{"product_id":"escape-routes-control-and-subversion-in-the-twentyfirst-century-9780745327792","title":"Escape Routes Control and Subversion in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShows how we can resist increasingly advanced methods of state control by refusing to conform to accepted behavioural norms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A profound and brilliant examination of the power of exodus to create radical interventions in perhaps the three most important and contested fields of society today: life, migration and precarious labour' -- Antonio Negri, author of Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State (1999), and co-author of Empire (2000) and Multitude (2005).\u003cbr\u003eAnother world is here! So announce the authors in their preface to a stirring and intellectually inspiring book about the possibility, the necessity and the potency of escape. ... The authors trace escape routes through the ordinary and through everyday practices. Escape Routes is required reading for anyone who believes in the alternative worlds produced alongside neoliberal capitalism. -- Judith Halberstam, Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California and author of In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives and Female Masculinity (2005).\u003cbr\u003eA rich variety of work starts with some version of the autonomous thesis, that the everyday actions or resistances of people precede power ... Escape Routes is one of the most original and interesting efforts to build a fuller understanding of the contemporary world, by focussing on processes and mapping out some of the history  of modern power and resistance. -- Lawrence Grossberg, Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, co-editor of the journal Cultural Studies and author of Caught in the Crossfire: Kids, Politics (2005).\u003cbr\u003eThis is one of the most original treatments of some of the big questions we confront today. Even familiar subjects gain a new kind of traction as they are repositioned in the authors' sharply defined lens of control and subversion. ... Escape Routes allows us to see what might otherwise be illegible and it continuously executes reversals of standard interpretations of the present. -- Saskia Sassen, Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and author of Territory, Authority, Rights (2006)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements \u003cbr\u003e  List of figures\t\u003cbr\u003e  Prologue\u003cbr\u003e  I THE POLITICAL CONSTITUTION OF THE PRESENT\u003cbr\u003e  1. Sovereignty and control reconsidered\t\t\t\u003cbr\u003e  2. Escape!\u003cbr\u003e  II A CONTEMPORARY ITINERARY OF ESCAPE\u003cbr\u003e  3. Life and experience\u003cbr\u003e  4. Mobility and migration\u003cbr\u003e  5. Labour and precarity\t\t\u003cbr\u003e  References\u003cbr\u003e  Index","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404296069463,"sku":"9780745327792","price":72.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745327792.jpg?v=1730486019","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/escape-routes-control-and-subversion-in-the-twentyfirst-century-9780745327792","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}