Ambiguities of Activism

This volume provides a critical and in-depth investigation of the relationship between alter-globalist thinking and practices and their popular discourses. It examines the ways in which several alter-globalist activist groups (like Indymedia no-borders campaigns and forms of climate change activism) as well as left-wing intellectuals and academics (like Michael Hardt Al Gore Antonio Negri Hakim Bey and Geert Lovink) mobilize problematic discourses tools and divisions in an attempt to overcome gendered raced and classed oppressions worldwide. The book draws out how these mobilizations and theorizations despite (or possibly because of) their liberatory claims are actually implicated in the intensification of global hierarchies by repeatedly invoking narratives of transcendence connection progress and in particular of speed. Hoofd argues that the humanist ideals that underlie all these practices paradoxically trigger increasing disenfranchisements worldwide. . Language: English