Excluded Within: The (Un)Intelligibility of Radical Political Actors

ISBN-13: 9780190625986 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 256 str.

Sina Kramer

Opis

Why are some claims seen or heard as political claims, while others are not? Why are some people not seen or heard as political agents? This book takes up a range of cases - including those of Antigone, Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks, the 1992 Los Angeles riots, and the Black Lives Matter movement - to better understand who counts as a political actor, and how we understand political belonging and the contestation of exclusion. Excluded Within articulateswho we are by virtue of who we exclude, and what claims we cannot see, hear, or understand.

Recenzje

Sina Kramer's Excluded Within is one of those rare books that states things that seems obvious in the telling but which no one had quite thought of before. [...] By bringing multiple forms of resistance, thought and action into conversation, Kramer has offered us much more than a snapshot of how resistance can work. Indeed the problem with snapshots, Kramer shows us, is that they distort the bases of political resistance. Instead, Kramer shows us how to animate politics by contending less with what appears in all of its intractable "thereness" and more with what could be. It is no less realistic for being "impossible."

O autorze

Sina Kramer is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Loyola Marymount University.