Ambiguities of activism : alter-globalism and the imperatives of speed / / Ingrid M. Hoofd

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786588403321
• Autore: Hoofd Ingrid M.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-136-25754-3; 0-203-10633-4; 1-283-86192-5; 1-136-25755-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (149 p.)
• Collana: Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; ; 43
• Disciplina: 303.48/4
• Soggetti: Social movements; Anti-globalization movement; Radicalism; Social media - Political aspects; Internet - Political aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1 Complicities of Resistance: Activism in the Era of Acceleration; 2 Tools of the Speed- Elite: Radical New Media Activism; 3 The Migrant: The Speed- Elite's Daydream of Radical Alterity; 4 Humanism Overheating: The Conundrum of Climate Change Activism; 5 Accelerating Deceleration: Out of the Cinders of Activism; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 mobiliza