Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late Capitalist Struggle - Softcover

Clare O'Connor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849352429 ISBN 13: 9781849352420

Publisher: AK Press, 2016

Synopsis

In "Keywords "(1976), Raymond Williams devised a "vocabulary" that reflected the vast social transformations of the post-war period. He revealed how these transformations could be grasped by investigating changes in word usage and meaning. "Keywords for Radicals" part homage, part development asks: What vocabulary might illuminate the social transformations marking our own contested present? How do these words define the imaginary of today's radical left?

With insights from dozens of scholars and troublemakers, "Keywords for Radicals "explores the words that shape our political landscape. Each entry highlights a term's contested variations, traces its evolving usage, and speculates about what its historical mutations can tell us. More than a glossary, this is a crucial study of the power of language and the social contradictions hidden within it.

Contributors include Patrick Bond, Silvia Federici, John Bellamy Foster, Joy James, Ilan Pappe, Justin Podur, Nina Power, Mab Segrest, and more.

About this title

About the Author

Kelly Fritsch: Kelly Fritsch researches, writes, and teaches about biopolitics, disability, technoscience, feminist theory, and anti-capitalist struggles. She is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in Women and Gender Studies and the Technoscience Research Unit at the University of Toronto. Her work appears in "Briarpatch Magazine"; "Foucault Studies"; "Health, Culture, and Society"; and "Disability Studies Quarterly." Between 2008 and 2012, she served on the Editorial Committee of "Upping The Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action, ."
Clare O Connor is a Los Angeles-based writer and activist. She is a doctoral student in Communication at the University of Southern California, and is former Coordinator of the Public Interest Research Group at the University of Toronto and co-founder of Toronto-based activist training program Tools for Change. Her publications include the chapter "What Moves Us Now? The Contradictions of 'Community'" in "Whose Streets? The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest" and contributions to "Briarpatch Magazine." Between 2008 and 2012, she served on the Editorial Committee of "Upping The Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action, ."
AK Thompson got kicked out of high school in 1992 for publishing an underground newspaper called "The Agitator" and has been an activist, writer, and social theorist ever since. Currently teaching social theory at Fordham University, his publications include "Black Bloc, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent" (2010) and "Sociology for Changing the World: Social Movements/Social Research" (2006). Between 2005 and 2012, he served on the Editorial Committee of "Upping The Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action.""

Edition details

• Publisher: AK Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849352429
• ISBN 13: 9781849352420
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350
• Editor: Clare O'Connor, A. K. Thompson, Kelly Fritsch