Collective Movements and Emerging Political Spaces

Angharad Closs Stephens is Associate Professor in Human Geography at Swansea University, Cymru/Wales, UK. She is the author of National Affects: The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political (2022), The Persistence of Nationalism: From imagined Communities to Urban Encounters (2013) and cöeditor with Nick Vaughan¿Williams of Terrorism and the Politics of Response (2009).

Collective Movements and Emerging Political Spaces addresses the politics of new forms of collective movements, ranging from anti-austerity protests to migrant struggles and anti-colonial demonstrations.

1. Collective Movements and Emerging Political Spaces: An Introduction Part I The Conditions of Being Political 2. International Political Sociology and Problematising Critique Part II Migrant Spaces 3. The Multiple Genealogies of Abolitionism: Undoing the Detractive Rights' Logics and the Reform-Revolution Dichotomy 4. Unruly Migrations, Abolitionist Alternatives 5. CommemorAction 6. Affect, Uncertainty, and Exhaustion: Methodological Reflections on Migration Struggles and Governance Part III Affective Solidarities 7. Drowned World: Imagined Futures and Collective Movements 8. Senses of Togetherness in a Covid City 9. Foreignness /Forensis: Burdened Entanglement in the Black Mediterranean 10. The Libidinal Lives of Statues Part IV Emergent Politics 11. Examining Emerging Xenophobic Nationalism in Sweden: Transformations Between 'Good' and 'Bad' Civil Society 12. Examining the Limits of the Hospitable Nation: Hosting Schemes and Asylum Seeker's Perspectives on Destitution 13. The Paradox of Anthropocene Inaction: Knowledge Production, Mobilization, and the Securitization of Social Relations 14. From Muscular Nationalisms to Struggles for Freedom 15. Afterword: Planetary Movements