Breakthrough
Unblocking Transformative Politics
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:7th Jan '27
£85.00
This title is due to be published on 7th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Why is our epoch’s remarkable thirst for change failing to translate into effective transformation, and how can we reboot emancipatory, transformative politics? This book surveys the blockages and locates the openings for subversion: for advancing radical change surreptitiously, from within.
Why is our epoch’s remarkable thirst for change failing to translate into effective transformation? How can we reboot political creativity? This open access study scrutinizes the rationale, political strategy, and policy logistics that block emancipatory transformations in the early 21st century. By examining flagship attempts at alleviating suffering — from humanitarian refugee policies and struggles against mass surveillance, to the fight for gender parity, access to housing, and freeing work from bureaucratic control— the authors distinguish the roadblocks and the chances for a breakthrough. The authors explore questions about trade-offs, unintended consequences, and ways for re-energizing struggles against injustice, with the goal of illuminating the nature and form of emancipatory politics that are still attainable amidst what feels like an unending crisis.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
Breakthrough combines the emancipatory aspirations of critical theory with strategic engagement in the messy realities of politics. Albena Azmanova is to be congratulated for assembling a first-class group of theorists to explore this nexus as it relates to a host of political battles over human rights, gender inequality, employment and surveillance challenges arising from the IT revolution, and the ever-evolving manifestations of corporate power. While others have argued for the value of immanent criticism in service of emancipatory projects, this book is distinctive in shifting the focus to immanent politics. It provides a welcome reorientation to the old but vital question: What is to be done? -- Ian Shapiro, author of After the Fall: From the End of History to the Crisis of Democracy, How Politicians Broke our World
ISBN: 9798765166277
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292 pages