Breaching the Civil Order
Radicalism and the Civil Sphere
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Breaching the Civil Order
Radicalism and the Civil Sphere
About this book
It is not only a paradox but something of an intellectual scandal that, in an era so shaken by radical actions and ideologies, social science has had nothing theoretically new to say about radicalism since the middle of the last century. Breaching the Civil Order fills this void. It argues that, rather than seeing radicalism in substantive terms - as violent or militant, communist or fascist - radicalism should be seen more broadly as any organized effort to breach the civil order. The theory is brilliantly made flesh in a series of case studies by leading European and American social scientists, from the destruction of property in the London race riots to the public militancy of Black Lives Matter in the US, the performative violence of the Irish IRA and the Mexican Zapatistas to the democratic upheavals of the Arab Spring, and from Islamic terrorism in France to Germany's right-wing populist Pegida.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Notes on the Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction: On Radicalism and the Civil Order
- 1 Wedging Open Established Civil Spheres: A Comparative Approach to Their Emancipatory Potential
- 2 Radical Protest on a University Campus: Performances of Civil Transition in Colombia
- 3 Antiracism Movements and the US Civil Sphere: The Case of Black Lives Matter
- 4 The Civil Sphere and Its Variants in Light of the Arab Revolutions and Jihadism in Europe
- 5 Restaging a Vital Center within Radicalized Civil Societies: The Media, Performativity, and the Charlie Hebdo Attack
- 6 Anti-immigrant Movements and the Self-Poisoning of the Civil Sphere: The Case of Germany
- 7 The Civil Sphere and Revolutionary Violence: The Irish Republican Movement, 1969–98
- 8 ''We All Came Together That Day'': The 2011 English Riots as an Enactment of Solidarity
- 9 Disobedience in Civil Regeneration: Radical Transformations in the Civil Sphere
- Commentary: Matters of Translation
- Conclusion: Reflections on Radicalism and the Civil Sphere
- Index