The Post-Political and its Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticization, Specters of Radical Politics

Erik Swyngedouw Japhy Wilson

The Post-Political and its Discontents: Spaces of Depoliticization, Specters of Radical Politics
Abstract:

List of Contributors; Seeds of Dystopia: Post-Politics and the Return of the Political, Japhy Wilson and Erik Swyngedouw; Part I Spaces of Depoliticisation; 1. The Post-Politics of Sustainability Planning: Privatisation and the Demise of Democratic Government, Mike Raco; 2. The Post-Political and the End of Nature: The Genetically Modified Organism, Larry Reynolds and Bronislaw Szerszynski; 3. The New Development Architecture and the Post- Political in the Global South, Sangeeta Kamat; 4. Opening Up the Post-Political Condition: Multiculturalism and the Matrix of Depoliticisation, Nicolas Van Puymbroeck and Stijn Oosterlynck; 5. The Jouissance of Philanthrocapitalism: Enjoyment as a Post-Political Factor, Japhy Wilson; 6. Religious Antinomies of Post-Politics, Bülent Diken; 7. Post-Ecologist Governmentality: Post-Democracy, Post-Politics and the Politics of Unsustainability, Ingolfur Blühdorn; Part II Spectres of Radical Politics; 8. Insurgent Architects, Radical Cities and the Promise of the Political, Erik Swyngedouw; 9. The Limits of Post-Politics: Rethinking Radical Social Enterprise, Wendy Larner; 10. Neither Cosmopolitanism nor Multipolarity: The Political Beyond Global Governmentality, Hans-Martin Jaeger; 11. Against a Speculative Leftism, Alex Loftus; 12. Spatialising Politics: Antagonistic Imaginaries of Indignant Squares, Maria Kaika and Lazaros Karaliotas; 13. After Post-Politics: Occupation and the Return of Communism, Jodi Dean; 14. The Enigma of Revolt: Militant Politics in a ‘Post- Political’ Age, Andy Merrifield; There Is No Alternative, Erik Swyngedouw and Japhy Wilson.