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9780231555487
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9783110749663
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New Directions in Critical Theory ; 78
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The word "crisis" denotes a break, a discontinuity, a rupture-a moment after which the normal order can continue no longer. Yet our political vocabulary today is suffused with the rhetoric of crisis, to the point that supposed abnormalities have been normalized. How can the notion of crisis be rethought in order to take stock of-and challenge-our understanding of the many predicaments in which we find ourselves?Instead of diagnosing emergencies, Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, and an assembly of leading thinkers examine how people experience, interpret, and contribute to the making of and the response to critical situations. Contributors inquire into the social production of crisis, evaluating a wide range of cases on five continents through the lenses of philosophy, sociology, anthropology, political science, history, and economics. Considering social movements, intellectual engagements, affected communities, and reflexive perspectives, the book foregrounds the perspectives of those most closely involved, bringing out the immediacy of crisis. Featuring analysis from below as well as above, from the inside as well as the outside, Crisis Under Critique is a singular intervention that utterly recasts one of today's most crucial-yet most ambiguous-concepts.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction: The Heuristic of Crises: Reclaiming Critical Voices --
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PART ONE. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS --
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1. Capitalism Contested: Britain in the Aftermath of World War I --
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2. Striking a Rock with Eggs: Resistance and Repression After Tiananmen --
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3. Undoing the Rule of Market Laws: Social Critique and the Making of Normative Futures --
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4. "Layoffs Are Murder, but They Are Also Everyday Life": A Critique of Labor and Living in the Era of Ghost Capital --
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5. Remaking the Demos "from Below"? Critical Theory, Migrant Struggles, and Epistemic Resistance --
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PART TWO. INTELLECTUAL ENGAGEMENTS --
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6. Peace, or the Moral Economy of War: Between W. E. B. Du Bois and Sayyid Quṭb --
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7. Personal Pronouns and Political Protest: Henry David Thoreau and Ta-Nehisi Coates as Critics in Times of Crisis --
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8. Becoming Anticolonial in Northern Namibia, 1950-1954: The Emergence of Both Crisis and Critique from Everyday Interpretations --
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9. How Do Technocrats Address Crises? From Structural to Humanitarian Approaches to Crises in Latin American Developmentalism --
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10. Against Crisis: Violence and Continuity in Manus Island Prison --
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PART THREE. AFFECTED COMMUNITIES --
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11. Love Trumps Hate: Community Caretaking in an Era of Mass Deportation --
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12. Helping Refugees in Rural Germany: Ambivalences of Compassion --
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13. Toward a Theory of Climate Praxis: Confronting Climate Change in a World of Struggle --
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14. The Discovery of Contamination: Forever Chemicals and the Temporality of Critique --
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15. Democracy Without Demos: The Disappearance of the Working Class and the Rise of Abstention in French Political Life --
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PART FOUR. REFLEXIVE PERSPECTIVES --
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16. New Technologies and the Moral Economy of White Nationalism --
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17. "The Only Way Out Is Through": Anthropology as Critical Praxis in Times of Crisis --
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18. Social Movements and Social Theory --
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19. The Invisible Rebellion: Working People Under the New Capitalist Economy --
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20. Conspiracy Theories as Ambiguous Critique of Crisis --
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Contributors --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
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https://doi.org/10.7312/fass20432
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