How long does it take to read Direct Action?
Direct Action by David Graeber takes about 11 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours
A week or two of reading
First published 2009. 600 pages, about 165,000 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Direct Action: An Ethnography offers a lengthy, traditional anthropological account of anarchist organizing efforts, with a focus on New York City’s Direct Action Network. For fellow researchers, he addresses the difficulties of using the narrative form and offers tips such as notetaking tools used (spiral notebook and rapidograph, a technical pen that eases hand-writing). Throughout, Graeber recounts the actions taken by the state against protestors, namely, policing and myths disseminated to encourage the frontline police to follow orders. Source
Subjects: Anti-globalization movement, Political anthropology, Anthropologie politique, Altermondialisme, Aktivismus, Antiglobalisierungsbewegung
