ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the collection of essays in this book. The book is about the corners of the Western world where the promise of Western citizenship has yet to arrive. Fundamental to the specific consideration of Occupy Dame Street and post-crisis activism, and to a broader reconsideration of politics and the post-political, is a re-engagement with that inhabited city where politics is also exercised in informal spaces and practices. Building on refusal politics, diva citizenship and sick woman theory, the author discusses anarchist critiques, particularly Emma Goldman's, of what politics itself is, where and for whom, as a path to understanding the political acts and social movements of the present. Drawing on insights from feminist, queer, Black, anti-racist, indigenous, critical disability and other non-dominant/non-normative theory, the author claims to have worked towards amplifying voices whose suffering has been marginalized and discredited.
