Book Review: Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement, by Erin Pineda

Abstract

of Arendt’s archival “heroes” (107), uniquely exemplified in Honig’s analysis by Arendt’s exclusion of Ali from her discussions of civil disobedience in the 1970s. The example suggests the ways in which exclusion can clarify the value of refusal. Honig’s notes are extensive and need to be read. I would have liked a bibliography. The book’s intended audiences include political theorists, feminist scholars, and classicists, although the latter may put up some resistance. But this potential resistance simultaneously illustrates the ways in which, as Honig says, “refusal is generative” (107).