ISBN:
9780231555487
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (453 pages)
Series Statement:
New Directions in Critical Theory v.78
DDC:
303.6
Keywords:
Social conflict
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, and an assembly of leading thinkers examine how people experience, interpret, and contribute to the making of and the response to critical situations. Featuring analysis from below as well as above, from the inside as well as the outside, Crisis Under Critique is a singular intervention.
Abstract:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Heuristic of Crises: Reclaiming Critical Voices, by Didier Fassin and Axel Honneth -- Part I. Social Movements -- 1. Capitalism Contested: Britain in the Aftermath of World War I, by Clara Elisabetta Mattei -- 2. Striking a Rock with Eggs: Resistance and Repression After Tiananmen, by Rowena Xiaoqing He -- 3. Undoing the Rule of Market Laws: Social Critique and the Making of Normative Futures, by Rodrigo Cordero -- 4. "Layoffs Are Murder, but They Are Also Everyday Life": A Critique of Labor and Living in the Era of Ghost Capital, by Hae Yeon Choo -- 5. Remaking the Demos "from Below"? Critical Theory, Migrant Struggles, and Epistemic Resistance, by Robin Celikates -- Part II. Intellectual Engagements -- 6. Peace, or the Moral Economy of War: Between W. E. B. Du Bois and Sayyid Quṭb, by Murad Idris -- 7. Personal Pronouns and Political Protest: Henry David Thoreau and Ta-Nehisi Coates as Critics in Times of Crisis, by Dieter Thomä -- 8. Becoming Anticolonial in Northern Namibia, 1950-1954: The Emergence of Both Crisis and Critique from Everyday Interpretations, by Gregor Dobler -- 9. How Do Technocrats Address Crises? From Structural to Humanitarian Approaches to Crises in Latin American Developmentalism, by Aldo Marchesi -- 10. Against Crisis: Violence and Continuity in Manus Island Prison, by Anne McNevin -- Part III. Affected Communities -- 11. Love Trumps Hate: Community Caretaking in an Era of Mass Deportation, by Denise Brennan -- 12. Helping Refugees in Rural Germany: Ambivalences of Compassion, by Greta Wagner -- 13. Toward a Theory of Climate Praxis: Confronting Climate Change in a World of Struggle, by Daniel Aldana Cohen and David Bond -- 14. The Discovery of Contamination: Forever Chemicals and the Temporality of Critique, by David Bond.
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