{"product_id":"the-history-of-disruption-isbn-9781804293904","title":"The History of Disruption","description":"\u003cb\u003eChallenging our understanding of social struggles as \u003ci\u003emovements\u003c\/i\u003e, Mehmet Dösemeci traces a 300-year counter-history of struggle predicated on \u003ci\u003edisruption\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy do we think of social struggles as movements? Have struggles been practiced otherwise, not as motion but as interruption, occupation, disturbance, arrest? Looking at three hundred years of Atlantic social struggle kinetically, Mehmet Dösemeci questions the axiomatic association that academics and activists have made between modern social struggles and the category of movement. Dösemeci argues that this movement politics has privileged some forms of historical struggle while obscuring others and, perhaps more damningly, reveals the complicity of social movements in the very forces they oppose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDösemeci’s story begins with the eighteenth-century establishment of a transatlantic regime of movement that coerced goods and bodies into violent and ceaseless motion. He then details the long history of resistance to this regime, interweaving disparate social struggles such as food riots, Caribbean maroon communities, Atlantic pirates, secret societies and syndicalism, the student New Left, Black Power, radical feminism, Operaismo, and the Zapatistas into a history of politics as disruption. Dösemeci convincingly argues that this history is key to understanding the resurgence of disruptive politics in the twenty-first century and offers valuable guidance for future struggles seeking to overturn an ever-intensifying regime of movement.\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Kinetics of Our Discontent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Regime of Movement\u003cbr\u003e2. We Shall Not Be Moved\u003cbr\u003eExcursus I: Disruption and Revolution\u003cbr\u003e3. Disruption Insurgent\u003cbr\u003eExcursus II: The New Left\u003cbr\u003e4. Disruptive Subjects, Disruptive Spaces\u003cbr\u003e5. The Southern Wind\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Disrupt or Be Disrupted\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\"At a time when movements are spent forces, \u003ci\u003eThe History of Disruption\u003c\/i\u003e offers a reprise of the history of social struggles against capitalism and the left by spontaneous disruptions. [This] account of the immutable direct resistance reflects an unassailable reality of the 21st century-the oppressed will continue to resist and disrupt injustice and  oppression  with or without movement and organization-a salient contribution.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Immanuel Ness, author of \u003ci\u003eMigration and Economic Imperialism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Anyone who has endured academia will be familiar with the way that concrete struggles become purely figurative, and know as well that such dematerializations mark historical defeats in the world of practical social contest. This has been one fate of \"disruption\"; its corporate capture is even more dire. We should take heart then from this clear and clarifying book, whose urgent goal is to rematerialize disruption, to render it practical and pressing-or perhaps simply to engage in canny witness to the work of the world as it restores disruption to the realm of the \"kinetic,\" where it belongs if we are to have any hope at all.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Joshua Clover, author of \u003ci\u003eRiot. Strike. Riot.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"At the very moment that the belief in disruptive behavior is identified with corporate management gurus, activist and intellectual Mehmet Döşemeci boldly demonstrates that it has been practically central for two hundred years for those confronting capitalism on its own kinetic terms. Nor is this absorbing and inspiring book just a history: it is also a defense of a much-debated political strategy that has gone far already to define our times.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Samuel Moyn, \u003ci\u003eLiberalism Against Itself\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMehmet Dösemeci\u003c\/b\u003e is an anarchist, activist, and associate professor of history at Bucknell University. The author of two books and numerous academic articles, his writings on the meaning and significance of radical democracy and the uprisings, occupations, and riots of the 21st century have appeared in \u003ci\u003eAl Jazeera, RoarMag, Open Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Common Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e. In his spare time, he runs a website on the past and present of social disruption www.disruptnow.org","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302484201701,"sku":"NP9781804293904","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781804293904.jpg?v=1767739799","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-history-of-disruption-isbn-9781804293904","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}