Introduction: rethinking politics and society in the age of crisis

Shireen Hassim and Anna C. Korteweg

A chapter in Handbook on Politics and Society, 2025, pp 1-15 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The Introduction to the Handbook on Politics and Society lays out the terrain that informs each of the book's chapters. Simultaneous crises in capitalist accumulation, economy, sociality, democracy, and democratic representation result in material, ideological, institutional, and planetary instability that is at edge-case status: a stage at which things cannot proceed as usual, a moment of historical rupture that offers an opportunity to rethink the ways in which we might live together, organize our collective resources, and create inclusive institutions and sustainable societies. Existing inequalities of class, race, gender and sexuality, as well as people's geographic location affect how the shocks of the polycrisis manifest and who bears their greatest burden. The chapters in this Handbook address the resulting ruptures and affordances within five broad themes: living in capitalism, rights regulation and mobile subjects, constituting groups and crafting identities, framing and resisting violence, and rethinking futures. The research presented in the Handbook moves across the globe including perspectives from Africa, South Asia, Latin America, North America, and Europe.

Keywords: Capitalism; Violence; Social forms; State power; Rights-based politics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035301898
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