[Commlist] New book: Communication against Capital (Cornell UP)

Rianne Subijanto is pleased to announce the publication of the new book, 
/Communication against Capital: Red Enlightenment at the Dawn of 
Indonesia 
<https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501778667/communication-against-capital/#bookTabs=1>/ (Cornell 
University Press, 2025).

This book serves as a key text for courses on media and social movement, 
history of modern revolution, and history of imperialism and 
colonialism. /Communication against Capital/ offers a historical 
perspective on the importance of developing democratic means of 
communication in struggles for social justice, with a particular focus 
on de-westernizing modernity and the enlightenment.
Outside the academy, the book will also interest activists engaged in 
questions of organization, mobilization, and the global history of 
communism that fueled anticolonial movements across the Global South. It 
provides policymakers with insights into the importance of democratic 
communication for global social justice, contextualized through the 
experiences and strategies of Indonesian revolutionaries in the 1920s. 
The book invites readers in general to understand how global solidarity 
took shape during the international communist movement in the early 
twentieth century and how communication practices and technologies 
became central to political organizing.

The fields of communication, media, and cultural studies are vital in 
shaping the approach I use in this book. I hope that you, your students, 
and your communities find it useful and inspiring.

Table Contents:
The Pergerakan Merah as an Event of Communication
Means of Colonialism as Means of Struggle
Red Enlightenment in the Roarin' Twenties
Geography of Resistance
Openbare Vergaderingen and Cultures of Resistance
"The War of Pens and Words"
In the Name of Public Peace and Order
The Other Labor of Clandestine Sailors
The Enlightenment Project is Necessary and Unending



---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ commlist.org)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------