Figurations of the Future : : Forms and Temporalities of Left Radical Politics in Northern Europe / / Stine Krøijer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Krøijer, Stine,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Ethnography, Theory, Experiment ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Built around key events, from the eviction of a self-managed social centre in Copenhagen in 2007 to the Climate Summit protests in 2009, this book contributes to anthropological literature on contemporary Euro-American politics foreshadowing recent waves of public dissent. Stine Krøijer explores political forms among left radical and anarchist activists in Northern Europe focusing on how forms of action engender time. Drawing on anthropological literature from both Scandinavia and the Amazon, this ethnography recasts theoretical concerns about body politics, political intentionality, aesthetics, and time.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. ‘Other Worlds Are Possible’: A Political Cosmology of Capitalism -- A Dumpster Dive -- Introduction -- Chapter 2. Becoming Absorbed: Youth and the Interstices of Active Time in Ungdomshuset -- Naming and Raising a Child -- Chapter 3. ‘A Common Choreography of Action’: Preparations and Intentions -- Chapter 4. ‘We Are Humans, What Are You?’: Securitization, Unpredictability and Enemy-Becoming -- A Street Dance in Hyskenstræde -- Chapter 5. ‘I Used to Run as the Black Bloc’: Style and Perspectivist Time in Protests and Direct Actions -- Conclusion: The Collective Body as a Theory of Politics -- REFERENCES -- INDEX