Figurations of the Future - Forms and Temporalities of Left Radical Politics in Northern Europe

Informationen zum Autor Stine Krøijer is Assistant Professor at University of Copenhagen and is working on autonomy, anarchism, environmental and forest politics, and the Amazon. Klappentext Built around key events, from the eviction of a self-managed social centre in Copenhagen in 2007 to the Climate Summit protests in 2009, this book contributes to anthropological literature on contemporary Euro-American politics foreshadowing recent waves of public dissent. Stine Krøijer explores political forms among left radical and anarchist activists in Northern Europe focusing on how forms of action engender time. Drawing on anthropological literature from both Scandinavia and the Amazon, this ethnography recasts theoretical concerns about body politics, political intentionality, aesthetics, and time. Zusammenfassung Built around key events! this book explores politics among left radical activists in Northern Europe. The author recasts theoretical concerns about politics and aesthetics! drawing on anthropological literature from Scandinavia and the Amazon to establish analogies between perceptions of the body! autonomy! forests and capitalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. 'Other Worlds Are Possible': A Political Cosmology of Capitalism A DUMPSTER DIVE. Chapter 2. Becoming Absorbed: Youth and Interstices of Active Time in Ungdomshuset NAMING AND RAISING A CHILD Chapter 3. 'A Common Choreography of Action': Preparations and Intentions. Chapter 4. 'We Are Humans, What Are You?': Securitization, Unpredictability and Enemy-Becoming A STREET DANCE IN HYSKENSTRæDE Chapter 5. 'I Used To Run As The Black Bloc': Style and Perspectivist Time in Protests and Direct Actions Conclusion: The Collective Body as a Theory of Politics References Index

Product details

• Authors: Stine Krijer, Stine Kroijer, Stine Krøijer, Krøijer Stine
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781789207538
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-753-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment; Ethnography, Theory, Experimen
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Social and cultural anthropology, Political ideologies and movements