Has political resistance has lost its ability to confront political
and economic power and achieve social change? Despite its best
intentions, resistance has often become incorporated and neutered
before it achieves its aims, as new forms of power absorb it and turn
it towards their own ends. Since the Enlightenment, the opposing
forces of power and resistance have framed our view of society and
politics. Exploring that development, this book shows how resistance
can, ironically, reinforce existing status quos and fundamentally
strengthen capitalist and colonial desires for “sovereignty” and
“domination”. It highlights, therefore, the urgent need for new
critical perspectives that breaks free from this imprisoning modern
history. In this spirit, this book seeks to theorize the radical
potential for a post-resistance existence and politics. One that
exchanges a permanent revolution against authority with the discovery
of novel forms of agency, social relations and the self that are
currently lacking. That aims to construct economic and social systems
based not on the possibility of freedom but enlarging the freedom of
possibility. In the 21st century can we move beyond power and
resistance to a politics at the radical limits that eternally expands
what is socially possible?
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Politics at the Radical Limits
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781783487554
Publisert
2017
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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