5. Remaking the Demos “from Below”? Critical Theory, Migrant Struggles, and Epistemic Resistance

Chapters in this book

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