TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shantz, Jeff
AB  - This is an age of crisis: economic, political, environmental, and social. Yet the nature of contemporary crisis is often misunderstood. Crisis, rather than being accidental or episodic – as is too often assumed – has been a regular feature of state practice in the neoliberal austerity regimes of contemporary capitalism. In this timely work Jeff Shantz gives special attention to the particular manufactured crises associated with austerity regimes and conditions of precarity within contemporary capitalism, and how Crisis States differ from other forms of state practice.  Crisis is a powerful weapon of states and capital in the pursuit of accumulation, exploitation, and control. Engaging insights from anarchism and autonomous Marxism, Shantz lays bare the real nature and character of crisis as political and social pursuits of state and capital under precarious capitalism.  Attention is also given to social resistance under crisis state conditions. Contemporary capitalism renders the oppressed and exploited precarious at the same time as opportunities are opened to render the system itself precarious. Understanding Crisis States and precarious capitalism is crucial in considering prospects for resistance.
DO  - 10.21983/P3.0146.1.00
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1004616
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1100489693
KW  - anarchism
KW  - Marxism
KW  - US politics
KW  - political theory
KW  - capitalism
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/b712b4dc-4160-4a6e-ba55-fe6bc2d54b4a/1004616.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25479
PB  - punctum books
PP  - Brooklyn, NY
PY  - 2016
SN  - 9780988234086
TI  - Crisis States: Governance, Resistance & Precarious Capitalismnull
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