Occupying Subjectivity - Being and Becoming Radical in the 21st Century

Informationen zum Autor Chris Rossdale lectures in PAIS at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on international political theory and the political philosophy of resistance! with a particular focus on militarism and anti-militarism. He has published in International Political Sociology! Millennium: Journal of International Studies! Global Society! and Globalizations! and in 2014 was awarded the BISA Michael Nicolson Thesis Prize. Zusammenfassung The chapters in this collection explore different forms of radical political subjectivity. Together, they look to uncover the ways in which contemporary subjects are constituted within and work to unsettle dominant relations of power. This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Occupying Subjectivity: Being and Becoming Radical in the Twenty-First Century: Introduction 2. Derrida and Political Resistance: The Radical Potential of Deconstruction 3. Paradoxical Peace: A Scholar-activist’s Auto-ethnography on Religious Pacifism and Anti-capitalism 4. ‘A Direct Act of Resurgence, a Direct Act of Sovereignty’: Reflections on Idle No More, Indigenous Activism, and Canadian Settler Colonialism 5. Real Politics in Occupy: Transcending the Rules of the Day 6. The Political Subject of Self-immolation 7. Maze of Resistance: Crowd, Space and the Politics of Resisting Subjectivity 8. Dancing Ourselves to Death: The Subject of Emma Goldman’s Nietzschean Anarchism 9. Liberation for Straw Dogs? Old Materialism, New Materialism, and the Challenge of an Emancipatory Posthumanism

Product details

• Authors: Chris Rossdale, Chris (Royal Holloway Rossdale
• Assisted by: Chris Rossdale (Editor), Rossdale Chris (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.01.2018
• EAN: 9781138309746
• ISBN: 978-1-138-30974-6
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Rethinking Globalizations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Human Rights, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Revolutionary groups & movements, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Political science and theory, Human rights, civil rights, Demonstrations & protest movements, Marxism & Communism, Anarchism, Revolutionary groups and movements