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Deleuzian Encounters: Studies in Contemporary Social Issues
Author: Anna Hickey-Moody
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Deleuzian Encounters brings together sixteen accessible, thought-provoking essays that examine the practical and ethical implications of Deleuzes philosophy for different contemporary social issues. Topics explored include the environment, terrorism, refugees, indigenous reconciliation, gender, suicide, intellectual disability, injecting drug use, classroom teaching and global activism. Each contribution provides practical examples of how to make use of Deleuzes thought in social research, and offers fresh insights into the creative and innovative potentials Deleuzes philosophy holds for social thought and action.ReviewBooks like this one are urgently needed. With this strong collection Anna Hickey-Moody and Peta Malins have taken to heart Deleuzes advice that the effort to create concepts must always start with concrete and simple situations. The two editors succeed, with the help of contributors from a variety of disciplines and venues of research, to give us a valuable, novel and persuasive demonstration of the kind of social analysis and political intervention that Deleuzes resourcefulness is capable of bringing about. This volume will be appreciated for its new and challenging perspectives on social issues of current concern. -- Constantin V. Boundas, Professor Emeritus, Philosophy and Center for Theory, Culture and Politics, Trent University, Ontario, Canada This timely volume is an antidote to the waning of philosophical theory in social thought. It demonstrates how to study contemporary social issues through Deleuze and Guattaris philosophy, putting to work their key concepts on some of the most pressing issues and challenges of our time. The assembled essays boldly step beyond identity politics, producing a subjective, affective, socially informed ethics adapted to urban and remote rural locations, and plot escape routes from the axiomatization of everything in the time of immaterial labour. Editors Anna Hickey-Moody and Peta Malins and their impressive list of contributors show how theory as practice is a necessary ingredient for social change. Deleuzian Encounters is a rallying point for socially-minded theorists who have not forgotten that the point of philosophy is to change the world. - Gary Genosko, Canada Research Chair, Lakehead University, Canada About the AuthorANNA HICKEY-MOODY is Lecturer in Creative Arts Education at Monash University, Australia. She is co-author of Masculinity Beyond the Metropolis (Palgrave, 2006) and has published in a range of academic and community forums. Her forthcoming monograph, Unimaginable Bodies, will be published by Sense (Netherlands) in 2008. PETA MALINS teaches in the School of Political Science, Criminology and Sociology at The University of Melbourne. She has published research on drug use and urban space in journals such as Janus Head, Continuum and Gender, Place & Culture.
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Deleuzian Encounters brings together sixteen accessible, thought-provoking essays that examine the practical and ethical implications of Deleuzes philosophy for different contemporary social issues. Topics explored include the environment, terrorism, refugees, indigenous reconciliation, gender, suicide, intellectual disability, injecting drug use, classroom teaching and global activism. Each contribution provides practical examples of how to make use of Deleuzes thought in social research, and offers fresh insights into the creative and innovative potentials Deleuzes philosophy holds for social thought and action.ReviewBooks like this one are urgently needed. With this strong collection Anna Hickey-Moody and Peta Malins have taken to heart Deleuzes advice that the effort to create concepts must always start with concrete and simple situations. The two editors succeed, with the help of contributors from a variety of disciplines and venues of research, to give us a valuable, novel and persuasive demonstration of the kind of social analysis and political intervention that Deleuzes resourcefulness is capable of bringing about. This volume will be appreciated for its new and challenging perspectives on social issues of current concern. -- Constantin V. Boundas, Professor Emeritus, Philosophy and Center for Theory, Culture and Politics, Trent University, Ontario, Canada This timely volume is an antidote to the waning of philosophical theory in social thought. It demonstrates how to study contemporary social issues through Deleuze and Guattaris philosophy, putting to work their key concepts on some of the most pressing issues and challenges of our time. The assembled essays boldly step beyond identity politics, producing a subjective, affective, socially informed ethics adapted to urban and remote rural locations, and plot escape routes from the axiomatization of everything in the time of immaterial labour. Editors Anna Hickey-Moody and Peta Malins and their impressive list of contributors show how theory as practice is a necessary ingredient for social change. Deleuzian Encounters is a rallying point for socially-minded theorists who have not forgotten that the point of philosophy is to change the world. - Gary Genosko, Canada Research Chair, Lakehead University, Canada About the AuthorANNA HICKEY-MOODY is Lecturer in Creative Arts Education at Monash University, Australia. She is co-author of Masculinity Beyond the Metropolis (Palgrave, 2006) and has published in a range of academic and community forums. Her forthcoming monograph, Unimaginable Bodies, will be published by Sense (Netherlands) in 2008. PETA MALINS teaches in the School of Political Science, Criminology and Sociology at The University of Melbourne. She has published research on drug use and urban space in journals such as Janus Head, Continuum and Gender, Place & Culture.
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