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DESCRIPTION:Thu Jul 25, 2024 at noon - 1:30 PM PT ( 3 PM - 4:30 PM ET)\n\nIn the 
 struggle for a better world, setbacks are inevitable. \n\nDefeat can feel 
 overwhelming at times, but it has to be endured. How then do the people on 
 the front line keep going? In her new book Burnout, Hannah Proctor answers 
 that question by drawing on historical resources to find out how 
 revolutionaries and activists of the past kept a grip on hope.\n\nBurnout 
 considers despairing former Communards exiled to a penal colony in the 
 South Pacific; exhausted Bolsheviks recuperating in sanatoria in the 
 aftermath of the October Revolution; an ex-militant on the analyst’s 
 couch relating dreams of ruined landscapes; and many more.\n\nJettisoning 
 self-help narratives and individualizing therapy talk, Proctor offers a 
 different way forward—neither denial nor despair. Her cogent exploration 
 of the ways militants have made sense of their own burnout demonstrates 
 that it is possible to mourn and organize at once, and to do both without 
 compromise.\n\nFor this launch event, Proctor will be joined by Sarah 
 Jaffe, whose forthcoming book From The Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a 
 World on Fire takes up a similar subject.\n\n***Register through Ticket 
 Tailor to receive a link to the live-streamed video on the day of the 
 event. This event will also be recorded and captioning will be 
 provided.***\n\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSpeakers:\n\nHannah 
 Proctor holds a Wellcome Trust University Award at the University of 
 Strathclyde in Glasgow. She is the author of two books: Psychologies in 
 Revolution: Alexander Luria's 'Romantic Science' and Soviet Social History 
 (published in the Palgrave Macmillan series 'Mental Health in Historical 
 Perspective' in 2020) and Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political 
 Defeat (Verso, 2024). She's a member of the editorial collective of Radical 
 Philosophy, is a contributing editor at Parapraxis Mag and is web/reviews 
 editor of History of the Human Sciences.\n\nSarah Jaffe is a writer and 
 reporter living in New Orleans and on the road. She is the author of Work 
 Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion To Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, 
 Exhausted, and Alone; Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt, and the 
 forthcoming From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire, all 
 from Bold Type Books. Her writing has been published in The Nation, The 
 Washington Post, The Guardian, The New Republic, the New York Review of 
 Books, and many other outlets. She is a columnist at The Progressive and a 
 contributing writer at In These Times. She also co-hosts the Belabored 
 podcast, with Michelle Chen, covering today’s labor movement, and Heart 
 Reacts, with Craig Gent, an advice podcast for the collapse of late 
 capitalism.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/21/18868130.php
SUMMARY:"Burn Out": Book Talk on Navigating Emotional Experience of Political Setbacks & Defeat
LOCATION:Online
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/21/18868130.php
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