History of Disruption - Social Struggle in the Atlantic World

Challenging our understanding of social struggles as movements, Mehmet Dosemeci traces a 300-year counter-history of struggle predicated on disruption.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Kinetics of Our Discontent

1. The Regime of Movement
2. We Shall Not Be Moved
Excursus I: Disruption and Revolution
3. Disruption Insurgent
Excursus II: The New Left
4. Disruptive Subjects, Disruptive Spaces
5. The Southern Wind

Conclusion: Disrupt or Be Disrupted

Notes
Index

About the author

Mehmet Dösemeci is an anarchist, activist, and associate professor of history at Bucknell University (USA). The author of two books and numerous academic articles, his writings on the meaning and significance of radical democracy and the uprisings, occupations, and riots of the 21st century have appeared in Al Jazeera, RoarMag, Open Democracy, and Common Dreams. In his spare time, he runs a website on the past and present of social disruption www.disruptnow.org

Summary

Challenging our understanding of social struggles as movements, Mehmet Dosemeci traces a 300-year counter-history of struggle predicated on disruption.

Product details

• Authors: Mehmet Dosemeci, Mehmet Dösemeci, Dosemeci Mehmet
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.10.2024
• EAN: 9781804293904
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-390-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Social History, Political science & theory, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Revolutionary groups & movements, Political science and theory, HISTORY / African American & Black, Revolutionary groups and movements