Global Insurrectional Politics / Edition 1

by Nevzat Soguk

Overview

The recent Arab uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East have attracted scholarly attention as popular movements with novel transnational and religious dimensions. What became known as the Arab Spring can be read as part of a broader politics of normative defiance of predominant political and economic orders. From religious conflicts and indigenous sovereign claims to mobilizations of refugees and migrants in camps and urban settings, it may be possible to speak of contemporary insurrectional politics as social movements that emanate from normative positions which pose significant challenges to systemic orders. The purpose of this book is: to identify the material shifts giving rise to insurrectional politics; to reflect on key arenas of insurrection; to map/chart the impact of insurrectional movements on institutions and relations of political governance at national and global levels; and to explore analytics that will advance theorization of insurrectional politics. This volume generates new knowledge on systemic institutional transformations spanning the national and global, by bringing together scholars whose work combines theoretical inquiry with empirical analysis of contemporary insurrectional politics. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Globalizations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367029364
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/11/2019
Series:	Rethinking Globalizations , #1
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nevzat Soguk is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. He is co-editor, with Scott Nelson, of Modern Theory, Modern Power, World Politics: Critical Investigations (2016).

Table of Contents

1. Insurrectional Politics: Theories and Practices of Contemporary Insurrections 2. On Insurrectionality: Theses on Contemporary Revolts and Resilience 3. Demonizing the Sensible and the ‘Revolution of Our Generation’ in Rosia Montana 4. Number Fetish: Middle-class India’s Obsession with the GDP 5. The End of Football and Fiesta? Social Insurrection and National Identity in Twenty-First-Century Brazil 6. Insurrectional Arts: Restoring a Politics and Ethics of Attention 7. Insurrectional Politics in Colonial Southeast Asia: Colonial Modernity, Islamic ‘Counterplots’, and Translocal (Anti-colonial) Connectivity 8. ‘Germany Has Become Mohammedan’: Insurgency, Long-Distance Travel, and the Singapore Mutiny, 1915 9. Between Camps/Between Cities: Movement, Capture and Insurrectional Migrant Lives 10. Facebook Bras and #digitalharems: Fantasies of Mimesis and the Transgressions of Aliaa Elmahdy and Amina Sboui 11. With/Out a State, Kurds Rising: The Un/Stated Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq