1st Edition
Tactics and Emancipation in the Age of Authoritarian Neoliberalism
Introduction: The Question of Tactics in an Age of Authoritarian Neoliberalism
Nicholas Kiersey and William W. Sokoloff
1. Taking a Knee: Neoliberalism, Radical Imaginaries, and the NFL Player Protest
Courtenay W. Daum
2. You Can’t Handicraft the Apocalypse: The Invidious Consequences of "Opting Out"
Robert Kirsch
3. Beyond a Spectacular Image of the Working Class
James Calder and Charlie Umland
4. Revolutionary Accounting? Methods and Possibilities in Critical Strategy
Mindy Peden
5. Disentangling Neoliberalism from Leadership Education: Critical Approaches to Leadership Learning and Development in Higher Education
Brandon W. Kliewer
6. The Great American Rights Bake Off: Freedom of Religion v. Freedom from Discrimination
Chelsea Ebin and J. Ricky Price
7. Building Long Term Power in Rural America: Identity Construction, Elections, and Movement Work
Biko Koenig and Lee Scaralia
8. Between Parliamentarism and Armed Insurrection: Marxist Political Theory and the Doctrine of the Long Civil War
Clyde W. Barrow
Biography
Nicholas Kiersey is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, USA. His research addresses austerity, biopolitics, and the crises of the neoliberal capitalist state. His current project is an investigation into the concept of socialist governmentality and the cultural political economy of the end of capitalism.
William W. Sokoloff is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, USA. He is the author of Confrontational Citizenship: Reflections on Hatred, Rage, Revolution and Revolt (2017) and Political Science Pedagogy: A Critical, Radical and Utopian Perspective (2020). He is working on a third book on overcoming left paralysis and pessimism.
