Revolting subjects social abjection and resistance in neoliberal Britain
Revolting Subjects is a groundbreaking account of social abjection in contemporary Britain, exploring how particular groups of people are figured as revolting and how they in turn revolt against their abject subjectification. The book utilizes a number of high-profile and in-depth case studies - inc...
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| Médium: | E-kniha Kniha |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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London
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2013
Zed Books Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Academic & Professional |
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| ISBN: | 9781848138513, 1848138512, 9781848138537, 1848138539, 9781848138520, 1848138520, 9781848138544, 1848138547 |
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- Revolting subjects : social abjection and resistance in neoliberal Britain -- About the author -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: revolting subjects -- 1 Social Abjection -- 2 The Abject Politics of British Citizenship -- 3 The Asylum Invasion Complex -- 4 Naked Protest: Maternal Politics and the Feminist Commons -- 5 The Big Society: Eviction and Occupation -- 6 Britain and its Poor -- 7 The Kids are Revolting -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Intro -- About the author -- Title page -- Copyright -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: revolting subjects -- Introduction -- Social abjection -- Revolting times -- Figurative methods -- Capture and escape -- The structure of Revolting Subjects -- Un/timeliness -- 1 | Social Abjection -- The wretched of the earth -- Introduction -- The politics of disgust -- Disgust consensus -- The aesthetics of disgust -- The neoliberalization of disgust -- The psychoanalytics of disgust -- 'I feel like vomiting the mother' -- National depression -- Abjection as a memory hole -- Extreme Eurocentrism -- Abject normativity -- Hygienic governmentality -- The politics of the racaille -- Being made abject -- Melancholic states -- Conclusion: social abjection -- 2 | The Abject Politics of British Citizenship -- The birth of British citizenship -- Citizen Smith and the 'loony left' -- The 1981 Nationality Act -- The Brixton riots -- State racism -- Home rule -- Home front -- Stateless within the state -- Sonia and Mary -- Every child matters? -- Sonia -- Migrant abjection -- Neoliberal black worlds -- Conclusion -- 3 | The Asylum Invasion Complex -- Introduction -- Abas Amini -- 3.1 Iranian refugee sews his face in protest -- 3.2 'Abas Amini is our friend' -- The invasion complex -- The fabrication of the asylum seeker -- Soft-touch Britain -- 3.3 Steve Bell cartoon from 2003 depicting the tabloid media hysteria around the 'refugee crisis' -- Media theatrics -- The neoliberal economics of illegality -- The dilemmas of migrant and refugee activism -- The autonomy of migration -- Conclusion: fearless speech -- 4 | Naked Protest: Maternal Politics and the Feminist Commons -- Crane Wing, Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre, England, April 2008 -- Introduction -- The securitization of reproduction -- Policy -- Media stigmatization
- Experience -- Against abjection -- Naked but alive -- Infinitely clothed -- Sitting on a man -- July 2002, Escravos Oil Facility, Niger Delta -- 4.1 Still from The Naked Option: A Last Resort -- Common roots -- Conclusion: 'expose the naked truth' -- 5 | The Big Society: Eviction and Occupation -- 19 October 2011, Dale Farm, Essex, England -- 5.1 Riot police at the Dale Farm eviction, October 2011 -- Dale Farm: background -- 5.2 'If not on a scrap-yard then where?' Dale Farm 2011 -- Introduction -- One square mile of land -- 'If you're a Traveller you're an outcast' -- Stamp on the camps -- Proud to be British -- The Big Society -- Social abjection -- The marketization of racism -- Big fat gypsy weddings -- The culturalization of politics -- A struggle of imagination -- Conclusion: the tragedy of the commons -- 6 | Britain and its Poor -- Introduction -- Sociology and its poor -- Class is dead -- Aylesbury Estate, Southwark, England, 2 June 1997 -- Failed citizens -- Territorial stigma -- The animation of the chav -- Vicky Pollard -- 6.1 Popular greetings card -- Classificatory struggles -- Declassificatory politics -- Class as a history of names -- Broken Britain: Little Britain -- Conclusion -- 7 | The Kids are Revolting -- England, 6-10 August 2011 -- 7.1 Volunteer Haley Miller waits to help with the clean-up operation at Clapham Junction -- Introduction -- 7.2 'The riots are not political' -- The lumpen history of the underclass -- Economic Darwinism -- The new government of poverty -- Penal pornography -- 7.3 Front cover of the Sun, 10 August 2011 -- Penal humiliation -- Neoliberal citizenship -- Un/employment -- Social abjection -- Carnival -- Conclusion: dissensus -- Afterword -- The London Olympic Stadium, 29 August 2012 -- Disaster capitalism -- The importance of cultural studies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Zed Books