Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1849352429 ISBN 13: 9781849352420

Casa editrice: A K Pr Distribution, 2016

Riassunto

"An extraordinary volume that provides nothing less than a detailed cognitive mapping of the terrain for everyone who wants to engage in radical politics."Slavoj Žižek

"From its thought-provoking Introduction though its energizing accounts of the tensions underlying our most prized concepts,Keywords for Radicals will be indispensable to any scholar or activist who is serious about critique and change."Stephen Duncombe

In Keywords (1976), Raymond Williams devised a "vocabulary" that reflected the vast social transformations of the post-war period. He revealed how these transformations could be grasped by investigating changes in word usage and meaning.Keywords for Radicalspart homage, part developmentasks what vocabulary might illuminate the social transformations marking our own contested present? How do these words define the imaginary of today's radical left?

With insights from dozens of scholars and troublemakers, Keywords for Radicalsexplores the words that shape our political landscape. Each entry highlights a term's contested variations, traces the evolution of its usage, and speculates about what its historical mutations can tell us. More than a glossary, this is a crucial study of the power of language and the social contradictions hidden within it.

Contributors include Patrick Bond, Silvia Federici, John Bellamy Foster, Joy James, Ilan Pappé, Justin Podur, Nina Power, Mab Segrest, and more.

Kelly Fritsch is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto.

Clare O'Connor is a doctoral student in Communication at the University of Southern California.

AK Thompson teaches social theory at Fordham University in New York.

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An extraordinary volume that provides nothing less than a detailed cognitive mapping of the terrain for everyone who wants to engage in radical politics. --Slavoj Zizek, author of Living in the End Times

From its thought-provoking Introduction though its energizing accounts of the tensions underlying our most prized concepts, "Keywords for Radicals "will be indispensable to any scholar or activist who is serious about critique and change. --Stephen Duncombe, editor of "Cultural Resistance Reader"

L'autore:

Kelly Fritsch: Kelly Fritsch researches, writes, and teaches about biopolitics, disability, technoscience, feminist theory, and anti-capitalist struggles. She is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in Women and Gender Studies and the Technoscience Research Unit at the University of Toronto. Her work appears in Briarpatch Magazine; Foucault Studies; Health, Culture, and Society; and Disability Studies Quarterly. Between 2008 and 2012, she served on the Editorial Committee ofUpping The Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action,.
Clare O’Connor is a Los Angeles-based writer and activist. She is a doctoral student in Communication at the University of Southern California, and is former Coordinator of the Public Interest Research Group at the University of Toronto and co-founder of Toronto-based activist training program Tools for Change. Her publications include the chapter "What Moves Us Now? The Contradictions of 'Community'" inWhose Streets? The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest and contributions toBriarpatch Magazine. Between 2008 and 2012, she served on the Editorial Committee ofUpping The Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action,.
AK Thompson got kicked out of high school in 1992 for publishing an underground newspaper calledThe Agitator and has been an activist, writer, and social theorist ever since. Currently teaching social theory at Fordham University, his publications includeBlack Bloc, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent (2010) andSociology for Changing the World: Social Movements/Social Research (2006). Between 2005 and 2012, he served on the Editorial Committee ofUpping The Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action.

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• Editore: A K Pr Distribution
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1849352429
• ISBN 13: 9781849352420
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 567
• Redattore: Fritsch Kelly, O'connor Clare, Thompson A. K.