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dc.contributor.authorShantz, Jeff
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-26 23:55
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-23 14:09:07
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T10:40:47Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T10:40:47Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier1004616
dc.identifierOCN: 1100489693en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25479
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPW Political activism / Political engagement::JPWG Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent actionen_US
dc.subject.otheranarchism
dc.subject.otherMarxism
dc.subject.otherUS politics
dc.subject.otherpolitical theory
dc.subject.othercapitalism
dc.titleCrisis States: Governance, Resistance & Precarious Capitalism
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.21983/P3.0146.1.00
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13
oapen.relation.isbn9780988234086
oapen.collectionScholarLed
oapen.pages82
oapen.place.publicationBrooklyn, NY
oapen.identifier.ocn1100489693


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