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Figurations of the Future: Forms and Temporalities of Left Radical Politics in Northern Europe
Stine Kroijer
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Description for Figurations of the Future: Forms and Temporalities of Left Radical Politics in Northern Europe
Hardback. Built around key events, this book explores politics among left radical activists in Northern Europe. The author recasts theoretical concerns about politics and aesthetics, drawing on anthropological literature from Scandinavia and the Amazon to establish analogies between perceptions of the body, autonomy, forests and capitalism. Series: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DN; JHMC; JPF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 293 x 18. Weight in Grams: 468.
Built around key events from the eviction of a self-managed social centre in Copenhagen in 2007 to the Climate Summit protests in 2009, this book contributes to anthropological literature on contemporary Euro-American politics foreshadowing the recent wave of public dissent. The author explores the forms politics take among left radical and anarchist activists in Northern Europe pointing to how forms of action engender time. Drawing on anthropological literature from both Scandinavia and the Amazon, this ethnography acts as a recasting of theoretical concerns about body politics, political intentionality, aesthetics and time.
Built around key events from the eviction of a self-managed social centre in Copenhagen in 2007 to the Climate Summit protests in 2009, this book contributes to anthropological literature on contemporary Euro-American politics foreshadowing the recent wave of public dissent. The author explores the forms politics take among left radical and anarchist activists in Northern Europe pointing to how forms of action engender time. Drawing on anthropological literature from both Scandinavia and the Amazon, this ethnography acts as a recasting of theoretical concerns about body politics, political intentionality, aesthetics and time.
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Ethnography, Theory, Experiment
Condition
New
Weight
468g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782387367
SKU
V9781782387367
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99-15
About Stine Kroijer
Stine Kroijer is Assistant Professor at University of Copenhagen and is working on autonomy, anarchism, environmental and forest politics and the Amazon. This is her first book.
Reviews for Figurations of the Future: Forms and Temporalities of Left Radical Politics in Northern Europe
... an excellent, intriguing ... book [that] puts forward a number of connected theses ... in activist politics, the emergence of a certain regime of temporality with 'cosmological' import, and the priority of form over content in the generation of a certain indigenous concept of style that is importantly different from the classic, Birmingham-school notion.
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