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020			_a9780197607619 _q(hardcover)
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100	1		_aKapoor, Ilan, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aUniversal politics / _cIlan Kapoor and Zahi Zalloua.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bOxford University Press, _c[2022]
264		4	_c©2022
300			_aix, 249 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 213-233) and index.
505	0		_aUniversal politics -- Universalisms compared -- Universal versus decentralized politics -- What a (Negative) Universal politics might look like today.
520			_a"This book claims that there is a negativity at the core of all social articulations that provides the basis for a universal politics. Drawing principally on the work of Slavoj Žižek, the book suggests that the social is punctured by an impossibility-an incompletion-which rather than serving as a barrier to politics, lays a foundation for shared struggle. The book thus argues for a negative universality, rooted not in a positive element (e.g., identity-based politics) but a discordant one, so that under our current global capitalist system, solidarity is to be forged on the basis of social antagonism (i.e., shared experiences of exploitation and marginalization). Such a conception of shared struggle avoids the trap of both a neocolonial universalism (e.g., the rights of white men parading as universal rights) and the narrow particularism of identity-based politics. Most importantly, it foregrounds the struggles of the systematically dispossessed and excluded (the permanently unemployed, migrants, refugees, sweatshop laborers, etc.), who stand as symptom of our global capitalist order. The book compares "negative universality" with four competing contemporary versions of universalism-conservative, liberal, postcolonial, and Marxist. It also brings "negative universality" into dialogue with present-day critics of universalism-postmodernists, post-Marxists, queer theorists, decolonial pluriversalists, and new materialists. Finally, it examines what a universal politics might look like today in the context of such key global sites of struggle as climate change, the refugee crisis, the Palestinian question, Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, Political Islam, workers' struggles, the Bolivian state under Morales, the European Union, and COVID-19"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aPolitical science _xPhilosophy.
650		7	_aPolitical science _xPhilosophy. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01069819
700	1		_aZalloua, Zahi Anbra, _d1971- _eauthor.
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