Lifestyle politics and radical activism / / Laura Portwood-Stacer.
"Attempts by people to enact their political beliefs in their daily lives have become commonplace in contemporary US culture, in spheres ranging from shopping habits to romantic attachments. This groundbreaking book examines how collective social movements have cultivated individual practices o...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : Bloomsbury,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contemporary Anarchist Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 217 pages) :; digital file(s). |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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- 1. Introduction 2. The anti-consumption lifestyle: The cultural work of activist practices 3. "I'm not joining your world": Performing political dissent through spectacular self-presentation 4. "You gotta check yourself": Lifestyle as a site of identification and discipline 5. Strategic sexuality: Polyamory, queer self-identification, and consent-seeking as activist interventions 6. Bridging the chasm: The contradictions of radical lifestyle politics in neoliberal context 7. Conclusion: Learning from lifestyle anarchists.