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The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life (Revolutionary Studies) - Hardcover
Synopsis
George Katsiaficas's account covers the period 1968-1996 and pays special attention to the role of autonomous feminist movements, the effects of squatters and feminists on the disarmament movement and on efforts to shut down nuclear power, and the antifascist social movements developed in response to the neo-Nazi upsurge. In addition to providing a rare depiction of these often overlooked movements, Katsiaficas develops a specific notion of autonomy from the statements and aspirations of these movements. Drawing from the practical actions of social movements, his analysis is extended into a universal standpoint of the species, a perspective he develops by uncovering the partiality of Antonio Negri's workerism, Seyla Benhabib's feminism, and notions of uniqueness of the German nation.
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About the Author
George Katsiaficas is a Fulbright fellow, a student of Herbert Marcuse, a long-time activist, and currently Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the author of VIETNAM DOCUMENTS: AMERICAN AND VIETNAMESE VIEWS OF THE WAR and INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY with R.G. Kirkpatrick. Professor Katsiaficas is also the Managing Editor of "New Political Science".
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Looking back on the end of the Cold War and the immense geopolitical transformations accomplished, nearly all observers give credit to Mikhail Gorbachev or to impersonal forces such as the expense of the arms race, the Chernobyl disaster, or the crisis in the Soviet Union's political economy. Left out of our understanding is the role of popular movements . . . Searching for direct solutions, thousands of people constituted themselves as social forces which helped stimulate world leaders to act by providing them with a sense of the necessary and a glimpse of the possible. -- from the Preface
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