Stijn De Cauwer, "Critical Theory at a Crossroads: Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis"
English | ISBN: 0231186789 | 2018 | 256 pages | EPUB | 1231 KB
We are living in an age of crisis―or an age in which everything is labeled a crisis. Financial, debt, and refugee "crises" have erupted. The word has also been applied to the Arab Spring and its aftermath, Brexit, the 2016 U.S. election, and many other international events. Yet the term has contradictory political and strategic meanings for those challenging power structures and those seeking to preserve them. For critics of the status quo, can the rhetoric of crisis be used to foment urgency around issues like climate change and financialization, or does framing a situation as a "crisis" play into the hands of the existing political order, which then seeks to tighten the leash by creating a state of emergency?
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