Movement, generation and moments of excess
Submitted by David Harvie on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 5:00pm
Panel Abstract:
“The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.” William Morris The cycle of struggle associated with the “movement of movements” seems to have drawn to a close. In the face of a new round of austerity, and a deepening crisis of social reproduction, new struggles and new antagonistic social subjects are emerging, particularly in the North. With the dawning of a new and unknown era we consider the question of inheritance and new generations. But how do political generations form and can the experience of past generations can play a useful role in this? How can we prepare for events of unknown shape and time of arrival? What role can past experiences play? How do emerging generations relate to previous movements, without conceding ground and losing their singularity? How do we allow the past to “live in us”, whilst preventing it from weighing “like a nightmare upon the brains of the living”?
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- Political and Social Movements
- Political Economy and the Current Crisis
- G. Panel Session 3—Saturday 3:00 p.m. – 4:50 p.m.
- David Harvie—University of Leicester, UK and The Free Association
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- David Harvie—University of Leicester
- Keir Milburn—The Free Association
- Malav Kanuga—Bluestockings
- Marina Sitrin—Author, Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina
- Peter Linebaugh—University of Toledo
- UK and The Free Association
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Panel Abstract:
“The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.” William Morris The cycle of struggle associated with the “movement of movements” seems to have drawn to a close. In the face of a new round of austerity, and a deepening crisis of social reproduction, new struggles and new antagonistic social subjects are emerging, particularly in the North. With the dawning of a new and unknown era we consider the question of inheritance and new generations. But how do political generations form and can the experience of past generations can play a useful role in this? How can we prepare for events of unknown shape and time of arrival? What role can past experiences play? How do emerging generations relate to previous movements, without conceding ground and losing their singularity? How do we allow the past to “live in us”, whilst preventing it from weighing “like a nightmare upon the brains of the living”?
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