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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction: The Heuristic of Crises: Reclaiming Critical Voices 1
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PART ONE. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- 1. Capitalism Contested: Britain in the Aftermath of World War I 9
- 2. Striking a Rock with Eggs: Resistance and Repression After Tiananmen 32
- 3. Undoing the Rule of Market Laws: Social Critique and the Making of Normative Futures 54
- 4. “Layoffs Are Murder, but They Are Also Everyday Life”: A Critique of Labor and Living in the Era of Ghost Capital 76
- 5. Remaking the Demos “from Below”? Critical Theory, Migrant Struggles, and Epistemic Resistance 97
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PART TWO. INTELLECTUAL ENGAGEMENTS
- 6. Peace, or the Moral Economy of War: Between W. E. B. Du Bois and Sayyid Quṭb 121
- 7. Personal Pronouns and Political Protest: Henry David Thoreau and Ta-Nehisi Coates as Critics in Times of Crisis 145
- 8. Becoming Anticolonial in Northern Namibia, 1950–1954: The Emergence of Both Crisis and Critique from Everyday Interpretations 166
- 9. How Do Technocrats Address Crises? From Structural to Humanitarian Approaches to Crises in Latin American Developmentalism 191
- 10. Against Crisis: Violence and Continuity in Manus Island Prison 211
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PART THREE. AFFECTED COMMUNITIES
- 11. Love Trumps Hate: Community Caretaking in an Era of Mass Deportation 233
- 12. Helping Refugees in Rural Germany: Ambivalences of Compassion 255
- 13. Toward a Theory of Climate Praxis: Confronting Climate Change in a World of Struggle 271
- 14. The Discovery of Contamination: Forever Chemicals and the Temporality of Critique 293
- 15. Democracy Without Demos: The Disappearance of the Working Class and the Rise of Abstention in French Political Life 310
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PART FOUR. REFLEXIVE PERSPECTIVES
- 16. New Technologies and the Moral Economy of White Nationalism 335
- 17. “The Only Way Out Is Through”: Anthropology as Critical Praxis in Times of Crisis 354
- 18. Social Movements and Social Theory 370
- 19. The Invisible Rebellion: Working People Under the New Capitalist Economy 387
- 20. Conspiracy Theories as Ambiguous Critique of Crisis 403
- Contributors 421
- Index 425
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction: The Heuristic of Crises: Reclaiming Critical Voices 1
-
PART ONE. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- 1. Capitalism Contested: Britain in the Aftermath of World War I 9
- 2. Striking a Rock with Eggs: Resistance and Repression After Tiananmen 32
- 3. Undoing the Rule of Market Laws: Social Critique and the Making of Normative Futures 54
- 4. “Layoffs Are Murder, but They Are Also Everyday Life”: A Critique of Labor and Living in the Era of Ghost Capital 76
- 5. Remaking the Demos “from Below”? Critical Theory, Migrant Struggles, and Epistemic Resistance 97
-
PART TWO. INTELLECTUAL ENGAGEMENTS
- 6. Peace, or the Moral Economy of War: Between W. E. B. Du Bois and Sayyid Quṭb 121
- 7. Personal Pronouns and Political Protest: Henry David Thoreau and Ta-Nehisi Coates as Critics in Times of Crisis 145
- 8. Becoming Anticolonial in Northern Namibia, 1950–1954: The Emergence of Both Crisis and Critique from Everyday Interpretations 166
- 9. How Do Technocrats Address Crises? From Structural to Humanitarian Approaches to Crises in Latin American Developmentalism 191
- 10. Against Crisis: Violence and Continuity in Manus Island Prison 211
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PART THREE. AFFECTED COMMUNITIES
- 11. Love Trumps Hate: Community Caretaking in an Era of Mass Deportation 233
- 12. Helping Refugees in Rural Germany: Ambivalences of Compassion 255
- 13. Toward a Theory of Climate Praxis: Confronting Climate Change in a World of Struggle 271
- 14. The Discovery of Contamination: Forever Chemicals and the Temporality of Critique 293
- 15. Democracy Without Demos: The Disappearance of the Working Class and the Rise of Abstention in French Political Life 310
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PART FOUR. REFLEXIVE PERSPECTIVES
- 16. New Technologies and the Moral Economy of White Nationalism 335
- 17. “The Only Way Out Is Through”: Anthropology as Critical Praxis in Times of Crisis 354
- 18. Social Movements and Social Theory 370
- 19. The Invisible Rebellion: Working People Under the New Capitalist Economy 387
- 20. Conspiracy Theories as Ambiguous Critique of Crisis 403
- Contributors 421
- Index 425