Robert Latham

The Politics of Evasion (eBook, PDF)

A Post-Globalization Dialogue Along the Edge of the State

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Burgeoning national security programs; thickening borders; Wikileaks and Anonymous; immigrant rights rallies; Occupy movements; student protests; neoliberal austerity; global financial crises - these developments underscore that the fable of a hope-filled post-cold war globalization has faded away. In its place looms the prospect of states and corporations transforming a permanent war on terror into a permanent war on society. How, at the critical juncture of a post-globalization era, will policymakers and power-holders in leading states and corporations of the Global North choose to pursue power and control? What possibilities and limits do activists and communities face for progressive political action to counter this power inside and outside the state?

This book is a sustained dialogue between author and political theorist, Robert Latham and Mr. V, a policy analyst from a state in the Global North. Mr. V is sympathetic to the pursuit of justice, rights and freedom by activists and movements but also mindful of the challenges of states in pursuing security and order in the current social and political moment. He seeks a return to the progressive, welfare-oriented state associated with the twentieth century. The dialogue offers an in-depth consideration of whether this is possible and how a progressive politics might require a different approach to social organization, power and collective life.

Exploring key ideas, such as sovereignty, activism, neoliberalism, anarchism, migration, intervention, citizenship, security, political resistance and transformation, and justice, this book will be of interest to academics and students of Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology, Law, Geography, Media and Communication, and Cultural Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317236610
• Artikelnr.: 44873832

Autorenporträt

Robert Latham teaches in the Political Science, Communication and Culture, and Social and Political Thought programs at York University in Toronto, Canada. He has published widely on topics including political economy, security, digital activism, technologies of border surveillance, critical theories of sovereignty, transnational relations, migration, and multiculturalism.

Inhaltsangabe

1. SECURITY, CIRCULATION, AND THE LIMITS OF LIBERAL ORDER "New forms of
disruption" "We can label this logic, evasion" "Bringing risk into the
picture" "Openness and closure produce one another" "Deepening security and
the possibilities of protest" "The nature of the target matters" "The
relationship between anonymity and liberalism" "Disorder as an evasive
tactic" "No pure, angelic form of liberalism" 2. RESISTANCE, TIME, AND THE
STATE IN QUESTION "Between permanence and temporariness" "Enduring and
transient structures" "A standpoint from which to question the state" "The
melting of all that is solid" "Alongside permanence is the possibility of
non-permanence" "Creating new meanings and framings" 3. NEOLIBERALISM,
HYPER-SECURITY, AND THE BOUNDING OF POLITICAL LIFE "The desirability of
publicness" "The external versus internal divide" "A range of interventions
and forms of presence" "Looking at the interspatial logics of deployment"
"What sort of power comes along with evasion?" "The state is a deployment
machine" 4. TOWARD A PROGRESSIVE POLITICS OF EVASION "Lapsing into a
defeatism" "Evading deployments" A "progressive politics of evasion"
"Entering a trajectory of transformation" "Leave it up to the people?"
"What kind of new collectivities are in play here?" "Closure is needed to
create passages" "The battle within societies over collectivity can't be
avoided" "Making passage and re-collectivity constitutional logics of the
state"