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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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