| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 198 pages). |
| Series |
Contemporary anarchist studies |
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Contemporary anarchist studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Aug. 12, 2013). |
| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction; Definitions: Lifestyle, lifestyle politics, lifestyle activism, and lifestylism; The culture of contemporary US anarchism; Chapter 2 The anti-consumption lifestyle: The cultural work of activist practices; Practices of anti-consumption; Typology of anti-consumption motivations; Applying the typology; Chapter 3 "I'm not joining your world": Performing political dissent through spectacular self-presentation; The "generic anarchist suit"; Style as self-construction through self-representation. |
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Style as distinction and boundaryStyle as tactical critique and propaganda; Chapter 4 "You gotta check yourself": Lifestyle as a site of identification and discipline; Defining and performing anarchist identity; Disclaiming anarchist identity; Social identities, discipline, and accountability; Policing the boundaries of anarchist identity; Lifestyle and the re-centering of privileged subjects; Ironic sincerity; Chapter 5 Strategic sexuality: Polyamory, queer self-identification, and consent-seeking as activist interventions; Polyamory; Queer self-identification; Subcultural norms of sexuality. |
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Consent-seekingIdentification as contestation; A diversity of sexual tactics?; Chapter 6 Bridging the chasm: The contradictions of radical lifestyle politics in neoliberal context; The discourse around lifestyle anarchism; Individualism and collectivism; Decentralized power and resistance; Mechanisms of prefiguration; Subcultures and movements; Conclusion: Learning from lifestyle anarchists; Notes; References; Index. |
| Summary |
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 of ""lifestyle politics"" as part of their strategies of resistance, and the tensions they must navigate in doing so. Drawing on feminism and other movements that claim that ""the personal is political, "" the book explores how radical anarchist activists position their own lifestyles within projects of res. |
| Local Note |
Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Radicalism -- United States.
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Anarchism -- United States.
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Lifestyles -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Anarchism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Anarchism. (OCoLC)fst00808387
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Radicalism. (OCoLC)fst01087015
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Portwood-Stacer, Laura. Lifestyle politics and radical activism. New York : Bloomsbury, 2013 9781441188663 (DLC) 2013012214 (OCoLC)846911944 |
| ISBN |
9781441157430 (electronic book) |
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1441157433 (electronic book) |
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9781501306792 (online) |
| Standard No. |
40022583464 |
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40022670872 |
| ISBN |
9781441188663 |
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1441188665 |
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9781441184269 |
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1441184260 |
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1441157433 |
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9781441105127 |
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1441105123 |
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1501306790 |
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