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

ISBN-13: 9781138309746 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 156 str.

Chris Rossdale

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.