A fascinating story of how palm oil has shaped our world
Max Haiven Book order
Max Haiven is a leading Canadian scholar whose work interrogates the intersections of culture, media, and social justice. His research explores how values and power are constructed and challenged within society through artistic and communicative platforms. Haiven's approach is deeply connected to action-oriented initiatives striving for a more equitable world.
- 2022
- 2020
Revenge Capitalism
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Capitalism is in a profound state of crisis. Beyond the mere dispassionate cruelty of 'ordinary' structural violence, it appears today as a global system bent on reckless economic revenge; its expression found in mass incarceration, climate chaos, unpayable debt, pharmaceutical violence and the relentless degradation of common life.In Revenge Capitalism, Max Haiven argues that this economic vengeance helps us explain the culture and politics of revenge we see in society more broadly. Moving from the history of colonialism and its continuing effects today, he examines the opioid crisis in the US, the growth of 'surplus populations' worldwide and unpacks the central paradigm of unpayable debts - both as reparations owed, and as a methodology of oppression.Revenge Capitalism offers no easy answers, but is a powerful call to the radical imagination.
- 2018
Art after Money, Money after Art
- 296 pages
- 11 hours of reading
What can we learn about capitalism by looking at artworks that take money as their subject?
- 2014
Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power
Capitalism, Creativity and the Commons
- 322 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Exploring the impact of privatization and austerity on society, this book challenges conventional economic and political solutions. It critiques the appropriation of moral values by the right and seeks to re-imagine the forces that undermine community, solidarity, and ecological well-being. Through thoughtful analysis, it encourages readers to rethink how these issues can be addressed to foster a more equitable and sustainable future.
- 2014
An essential examination of how we might envisage and envoke the future of radical politics and social change.
- 2010
Zapatistas
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
A critical, comprehensive, and accessible overview of one of the most important rebel groups in history.