Radical Social Change in the United States

Badiou's Apostle and the Post-Factual Moment

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Joanna Swanger

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This book tackles the question of why the United States is so resistant to radical change towards economic justice and peace. Taking full stock of the despair that launched the popular support for Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, Swanger historicizes the political paralysis of post-1974 United States that deepened already severe economic inequalities, asking how the terrain for social movements in the early twenty-first-century US differs from that of the 1960s. This terrain is marked by the entrenchment of neoliberalism, anti-intellectualism, and difficulties paradoxically posed by the ease of social media. Activists now must contend with a paralyzing “post-factual” moment. Alain Badiou’s thought informs this book on breaking through contemporary political paralysis.

Author Biography:

Joanna Swanger is Associate Professor and Director of the Peace and Global Studies Program at Earlham College, USA. Her most recent publication is Rebel Lands of Cuba: The Campesino Struggles of Oriente and Escambray, 1934-1974 (2015). Her scholarly work focuses on the intersection of social justice movements and resistance encountered by those movements.

Release date NZ

November 16th, 2016

Author

Joanna Swanger

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Edition

1st ed. 2017

Illustrations

XIII, 328 p.

Pages

328

Dimensions

148x210x23

ISBN-13

9783319399805

Product ID

25435916

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