Revolutionary hope in a time of crisis : political disillusion, democracy, and utopia / edited by Maša Mrovlje and Alex Zamalin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mrovlje, Maša, editor.

Zamalin, Alex, 1986- editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 182.

Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 182

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revolutions and socialism.

Government, Resistance to.

Protest movements.

Liberalism.

Right and left (Political science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 143 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Maaa Mrovlje is Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Leeds. Her research interests are located within contemporary political thought, with a specific emphasis on theories of resistance and resistance movements. She is the author of Rethinking Political Judgement: Arendt and Existentialism (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Her articles appeared in leading international journals, including The Journal of Politics, Millennium, Philosophy & Social Criticism and Political Theory . Her current project, entitled Disappointment: Reclaiming the Unfulfilled Promise of Resistance , explores the political potentials of disappointment within the modern revolutionary tradition.Alex Zamalin is Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He is the author of six books, African American Political Thought and American Culture: The Nation's Struggle for Racial Justice (New York: Palgrave, 2015), Struggle on their Minds: The Political Thought of African American Resistance (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017), Antiracism: An Introduction (NYU Press, 2019), Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism (Columbia University Press, 2019) which was named a 2020 Choice Outstanding Title by the American Library Association, and Against Civility: The Hidden Racism in Our Obsession with Civility (Beacon, 2021). His most recent book is All Is Not Lost: 20 Ways to Revolutionize Disaster (Beacon Press, spring 2022). Zamalin is also a co-editor for a collection of scholarly essays aimed at reinterpreting the American political tradition, American Political Thought: An Alternative View (New York: Routledge, 2017). His scholarly essays have appeared in various edited book collections and journals like New Political Science , Contemporary Political Theory and Political Theory . Zamalin has been a guest on NPR and MSNBC and his work has been featured in The Guardian , Literary Hub , Religion Dispatches , ESPN's Undefeated , and YES! magazine.

Contents:

Gramsci and the problem of fatalism / Lukas Slothuus

The promise of solidarity : learning from failure with Rosa Luxemburg / Maša Mrovlje

Between loss and hope : reflections on the Black revolutionary tradition / Alex Zamalin

Memorials of 'Third World' solidarity in Latin American and African narratives / Sarah M. Quesada

Staying with melancholy? : an archive of the future's past / Brigitte Bargetz

Despair and other political feelings / Deborah Gould

Resistance and/or metamorphosis : politics as breathwork / David McIvor

Responding to failure : the case of the US disability rights movement / Gisli Vogler

Beside the point of hope : a thought experiment on (Black) life, death, and literary puncturing / Joseph Winters.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 19, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Revolutionary hope in a time of crisis

ISBN:

9781003356271

1003356273

9781040009369

1040009360

9781040009390

1040009395

Publisher Number:

40032388262

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