Chetan Bhatt: The Revolutionary Road to Me

Cover: 9781509565184 | The Revolutionary Road to Me | Identity Politics and the Western Left

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How can the left be credible when it can't decide what a woman is? How can antiracists fight for equality if they promote fictions about race? If identity politics is the answer, why are so many Western left organizations being damaged by it? As the culture wars rage, this compelling book examines why much of the Western political left has foundered because of identity politics. Identity issues have mired many good organizations in intractable conflicts and deflected them from their purpose. In ignoring poverty and inequality, the Western left has lost its way. Meanwhile, powerful social movements from the past - black, women's, gay, and lesbian - are reduced to corporate slogans. Attuned to the needs of activists and academics, this book offers intelligent explanations for how we got here. It examines serious problems with antiracism, transgender rights activism, and the work of LGBTQ+ groups. In showing how identities are outcomes of social and institutional forces, it argues that technofinancial capitalism uses identity politics to mould new labour processes for the Western middle class while accelerating economic inequality. Clearing a path through the vagaries of identity politics, the book offers arguments the Western left must face amidst formidable far-right and right-wing authoritarianism, climate emergency, and severe inequalities.

Über den Autor

Chetan Bhatt is Anthony Giddens Professor of Social Theory at LSE.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: The Heat of Identity

Chapter 2: The Self, the Group, and Identity Politics

Chapter 3: Identitarian Technocracy and the Liberal Middle Class

Chapter 4: The Queer Empire and Post-Truth Politics

Chapter 5: Proximate, Immediate, Emotional: Identitarian Antiracism

Chapter 6: Culture, Identity, and Antiracism

Chapter 7: Diminishing Utopias

Notes
Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781509565184
ISBN-10:	1509565183
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Bhatt, Chetan
Hersteller:	John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	152 x 230 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Chetan Bhatt
Erscheinungsdatum:	29.11.2024
Gewicht:	0,386 kg

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