ABSTRACT

Successive waves of global protest since 1999 have encouraged leading contemporary political theorists to argue that politics has fundamentally changed in the last twenty years, with a new type of politics gaining momentum over elite, representative institutions. The new politics is frequently described as radical, but what does radicalism mean for the conduct of politics?

Capturing the innovative practices of contemporary radicals, Routledge Handbook of Radical Politics brings together leading academics and campaigners to answer these questions and explore radicalism’s meaning to their practice. In the thirty-five chapters written for this collection, they collectively develop a picture of radicalism by investigating the intersections of activism and contemporary political theory. Across their experiences, the authors articulate radicalism’s critical politics and discuss how diverse movements support and sustain each other. Together, they provide a wide-ranging account of the tensions, overlaps and promise of radical politics, while utilising scholarly literatures on grassroots populism to present a novel analysis of the relationship between radicalism and populism.

Routledge Handbook of Radical Politics serves as a key reference for students and scholars interested in the politics and ideas of contemporary activist movements.

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

chapter |18 pages

Radicalism

Situating Contemporary Movement Practices

section Section 1|3 pages

Critiques

chapter 1.1|18 pages

A Radical Feminist Diaspora

Speaking of IMELDA, Reproductive Justice and Ireland

chapter 1.2|11 pages

Animal Liberation

chapter 1.3|14 pages

Basking in the Fire

Militant Antifascism as a Most Radical Gesture

chapter 1.5|15 pages

From ‘Bed-Push’ to Book Activism

Anti/Critical Psychiatry Activism

chapter 1.6|10 pages

Radical Climate Politics

From Ogoniland to Ende Gelände

section Section 2|32 pages

Solidarities

chapter 2.2|15 pages

On Decolonisation 1

chapter 2.4|17 pages

Migrant Solidarity in Postcolonial Europe

Challenging Borders, Creating Mobile Commons

chapter 2.5|11 pages

Penal Abolition Organising

Can New Courses Be Charted by Troubling Privilege? 1

chapter 2.6|18 pages

Safer Spaces

chapter 2.7|13 pages

Fighting to Win

Radical Antipoverty Organising

section Section 3|14 pages

Repertoires

chapter 3.2|9 pages

Making Spaces Our Own

Performance Interventions to Disrupt, Revive and Reclaim Public Spaces

chapter 3.3|15 pages

Radical Bicycle Politics

Confronting Car Culture and Capitalism as Root Causes of Mobility Injustice 1

chapter 3.4|12 pages

Black Blocs

A Complex Case of Radicalism

chapter 3.5|11 pages

Online Activism

chapter 3.6|12 pages

Streets and Institutions?

The Electoral Extension of Social Movements and Its Tensions

chapter 3.7|15 pages

Cells, CommuniquÉs and Monikers

The Insurrectionary Networks of Antistate Attack

chapter 3.8|18 pages

Radical Media

chapter 3.9|11 pages

Anarchist Publishing

An Interview with Ramsey Kanaan

section Section 4|20 pages

Transformations

chapter 4.1|20 pages

Anti-Work

A Stab in the Heart of Capitalism

chapter 4.2|14 pages

Radical Education

chapter 4.3|12 pages

The Politics of Dumpstered Soup

Food Not Bombs and the Limits of Decommodifying Food

chapter 4.5|20 pages

Dances with Agitators

What Is ‘Anarchist Music’?

chapter 4.6|7 pages

Techno-Politics

An Interview with Jim Thomas, ETC Group

chapter 4.7|17 pages

The Revolution Under the Table

On the Social Ecology of the Local Food Movement in the US

chapter 4.8|15 pages

Permaculture and Ecological Lifestyle

A Restricted Radicalism? 1

chapter 4.10|14 pages

How Political is a Political Subculture?

The Paradoxical Place of Politics within the Squatter Movement

chapter 4.11|15 pages

Sustainable Activism