Breaching the Civil Order (eBook, ePUB)

Radicalism and the Civil Sphere
Redaktion: Alexander, Jeffrey C.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It is not only a paradox but something of an intellectual scandal that, in an era so shaken by radical actions and ideologies, social science has had nothing theoretically new to say about radicalism since the middle of the last century. Breaching the Civil Order fills this void. It argues that, rather than seeing radicalism in substantive terms - as violent or militant, communist or fascist - radicalism should be seen more broadly as any organized effort to breach the civil order. The theory is brilliantly made flesh in a series of case studies by leading European and American social scientists, from the destruction of property in the London race riots to the public militancy of Black Lives Matter in the US, the performative violence of the Irish IRA and the Mexican Zapatistas to the democratic upheavals of the Arab Spring, and from Islamic terrorism in France to Germany's right-wing populist Pegida.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108553360
• Artikelnr.: 62737285

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Jeffrey C. Alexander and Trevor Stack; 1. Wedging open
established civil spheres: a comparative approach to their emancipatory
potential Trevor Stack; 2. Radical protest in a university campus:
performances of civil transition in Colombia Carlo Tognato; 3. Antiracism
movements and the US civil sphere: the case of Black Lives Matter Stephen
F. Ostertag; 4. The civil sphere and its variants in light of the Arab
revolutions and jihadism in Europe Farhad Khosrokhavar; 5. Restaging a
vital center within radicalized civil societies: the media, performativity,
and the Charlie Hebdo attack María Luengo and Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk; 6.
Anti-immigrant movements and the self-poisoning of the civil sphere: the
case of Germany Volker M. Heins and Christine Unrau; 7. The civil sphere
and the Irish Republican movement, 1970-1998 Anne Kane; 8. 'We all came
together that day': the 2011 English riots as an enactment of solidarity
Yasushi Tanaka-Gutiez; 9. Disobedience in civil regeneration: radical
transformations in the civil sphere Maeve Cooke; Commentary Liv Egholm;
Conclusion Peter Kivisto and Giuseppe Sciortino.