03253oam 2200745I 450 991078658840332120230126210035.01-136-25754-30-203-10633-41-283-86192-51-136-25755-110.4324/9780203106334 (CKB)2670000000299319(EBL)1092758(OCoLC)820785357(SSID)ssj0000784686(PQKBManifestationID)11443163(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000784686(PQKBWorkID)10782605(PQKB)11072887(MiAaPQ)EBC1092758(Au-PeEL)EBL1092758(CaPaEBR)ebr10632533(CaONFJC)MIL417442(OCoLC)823387035(OCoLC)1058633207(FINmELB)ELB134779(EXLCZ)99267000000029931920180706d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmbiguities of activism alter-globalism and the imperatives of speed /Ingrid M. HoofdNew York :Routledge,2012.1 online resource (149 p.)Routledge research in cultural and media studies ;43Routledge research in cultural and media studies ;43Description based upon print version of record.1-138-64271-1 0-415-62207-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexThis 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 mobilizaRoutledge Research in Cultural and Media StudiesSocial movementsAnti-globalization movementRadicalismSocial mediaPolitical aspectsInternetPolitical aspectsSocial movements.Anti-globalization movement.Radicalism.Social mediaPolitical aspects.InternetPolitical aspects.303.48/4Hoofd Ingrid M.962848MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786588403321Ambiguities of activism3772320UNINA