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Transformative Activism in a World of Structural Oppression

Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2025

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Explores how interpretation fosters and empowers transformative activism

  • Offers an original account of the ‘world’ of structural oppression as seen from the perspective of anti-oppression activists
  • Identifies how theological and political understandings of redemption can inform structurally transformative activism
  • Argues for the central role of interpretative sensibilities in sustaining and challenging oppressive structures
  • Describes how a ‘redemptive hermeneutic’ can inform transformative activism, and suggests some strategies for modelling and instilling it
Structural oppression is the injustice that builds a world: it forms the foundations of identities and communities, defines the boundaries of shared realities, and shapes common sense understandings of what is permissible, possible, and desirable. Anti-oppression activists find themselves navigating this world, driven by a sense of moral urgency to seek transformative change despite the hostile and disorienting terrain they face. This book develops a map of the world that these activists must navigate and transform, finding a guide in theological and political traditions that emphasize our duty to recognize the redemptive possibilities already present in an unredeemed world. The resulting account of a ‘redemptive hermeneutic posture’ generates promising strategies that activists might use to build a broad transformative movement and make a post-oppression world more possible.

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    CONTENTS

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    INTRODUCTION: INTERPRETATION, REALISM, AND POSSIBILITY

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    1 A WORLD OF STRUCTURAL OPPRESSION: THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF COMMON SENSE INJUSTICES

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    2 THE REDEMPTIVE HERMENEUTIC: UNDOING THE TRIPLE-BIND OF STRUCTURALLY TRANSFORMATIVE ACTIVISM

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    3 TIME AND MOMENTARY AMBIVALENCE: THE VITAL DIALECTICAL TENSION BETWEEN WORLDS

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    4 SPACE AND CONSTELLATORY SOLIDARITY: LOCAL SPARKS AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF PROFANE ILLUMINATION

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    5 AFFECT AND UNFULFILLABLE DESIRE: THE TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIALS IN FEELING

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    CONCLUSION: OCCUPYING THE STANDPOINT OF REDEMPTION

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    BIBLIOGRAPHY

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    Index

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March 18, 2025
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9781399531597
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399531597
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Politics
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
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