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This book guides the reader through the many complications and
contradictions that characterize popular contestation today,
focusing on its socio-political, cultural, and aesthetic
dimensions. The volume recognizes that the same media and creative
strategies can be used to pursue very different causes, as the
anti-gay marriage Manif Pour Tous movement in France makes clear.
The contributors are scholars from the humanities and social
sciences, who analyze protests in particular regions, including
Egypt, Iran, Australia, France, Spain, Greece, and Hong Kong, and
transnational protests such as the NSA-leaks and the mobilization
of migrants and refugees. Not only the specificity of these protest
movements is examined, but also their tendency to connect and
influence each other, as well as the central, often ambiguous role
global digital platforms play in this.
This book guides the reader through the many complications and
contradictions that characterize popular contestation today,
focusing on its socio-political, cultural, and aesthetic
dimensions. The volume recognizes that the same media and creative
strategies can be used to pursue very different causes, as the
anti-gay marriage Manif Pour Tous movement in France makes clear.
The contributors are scholars from the humanities and social
sciences, who analyze protests in particular regions, including
Egypt, Iran, Australia, France, Spain, Greece, and Hong Kong, and
transnational protests such as the NSA-leaks and the mobilization
of migrants and refugees. Not only the specificity of these protest
movements is examined, but also their tendency to connect and
influence each other, as well as the central, often ambiguous role
global digital platforms play in this.
Recognition is one of the most debated concepts in contemporary
social and political thought. Its proponents, such as Axel Honneth,
hold that to be recognized by others is a basic human need that is
central to forming an identity, and the denial of recognition
deprives individuals and communities of something essential for
their flourishing. Yet critics including Judith Butler have
questioned whether recognition is implicated in structures of
domination, arguing that the desire to be recognized can motivative
individuals to accept their assigned place in the social order by
conforming to oppressive norms or obeying repressive institutions.
Is there a way to break this impasse? Recognition and Ambivalence
brings together leading scholars in social and political philosophy
to develop new perspectives on recognition and its role in social
life. It begins with a debate between Honneth and Butler, the first
sustained engagement between these two major thinkers on this
subject. Contributions from both proponents and critics of theories
of recognition further reflect upon and clarify the problems and
challenges involved in theorizing the concept and its normative
desirability. Together, they explore different routes toward a
critical theory of recognition, departing from wholly positive or
negative views to ask whether it is an essentially ambivalent
phenomenon. Featuring original, systematic work in the philosophy
of recognition, this book also provides a useful orientation to the
key debates on this important topic.
Recognition is one of the most debated concepts in contemporary
social and political thought. Its proponents, such as Axel Honneth,
hold that to be recognized by others is a basic human need that is
central to forming an identity, and the denial of recognition
deprives individuals and communities of something essential for
their flourishing. Yet critics including Judith Butler have
questioned whether recognition is implicated in structures of
domination, arguing that the desire to be recognized can motivative
individuals to accept their assigned place in the social order by
conforming to oppressive norms or obeying repressive institutions.
Is there a way to break this impasse? Recognition and Ambivalence
brings together leading scholars in social and political philosophy
to develop new perspectives on recognition and its role in social
life. It begins with a debate between Honneth and Butler, the first
sustained engagement between these two major thinkers on this
subject. Contributions from both proponents and critics of theories
of recognition further reflect upon and clarify the problems and
challenges involved in theorizing the concept and its normative
desirability. Together, they explore different routes toward a
critical theory of recognition, departing from wholly positive or
negative views to ask whether it is an essentially ambivalent
phenomenon. Featuring original, systematic work in the philosophy
of recognition, this book also provides a useful orientation to the
key debates on this important topic.
Is democracy in crisis? On the one hand, it seems to be decaying
under the leadership of political elites who make decisions behind
closed doors. On the other hand, citizens are taking to the streets
to firmly assert their political participation across the globe.
Drawing on a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this
collection examines the multiple transformations which both the
practice and the idea of democracy are undergoing today. It starts
by questioning whether there is a crisis of democracy, or if part
of this crisis lies in the inadequacy of social and political
theory to describe current challenges. Exploring a range of violent
and non-violent forms of resistance, the book goes on to ask how
these are related to the arts, what form of civility they require
and whether they undermine the functioning of institutions. In the
final section of the book, the contributors examine the normative
foundations of democratic practices and institutions, especially
with regard to the tension between human rights and democracy and
the special character of democratic authority.
Is democracy in crisis? On the one hand, it seems to be decaying
under the leadership of political elites who make decisions behind
closed doors. On the other hand, citizens are taking to the streets
to firmly assert their political participation across the globe.
Drawing on a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this
collection examines the multiple transformations which both the
practice and the idea of democracy are undergoing today. It starts
by questioning whether there is a crisis of democracy, or if part
of this crisis lies in the inadequacy of social and political
theory to describe current challenges. Exploring a range of violent
and non-violent forms of resistance, the book goes on to ask how
these are related to the arts, what form of civility they require
and whether they undermine the functioning of institutions. In the
final section of the book, the contributors examine the normative
foundations of democratic practices and institutions, especially
with regard to the tension between human rights and democracy and
the special character of democratic authority.
Working from an interdisciplinary perspective that draws on the
social sciences, legal studies, and the humanities, this book
investigates the causes and effects of the extremities experienced
by migrants. Firstly, the volume analyses the development and
political-cultural conditions of current practices and discourses
of "bordering," "illegality," and "irregularization." Secondly, it
focuses on the varieties of irregularization and on the diversity
of the fields, techniques and effects involved in this variegation.
Thirdly, the book examines examples of resistance that migrants and
migratory cultures have developed in order to deal with the
predicaments they face. The book uses the European Union as its
case study, exploring practices and discourses of bordering, border
control, and migration regulation. But the significance of this
field extends well beyond the European context as the monitoring of
Europe's borders increasingly takes place on a global scale and
reflects an internationally increasing trend.
Working from an interdisciplinary perspective that draws on the
social sciences, legal studies, and the humanities, this book
investigates the causes and effects of the extremities experienced
by migrants. Firstly, the volume analyses the development and
political-cultural conditions of current practices and discourses
of "bordering," "illegality," and "irregularization." Secondly, it
focuses on the varieties of irregularization and on the diversity
of the fields, techniques and effects involved in this variegation.
Thirdly, the book examines examples of resistance that migrants and
migratory cultures have developed in order to deal with the
predicaments they face. The book uses the European Union as its
case study, exploring practices and discourses of bordering, border
control, and migration regulation. But the significance of this
field extends well beyond the European context as the monitoring of
Europe's borders increasingly takes place on a global scale and
reflects an internationally increasing trend.
Can critical theory diagnose ideological delusion and false
consciousness from above, or does it have to follow the practices
of critique ordinary agents engage in? This book argues that we
have to move beyond this dichotomy, which has led to a theoretical
impasse. Whilst ordinary agents engage in complex forms of everyday
critique, it must remain the task of critical theory to provide
analysis and critique of social conditions that obstruct the
development of reflexive capacities and of their realization in
corresponding practices of critique. Only an approach that is at
the same time non-paternalistic, pragmatist, and dialogical as well
as critical will be able to realize the emancipatory potential of
the Frankfurt School tradition of critical theory in radically
changing social circumstances.
Can critical theory diagnose ideological delusion and false
consciousness from above, or does it have to follow the practices
of critique ordinary agents engage in? This book argues that we
have to move beyond this dichotomy, which has led to a theoretical
impasse. Whilst ordinary agents engage in complex forms of everyday
critique, it must remain the task of critical theory to provide
analysis and critique of social conditions that obstruct the
development of reflexive capacities and of their realization in
corresponding practices of critique. Only an approach that is at
the same time non-paternalistic, pragmatist, and dialogical as well
as critical will be able to realize the emancipatory potential of
the Frankfurt School tradition of critical theory in radically
changing social circumstances. The translation of this work was
funded by Geisteswissenschaften International - Translation Funding
for Humanities and Social Sciences from Germany, a joint initiative
of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Federal Foreign Office,
the collecting society VG WORT and the Boersenverein des Deutschen
Buchhandels (German Publisher & Booksellers Association)
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