Crisis States: Governance, Resistance & Precarious Capitalism Jeff Shantz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shantz, Jeff, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anarchism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (79 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2016

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This is an age of crisis: economic, political, environmental, and social. Yet the nature of contemporary crisis is often misunderstood. Crisis, rather than being accidental or episodic -- as is too often assumed -- has been a regular feature of state practice in the neoliberal austerity regimes of contemporary capitalism. In this timely work Jeff Shantz gives special attention to the particular manufactured crises associated with austerity regimes and conditions of precarity within contemporary capitalism, and how Crisis States differ from other forms of state practice.Crisis is a powerful weapon of states and capital in the pursuit of accumulation, exploitation, and control. Engaging insights from anarchism and autonomous Marxism, Shantz lays bare the real nature and character of crisis as political and social pursuits of state and capital under precarious capitalism.Attention is also given to social resistance under crisis state conditions. Contemporary capitalism renders the oppressed and exploited precarious at the same time as opportunities are opened to render the system itself precarious. Understanding Crisis States and precarious capitalism is crucial in considering prospects for resistance.

Contents:

State of crisis today

State and capital: from planner state to crisis state

On resistance in a time of crisis: we are all illegal now

The positive content of struggle: auto-valorization

Socialized work to socialized welfare.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-79).

Description based on print version record.

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Print version:

OCLC:

1183730369

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access