Slingshot's 2025 "Books For Our Times"

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Overview

From the 2025 Slingshot planner, books for our times, late stage, capitalistic, genocidal.

Challenge Books

1

The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja

The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History

Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja

2

Sudan's Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People's Revolution by Willow Berridge, Justin Lynch, Alex de Waal

Sudan's Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People's Revolution

Willow Berridge, Justin Lynch, Alex de Waal

3

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

Rashid Khalidi

4

Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey

Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

Tricia Hersey

5

How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division by Elif Shafak

How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division

Elif Shafak

6

Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy by Joanna Macy, Chris Johnstone

Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy

Joanna Macy, Chris Johnstone

7

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney

8

Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime by Bruno Latour

Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime

Bruno Latour

9

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

Tyson Yunkaporta

10

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Christina Sharpe

11

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

James C. Scott

12

Pollution Is Colonialism by Max Liboiron

Pollution Is Colonialism

Max Liboiron