Figurations of the Future: On the Form and Temporality of Protests among Left Radical Activists in Europe
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Figurations of the Future : On the Form and Temporality of Protests among Left Radical Activists in Europe . / Krøijer, Stine.
In the Event: toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments. ed. / Lotte Meinert; Bruce Kapferer. Berghahn Books, 2015.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Figurations of the Future
T2 - On the Form and Temporality of Protests among Left Radical Activists in Europe
AU - Krøijer, Stine
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - During the past ten years, protests timed to coincide with international summits have become a recurrent phenomenon in Europe. The present article describes the protests of left radical activists during NATO’s sixtieth anniversary summit in Strasbourg in 2009, paying attention to the particular relationship between form, body and time. The article establishes a dialogue between the Manchester School and the performative theory of Victor Turner, Viveros de Castro’s theorization of Amerindian perspectivism and newer theories of time and the body. The article argues that during confrontations between activists and the police a moment of bodily intensity arises, which entail a work on time. The skilful performance makes a temporal bodily perspective appear that overcomes the antinomies between immanence and transcendence, between the present and the future, that characterize much thought on social change.
AB - During the past ten years, protests timed to coincide with international summits have become a recurrent phenomenon in Europe. The present article describes the protests of left radical activists during NATO’s sixtieth anniversary summit in Strasbourg in 2009, paying attention to the particular relationship between form, body and time. The article establishes a dialogue between the Manchester School and the performative theory of Victor Turner, Viveros de Castro’s theorization of Amerindian perspectivism and newer theories of time and the body. The article argues that during confrontations between activists and the police a moment of bodily intensity arises, which entail a work on time. The skilful performance makes a temporal bodily perspective appear that overcomes the antinomies between immanence and transcendence, between the present and the future, that characterize much thought on social change.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Performance
KW - activism
KW - anarchism
KW - NATO
KW - time
KW - body
KW - affect
KW - event
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9781782388890
BT - In the Event
A2 - Meinert, Lotte
A2 - Kapferer, Bruce
PB - Berghahn Books
ER -
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