{"product_id":"surplus-citizens-9780745337784","title":"Surplus Citizens","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow grassroots movements have survived and thrived amidst a harsh political and economic crisis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An extraordinary achievement. Kotouza's incisive contribution to critical social theory and to the analysis of the contemporary dynamics of capitalist social relations should be read by all' -- Werner Bonefeld, author of 'Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: On Subversion and Negative Reason'\u003cbr\u003e'In this original study, Kotouza powerfully shows how national social struggles, like the ones we witnessed in Greece in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, are littered with contradictions and exclusions. Nevertheless by taking the politics of the excluded as its horizon, Surplus Citizens offers us the hope of a more inclusive, transnational politics' -- Elena Loizidou, Birkbeck University of London\u003cbr\u003e'An extraordinary guide to our present' -- Joshua Clover, author of 'Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings'\u003cbr\u003e'Breaking the ethno-national and state-centred cage into which discussions of the Greek crisis have largely been confined, Kotouza's book puts questions of race, gender and migration at the core of its analysis and provides us with a powerful model for investigating the dynamics and limits of contemporary surplus rebellions' -- Alberto Toscano, author of 'Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements \u003cbr\u003e Note on Transliteration \u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Squares and Frontiers \u003cbr\u003e PART I - HISTORIES: UNDEAD AND INVISIBLE CONFLICTS, TRANSFORMATIONS, CRISIS\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Making of Greek Capitalism through Race, Gender and Class \u003cbr\u003e 2. Victories, Defeats and Neoliberal Transformation, 1973–2008 \u003cbr\u003e 3. Symptoms of Crisis \u003cbr\u003e PART II - BECOMING SURPLUS: STRUGGLE AND ITS LIMITS\u003cbr\u003e 4. Social Struggle, Non-Identity and Popular Democracy \u003cbr\u003e 5. Citizens from Democracy to Riot \u003cbr\u003e 6. Labour and Superfluity \u003cbr\u003e 7. Solidarity, Charity or Exchange? \u003cbr\u003e 8. The Forest Against Work, Workers Against the Forest \u003cbr\u003e 9. Care, Vulnerability and Gender Politics \u003cbr\u003e PART III - NATIONALISM, BIOPOLITICS AND STRUGGLE AT THE BORDERS\u003cbr\u003e 10. Everyday Racism, Crisis Nationalisms and Migrant ‘Autonomy’ \u003cbr\u003e 11. Surplus Population Management by a Nation-State in Crisis \u003cbr\u003e 12. Nationalism from Below \u003cbr\u003e 13. Migrant Struggle and Anti-Fascism \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404314255703,"sku":"9780745337784","price":24.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745337784.jpg?v=1730486070","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/surplus-citizens-9780745337784","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}