The Common and Counter-Hegemonic Politics
Re-Thinking Social Change
Published on 28. February 2019
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-4744-4614-3 (ISBN)
Description
Alexandros Kioupkiolis re-conceptualises the common in tandem with the political. By engaging with key thinkers of community and the commons, including Nancy, Ostrom, Hardt and Negri, he harnesses the political thrust of a radical democratic politics of solidarity, equality and collective self-organisation. He calls into play poststructuralist conceptions of agonism and hegemony, put forward by thinkers such as Mouffe and Laclau, to remedy the failure of existing theories of the commons to address power relations and division.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-4614-3 (9781474446143)
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Person
Alex Kioupkiolis is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Political Theory in the School of Political Sciences at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His research focuses on contemporary social movements, radical democracy, the commons, and alternative conceptions of politics. He is the author of Freedom After the Critique of Foundations: Marx, Liberalism and Agonistic Autonomy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and the principal investigator of the 2017-20 international research project Heteropolitics (ERC COG 2016), which enquires into civic self-organisation, the commons and municipalist processes in the European South.
Content
Preface: The Long Run; Acknowledgements; 1. Commoning the Political, Politicising the Common: Community and the Political in J. L. Nancy, R. Esposito, G. Agamben, E. Laclau and C. Mouffe; 2. From the Commons to Another Politics of Egalitarian Autonomy: Common Pool Resources, Digital and Anticapitalist Commons, from E. Ostrom to Marxist Autonomism; 3. Common and Communism: Political Theories For Radical Change: from Hardt & Negri, Dardot & Laval to Badiou and Zizek; 4. Taking on Hegemony and the Political; 5. Reclaiming Post-Marxist Hegemony for the Commons; 6. Movements Post-Hegemony; 7. Common Democracy: Political Representation and Government as Commons; Endnotes; References.