Riots and Militant Occupations: Smashing a System, Building a World - A Critical Introduction - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 1786603705 ISBN 13 : 9781786603708

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2018

Synopsis

Riots and Militant Occupations provides students with theoretical reflections and qualitative case studies on militant contentious political action across a range from across Europe to Nigeria, China and Turkey.

This multi-authored, interdisciplinary collection adopts an interpretive and participatory approach to examining meanings, affects, embodiment, identity, relationality and space in the context of riots and protests. The rapidly shifting terrain of riots and occupations has left existing social-scientific theories lagging behind, challenging dominant constructions of agency and rationality. This book will fill this gap, by offering new understandings and critical perspectives on the question of what happens in space, in time and between people, during and after riots.

Weaving together observations, experiences and analyses of riots from participants, theorists and social scientists, the authors craft theoretical perspectives in close connection with researched practices. These perspectives take the form of new theoretical contributions on the spatiality, affectivity and immanent meaning of riots, and grassroots qualitative case-studies of particular events and contexts. Countering the preconceptions of riots as a trail of broken windows, burned dumpsters and angry conservatives, this book aims to demonstrate that riots are fundamentally creative, generating forms of meaning, power, knowledge, affect, social connection and participatory space which are rare, and sociologically important, in the modern world.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Alissa Starodub is a Graduate Researcher at the Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

Andrew Robinson is a UK-based independent researcher and activist. He authored Power, Resistance and Conflict in the Contemporary World and over 20 articles and chapters.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1786603705
• ISBN 13: 9781786603708
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 284
• Éditeur: Starodub Alissa, Robinson Andrew
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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