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The Rise of Lifestyle Activism: From New Left to Occupy de Nikos Sotirakopoulos

The Rise of Lifestyle Activism: From New Left to Occupy

Autor Nikos Sotirakopoulos
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 mar 2020
This book explores changes in the values and ideas of a large part of the political Left in recent decades. The author identifies that a questioning of the merits of economic growth; an ideal of environmental sustainability overriding the old radical visions of material abundance; a critique of instrumental reason; a suspiciousness towards universalist claims; and an attachment to subjective and pluralistic identities, have been dominant in the narratives of the Leftist milieu and of social movements. 

Yet the author suggests that such changes, known as ‘lifestyle activism’, could be understood in a different way, one characterised by suspiciousness towards the belief that human action guided by reason can lead society towards a future that will be better and more affluent. Using a range of case studies from the 1960's to the present day anti-austerity movement, Sotirakopoulos  argues that the New Left and its ideological heirs could be understood not so much as a continuation, but as an inversion from the Old Left and, most importantly, from humanistic visions of modernity. 

The book will therefore be ideal reading for students and researchers of political sociology, radical politics, modern political ideologies, contentious politics and political theory and to  scholars of new social movements and the New Left.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781349715633
ISBN-10: 1349715638
Pagini: 184
Ilustrații: XI, 184 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2016
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1. Introduction.- 2. From the dictatorship of the proletariat to Woodstock.- 3. 1970s and beyond: a counter-revolution of capitalism or the New Left fears going mainstream?.- 4. The anti-globalization movement.- 5. The 2008 financial crisis and the Left’s reaction: from Occupy to SYRIZA.- 6. Is there a future for the Left?

Notă biografică

Nikos Sotirakopoulos is lecturer in Sociology at the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK.
 

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This book explores changes in the values and ideas of a large part of the political Left in recent decades. The author identifies that a questioning of the merits of economic growth; an ideal of environmental sustainability overriding the old radical visions of material abundance; a critique of instrumental reason; a suspiciousness towards universalist claims; and an attachment to subjective and pluralistic identities, have been dominant in the narratives of the Leftist milieu and of social movements. 

Yet the author suggests that such changes, known as ‘lifestyle activism’, could be understood in a different way, one characterised by suspiciousness towards the belief that human action guided by reason can lead society towards a future that will be better and more affluent. Using a range of case studies from the 1960's to the present day anti-austerity movement, Sotirakopoulos  argues that the New Left and its ideological heirs could be understood not so much as a continuation, but as an inversion from the Old Left and, most importantly, from humanistic visions of modernity. 

The book will therefore be ideal reading for students and researchers of political sociology, radical politics, modern political ideologies, contentious politics and political theory and to  scholars of new social movements and the New Left.

Caracteristici

Provides an innovative analysis of the evolution of movement politics from activism for social change of the New Left to modern day mobilisations Uses a wide variety of case studies from the 1960s to the present day Includes original interviews with Occupy protesters