ISBN:
9781409470526
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 247 S.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Radical democracy and collective movements today
DDC:
303.484
Keywords:
Collective behavior Political aspects
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Political sociology
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Protest movements
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Social movements
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Democracy
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Collective behavior -- Political aspects
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Democracy
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Political sociology
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Protest movements
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Social movements
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Radical Democracy and Collective Movements Today: Responding to the Challenges of Kairos; 1 Post-hegemony: Politics Outside the Usual Post-Marxist Paradigm; 2 Letter to a Greek Anarchist: On Multitudes, Peoples, and New Empires; 3 Sovereignty of the People; 4 Occupy and Autonomous Political Life; 5 Hegemony or Post-hegemony? Discourse, Representation and the Revenge(s) of the Real; 6 Generalized Antagonism and Political Ontology in the Debate between Laclau and Negri; 7 A Hegemony of the Multitude: Muddling the Lines
Abstract:
8 The Multitudinous Moment(s) of the People: Democratic Agency Disrupting Established Binarisms9 Representation and Political Space in Laclau and Hardt and Negri; 10 Autonomy and Hegemony in the Squares: The 2011 Protests in Greece and Spain; Index
Abstract:
The 'Arab spring', the Spanish 'Indignados', the Greek 'Aganaktismenoi' and the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement all share a number of distinctive traits. Similar features have marked collective resistances from the Zapatistas and the Seattle protests onwards, giving rise to theoretical and practical debates over the importance of these ideological and political forms. By engaging with the controversy between the autonomous, biopolitical 'multitude' and the arguments in favour of the hegemony of 'the people' the central aim of this book is to probe the innovative practices and ideas that have dev
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction : radical democracy and collective movements today : responding to the challenges of kairos
,
Letter to a Greek anarchist : on multitudes, peoples, and new empires
,
Sovereignty of the people
,
Occupy and autonomous political life
,
Hegemony or post-hegemony? : discourse, representation and the revenge(s) of the real
,
Generalised antagonism and political ontology in the debate between Laclau and Negri
,
A hegemony of the multitude : muddling the lines
,
The multitudinous moment(s) of the people : democratic agency disrupting established binarisms
,
Representation and political space in Laclau and Hardt and Negri
,
Autonomy and hegemony in the squares : the 2011 protests in Greece and Spain
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