Keywords
Activist, Political Theory, Immigration, Gramsci, Gibson-Graham, Apostolidis, Harvey, Brown
Abstract
This essay focuses on the role that discursive structures such as "neoliberalism" play in political theory, and on how these heroic discourses inhibit theoretical projects seeking to generate solutions to damaging political projects. In response to a discourse-focused trend within political theory, this work elaborates an 'activist political theory' intended to be both theoretically rigorous and tactically enriching for the embattled groups from whose lives political theory often springs. As one example of an activist political theory, this essay explores political theorist Paul Apostolidis's work with the 'ordinary politics' of a group of immigrant workers in Washington state, and the Gramscian ideologies undergirding his theoretical approach.
Publisher
University of Puget Sound
Faculty Advisor
Alisa Kessel
Publication Date
Spring 5-13-2016
Genre
Dissertation/Thesis
Format
Rights
Discipline
Politics & Government
Track
Political Theory
Subject Area
Political Science
Recommended Citation
McNeil, Alex, "Toward an Activist Political Theory" (2016). Politics & Government Undergraduate Theses. 6.
https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/pg_theses/6