Victor Kempf – författare

Rule and resistance can no longer be understood in national contexts only. They both have transnationalised over the last decades. The scholarly discourse, however, still lags behind these developments. While International Relations only sees institutional “governance”, social movement studies only see instances of resistance. Both, however, lack the necessary vocabulary to describe the dynamic interplay between systems of rule and resistance. While we are governed by transnational structures of rule, a systematic analysis of how this operates and how it can be resisted remains to be developed.This open access book develops an understanding of these power relations through rich empirical case studies of different forms of rule-resistance relationships. Some resistant groups demand reforms of particular policies and institutions. Others attack institutions head-on. Yet other actors attempt to escape the rules they reject. Which forms of resistance can we expect under different kinds of rule? How can we understand transnational rule in the first place? The book gives new inspiring answers to these difficult questions.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

Rule and resistance can no longer be understood in national contexts only. They both have transnationalised over the last decades. The scholarly discourse, however, still lags behind these developments. While International Relations only sees institutional “governance”, social movement studies only see instances of resistance. Both, however, lack the necessary vocabulary to describe the dynamic interplay between systems of rule and resistance. While we are governed by transnational structures of rule, a systematic analysis of how this operates and how it can be resisted remains to be developed.This open access book develops an understanding of these power relations through rich empirical case studies of different forms of rule-resistance relationships. Some resistant groups demand reforms of particular policies and institutions. Others attack institutions head-on. Yet other actors attempt to escape the rules they reject. Which forms of resistance can we expect under different kinds of rule? How can we understand transnational rule in the first place? The book gives new inspiring answers to these difficult questions.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

Victor Kempf konfrontiert in seiner sozialphilosophischen Studie zwei konträre Paradigmen der Kapitalismuskritik. Dem populären Exodus aus den normativen Vermittlungsformen der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft stellt er den beiseitegelassenen Versuch einer emanzipatorischen Einklagung ihrer uneingelösten Freiheits- und Gleichheitsversprechen gegenüber. Er verteidigt diesen Ansatz einer immanenten Kapitalismuskritik gegen seine Fundamentalzurückweisung, die den Exodus ontologisch begründen soll. Gleichzeitig verweist das Motiv des Exodus auf eine historische Stillstellung des reformistischen Kritik- und Fortschrittsmodells durch kapitalistische Wachstums- und Allgemeinwohlimperative. Nur in der zeitdiagnostischen Rekonstruktion dieser Kooptierung kann die Radikalität einer immanenten Kapitalismuskritik wiedergewonnen werden.