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SUMMARY:Renewing Radical and Revolutionary Political Strategies: a reflect
 ion on sense and nonsense - Chris Rogers (Warwick University)
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CONTACT:Odette Rogers
DESCRIPTION:Part of Global Capitalism and Its Critics series\, organised b
 y Dr Jeff Miley and Dr David Lane (Cambridge Sociology)\nThe paper reflect
 s on varying ways in which the dominance of capitalist\nsocial relations h
 as been ‘performed’\, and radical or revolutionary\npolitical strategi
 es stifled as a result. In particular\, it reflects on\nthe way in which a
 ccusations of co-option by capitalist interests have\nbeen levelled at rad
 ical movements and the way in which autonomous forms\nof social and econom
 ic organisation that emerge in the interstices of\ncapitalist social relat
 ions are criticised as insignificant or\nunsustainable. I suggest that the
 se critiques are nonsense and perform\ncapitalist dominance in two ways. F
 irst\, they are contingent on\ncontested theoretical positions that have d
 irected debate from the\npractical to the academic. Second\, because mains
 tream political\ndiscourses that deride alternative ‘norm entrepreneurs
 ’ as either\nquacks or hypocrites deny the possibility of social change 
 and\nerroneously suggest the significance of an individual’s critique is
 \ncontingent on their social status. The paper illustrates the ways in\nwh
 ich nonsense of this kind has affected recent revolutionary political\nmov
 ements\, including Occupy\, and tentatively suggests ways it might be\nesc
 aped\n\n
LOCATION:Sociology Department Committee Room\, Free School Lane
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