Title: Conclusion: Postanarchism and Radical Politics Today
Abstract: This chapter explores utopian moments of rupture and contestation as they emerge on the terrain of radical politics today, particularly in struggles against globalised capitalism. It argues that these diverse movements of resistance – indigenous groups, anti-capitalist networks, environmental activists, anti-war movements, and so on – are ultimately struggles for autonomy. They open up new political spaces, characterised by ‘anarchist’ forms of organisation, which are outside the ontological order of state sovereignty, even if they impose demands upon the state. Furthermore, they can also be seen as symptomatic of the current regime of ‘post-politics’ and its democratic deficit; in developing new, decentralised and non-authoritarian political practices and decision-making structures, these movements and struggles invoke a new ‘anarchic’ understanding of democracy that is no longer tied to the sovereign state order.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-03-24
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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