Movements in time : revolution, social justice, and times of change / edited by Cecile Lawrence and Natalie Churn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Churn, Natalie.

Lawrence, Cecile.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical sociology.

Protest movements.

Revolutions--Social aspects.

Revolutions.

Social justice.

Time--Social aspects.

Time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Newcastle upon Tyne, UK] : Cambridge Scholars, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

2011 was a tumultuous year in terms of social protest movements. The Occupy movement spread across the globe with unprecedented support of an enormity not seen since 1968, while revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Syria and Libya caught the attention of the global media and brought the word "revolution" back into public discussions on social justice and governance. For many people worldwide, it appears that it is time for social, political and economic change. And it is precisely time, in...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; A SECRET HELIOTROPISM OF MAY '68; SURVEYING ACTIVISTS' ATTITUDES TOWARD TIME; THE TEMPORALITY OF DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS; MARX "AFTER" LYOTARD; PART II; TOWARDS A FUTURE PREGNANT WITH BECOMING; WOMEN AND BECOMING-WOMAN; NEW EARTH, NEW PEOPLE; NOSTALGIA, PAST AND FUTURE HOPES; PART III; BOGAN TIME AND THE RACE THAT STOPS THE NATION; SEPTEMBER 12TH; STRANGERS TO LIFE ON EARTH; THE SLOW FOUNDATIONS OF HYPER-SPEED; THE TRAPPINGS OF TIME; PART IV; (DIS) ABLING TIME; PRECARIOUS TIMES; MESSIANIC TIME AND HISTORICAL MATERIALISM

GLORIOUS INSTANTS, PERPETUAL RECURRENCESTHE FINAL REVOLT, THE TRUE LIFE; PART V; COSMETIC PHARMACOLOGY IN (CON)TEMPORARY SOCIETIES; THE NON-LINEAR FUTURE OF ALTERNATIVE PRESENTS; THE LONG NOW; AN ECOLOGY OF TIMES; PART VI; A TIME FOR ARAB REVOLUTIONS; REVOLUTIONARY TIME AS ENCOUNTER AND INTERSECTION OF DIFFERENCES; REVOLUTION AND ITS AUTODESTRUCTION; ZAMANI TO SASA; MODERNITY, REVOLUTION, SILENCE; BECAUSE I HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-4438-4552-3

OCLC:

827209473