Neoliberal Techniques of Social Suffering: Political Resistance and Critical Theory from Latin America and Spain

Neoliberal Techniques of Social Suffering: Political Resistance and Critical Theory from Latin America and Spain explores the other side of our social world to revive grassroots strategies of resistance and emancipation to bring about new distributions of power, welfare, and discursive legitimation and to create a radically democratic world.

Format: Hardback
Length: 190 pages
Publication date: 15 August 2023
Publisher: Lexington Books

Neoliberal Techniques of Social Suffering: Political Resistance and Critical Theory from Latin America and Spain is the culmination of the critical and political dedication of numerous Latin American and Spanish philosophers who share a critical perspective on the global "stealth revolution" of recent decades, where neoliberalism has compelled the well-being and reproduction of life to adapt to a system devastating for both humans and non-humans. The authors express the shared concern of contemporary Spanish and Latin American societies to cultivate new conceptions of the public and the common through mobilizing affects typically disavowed in political theory. If, in Ancient Greece, the notion of strengthening the most vulnerable and weakest was deplored as the art of sophists, this collection edited by Laura Quintana and Nuria Sánchez Madrid explores the other side of our social world to revive grassroots strategies of resistance and emancipation, which are capable of bringing about new distributions of power, welfare, and discursive legitimacy, and to extend our goal of creating a radically democratic world.

Neoliberal Techniques of Social Suffering: Political Resistance and Critical Theory from Latin America and Spain

Neoliberal Techniques of Social Suffering: Political Resistance and Critical Theory from Latin America and Spain is the product of the critical and political commitment of numerous Latin American and Spanish philosophers who share a critical approach to the global "stealth revolution" of recent decades, where neoliberalism has forced the well-being and reproduction of life to adapt to a system devastating for both humans and non-humans. The authors voice the shared concern of contemporary Spanish and Latin American societies to cultivate new conceptions of the public and the common through mobilizing affects typically disavowed in political theory. If, in Ancient Greece, the notion of strengthening the most vulnerable and weakest was deplored as the art of sophists, this collection edited by Laura Quintana and Nuria Sánchez Madrid explores the other side of our social world to revive grassroots strategies of resistance and emancipation, which are capable of bringing about new distributions of power, welfare, and discursive legitimacy, and to extend our goal of creating a radically democratic world.

The authors express the shared concern of contemporary Spanish and Latin American societies. Societies to cultivate new conceptions of the public and the common through mobilizing affects typically disavowed power, welfare, and discursive legitimacy. If, in Ancient Greece, the notion of strengthening the most vulnerable and weakest was deplored as the art of sophists, this collection edited by Laura Quintana and Nuria Sánchez Madrid explores the other side of our social world to revive grassroots strategies of resistance and emancipation, which are capable of bringing about new distributions of power, welfare, and discursive legitimacy, and to extend our goal of creating a radically democratic world.

Weight: 434g
Dimension: 160 x 236 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666915075