Burgeoning national security programs; thickening borders;
Wikileaks and Anonymous; immigrant rights rallies; Occupy
movements; student protests; neoliberal austerity; global financial
crises - these developments underscore that the fable of a
hope-filled post-cold war globalization has faded away. In its
place looms the prospect of states and corporations transforming a
permanent war on terror into a permanent war on society. How, at
the critical juncture of a post-globalization era, will
policymakers and power-holders in leading states and corporations
of the Global North choose to pursue power and control? What
possibilities and limits do activists and communities face for
progressive political action to counter this power inside and
outside the state? This book is a sustained dialogue between author
and political theorist, Robert Latham and Mr. V, a policy analyst
from a state in the Global North. Mr. V is sympathetic to the
pursuit of justice, rights and freedom by activists and movements
but also mindful of the challenges of states in pursuing security
and order in the current social and political moment. He seeks a
return to the progressive, welfare-oriented state associated with
the twentieth century. The dialogue offers an in-depth
consideration of whether this is possible and how a progressive
politics might require a different approach to social organization,
power and collective life. Exploring key ideas, such as
sovereignty, activism, neoliberalism, anarchism, migration,
intervention, citizenship, security, political resistance and
transformation, and justice, this book will be of interest to
academics and students of Political Science, Sociology,
Anthropology, Law, Geography, Media and Communication, and Cultural
Studies.
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