Disobedience: Concept and Practice

by Elena Loizidou (Editor)

Overview

Disobedience has been practiced and considered since time immemorial. The aim of this edited collection is to explore the concept and practice of disobedience through the prism of contemporary ideas and events. Past writings on disobedience represented it as a largely political practice that revealed the limits of government or law. It was not, for example, thought of as a subjective exigency and its discussion in relation to law and politics was tied to an unduly narrow conception of these terms. Disobedience: Concept and Practice reveals the multivalent, multidisciplinary and poly-local nature of disobedience. The essays in this volume demonstrate how disobedience operates in various terrains, and may be articulated in relation to textuality, aesthetics and subjectivity, as well as politics and law. A rich and useful guide to current legal, political and social possibilities, this book provides a fresh perspective on a subject that is of both historical importance and contemporary relevance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415657242
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/10/2013
Series:	Glasshouse Books
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Elena Loizidou teaches at School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London

Table of Contents

Lucy Finchett-Maddoc, ‘The Case of the Naughty in Relation to Law’; Gilbert Leung, ‘Breach of the Peace or Sovereignty: Violence and Disobedience’; Patrick Hanafin, ‘Insubordinate Voices: Contestation and the Right to Politics’; Margaritas Palacios, ‘Hermeneutics and the Art of Disobedience: A critical reading of Ricoeur and Derrida’essay; Jimmy Casas Klausen, ‘Sacropolitics: How to Disobey Sacred Scriptures’; James Martel, ‘Disobedient Objects: Benjamin, Kafka, Poe and the revolt of the fetish’; Costas Douzinas, ‘Greek Disobedience’; Jodie Dean, ‘Disobedience is not Democracy’; Elena Loizidou, ‘Disobedience Subjectively Speaking’.