A01=Mathijs van de Sande
anarchism
assembly movements
Author_Mathijs van de Sande
Category=QDTS
Chantal Mouffe
Claude Lefort
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Ernesto Laclau
Hannah Arendt
Judith Butler
political activism
postanarchism
prefiguration
prefigurative politics
radical democracy
Rosa Luxemburg
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- ISBN 9781474451857
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Dec 2022
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Introduces the key aspects of a theoretical debate on prefigurative politics and contemporary protest movements
Develops a theory of prefigurative democracy as a way of thinking critically about contemporary protest movements
Engages with the work of various radical political theorists, such as Arendt, Laclau and Mouffe and (post-)anarchist theory
Combines an analysis of activist practices with both state-of-the-art and canonical radical theory
In the wake of protest movements such as Occupy Wall Street and the Spanish 15-M movement, the past decade has seen an increased interest in prefigurative politics: the attempt of activists to already realise or embody their ideal of a future society within their own movements and practices. Engaging with the concept and its history, this book establishes a radical-democratic theory of prefiguration. Van de Sande builds on the work of political theorists as diverse as Hannah Arendt, Ernesto Laclau, Claude Lefort, Rosa Luxemburg, and Judith Butler to reveal the radical and representative role of protest and social movements today. He gives various accounts of how prefigurative practices and movements may continue to have political relevance long after they have ended.
Mathijs van de Sande teaches political philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen. In 2017, he obtained his PhD at the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven with a thesis on the prefigurative repertoire of recent assembly movements, such as Occupy Wall Street. His main research interests are radical democratic theory, political representation, activism and social movement theory.
