Soundings: Issue 12-Transversal Politics - Softcover

Rustin, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0853159025 ISBN 13: 9780853159025

Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

The special theme of this issue of Soundings is "transversal politics"--a term which attempts to conceptualize a democratic practice of talking across difference. The idea is to find ways of doing things which involve neither the imposition of a single universal which refuses to recognize that there really are "differences," nor the retreat into those differences as tightly-bound, exclusivist and essentialist; to find creative ways of crossing (and possibly redrawing) the borders that mark significant politicized differences; and to find forms of empathy not based on sameness, ways of shifting which don't involve tearing up your roots.

About this title

About the Author

Cynthia Cockburn is a Research Professor in the Department of Sociology at City University, London, and coordinator of the action-research project Women Building Bridges, reported in her book The Space Between Us. Lynnette Hunter is a Professor in the School of English at the University of Leeds and currently Gresham Professor of Rhetoric.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0853159025
• ISBN 13: 9780853159025
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Hall Stuart, Massey Doreen, Cockburn Cynthia, Hunter Lynnette