Social Sciences for an Other Politics

Women Theorizing Without Parachutes

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

This book opens up a unique intellectual space where eleven female scholar-activists explore alternative forms of theorising social reality. Finally, they discuss the dynamics of prefiguration by social movements, critiquing social movement theory in the process.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-02-10
Mått:148 x 210 x 15 mm
Vikt:356 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:155
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319477756

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Ana Cecilia Dinerstein is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Bath, UK. She is a critical sociologist and writes about radical subjectivity; labour, social, rural and indigenous movements; Argentine and Latin American politics, autonomy, Ernst Bloch, hope, and contemporary forms of utopia.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword; J.K.Gibson-Graham.- Chapter 1. Introduction: The radical subject and its critical theory; Ana Cecilia Dinerstein.- Part I. Epistemological Openings.- Chapter 2. Learning Hope: An Epistemology of Possibility for Advanced Capitalist Society; Sarah Amsler.- Chapter 3. Decolonising critique: From Prophetic Negation to Prefigurative Affirmation; Sara Catherine Motta.- Chapter 4. Denaturalising ‘society’: Concrete utopia and the prefigurative critique of political economy; Ana Cecilia Dinerstein.- Part II. The (Re)Production of Life.- Chapter 5. Transgressing Gender and Development: Rethinking Economy Beyond ‘Smart Economics’; Suzanne Bergeron.- Chapter 6. Producing the Common and Re-producing Life: Keys towards Rethinking ‘the political’; Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar, Lucia Linsalata and Mina Lorena Navarro Trujillo .- Chapter 7. Talking about nature: Ecolinguistics and the ‘natureculture paradigm’; Francesca Zunino.- Part III. Social Movements and Prefigurative Politics.- Chapter 8.The Prefigurative is Political: On Politics beyond ‘the State’; Emily Brissette.- Chapter 9. The Prefigurative Turn: The Time and Place of Social Movement Practice; Marianne Maeckelbergh.- Chapter 10. Rethinking Social Movements with Societies in Movement; Marina Sitrin.