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.

• 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

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.

• 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

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.

• 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