Ambiguities of Activism: Alter-Globalism and the Imperatives of Speed (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies #43)

By: Ingrid M. Hoofd

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Synopsis: This volume provides a critical and in-depth investigation of the relationship between alter-globalist thinking and practices and their popular discourses. It examines the ways in which several alter-globalist activist groups (like Indymedia, no-borders campaigns, and forms of climate change activism), as well as left-wing intellectuals and academics (like Michael Hardt, Al Gore, Antonio Negri, Hakim Bey, and Geert Lovink), mobilize problematic discourses, tools, and divisions in an attempt to overcome gendered, raced, and classed oppressions worldwide. The book draws out how these mobilizations and theorizations, despite (or possibly because of) their liberatory claims, are actually implicated in the intensification of global hierarchies by repeatedly invoking narratives of transcendence, connection, progress, and in particular of speed. Hoofd argues that the humanist ideals that underlie all these practices paradoxically trigger increasing disenfranchisements worldwide.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 138 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781136257544
Related ISBNs:: 9780415622073, 9781138642713, 9780203106334
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 10/10/22
Copyrighted By:: Taylor and Francis
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Social Studies, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
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