Impulse to Act
A New Anthropology of Resistance and Social Justice
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2016
- Category
- Revolutionary, Civics & Citizenship, Cultural
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780253023117
- Publish Date
- Oct 2016
- List Price
- $46.00
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780253022783
- Publish Date
- Oct 2016
- List Price
- $105.00
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What drives people to take to the streets in protest? What is their connection to other activists and how does that change over time? How do seemingly spontaneous activist movements emerge, endure, and evolve, especially when they lack a leader and concrete agenda? How does one analyze a changing political movement immersed in contingency? Impulse to Act addresses these questions incisively, examining a wide range of activist movements from the December 2008 protests in Greece to the recent chto delat in Russia. Contributors in the first section of this volume highlight the affective dimensions of political movements, charting the various ways in which participants coalesce around and belong to collectives of resistance. The potent agency of movements is highlighted in the second section, where scholars show how the emerging actions and critiques of protesters help disrupt authoritative political structures. Responding to the demands of the field today, the novel approaches to protest movements in Impulse to Act offer new ways to reengage with the traditional cornerstones of political anthropology.
About the authors
Othon Alexandrakis' profile page
Jessica Greenberg's profile page
Eirine Avramapoulou's profile page
James D. Faubion's profile page
Petra Rethmann is assistant professor of anthropology at McMaster University. Her work has been published in American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropologica, and The Anthropology of East-Europe Review.
Marianne Maeckelbergh's profile page
Alex Khasnabish is a writer, researcher and teacher committed to collective liberation living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on unceded and unsurrendered Mi’kmaw territory. He is a professor in sociology and anthropology at Mount Saint Vincent University. His research focuses on radical imagination, radical politics, social justice and social movements.