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The Ends of Resistance: Making and Unmaking Democracy

The Ends of Resistance: Making and Unmaking Democracy

Olson, Alix
Zamalin, Alex

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 023120499X
ISBN13: 9780231204996
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Jan 2 2024
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

Since the rise of Donald Trump and other right-wing authoritarians worldwide, we have been told to resist. But this kind of opposition looks surprisingly like restoring the status quo. Under the banner of resistance, liberals and progressives have encouraged voting for Democrats, reading the mainstream media, trusting the science, putting up yard signs, buying the right products, and celebrating a return to normal. How was resistance diluted, and where can we find alternative forms of resistance for present and future struggles?

Alix Olson and Alex Zamalin offer a clear-eyed critical account of how neoliberalism has redefined resistance to thwart social movements and consolidate power. Elites have domesticated and coopted some once-radical concepts and practices into restorative resistance that bolsters support for an unjust social order while marginalizing, racializing, and criminalizing many others. Olson and Zamalin argue that true resistance to racial neoliberalism must instead be deeply antirestorative: collective, horizontal, counterhegemonic, radically democratic insurrectionary movements that cannot be redirected into shoring up the existing order. This unruly world-building--exemplified by Occupy Wall Street, the Movement for Black Lives, Indigenous activism at Standing Rock, and more--pushes us to live, think, and dream beyond profit maximization, democratic civility, and individual freedom. Powerfully and accessibly written with manifesto-like urgency, The Ends of Resistance shows how marginalized voices and social movements deepen our thinking for confronting power.

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