Ingrid M Hoofd

Ambiguities of Activism

Alter-Globalism and the Imperatives of Speed

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 209g
• ISBN-13: 9781138642713
• ISBN-10: 1138642711
• Artikelnr.: 43893414

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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