Reoccupying the Political
Focusing on the increasing refusal and transgression of politics as normal across the globe, this book examines new forms of democratisation, democratic life and political subjectivity as people seek to gain control over the decisions and processes affecting their lives.
The contributors to this volume challenge the hegemonic truth regimes of political science by bringing to our attention practices and discussions on the margins of political theorisation and conceptualisation. They offer a pluridiveristy of theorisations and engagements that mirror the very practises of democratic life of which they speak. They demonstrate how research on the margins enables us to develop and deepen our conceptualisation and engagement with these new forms of democratic thought and practice, and hence our understanding of the political and the transformation of political science.
These new forms of politics call into question the epistemological authority of political science, and this book will be of interest to those seeking to understand the increasing trend towards prefigurative epistemologies, decolonising methodologies and participa-tory forms of becoming political.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Social Identities.
Sara C. Motta is a mestiza single mother, critical theorist, poet, popular educator and Associate Professor in Politics, based in the Newcastle Business School at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has published numerous articles, eight journal special issues, two edited book collections and is the author of Constructing Twenty-First Century Socialism in Latin America: The Role of Radical Education (2014), and Liminal Subjects: Weaving (Our) Liberation (2018).
Jim Jose is Professor of Politics, based in the Newcastle Business School at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has published numerous articles in leading international journals on political theory, feminist theory, and Australian politics and public policy.
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Contents
Jim Jose and Sara C. Motta
Zuleika Arashiro
Tod Moore
Stephen Owen
Sara C. Motta
Jim Jose
Michael Dutton
Tiina Seppl
Guide
The chapters in this book were originally published in Social Identities, volume 23, issue 6 (November 2017). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction
Reoccupying the political: transforming political science
Jim Jose and Sara C. Motta
Social Identities, volume 23, issue 6 (November 2017), pp. 651660
Chapter 1
Mining, social contestation and the reclaiming of voice in Australias democracy
Zuleika Arashiro
Social Identities, volume 23, issue 6 (November 2017), pp. 661673
Chapter 2
The transformation of the Occusphere
Tod Moore
Social Identities, volume 23, issue 6 (November 2017), pp. 674687
Chapter 3
Monitoring social media and protest movements: ensuring political order through surveillance and surveillance discourse
Stephen Owen
Social Identities, volume 23, issue 6 (November 2017), pp. 688700
Chapter 4
Latin America as political sciences other
Sara C. Motta
Social Identities, volume 23, issue 6 (November 2017), pp. 701717
Chapter 5
A brutal blow against the democratic normality: unlearning the epistemology of the political
Jim Jose
Social Identities, volume 23, issue 6 (November 2017), pp. 718729
Chapter 6
The gift of the political
Michael Dutton
Social Identities, volume 23, issue 6 (November 2017), pp. 730740
Chapter 7
On outsourcing the political in political science
Tiina Seppl
Social Identities, volume 23, issue 6 (November 2017), pp. 741756
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Zuleika Arashiro is Senior Research Fellow at the Research and Policy Centre, Brotherhood of St Laurence, Melbourne, Australia. She researches the value of smaller community organisations as providers of social services and works in a service development project about capacity building of smaller organisations.
Michael Dutton is Professor of Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. His work focuses on social theory, with a principle interest in China. He is the author of multiple books on these subjects, including Policing Chinese Politics (2005).
Jim Jose is Professor of Politics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has published numerous articles in leading international journals on political theory, feminist theory, and Australian politics and public policy.
Tod Moore is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His research combines sovereignty with the history of political thought to examine the nature and significance of liberal imperialism across time.
Sara C. Motta is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is the author of Constructing Twenty-First Century Socialism in Latin America: The Role of Radical Education (2014), and Liminal Subjects: Weaving (Our) Liberation (2018).
Stephen Owen is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra, Australia. His research sits at the intersection of cultural phenomena (particularly digital culture) with the operation of power and the political construction of the self.
