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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Resistance Reconsidered / Othon Alexandrakis
Part I: Affect as Political Condition
1. Being and Doing Politics: Moral Ontologies and Ethical Ways of Knowing at the End of the Cold War / Jessica Greenberg
2. The Affective Echoes of an Overwhelming Life: The Demand for Legal Recognition and the Vicious Cycle of Desire, in the Case of Queer Activism in Istanbul, Turkey / Eirine Avramopoulou
3. Emergenc(i)es in the Fields: Affective Composition and Counter-Camps Against the Exploitation of Migrant Farm Labor in Italy / Irene Peano
4. Cosmologicopolitics: Vitalistic Cosmology Meets Biopower / James D. Faubion
5. Surreal Capitalism and the Dialectical Economies of Precarity / Neni Panourgiá

Part II: Agency as Ethical Condition
6. Intolerants: Politics of the Ordinary in Karachi, Pakistan / Tania Ahmad
7. Negative Space: Unmovement and the Study of Activism When There is No Action / Cymene Howe
8. What Should be Done?: Art and Political Possibility in Russia / Petra Rethmann
9. The Multilinearity of Protest: Understanding New Social Movements Through Their Events, Trends, and Routines / John Postill
10. Whose Ethics?: Negotiating Ethics and Responsibility in the Field / Marianne Maeckelbergh
11. Within, Against, Beyond: The Radical Imagination in the Age of the Slow-Motion Apocalypse / Alex Khasnabish
Conclusion: On an Emergent Politics and Ethics of Resistance / Athená Athanasiou and Othon Alexandrakis
List of Contributors
Index

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: 03/10/2016
      ISBN13: 9780253022783, 978-0253022783
      ISBN10: 0253022789

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Introduction: Resistance Reconsidered / Othon Alexandrakis
      Part I: Affect as Political Condition
      1. Being and Doing Politics: Moral Ontologies and Ethical Ways of Knowing at the End of the Cold War / Jessica Greenberg
      2. The Affective Echoes of an Overwhelming Life: The Demand for Legal Recognition and the Vicious Cycle of Desire, in the Case of Queer Activism in Istanbul, Turkey / Eirine Avramopoulou
      3. Emergenc(i)es in the Fields: Affective Composition and Counter-Camps Against the Exploitation of Migrant Farm Labor in Italy / Irene Peano
      4. Cosmologicopolitics: Vitalistic Cosmology Meets Biopower / James D. Faubion
      5. Surreal Capitalism and the Dialectical Economies of Precarity / Neni Panourgiá

      Part II: Agency as Ethical Condition
      6. Intolerants: Politics of the Ordinary in Karachi, Pakistan / Tania Ahmad
      7. Negative Space: Unmovement and the Study of Activism When There is No Action / Cymene Howe
      8. What Should be Done?: Art and Political Possibility in Russia / Petra Rethmann
      9. The Multilinearity of Protest: Understanding New Social Movements Through Their Events, Trends, and Routines / John Postill
      10. Whose Ethics?: Negotiating Ethics and Responsibility in the Field / Marianne Maeckelbergh
      11. Within, Against, Beyond: The Radical Imagination in the Age of the Slow-Motion Apocalypse / Alex Khasnabish
      Conclusion: On an Emergent Politics and Ethics of Resistance / Athená Athanasiou and Othon Alexandrakis
      List of Contributors
      Index

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