Impulse to act : a new anthropology of resistance and social justice / edited by Othon Alexandrakis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alexandrakis, Othon, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protest movements--Case studies.

Protest movements.

Protest movements--Moral and ethical aspects--Case studies.

Political anthropology--Case studies.

Political anthropology.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 270 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]

Summary:

What drives people to take to the streets in protest? What is their connection to other activists and how does that change over time? How do seemingly spontaneous activist movements emerge, endure, and evolve, especially when they lack a leader and concrete agenda? How does one analyze a changing political movement immersed in contingency? Impulse to Act addresses these questions incisively, examining a wide range of activist movements from the December 2008 protests in Greece to the recent chto delat' in Russia. Contributors in the first section of this volume highlight the affective dimensions of political movements, charting the various ways in which participants coalesce around and belong to collectives of resistance. The potent agency of movements is highlighted in the second section, where scholars show how the emerging actions and critiques of protesters help disrupt authoritative political structures. Responding to the demands of the field today, the novel approaches to protest movements in Impulse to Act offer new ways to reengage with the traditional cornerstones of political anthropology. Book jacket.

Contents:

Being and Doing Politics : Moral Ontologies and Ethical Ways of Knowing at the End of the Cold War / Jessica Greenberg

The Affective Echoes of an Overwhelming Life : The Demand for Legal Recognition and the Vicious Circle of Desire in the Case of Queer Activism in Istanbul / Eirini Avramopoulou

Emergenc(i)es in the Fields : Affective Composition and Countercamps against the Exploitation of Migrant Farm Labor in Italy / Irene Peano

Cosmologicopolitics: Vitalistic Cosmology Meets Biopower / James D. Faubion

Surreal Capitalism and the Dialectical Economies of Precarity Neni Panourgi

Intolerants : Politics of the Ordinary in Karachi, Pakistan / Tania Ahmad

Negative Space : Unmovement and the Study of Activism When There Is No Action / Cymene Howe

What Should Be Done? : Art and Political Possibility in Russia / Petra Rethmann

The Multilinearity of Protest : Understanding New Social Movements through Their Events, Trends, and Routines / John Postill

Whose Ethics? : Negotiating Ethics and Responsibility in the Field / Marianne Maeckelbergh

Within, Against, Beyond : The Radical Imagination in the Age of the Slow-Motion Apocalypse / Alex Khasnabish

Conclusion : On an Emergent Politics and Ethics of Resistance / Athena Athanasiou and Othon Alexandrakis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Impulse to act

ISBN:

9780253022783

0253022789

9780253023117

0253023114

OCLC:

933437854