald,; New York (N.Y.); Japanese; Japan; Immigrants; Student movements; Education, Higher; Neoliberalism; Right to education PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Another dream, another dream.We shall have to accept certain limitationsIn future, and abandon some humane dreams; only hard-minded, sleepless and realist can ride this rock-slideTo new fields down the dark mountain; and we shall have to perceive that these insanities are normal;We shall have to perceive that battle is a burning flower or like a huge music, and the dive-bomber’s screaming orgasmAs beautiful as other passions; and that death and life are not serious alternatives. One has known all these thingsFor many years: there is greater and darker to knowIn the next hundred.I have been contemplating a photograph of Donald J. Trump—businessman, bestselling author, and reality television star—shaking hands with ... Read More Keywords: Church and state; Canada; Trump, Donald,; New York (N.Y.); Japanese; Japan; Immigrants; Student movements; Education, Higher; Neoliberalism; Right to education PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: This article examines the political transformation of the Japanese American Left in New York City during the 1920s. In the autumn of 1918, Sen Katayama (1859–1933) organized the issei (Japanese immigrant; lit. “first generation”) radical movement in New York City. Katayama was a Socialist Party of America (SPA) and a Communist Party of America (CPA) official whom the Japanese government had ousted from his native Japan in 1914. Following Katayama’s departure for the Soviet Union in 1921, labor organizer Yoshio Nishimura and painter Eitarō Ishigaki directed the movement. Nishimura and Ishigaki attempted to transform issei radicalism during the 1920s from Katayama’s theory-based study group focused on understanding ... Read More Keywords: Church and state; Canada; Trump, Donald,; New York (N.Y.); Japanese; Japan; Immigrants; Student movements; Education, Higher; Neoliberalism; Right to education PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Over the past several years, there has been an explosion of protest activity among young people around the globe demanding radical changes in the existing economic and political systems as they embrace a new vision of the future. They are in many ways embodying what John Pilger refers to as the “theater of the impossible”:1 challenging the neoliberal policies that have created the most recent global economic crisis and are jeopardizing their livelihoods. Taking the future into their own hands, youth, especially those in parts of Europe and Latin America (most notably, Chile), have organized against measures that attack the social welfare state with a key focus on funding for higher education. Following suit, in ... Read More Keywords: Church and state; Canada; Trump, Donald,; New York (N.Y.); Japanese; Japan; Immigrants; Student movements; Education, Higher; Neoliberalism; Right to education PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Loisaida came into my life; it was in the back of a van, you know, and I said Chino I found the name and I came back to the Lower East Side and there was the whole parallel between Don Quixote in the fifteenth century and Chino and I cause we think we’re in love with this community that nobody wants. So there, how could there be decay and there could be growth in the same place' It’s because creativity is taking place here.1In the mid-1960s, when Brazilian educator Paulo Freire was developing the framework for critical pedagogy in exile in Chile, President Lyndon B. Johnson was implementing his antipoverty programs across the United States. At the same time, Marxist philosopher Henri Lefebvre was in the midst of ... Read More Keywords: Church and state; Canada; Trump, Donald,; New York (N.Y.); Japanese; Japan; Immigrants; Student movements; Education, Higher; Neoliberalism; Right to education PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Arthur Redding begins Radical Legacies by noting the increasing distrust and alienation faced by public intellectuals. Redding argues that today’s intellectuals are too often pressed into advancing the popular will of the era. Redding advocates that intellectuals embrace uselessness, meaning to generate thought unmotivated by profit or reward. The book situates key U.S. intellectuals and their perspectives on various cultural debates by noting how these perspectives transcend single moments in history. A U.S.-trained English professor, Redding regularly writes about twentieth-century U.S. public intellectuals, Cold War culture and politics, and anarchism. Immigrating to Canada has given Redding a standpoint from ... Read More Keywords: Church and state; Canada; Trump, Donald,; New York (N.Y.); Japanese; Japan; Immigrants; Student movements; Education, Higher; Neoliberalism; Right to education PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: New York City is a metropolis that has attracted many different forms of immigration and thereby the establishment of political cultures that have been imported from different countries, redefined, and partly “Americanized.” In the latter third of the nineteenth century, for example, the Seventeenth Ward of Manhattan was “the heart of German New York” (1). Tom Goyens, in his study on beer and revolution, takes a closer look at this German-speaking part of New York and the German anarchists who “were the first to fashion a revolutionary-anarchist movement in the United States” (1). Goyen wants to analyze the subculture of German anarchism in the New York metropolitan area between 1880 and the outbreak of the First ... Read More Keywords: Church and state; Canada; Trump, Donald,; New York (N.Y.); Japanese; Japan; Immigrants; Student movements; Education, Higher; Neoliberalism; Right to education PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Colin J. Beck’s Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Terrorists is an engaging read that addresses many pressing questions of the day. Readers will find Beck’s prose welcoming and the book informative.The book raises eight central questions for scholars and students of radicalism, each guiding a chapter in the book. This organizational strategy encourages readers not only to read through Beck’s arguments regarding each question and possible answers, but also formulate their own. These questions are: “what is radicalism'” (chapter 1); “who is radical'” (chapter 2); “how do radical movements organize'” (chapter 3); “when and where does radicalism occur'” (chapter 4), “is radicalism about ideas and ideologies'” (chapter 5); ... Read More Keywords: Church and state; Canada; Trump, Donald,; New York (N.Y.); Japanese; Japan; Immigrants; Student movements; Education, Higher; Neoliberalism; Right to education PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Nikki Keddie, a historian, edited the 1995 book Debating Revolutions. While interdisciplinary, the collection’s sociological approach hung over the volume, with one scholar claiming that he could now accurately predict revolutions before they happened. With Scripting Revolution, Keith Michael Baker and Dan Edelstein offer an approach grounded firmly in history. In this meticulously edited and deeply valuable collection of essays, we discover a historical framework—the historical “script”—for studying revolutions comparatively. As the editors assert early on, historians have long criticized social science for de-contextualizing the study of revolution and only now have offered an alternative method—the script, which ... Read More Keywords: Church and state; Canada; Trump, Donald,; New York (N.Y.); Japanese; Japan; Immigrants; Student movements; Education, Higher; Neoliberalism; Right to education PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Beth Slutsky’s Gendering Radicalism: Women and Communism in Twentieth—Century California is a noteworthy entry in the emerging local studies approach to the Communist Party, one that offers insightful tracing of the broader movements of party activity in a turbulent period, as well as a more focused treatment of gender in that context, through a close examination of three key figures: Charlotte Anita Whitney (1867–1955), Dorothy Ray Healey (1914–2006), and Kendra Claire Harris Alexander (1946–1992). Though its lens is admittedly narrow, zeroing in on three individuals in one (not entirely representative) state party during a relatively short time span, Slutsky’s study does an admirable job of extrapolating larger ... Read More Keywords: Church and state; Canada; Trump, Donald,; New York (N.Y.); Japanese; Japan; Immigrants; Student movements; Education, Higher; Neoliberalism; Right to education PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
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