Social Sciences for an Other Politics Women Theorizing Without Parachutes
This book opens up a unique intellectual space where eleven female scholar-activists explore alternative forms of theorising social reality. These‘Women on the Verge’ demonstrate that a new radical subject– one that is plural, prefigurative, decolonial, ethical, ecological, communal and democratic-...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2016, 2016
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword; J.K.Gibson-Graham
- Chapter 1. Introduction: The radical subject and its critical theory; Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
- Part I. Epistemological Openings
- Chapter 2. Learning Hope: An Epistemology of Possibility for Advanced Capitalist Society; Sarah Amsler
- Chapter 3. Decolonising critique: From Prophetic Negation to Prefigurative Affirmation; Sara Catherine Motta
- Chapter 4. Denaturalising ‘society’: Concrete utopia and the prefigurative critique of political economy; Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
- Part II. The (Re)Production of Life
- Chapter 5. Transgressing Gender and Development: Rethinking Economy Beyond ‘Smart Economics’; Suzanne Bergeron
- Chapter 6. Producing the Common and Re-producing Life: Keys towards Rethinking ‘the political’; Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar, Lucia Linsalata and Mina Lorena Navarro Trujillo
- Chapter 7. Talking about nature: Ecolinguistics and the ‘natureculture paradigm’; Francesca Zunino
- Part III. Social Movements and Prefigurative Politics
- Chapter 8.The Prefigurative is Political: On Politics beyond ‘the State’; Emily Brissette
- Chapter 9. The Prefigurative Turn: The Time and Place of Social Movement Practice; Marianne Maeckelbergh
- Chapter 10. Rethinking Social Movements with Societies in Movement; Marina Sitrin