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Contemporary Political Movements and the Thought of Jacques Rancière : Equality in Action / Todd May.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (168 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748639823
  • 9780748641659
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 194 22
LOC classification:
  • JC423 .M379 2010eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Thinking Politics with Jacques Rancière -- 2 Equality among the Refugees: Montréal's Sans-Statuts Algerian Movement -- 3 Subjectifi cation in the First Palestinian Intifada -- 4 The Zapatistas: From Identity to Equality -- 5 Institutions of Equality -- 6 Democratic Politics Now -- Index
Summary: In this book, Todd May shows how democratic progressive politics can happen and how it is happening in very different arenas. He takes an intensive look at a range of contemporary political movements and shows how, to one degree or another, they exemplify the political thought of Jacques Rancière. May's easy, clear writing style means that no philosophical background is required.Following an essential overview of Rancière's thought he considers the following groups: the Algerian refugee movement in Montreal for citizenship, the first Palestinian intifada, the politics of equality and identity politics in relation to the Zapatista movement, a local food co-op in South Carolina and an anarchist press in Oakland.Essentially this book shows how political theory and practice can enlighten one another and in an age of cynicism, fear and despair, Todd May suggests there is hope for the possibility of progressive democratic action. It will appeal to Rancière students, scholars and political activists alike.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Thinking Politics with Jacques Rancière -- 2 Equality among the Refugees: Montréal's Sans-Statuts Algerian Movement -- 3 Subjectifi cation in the First Palestinian Intifada -- 4 The Zapatistas: From Identity to Equality -- 5 Institutions of Equality -- 6 Democratic Politics Now -- Index

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In this book, Todd May shows how democratic progressive politics can happen and how it is happening in very different arenas. He takes an intensive look at a range of contemporary political movements and shows how, to one degree or another, they exemplify the political thought of Jacques Rancière. May's easy, clear writing style means that no philosophical background is required.Following an essential overview of Rancière's thought he considers the following groups: the Algerian refugee movement in Montreal for citizenship, the first Palestinian intifada, the politics of equality and identity politics in relation to the Zapatista movement, a local food co-op in South Carolina and an anarchist press in Oakland.Essentially this book shows how political theory and practice can enlighten one another and in an age of cynicism, fear and despair, Todd May suggests there is hope for the possibility of progressive democratic action. It will appeal to Rancière students, scholars and political activists alike.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)