LEADER 03253oam 2200745I 450 001 9910786588403321 005 20230126210035.0 010 $a1-136-25754-3 010 $a0-203-10633-4 010 $a1-283-86192-5 010 $a1-136-25755-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203106334 035 $a(CKB)2670000000299319 035 $a(EBL)1092758 035 $a(OCoLC)820785357 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000784686 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11443163 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000784686 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10782605 035 $a(PQKB)11072887 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1092758 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1092758 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10632533 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL417442 035 $a(OCoLC)823387035 035 $a(OCoLC)1058633207 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB134779 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000299319 100 $a20180706d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmbiguities of activism $ealter-globalism and the imperatives of speed /$fIngrid M. Hoofd 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (149 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge research in cultural and media studies ;$v43 225 0$aRoutledge research in cultural and media studies ;$v43 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-64271-1 311 $a0-415-62207-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 330 $aThis volume provides a critical and in-depth investigation of the relationship between alter-globalist thinking and practices and their popular discourses. It examines the ways in which several alter-globalist activist groups (like Indymedia, no-borders campaigns, and forms of climate change activism), as well as left-wing intellectuals and academics (like Michael Hardt, Al Gore, Antonio Negri, Hakim Bey, and Geert Lovink), mobilize problematic discourses, tools, and divisions in an attempt to overcome gendered, raced, and classed oppressions worldwide. The book draws out how these mobiliza 410 0$aRoutledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies 606 $aSocial movements 606 $aAnti-globalization movement 606 $aRadicalism 606 $aSocial media$xPolitical aspects 606 $aInternet$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aSocial movements. 615 0$aAnti-globalization movement. 615 0$aRadicalism. 615 0$aSocial media$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aInternet$xPolitical aspects. 676 $a303.48/4 700 $aHoofd$b Ingrid M.$0962848 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786588403321 996 $aAmbiguities of activism$93772320 997 $aUNINA