In defense of conviviality and the collective subject

This essay takes up the question of a "new" social paradigm by firstexamining the recent emergence of the U.S. Occupied Movement (OM) as a provocativeand inspiring moment of political re-composition, but one that also narrates a morecomplex unraveling of what W.E.B Du Bois called "dem...

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Autor principal: Callahan,Manuel
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Publicado: Universidad de Los Lagos. Centro de Estudios del Desarrollo Regional y Políticas Públicas - CEDER 2012
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-656820120003000042013-01-30In defense of conviviality and the collective subjectCallahan,Manuel autonomy collective subject conviviality democraticdespotism necropolitics insurgent learning This essay takes up the question of a "new" social paradigm by firstexamining the recent emergence of the U.S. Occupied Movement (OM) as a provocativeand inspiring moment of political re-composition, but one that also narrates a morecomplex unraveling of what W.E.B Du Bois called "democratic despotism." The mostrecent political tensions and economic "crisis" of the global north point to the disruptionof a white "middle class" hegemony alongside inspiring moments of reconstructedconviviality. I suggest that the tension within spaces of occupation and convergence areanimated by conviviality that should be read "politically" by noting the emergence oftools in service of community regeneration. Towards that end, I introduce Universidadde la Tierra Califas, a local project somewhere in-between network and collectivepedagogies that is also a project of strategic conviviality and a Zapatismo beyond Chiapas.I argue that UT Califas engages a collective subject as part of an epistemological struggleinspired by Indigenous autonomy currently underway throughout Latin America.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad de Los Lagos. Centro de Estudios del Desarrollo Regional y Políticas Públicas - CEDERPolis (Santiago) v.11 n.33 20122012-12-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-65682012000300004en10.4067/S0718-65682012000300004
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collective subject
conviviality
democraticdespotism
necropolitics
insurgent learning
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necropolitics
insurgent learning
Callahan,Manuel
In defense of conviviality and the collective subject
description This essay takes up the question of a "new" social paradigm by firstexamining the recent emergence of the U.S. Occupied Movement (OM) as a provocativeand inspiring moment of political re-composition, but one that also narrates a morecomplex unraveling of what W.E.B Du Bois called "democratic despotism." The mostrecent political tensions and economic "crisis" of the global north point to the disruptionof a white "middle class" hegemony alongside inspiring moments of reconstructedconviviality. I suggest that the tension within spaces of occupation and convergence areanimated by conviviality that should be read "politically" by noting the emergence oftools in service of community regeneration. Towards that end, I introduce Universidadde la Tierra Califas, a local project somewhere in-between network and collectivepedagogies that is also a project of strategic conviviality and a Zapatismo beyond Chiapas.I argue that UT Califas engages a collective subject as part of an epistemological struggleinspired by Indigenous autonomy currently underway throughout Latin America.
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title In defense of conviviality and the collective subject
title_short In defense of conviviality and the collective subject
title_full In defense of conviviality and the collective subject
title_fullStr In defense of conviviality and the collective subject
title_full_unstemmed In defense of conviviality and the collective subject
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