Hoofd Ambiguities of Activism

Alter-Globalism and the Imperatives of Speed
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-136-25754-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 148 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

This volume provides a critical and in-depth investigation of the relationship between alter-globalist thinking and practices and their popular discourses. It examines the ways in which several alter-globalist activist groups (like Indymedia, no-borders campaigns, and forms of climate change activism), as well as left-wing intellectuals and academics (like Michael Hardt, Al Gore, Antonio Negri, Hakim Bey, and Geert Lovink), mobilize problematic discourses, tools, and divisions in an attempt to overcome gendered, raced, and classed oppressions worldwide. The book draws out how these mobilizations and theorizations, despite (or possibly because of) their liberatory claims, are actually implicated in the intensification of global hierarchies by repeatedly invoking narratives of transcendence, connection, progress, and in particular of speed. Hoofd argues that the humanist ideals that underlie all these practices paradoxically trigger increasing disenfranchisements worldwide.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoofd, Ingrid M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Complicities of Resistance: Activism in the Era of Acceleration 2. Tools of the Speed-Elite: Radical New Media Activism 3. The Migrant: the Speed-Elite’s Daydream of Radical Alterity 4. Humanism Overheating: The Conundrum of Climate Change Activism 5. Accelerating Deceleration: Out of the Cinders of Activism

Über Autor(innen)

Ingrid M. Hoofd is Assistant Professor of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore.