Revolutionary Love and Alter-globalisation

Towards a New Development Ethic

Bibliographic Data

ID10941018
AuthorsMatt York (0000-0002-0733-9272, University College Cork, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume48
Issue4
Pages601-615
Publication date2018-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Change (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0049-0857 • E-ISSN: 0976-3538
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0049085718801402
OpenAlexW2903972378
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited22

Neoliberal globalisation has increased inequalities, injustices, and violations of freedoms on an unprecedented scale, whilst creating a fertile environment for the rise of far-right xenophobic nationalism and authoritarianism. In parallel, the emergence of the alter-globalisation movement has responded with a growing popular resistance to neoliberal policy and practice. The experience of social movements over the last century confirms the pressing need for a framework of unity within this current movement wave which avoids the dominations and hierarchies of previous structures, maintains its constituent diversity and yet allows for the construction of a cohesive collective identity. This article positions love as a key concept in political theory/philosophy and for performing a central role in the revolutionary transformation of contemporary global capitalism, exploring how new love-based political subjectivities, practices, and group formations might emerge via a more than human material-psychosocio-affective commons, with opportunities for a reimagining of the frame within which an alter-globalisation might occur

Authoritarianism · Capitalism · Democracy · Economic system · Economics · Globalization · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social movement · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Gender Studies · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Political Philosophy and Ethics

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