Ambivalent Activism

Introduction: Working with Contradiction, Hesitation and Doubt - Akwugo Emejulu, Marlies Kustatscher and Callum McGregor


Part 1: Theorizing Ambivalence


1. Ambivalence as Misfeeling, Ambivalence as Refusal - Akwugo Emejulu


2. On (Not) Knowing What Is to Be Done (in 17 Affective Registers) - Deborah Gould


3. Facing Defeat: Rosa Luxemburg in Dialogue with Prefigurative Politics - Masa Mrovlje


4. Orchestrating the Furies: Anzaldua's Evolving Conception of Ambivalent Political Struggle - Alyson Cole


Part 2: Activism as Ambivalent Praxis


5. An Activism of the In-Between - Melody Howse


6. Resisting with People I Don't Like: Exploring the Internal Tensions Among Queer Activists in Lagos, Nigeria - Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi


7. Ambivalent Activism: Re-Contextualizing Mental Health Politics - Hel Spandler, Dina Poursanidou and Sonia Soans


8. Ambivalence and Veganism: Rethinking Sentiment in Moral Choices - Jordan McKenzie and Zoei Sutton


9. The Embroidery Collective: Embroidering and Reimagining Community in Times of Struggle - Cristina Florescu


10. Ambivalent Emotions Empowering Activism: Learning from Youth Activists in Aotearoa - Carisa R. Showden and Karen Nairn


Part 3: Activism and the Ambivalent Academy


11. Working with Discomfort: Contesting Ambivalence Through Care and Accountability in the University of Edinburgh's 'Skull Room' - Nicole Anderson


12. The Poetry of Ambivalence: A Nudge toward Tending - Roxani Krystalli


13. The Role of 'Stuckedness': Ambivalence in Scholar-Activism - Aylwyn Walsh and Paul Routledge


Conclusion: Thinking with Pessimism - Akwugo Emejulu, Marlies Kustatscher and Callum McGregor