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Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the Twenty-First Century
Dimitris Papadopoulos
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Description for Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the Twenty-First Century
Paperback. Shows how we can resist increasingly advanced methods of state control by refusing to conform to accepted behavioural norms. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: JPV; JPWJ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
Illegal migrants who evade detection, creators of value in insecure and precarious working conditions and those who refuse the constraints of sexual and biomedical classifications: these are the people who manage to subvert power and to craft unexpected sociabilities and experiences. Escape Routes shows how people can escape control and create social change by becoming imperceptible to the political system of Global North Atlantic societies.
'A profound and brilliant examination of the power of exodus to create radical interventions in perhaps the three most important and contested fields of society today: life, migration and precarious labour. ... Read more
Illegal migrants who evade detection, creators of value in insecure and precarious working conditions and those who refuse the constraints of sexual and biomedical classifications: these are the people who manage to subvert power and to craft unexpected sociabilities and experiences. Escape Routes shows how people can escape control and create social change by becoming imperceptible to the political system of Global North Atlantic societies.
'A profound and brilliant examination of the power of exodus to create radical interventions in perhaps the three most important and contested fields of society today: life, migration and precarious labour. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745327785
SKU
V9780745327785
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99-50
About Dimitris Papadopoulos
Dimitris Papadopoulos is Reader in Sociology and Organisation at the University of Leicester, UK. He is co-editor of the journal Subjectivity and co-author of Escape Routes (Pluto, 2008). Niamh Stephenson is Senior Lecturer in Social Science at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of South Wales, Sydney. She is the co-author of Escape ... Read more
Reviews for Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the Twenty-First Century
'A profound and brilliant examination of the power of exodus to create radical interventions in perhaps the three most important and contested fields of society today: life, migration and precarious labour'
Antonio Negri, author of Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State (1999), and co-author of Empire (2000) and Multitude (2005). Another world is here! So announce the authors ... Read more
Antonio Negri, author of Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State (1999), and co-author of Empire (2000) and Multitude (2005). Another world is here! So announce the authors ... Read more