Social Sciences for an Other Politics Women Theorizing Without Parachutes

Social Sciences for an Other Politics Women Theorizing Without Parachutes / edited by Ana Cecilia Dinerstein.

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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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Dinerstein, Ana Cecilia (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Sociology.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Political sociology.
Globalization.
Political economy.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
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.

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