Crisis Under Critique : How People Assess, Transform, and Respond to Critical Situations /

The word "crisis" denotes a break, a discontinuity, a rupture-a moment after which the normal order can continue no longer. Yet our political vocabulary today is suffused with the rhetoric of crisis, to the point that supposed abnormalities have been normalized. How can the notion of crisi...

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Otros Autores: Amaya, Hector (Contribuidor), Bond, David (Contribuidor), Brennan, Denise (Contribuidor), Celikates, Robin (Contribuidor), Cohen, Daniel Aldana (Contribuidor), Cordero, Rodrigo (Contribuidor), Defossez, Anne-Claire (Contribuidor), Dobler, Gregor (Contribuidor), Fassin, Didier (Contribuidor, Editor ), Honneth, Axel (Contribuidor, Editor ), Idris, Murad (Contribuidor), Khayyat, Munira (Contribuidor), Marchesi, Aldo (Contribuidor), Mattei, Clara Elisabetta (Contribuidor), McNevin, Anne (Contribuidor), Thomä, Dieter (Contribuidor), Wagner, Greta (Contribuidor), Walzer, Michael (Contribuidor), Xiaoqing He, Rowena (Contribuidor), Yeon Choo, Hae (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2022]
Colección:New Directions in Critical Theory ; 78
Temas:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
anthropology.
capitalism.
critical theory.
economics.
history.
philosophy.
political science.
politics.
protest.
sociology.
unrest.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: The Heuristic of Crises: Reclaiming Critical Voices
  • PART ONE. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
  • 1. Capitalism Contested: Britain in the Aftermath of World War I
  • 2. Striking a Rock with Eggs: Resistance and Repression After Tiananmen
  • 3. Undoing the Rule of Market Laws: Social Critique and the Making of Normative Futures
  • 4. "Layoffs Are Murder, but They Are Also Everyday Life": A Critique of Labor and Living in the Era of Ghost Capital
  • 5. Remaking the Demos "from Below"? Critical Theory, Migrant Struggles, and Epistemic Resistance
  • PART TWO. INTELLECTUAL ENGAGEMENTS
  • 6. Peace, or the Moral Economy of War: Between W. E. B. Du Bois and Sayyid Quṭb
  • 7. Personal Pronouns and Political Protest: Henry David Thoreau and Ta-Nehisi Coates as Critics in Times of Crisis
  • 8. Becoming Anticolonial in Northern Namibia, 1950-1954: The Emergence of Both Crisis and Critique from Everyday Interpretations
  • 9. How Do Technocrats Address Crises? From Structural to Humanitarian Approaches to Crises in Latin American Developmentalism
  • 10. Against Crisis: Violence and Continuity in Manus Island Prison
  • PART THREE. AFFECTED COMMUNITIES
  • 11. Love Trumps Hate: Community Caretaking in an Era of Mass Deportation
  • 12. Helping Refugees in Rural Germany: Ambivalences of Compassion
  • 13. Toward a Theory of Climate Praxis: Confronting Climate Change in a World of Struggle
  • 14. The Discovery of Contamination: Forever Chemicals and the Temporality of Critique
  • 15. Democracy Without Demos: The Disappearance of the Working Class and the Rise of Abstention in French Political Life
  • PART FOUR. REFLEXIVE PERSPECTIVES
  • 16. New Technologies and the Moral Economy of White Nationalism
  • 17. "The Only Way Out Is Through": Anthropology as Critical Praxis in Times of Crisis
  • 18. Social Movements and Social Theory
  • 19. The Invisible Rebellion: Working People Under the New Capitalist Economy
  • 20. Conspiracy Theories as Ambiguous Critique of Crisis
  • Contributors
  • Index

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