Read The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness Online
Authors: Rebecca Solnit
Reclaim the Streets,
245–246
,
247
revolution (see also
Egypt, Egyptian revolution
),
22–31
,
38
,
42
,
45–47
,
58
,
136
,
143
,
167
,
194
,
220
,
222
,
239
,
243
,
247
,
258
,
296
,
297
definition, etymology,
311
Industrial Revolution,
148
Philippines revolution,
220
Reagan revolution,
137
revolutions per minute,
311
Saucepan Revolution (in Iceland),
173–181
Zapatista revolution,
312–321
Richard Hell and the Voidoids (band),
33
Rivera, Diego (painter, communist),
74
,
75
,
77
,
82
rock and roll (see also individual bands),
27–28
Roman-Alcalá, Antonio (gardener),
286–288
Ross, Captain,
14
Rosse, Bill (activist, musician),
87
Rudd, Mark (activist),
41–42
ruins,
17–18
,
39
,
40
,
51
,
65
,
66–67
,
69–72
,
75
,
77–79
,
82
,
130
,
132
,
142
,
153
,
183
,
185
,
190
,
191
,
192–193
,
294
,
299
Rumsfeld, Donald,
308
Russia, Russians,
17
,
18
,
56
,
138
,
175
Salton Sea (California),
64–65
San Francisco,
32–37
,
40
,
43
,
44
,
53
,
60
,
88
,
98
,
222
,
248–255
,
264–271
,
286–288
,
289
1906 earthquake in,
127
,
190
,
236
San Francisco Bay,
96
,
101
,
102
,
103
,
105
,
106
San Francisco Bay Area,
48–55
,
291–294
San Francisco Estuary Institute,
103–104
San Francisco Zen Center,
291
San Quentin State Prison,
280–281
Sassoon, Siegfried,
285
Sennet, Richard,
146–147
September 11, 2001,
36
,
119
,
187–188
,
221–222
,
239
Sierra Club,
65–66
,
91–92
,
111
,
114
,
119
,
133
,
274
Sigurðardóttir, Jóhanna (prime minister),
173–174
,
178
Sims, Michael (writer),
277–278
,
281
,
283
slavery (United States),
244–245
,
273–275
,
277
,
281
,
282–283
Smith, Patti,
43
Snowden, Edward (whistleblower),
260
,
266
,
268
social Darwinism,
139
Sontag, Susan,
305–306
Sorrow Fjord,
10
Southern Pacific Railroad,
64–65
Soviet Union,
28
,
74
,
75
,
81
,
162
,
194
,
302
,
313
Stanford University,
55
,
140
,
249–250
Stegner, Wallace,
92
Stewart, Martha (impresario, Circe),
147–150
Stormfront White Nationalist Community,
77
Stranglers (band),
46
Subcomandante Marcos,
315
suburbs, suburbia,
29
,
69
,
72
,
74–76
,
78
,
154
,
156
,
250
Svalbard,
5–21
Sylvester (singer),
47
Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA, cult),
41
,
42–43
,
47
Syjuco, Stephanie (artist),
270
technology (see also individual companies,
nuclear
,
Silicon Valley
),
55
,
65
,
96
,
98
,
114
,
255
,
257
,
258–263
,
300–301
,
304
,
309
Teller, Edward (bomb maker),
62
Thich Quang Duc,
23
Thingvellir, Iceland,
165–166
Thompson, A. C. (investigative journalist),
235–236
,
237
,
239
Thoreau, Henry David, and Cynthia Dunbar, Sophia, and Helen Thoreau,
272–284
toxic, toxins (see also
poison
),
15
,
65
,
90
,
107
,
109
,
114
,
187
,
255
,
289
Ulysses
(novel),
152
,
157–158
,
264
United States (see also particular cities, states, movements),
24–25
,
27
,
29
,
30
,
33
,
36
,
42
,
49
,
52
,
55
,
56
,
57
,
60
,
74
,
157
,
160
,
176
,
215–216
,
221
,
225–230
,
243
,
281
,
294
,
299
,
301
,
303–306
,
319–320
economic inequality in (see also
Occupy Wall Street
),
31
,
36
,
37
,
57–58
,
76
,
137
military,
24
,
49–55
,
162
,
176
,
265–266
,
298–310
Vietnam,
23
violence (see also
domestic violence
,
nonviolence
),
27
,
28
,
26
,
40
,
41–42
,
49
,
51
,
55
,
56–59
,
87
,
97
,
131
,
139
,
140
,
151
,
161
,
166
,
225
,
238
,
253
,
287–288
,
299–302
,
305–306
Virgil,
11
Vonnegut, Kurt,
261
Walker, Scott (governor),
30
,
31
war,
298–310
water (see also
BP Spill
,
climate change
,
Colorado River
,
Glen Canyon Dam
,
Gulf of Mexico
,
Iceland
,
Mississippi River
,
Svalbard
,
tsunami
),
57
,
61–67
,
92
,
97–102
,
163–165
and gold mining,
95–108
Waters, Alice,
289
We Are the 99% (website),
216–217
Weathermen (activist group),
41–42
Wedeman, Ben,
28
Wenceslas Square,
22
West (western United States),
53–54
,
60–67
,
88
,
91
,
92
,
249
,
253
,
255
Western Shoshone (Nevada),
87
,
98
Wheelan, Drew (bird rescuer),
110
,
116
,
122
,
133
White, Richard (historian),
278
white people (see also
Iceland
),
46
,
63
,
69
,
72–79
,
84–94
,
97
,
130
,
232
,
233
,
234
,
248–249
,
263
,
268–269
,
280
Wikileaks,
24–25
Wilde, Oscar,
23
Williams, Troy (prisoner),
280–281
women,
22
,
26
,
36
,
43
,
146–147
,
149–150
,
167
,
190
,
279
,
280
,
282
,
317
Women Strike for Peace,
190–191
women’s rights,
47
,
214
,
282
,
317
,
319
World Trade Organization (WTO),
30
,
91
,
168
,
241
,
246
,
247
,
319
Young, Abe Louise (poet),
119
,
133
Young, Coleman (mayor),
72–73
,
79
YouTube,
111
,
173
,
218
,
219
,
249
,
270
Zodiac raft,
8
,
11
,
12
,
13
,
16
,
19
,
21
San Francisco writer
REBECCA SOLNIT
is the author of sixteen books about art, landscape, public and collective life, ecology, politics, hope, meandering, reverie, and memory. They include
The Faraway Nearby; Men Explain Things to Me; Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
;
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
;
Storming the Gates of Paradise
;
A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
;
Wanderlust: A History of Walking
;
As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art
; and
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
, for which she received a Guggenheim fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award. She has worked on climate change, Native American land rights, and antinuclear, human rights, and antiwar issues as an activist and journalist. A contributing editor to
Harper’s
and a frequent contributor to the political site
Tomdispatch.com
, Solnit has made her living as an independent writer since 1988.