Overview
- Examines and discusses the nature of subjectivation in multiple contexts
- Provides and assesses diverse accounts of subjectivation in, and as, political practices
- Enables understanding of subjectivation
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This book explores, discusses, and assesses the actual and potential sense of subjectivation in a variety of contexts. In particular, it reflects the genealogies, connections, variations, and practical implications of various theories of subjectivity and subjection while providing an up-to-date and authoritative account of how to engage with the ‘subject’. Rather than addressing the ‘subject’ merely in theoretical terms, this book explores subjectivation as a seminal expression of subjective practices in the plural. To the extent that subjectivity and subjection are key terms in a plurality of discourses and for a number of disciplines, Subjectivation in Political Theory and Contemporary Practices advances a trans-disciplinary reading by taking into account relevant debates that stretch from poststructuralism via postfordism to postdemocracy. In this sense, the book introduces readers to current approaches to subjectivation by displacing conventional understandings and suggesting unexpected reformulations.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Re-Tracing Subjectivation
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Subjectivation in a Variety of Contemporary Practices
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At the Limits of Subjectivation
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For an Other Subjectivation
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Andreas Oberprantacher is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Innsbruck, Austria; founding member of the research centre Migration & Globalization, and faculty member of the UNESCO Chair for Peace Studies. His previous publications include ‘Of Other Spaces (of Memory)’, Social Research: An International Quarterly (2016), ‘Holey Union: Contested European Frontier Zones’, Journal of Conflictology (2014), and Power and Justice in International Relations: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Challenges (co-ed with Marie-Luisa Frick) (2009).
Andrei Siclodi is a curator, writer, editor, and cultural worker based in Innsbruck, Austria. He is founding director of the International Fellowship Program for Art and Theory at Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen in Innsbruck, and editor of the publication series ‘Büchs’n’Books—Art and Knowledge Production in Context’. His previous publications include Private Investigations—Paths to Critical Knowledge Production in Contemporary Art (ed) (2011) and ‘Out of the Commodity!’ (guest ed), Open Systems Online Journal (2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Subjectivation in Political Theory and Contemporary Practices
Editors: Andreas Oberprantacher, Andrei Siclodi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51659-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51658-9Published: 04 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-70372-2Published: 13 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51659-6Published: 25 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 353
Topics: Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Political Theory, Political History, Political Science