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What drives people to take to the streets in protest? What is their connection to other activists and how does that change over time? How do seemingly spontaneous activist movements emerge, endure, and evolve, especially when they lack a leader and concrete agenda? How does one analyze a changing political movement immersed in contingency? Impulse to Act addresses these questions incisively, examining a wide range of activist movements from the December 2008 protests in Greece to the recent chto delat in Russia. Contributors in the first section of this volume highlight the affective dimensions of political movements, charting the various ways in which participants coalesce around and belong to collectives of resistance. The potent agency of movements is highlighted in the second section, where scholars show how the emerging actions and critiques of protesters help disrupt authoritative political structures. Responding to the demands of the field today, the novel approaches to protest movements in Impulse to Act offer new ways to reengage with the traditional cornerstones of political anthropology.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Epigraph
  2. pp. i-viii
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xi-xiv
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  1. Introduction: Resistance Reconsidered
  2. Othon Alexandrakis
  3. pp. 1-16
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  1. Part I. Affect as Political Condition
  2. pp. 17-18
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  1. 1 Being and Doing Politics: Moral Ontologies and Ethical Ways of Knowing at the End of the Cold War
  2. Jessica Greenberg
  3. pp. 19-40
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  1. 2 The Affective Echoes of an Overwhelming Life: The Demand for Legal Recognition and the Vicious Circle of Desire in the Case of Queer Activism in Istanbul
  2. Eirini Avramopoulou
  3. pp. 41-62
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  1. 3 Emergenc(i)es in the Fields: Affective Composition and Countercamps against the Exploitation of Migrant Farm Labor in Italy
  2. Irene Peano
  3. pp. 63-88
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  1. 4 Cosmologicopolitics: Vitalistic Cosmology Meets Biopower
  2. James D. Faubion
  3. pp. 89-111
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  1. 5 Surreal Capitalism and the Dialectical Economies of Precarity
  2. Neni Panourgiá
  3. pp. 112-132
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  1. Part II. Agency as Ethical Condition
  1. 6 Intolerants: Politics of the Ordinary in Karachi, Pakistan
  2. Tania Ahmad
  3. pp. 135-160
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  1. 7 Negative Space: Unmovement and the Study of Activism When There Is No Action
  2. Cymene Howe
  3. pp. 161-182
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  1. 8 What Should Be Done? Art and Political Possibility in Russia
  2. Petra Rethmann
  3. pp. 183-191
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  1. 9 The Multilinearity of Protest: Understanding New Social Movements through Their Events, Trends, and Routines
  2. John Postill
  3. pp. 192-210
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  1. 10 Whose Ethics? Negotiating Ethics and Responsibility in the Field
  2. Marianne Maeckelbergh
  3. pp. 211-230
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  1. 11 Within, Against, Beyond: The Radical Imagination in the Age of the Slow-Motion Apocalypse
  2. Alex Khasnabish
  3. pp. 231-245
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  1. Conclusion: On an Emergent Politics and Ethics of Resistance
  2. Athena Athanasiou and Othon Alexandrakis
  3. pp. 246-262
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  1. List of Contributors
  2. pp. 263-266
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 267-274
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