Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the Twenty-First Century - Softcover

Papadopoulos, Dimitris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745327788 ISBN 13: 9780745327785

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2008

Synopsis

Illegal migrants who evade detection, creators of value in insecure and precarious working conditions and those who refuse the constraints of sexual and biomedical classifications: these are the people who manage to subvert power and to craft unexpected sociabilities and experiences. Escape Routes shows how people can escape control and create social change by becoming imperceptible to the political system of Global North Atlantic societies. 'A profound and brilliant examination of the power of exodus to create radical interventions in perhaps the three most important and contested fields of society today: life, migration and precarious labour. It is in these fields that the present and future of multitude is at stake. Escape Routes is a toolbox in the hands of multitude.' Antonio Negri, author of Insurgencies and co-author of Empire and Multitude 'Another world is here! So announce the authors in their preface to a stirring and intellectually inspiring book about the possibility, the necessity and the potency of escape. Rather than seeing social transformation in terms of revolt, event and abrupt shifts, the authors trace escape routes through the ordinary and through everyday practices. Escape Routes is required reading for anyone who believes in the alternative worlds produced alongside neoliberal capitalism.' Judith Halberstam, University of Southern California, author of In a Queer Time and Place 'A rich variety of work starts with some version of the autonomous thesis, that the everyday actions or resistances of people precede power; they are in fact what constitute and drive power forward. Escape Routes is one of the most original and interesting efforts to build a fuller understanding of the contemporary world, by focussing on processes and mapping out some of the history of modern power and resistance.' Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, author of Caught in the Cr

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About the Authors

Dimitris Papadopoulos is Reader in Sociology and Organisation at the University of Leicester, UK. He is co-editor of the journal Subjectivity and co-author of Escape Routes (Pluto, 2008).

Niamh Stephenson is Senior Lecturer in Social Science at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of South Wales, Sydney. She is the co-author of Escape Routes (Pluto, 2008) and Analysing Everyday Experience: Social Research and Political Change (2006).

Vassilis Tsianos is Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He is co-author of Escape Routes (Pluto, 2008) and co-editor of Empire and the Biopolitical Turn (2007) and Turbulent Margins: New Perspectives of Migration in Europe (2007).

Edition details

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745327788
• ISBN 13: 9780745327785
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320