1st Edition

Reoccupying the Political Transforming and Transgressing Political Science

Edited By Sara C. Motta, Jim Jose Copyright 2019
120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

Focusing on the increasing refusal and transgression of politics as normal across the globe, this book examines new forms of democratisation, democratic life and political subjectivity, as people seek to gain control over the decisions and processes affecting their lives. The contributors to this volume challenge the hegemonic truth regimes of political science by bringing to our attention... Read more

Introduction – Reoccupying the political: transforming political science  1. Mining, social contestation and the reclaiming of voice in Australia’s democracy  2. The transformation of the Occusphere  3. Monitoring social media and protest movements: ensuring political order through surveillance and surveillance discourse  4. Latin America as political science’s other  5. ‘A brutal blow against the democratic normality’: unlearning the epistemology of the political  6. The gift of the political  7. On ‘outsourcing’ the political in political science

Biography

Sara C. Motta is a mestiza single mother, critical theorist, poet, popular educator and Associate Professor in Politics, based in the Newcastle Business School at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has published numerous articles, eight journal special issues, two edited book collections and is the author of Constructing Twenty-First Century Socialism in Latin America: The Role of Radical Education (2014), and Liminal Subjects: Weaving (Our) Liberation (2018).



Jim Jose is Professor of Politics, based in the Newcastle Business School at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has published numerous articles in leading international journals on political theory, feminist theory, and Australian politics and public policy.