What is radical politics today?
By: Edited by Jonathan Pugh
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780230236257
Description: "A crisis makes you rethink your life. The recent economic crisis is no exception. All of us are now thinking how the world could be run differently. Despite this, a radical alternative has hardly emerged to mobilize the masses. Written for the public and students, this book explores the character and spirit of radical politics in our times"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is radical politics today? / Jonathan Pugh; title: pt. 1. Grand visions. Getting to the roots of radical politics today / Zygmunt Bauman; title: What happened to radical humanism? / Frank Furedi; title: Victim of success: green politics today / Paul Kingsnorth; title: Radicalism against the masses / James Heartfield; title: Moving targets and political judgements / Terrell Carver; title: The forces shaping radical politics today / Clare Short; title: Resistance after the spatial turn / Edward W. Soja; title: pt. 2. New forms of radical politics. Questioning global political activism / David Chandler; title: Rethinking political organisation / Hilary Wainwright; title: Iraq, trauma and dissent in visual culture / Dora Apel; title: Radicalism, writ large and small / Michael J. Watts; title: Continuing the struggle in hard times / Jason Toynbee; title: A politics of commitment / James Martin; title: Beyond gesture, beyond pragmatism / Jeremy Gilbert and Jo Littler; title: Invention and hard work / Doreen Massey; title: pt. 3. Diversity and difference. Progressivism reinvigorated / Gregor McLennan; title: In defence of multicultural citizenship / Tariq Modood; title: New left and old far right: tolerating the intolerable / Nick Cohen; title: Clashing the civilisations / Amir Saeed and David Bates; title: Radicalism in nostalgia / Alastair Bonnett; title: Universal conditions: modern childhood / Ken Worpole; title: A new politics of innovation / Sheila Jasanoff; title: Universities are radical / Nigel Thrift; title: Radical politics after the crisis / Will Hutton; title: pt. 4. The role of the state. Anarchism / Saul Newman; title: The importance of engaging the state / Chantal Mouffe; title: Common-sense beyond the neo-liberal state / David Featherstone; title: Democracy, the state and capitalism today / Alejandro Colás and Jason Edwards; title: Tackling the supplicant state / David Boyle; title: The potential for a progressive state? / Saskia Sassen.