Description
A new generation of Americans has declared that another world is possible. And yet, the stubborn problems of inequality, climate change, and declining health seem as intractable as ever. Where might different answers lie?
Intrepid journalist Natasha Hakimi Zapata has traveled around the world, from Costa Rica to Uganda, and Estonia to Singapore, uncovering how different countries solve the problems that plague the United States. Through in-depth reporting, including interviews with senior government officials, activists, industry professionals, and the ordinary people affected by their policies, Another World Is Possible examines innovative programs that address public health, social services, climate change, housing, education, addiction, and more.
In each instance Hakimi Zapata provides a clear-eyed assessment of the history, challenges, cost-effectiveness, and real-world impact of these programs. The result is a compelling, frame-shifting account of how we might live differently and create a safer, healthier, more sustainable future.
A work of keen analysis as well as enormous heart and optimism, Another World Is Possible is destined to crack the mold of current debates, and to refresh our sense of what might be possible tomorrow.
About the Author
Natasha Hakimi Zapata is an award-winning journalist, university lecturer, and literary translator. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Los Angeles Review of Books, In These Times, Truthdig, Los Angeles Magazine, and elsewhere. The former foreign editor of Truthdig, she lives in London.
Reviews
Praise for Another World Is Possible:
"It only takes a few months outside the country to realize that political culture in the U.S. is profoundly provincial; to see that the richest nation on Earth suffers from a debilitating lack of imagination. Natasha Hakimi Zapata relies on years of global experience to show U.S. Americans what they are missing. Often, U.S. political elites act as if other societies barely even exist; the sympathetic reporting in Another World is Possible makes them feel deeply real."
-Vincent Bevins, author of The Jakarta Method and If We Burn
Book Information
ISBN 9781620978443
Author Natasha Hakimi Zapata
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint The New Press
Publisher The New Press
Dimensions(mm) 215mm * 139mm * 19mm
