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Book SynopsisWe are told that we live in a post ideological era; that we have moved 'beyond Left and Right'; and that we are 'all in it together'. Democracy has been reduced to the consensual administration of economic necessity. How can we make sense of this form of depoliticisation? This title examines how the post political has come to dominate governance.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors; Seeds of Dystopia: Post Politics and the Return of the Political, Japhy Wilson and Erik Swyngedouw; Part I Spaces of Depoliticisation; 1. The Post Politics of Sustainability Planning: Privatisation and the Demise of Democratic Government, Mike Raco; 2. The Post Political and the End of Nature: The Genetically Modified Organism, Larry Reynolds and Bronislaw Szerszynski; 3. The New Development Architecture and the Post Political in the Global South, Sangeeta Kamat; 4. Opening Up the Post Political Condition: Multiculturalism and the Matrix of Depoliticisation, Nicolas Van Puymbroeck and Stijn Oosterlynck; 5. The Jouissance of Philanthrocapitalism: Enjoyment as a Post Political Factor, Japhy Wilson; 6. Religious Antinomies of Post Politics, Bulent Diken; 7. Post Ecologist Governmentality: Post Democracy, Post Politics and the Politics of Unsustainability, Ingolfur Bluhdorn; Part II Spectres of Radical Politics; 8. Insurgent Architects, Radical Cities and the Promise of the Political, Erik Swyngedouw; 9. The Limits of Post Politics: Rethinking Radical Social Enterprise, Wendy Larner; 10. Neither Cosmopolitanism nor Multipolarity: The Political Beyond Global Governmentality, Hans Martin Jaeger; 11. Against a Speculative Leftism, Alex Loftus; 12. Spatialising Politics: Antagonistic Imaginaries of Indignant Squares, Maria Kaika and Lazaros Karaliotas; 13. After Post Politics: Occupation and the Return of Communism, Jodi Dean; 14. The Enigma of Revolt: Militant Politics in a 'Post Political' Age, Andy Merrifield There Is No Alternative, Erik Swyngedouw and Japhy Wilson; Index.
