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Collective Movements and Emerging Political Spaces

Angharad Closs Stephens Orcid Logo, Martina Tazzioli

Swansea University Author: Angharad Closs Stephens Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.4324/9781003264156

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Collective Movements and Emerging Political Spaces addresses the politics of new formsof collective movements, ranging from anti‑austerity protests to migrant struggles and anti‑colonial demonstrations.Drawing on examples from various countries, as well as struggles taking place acrossborders, this...

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ISBN: 9781003264156
Published: London Routledge
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003264156
URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa68342
Abstract: Collective Movements and Emerging Political Spaces addresses the politics of new formsof collective movements, ranging from anti‑austerity protests to migrant struggles and anti‑colonial demonstrations.Drawing on examples from various countries, as well as struggles taking place acrossborders, this book traces the emergence of new practices of being political, described as ‘col‑lective movements’. These represent something looser than a common identity – long heldas necessary for a political struggle to cohere. They also suggest a different understandingof emancipation to the promise of transformation in time. By addressing various examplesof ‘collective movements’, the chapters in this book examine other ways of being politicaltogether, formed through relations carved in cramped spaces or small movements that rear‑range our ideas about what is possible. Drawing on the temporary and fleeting nature of manymigrants’ struggles, the chapters develop concepts and approaches that acknowledge howsuch mobilisations trouble many standard political sociological categories – including na‑tion, identity and citizenship. In combining an attentiveness to theories of affect, emotion andatmosphere, they also go beyond a focus on either individuals or collectives, to address theways bodies are moved by the world and by others. Overall, the chapters propose new ques‑tions, methods and starting points for addressing collective movements in emerging politicalspaces, and for understanding how what counts as politics is being redrawn on the ground.This book will interest students, researchers and scholars of international political sociol‑ogy, human geography, international relations, critical security studies and migration studies.
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