Social Postmodernism
Social Postmodernism
Steven Seidman
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USDSocial Postmodernism defends a postmodern perspective anchored in the politics of the new social movements. The volume preserves the focus on the politics of the body, race, gender, and sexuality as elaborated in postmodern approaches. But these essays push postmodern analysis in a particular direction: toward a social postmodernism which integrates the micro-social concerns of the new social movements with an institutional and cultural analysis in the service of a transformative political vision.
- Introduction gives an accessible overview of the last two decades of debates on postmodernism
- Contributors are all leading theorists, known for their contributions to research in e.g. gender, Gay and Lesbian, postcolonial studies
- Combines postmodern insights with traditional social theory to look at new social movements in broader cultural context
Reviews & endorsements
"Social Postmodernism is a great book in the most traditional or modern snese-it is useful. This has a great deal to do with the fact that the rich diversity of papers included, covering sexuality, race, multiculturalism, the India Diaspora, feminism, and what's left of universalism, is held up by a thematic concern with the idea of identity." Peter Beilharz, Contemporary Sociology
"This collection of previously published essays contributes to contemporary social and political theory in a number of important ways." Ethics
Product details
September 1996Paperback
9780521475716
412 pages
229 × 152 × 23 mm
0.6kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction Part I. Critiques of Identity:
- 1. Interpreting gender Linda Nicholson
- 2. Feminist encounters: locating the politics of experience Chandra Talpade Monhanty
- 3. Postcolonial criticism and Indian historiography Gyan Prakash
- Part II. Critiques of the Deconstruction of Identity:
- 4. African identities Kwame Anthony Appiah
- 5. Deconstructing queer theory or the under-theorization of the social and the ethical Steven Seidman
- 6. Queer visibility in commodity culture Rosemary Hennessy
- Part III. Postmodern Approaches to the Social:
- 7. Gender as seriality: thinking about women as a social collective Iris Marion Young
- 8. Refiguring social space Cindy Patton
- 9. Just framing: ethnicities and racisms in a 'postmodern' framework Ali Rattansi
- 10. Politics culture and the public sphere: toward a postmodern conception Nancy Fraser
- Part IV. Postmodern Approaches to the Political:
- 11. Feminism citizenship and radical democratic politics Chantal Mouffe
- 12. The space of justice: lesbians and democratic politics Shane Phelan
- 13. Against the liberal state: ACT-UP and the emergence of postmodern politics Stanley Aronowitz
- 14. Democracies of pleasure: thoughts on the goals of radical sexual politics R. W. Connell.
