Chris Rossdale - Occupying Subjectivity: Being and Becoming Radical in the 21st Century

This book explores a variety of forms of radical political subjectivity. It takes its cue from the 2011 uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, the Occupy Movement, and the European Anti-Austerity Movement alongside the wider opposition to authoritarian and neoliberal forms of governance from which they sprang in order to ask an urgent series of questions about the subject of radical politics: Who or what is it that engages in resistance? Who or what should they be? And how are we to negotiate the many complexities of that second question? The contributions, drawing on a wide range of theoretical traditions, offer a rich series of provocations towards new ways of conceptualising, evaluating, and imagining radical political praxis. They engage different kinds of subjects, including protestors, dancers, self-burners, academics, settlers, and humans, in order to think through the ways in which contemporary subjects are constituted within and work to unsettle dominant relations of power. Together, the chapters open up spaces to think about how political and intellectual commitment to social change can be enlivened through attention to the subject of radical politics. This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Chris Rossdale lectures in PAIS at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on international political theory and the political philosophy of resistance, with a particular focus on militarism and anti-militarism. He has published in International Political Sociology, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Global Society, and Globalizations, and in 2014 was awarded the BISA Michael Nicolson Thesis Prize.

Edited by Barry K. Gills,

University of Helsinki, Finland and Kevin Gray, University of Sussex, UK.

This series is designed to break new ground in the literature on globalization and its academic and popular understanding. Rather than perpetuating or simply reacting to the economic understanding of globalization, this series seeks to capture the term and broaden its meaning to encompass a wide range of issues and disciplines and convey a sense of alternative possibilities for the future.

1. Whither Globalization?

The vortex of knowledge and globalization

James H. Mittelman

2. Globalization and Global History

Edited by Barry K. Gills and William R. Thompson

3. Rethinking Civilization

Communication and terror in the global village

Majid Tehranian

4. Globalization and Contestation

The new great counter-movement

Ronaldo Munck

5. Global Activism

Ruth Reitan

6. Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia

Edited by Mike Douglass, K.C. Ho and Giok Ling Ooi

7. Challenging Euro-Americas Politics of Identity

The return of the native

Jorge Luis Andrade Fernandes

8. The Global Politics of Globalization

Empire vs Cosmopolis

Edited by Barry K. Gills

9. The Globalization of Environmental Crisis

Edited by Jan Oosthoek and Barry K. Gills

10. Globalization as Evolutionary Process

Modeling global change

Edited by Geroge Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas and William R. Thompson

11. The Political Economy of Global Security

War, future crises and changes in global governance

Heikki Patomki

12. Cultures of Globalization

Coherence, hybridity, contestation

Edited by Kevin Archer, M. Martin Bosman, M. Mark Amen and Ella Schmidt

13. Globalization and the Global Politics of Justice

Edited by Barry K. Gills

14. Global Economy Contested

Power and conflict across the international division of labor

Edited by Marcus Taylor

15. Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence

Beyond savage globalization?

Edited by Damian Grenfell and Paul James

16. Recognition and Redistribution

Beyond international development

Edited by Heloise Weber and Mark T. Berger

17. The Social Economy

Working alternatives in a globalizing era

Edited by Hasmet M. Uluorta

18. The Global Governance of Food

Edited by Sara R. Curran, April Linton, Abigail Cooke and Andrew Schrank

19. Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights

The role of multilateral organisations

Desmond McNeill and Asuncin Lera St. Clair

20. LGlobalization and Popular Sovereignty

Democracys transnational dilemma

Adam Lupel

21. Limits to Globalization

North-South divergence

William R. Thompson and Rafael Reuveny

22. Globalisation, Knowledge and Labour

Education for solidarity within spaces of resistance

Edited by Mario Novelli and Anibel Ferus-Comelo

23. Dying Empire

U.S. imperialism and global resistance

Francis Shor

24. Alternative Globalizations

An integrative approach to studying dissident knowledge in the global justice movement

S. A. Hamed Hosseini

25. Global Restructuring, Labour and the Challenges for Transnational Solidarity

Edited by Andreas Bieler and Ingemar Lindberg

26. Global South to the Rescue

Emerging humanitarian superpowers and globalizing rescue industries

Edited by Paul Amar

27. Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes

Edited by Manfred B. Steger and Anne McNevin

28. Power and Transnational Activism

Edited by Thomas Olesen

29. Globalization and Crisis

Edited by Barry K. Gills

30. Andre Gunder Frank and Global Development

Visions, remembrances and explorations

Edited by Patrick Manning and Barry K. Gills

31. Global Social Justice

Edited by Heather Widdows and Nicola J. Smith

32. Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance

A study of Filipino migrant domestic workers in global cities.

Ligaya Lindio-McGovern

33. Situating Global Resistance

Between Discipline and Dissent

Edited by Lara Montesinos Coleman and Karen Tucker

34. A History of World Order and Resistance

The Making and Unmaking of Global Subjects

Andr C. Drainville

35. Migration, Work and Citizenship in the New Global Order

Edited by Ronaldo Munck, Carl-Ulrik Schierup and Ral Delgado Wise

36. Edges of Global Justice

The World Social Forum and Its Others

Janet Conway

37. Land Grabbing and Global Governance

Edited by Matias E. Margulis, Nora McKeon and Saturnino Borras Jr.

38. Dialectics in World Politics

Edited by Shannon Brincat

39. Crisis, Movement, Management: Globalising Dynamics

Edited by James Goodman and Jonathan Paul Marshall

40. Chinas Development

Capitalism and Empire

Michel Aglietta and Guo Bai

41. Global Governance and NGO Participation

Charlotte Dany

42. Arab Revolutions and World Transformations

Edited by Anna M. Agathangelou and Nevzat Soguk

43. Global Movement

Edited by Ruth Reitan

44. Free Trade and the Transnational Labour Movement

Edited by Andreas Bieler, Bruno Ciccaglione, John Hilary and Ingemar Lindberg

45. Counter-Globalization and Socialism in the 21st Century

The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America

Thomas Muhr

46. Global Civil Society and Transversal Hegemony

The Globalization-Contestation Nexus