Chapter 5 ‘Neither Left nor Right’: Crisis, Wane of Politics and Struggles for Sovereignty

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction. Introductory Thoughts on Anthropology and Urban Insurrection 1
5. Chapter 1 Confronting ‘Aggressive Urbanism’: Frictional Heterogeneity in the ‘Gezi Protests’ of Turkey 31
6. Chapter 2 Reconfiguring ‘the People’? Notes on the 2014 Winter Revolt in Bosnia and Herzegovina 52
7. Chapter 3 ‘Sofia 2014, Feels Like 1989’: Abstention from the Protests and Declining Market Teleology in Bulgaria 73
8. Chapter 4 Spontaneity, Antagonism and the Moral Politics of Outrage: Urban Protest in Argentina since 2001 92
9. Chapter 5 ‘Neither Left nor Right’: Crisis, Wane of Politics and Struggles for Sovereignty 118
10. Chapter 6 Rebels and Revolutionaries: Urban Mobilizations of the Kamaiya Movement in Post-conflict Western Nepal 142
11. Chapter 7 The Brazilian ‘June’ Revolution: Urban Struggles, Composite Articulations and New Class Analysis 163
12. Chapter 8 Contradictions of the ‘Common Man’: A Realist Approach to India’s Aam Aadmi Party 187
13. Chapter 9 Re-envisioning Social Movements in the Global City: From Fordism to the Neoliberal Era 208
14. Afterword Notes for a Contemporary Urban Class Analysis 223
15. Index 235