1st Edition

Occupying Subjectivity Being and Becoming Radical in the 21st Century

Edited By Chris Rossdale Copyright 2016
172 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores a variety of forms of radical political subjectivity. It takes its cue from the 2011 uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, the Occupy Movement and the European Anti-Austerity Movement, alongside the wider opposition to authoritarian and neoliberal forms of governance from which they sprang, in order to ask an urgent series of questions about the subject of radical... Read more

1. Occupying Subjectivity: Being and Becoming Radical in the Twenty-First Century: Introduction  Chris Rossdale

2. Derrida and Political Resistance: The Radical Potential of Deconstruction  Aggie Hirst

3. Paradoxical Peace: A Scholar-activist’s Auto-ethnography on Religious Pacifism and Anti-capitalism  Ruth Halaj Reitan

4. ‘A Direct Act of Resurgence, a Direct Act of Sovereignty’: Reflections on Idle No More, Indigenous Activism, and Canadian Settler Colonialism  Adam J. Barker

5. Real Politics in Occupy: Transcending the Rules of the Day  Anna Szolucha

6. The Political Subject of Self-immolation  Nicholas Michelsen

7. Maze of Resistance: Crowd, Space and the Politics of Resisting Subjectivity  Andreja Zevnik

8. Dancing Ourselves to Death: The Subject of Emma Goldman’s Nietzschean Anarchism  Chris Rossdale

9. Liberation for Straw Dogs? Old Materialism, New Materialism, and the Challenge of an Emancipatory Posthumanism  Erika Cudworth and Stephen Hobden

Biography

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.