Paradoxes of Emancipation

Dimitris Soudias is a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Centre for the Study of Democratic Cultures and Politics at the University of Groningen.

Acknowledgments Acronyms Map of the 2011 Syntagma Square occupation Introduction The Future Will Be Better Tomorrow 1. Modernizing Greece From Barbershops to Hair Salons 2. "Waking Up" Spatialized Crises and Unthought-Of Experiences 3. Aspiring the Utopian The Alter-Politics of Radical Imagination 4. Challenging the Dystopian The Anti-Politics of Demystification 5. Paradoxes of Emancipation Between Resistance and Reproduction 6. Toward an Alter-Neoliberal Critique Epilogue Bibliography Index

A tour de force that masterfully conceptualizes the paradoxes of emancipation: the challenge of practicing radical politics within and against neoliberalism's tendency to incorporate critical activities.-- "Maria Boletsi, Endowed Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Amsterdam and Associate Professor in Film and Literary Studies at Leiden University" In carefully grounded research, Soudias explores the emergent subjectivities of the Syntagma Square occupation, their transformative potentialities and the traps neoliberal rationality has been setting for them. This is a book of sober analysis combined with a much-needed optimism for an emancipatory society.-- "Stavros Stavrides, National Technical University of Athens" Soudias has written a tremendously important book about Greece's recent past, in which the country was the prime example of neo-liberal cruel policies.-- "Jan Willem Duyvendak, author of The Return of the Native: Can Liberalism Safeguard Us Against Nativism?"