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 ofradical politics in our times. INDICE: What is Radical Politics Today?; J.Pugh - PART I: GRAND VISIONS - Getting to the Roots of Radical Politics Today; Z.Bauman - What Happened to Radical Humanism?; F.Furedi - Victim of Success: Green Politics Today; P.Kingsnorth - Radicalism Against the Masses; J.Heartfield - Moving Targets and Political Judgements; T.Carver - The Forces Shaping Radical Politics Today; C.Short -Resistance after the Spatial Turn; E.W.Soja - PART II: NEW FORMS OF RADICAL POLITICS - Questioning Global Political Activism; D.Chandler - Rethinking Political Organization; H.Wainwright - Iraq, Trauma and Dissent in Visual Culture; D.Apel - Radicalism, Writ Large and Small; M.J.Watts - Continuing the Strugglein Hard Times; J.Toynbee - A Politics of Commitment; J.Martin - Beyond Gesture, Beyond Pragmatism; J.Gilbert ; J.Littler - Invention and Hard Work; D.Massey - PART III: DIVERSITY AND DIFFERENCE - Progressivism Reinvigorated; G.McLennan - In Defense of Multicultural Citizenship; T.Modood - New Left and Old Far Right: Tolerating the Intolerable; N.Cohen - Clashing the Civilizations; A.Saeed ; D.Bates - Radicalism is Nostalgia; A.Bonnett - Universal Conditions: Modern Childhood; K.Worpole - A New Politics of Innovation; S.Jasanoff - Universities are Radical; N.Thrift - PART IV: THE ROLE OF THE STATE - Anarchism; S.Newman - The Importance of Engaging the State; C.Mouffe - Common-Sense Beyond the Neo-Liberal State; D.Featherstone - Democracy, the State and Capitalism Today;A.Colás ; J.Edwards - Tackling the Supplicant State; D.Boyle - The Potential for a Progressive State?; S.Sassen
- ISBN: 978-0-230-23626-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 21/10/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés