Tactics and Emancipation in the Age of Authoritarian Neoliberalism

List of contents

Introduction: The Question of Tactics in an Age of Authoritarian Neoliberalism 1. Taking a Knee: Neoliberalism, Radical Imaginaries, and the NFL Player Protest 2. You Can't Handicraft the Apocalypse: The Invidious Consequences of "Opting Out" 3. Beyond a Spectacular Image of the Working Class 4. Revolutionary Accounting? Methods and Possibilities in Critical Strategy 5. Disentangling Neoliberalism from Leadership Education: Critical Approaches to Leadership Learning and Development in Higher Education 6. The Great American Rights Bake Off: Freedom of Religion v. Freedom from Discrimination 7. Building Long Term Power in Rural America: Identity Construction, Elections, and Movement Work 8. Between Parliamentarism and Armed Insurrection: Marxist Political Theory and the Doctrine of the Long Civil War

About the author

Nicholas Kiersey is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, USA. His research addresses austerity, biopolitics, and the crises of the neoliberal capitalist state. His current project is an investigation into the concept of socialist governmentality and the cultural political economy of the end of capitalism.
William W. Sokoloff is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, USA. He is the author of Confrontational Citizenship: Reflections on Hatred, Rage, Revolution and Revolt (2017) and Political Science Pedagogy: A Critical, Radical and Utopian Perspective (2020). He is working on a third book on overcoming left paralysis and pessimism.

Summary

This book calls for new attention to non-traditional forms of emancipatory tactics and welcomes to the fold all manner of 'everyday' expressions of anti- authoritarianism. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of New Political Science.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas (University of Texas Kiersey
• Assisted by: Nicholas Kiersey (Editor), Kiersey Nicholas (Editor), William W. Sokoloff (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.04.2023
• EAN: 9781032459189
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3245918-9
• No. of pages: 156
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Fascism & Nazism, Political structures: democracy, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Elections & referenda, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies, Elections and referenda / suffrage