5: Realisable utopias in a turbulent era: positioning civil society
This chapter pursues the inception of ‘realisable utopias’ in response to disheartening dialectics of grand utopian and dystopian narratives. It deconstructs dominant discourses on ‘migration crises’, situating them within a broader conjuncture of racial capitalism, neo-liberal austerity, and extrac...
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| description | This chapter pursues the inception of ‘realisable utopias’ in response to disheartening dialectics of grand utopian and dystopian narratives. It deconstructs dominant discourses on ‘migration crises’, situating them within a broader conjuncture of racial capitalism, neo-liberal austerity, and extractivist coloniality. It analyses the suppression of post-2008 emancipatory movements and covert co-optation of civil society in migration governance. In concert with grounding arguments of the present book, the author reinterprets refugee crises as sites of hegemonic predicaments, foregrounding radical imaginaries, autonomous zones, and grassroots solidarity in terms of counter-hegemonic defiance. Engaging neo-Gramscian post-colonial frameworks, the chapter explores insurgent migrant activism in the context of a tendential NGOisation of ‘civil society’, and points at an intricate intersection of ‘invented’ versus ‘invited’ spaces. It suggests the value of a controversial concept of ‘uncivil society’ for analysing commoning solidarity networks, autonomy-centred alternatives and transversal alliances, reimagineering migrant incorporation beyond extractivist logics and state violence. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1744522026-04-10T15:07:11Z 5: Realisable utopias in a turbulent era: positioning civil society Schierup, Carl-Ulrik Realisable Utopias; Migration Crisis; Racial Capitalism; Extractivism; Uncivil Society JBFH RGCG This chapter pursues the inception of ‘realisable utopias’ in response to disheartening dialectics of grand utopian and dystopian narratives. It deconstructs dominant discourses on ‘migration crises’, situating them within a broader conjuncture of racial capitalism, neo-liberal austerity, and extractivist coloniality. It analyses the suppression of post-2008 emancipatory movements and covert co-optation of civil society in migration governance. In concert with grounding arguments of the present book, the author reinterprets refugee crises as sites of hegemonic predicaments, foregrounding radical imaginaries, autonomous zones, and grassroots solidarity in terms of counter-hegemonic defiance. Engaging neo-Gramscian post-colonial frameworks, the chapter explores insurgent migrant activism in the context of a tendential NGOisation of ‘civil society’, and points at an intricate intersection of ‘invented’ versus ‘invited’ spaces. It suggests the value of a controversial concept of ‘uncivil society’ for analysing commoning solidarity networks, autonomy-centred alternatives and transversal alliances, reimagineering migrant incorporation beyond extractivist logics and state violence. Published 2026-04-10T15:07:09Z 2026-04-10T15:07:09Z 2026-03-24 chapter 9781035336883 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/174452 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/radical-imagination-on-migration-in-a-turbulent-era-9781035336876.html https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-oa/book/9781035336883/chapter5.xml Edward Elgar Publishing Edward Elgar Publishing 10.4337/9781035336883 10.4337/9781035336883 01ceac28-75b4-492a-8eec-f9b98bc6b28c https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 9781035336883 Edward Elgar Publishing Cheltenham, UK open access |
| spellingShingle | Realisable Utopias; Migration Crisis; Racial Capitalism; Extractivism; Uncivil Society JBFH RGCG Schierup, Carl-Ulrik 5: Realisable utopias in a turbulent era: positioning civil society |
| title | 5: Realisable utopias in a turbulent era: positioning civil society |
| title_full | 5: Realisable utopias in a turbulent era: positioning civil society |
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| topic | Realisable Utopias; Migration Crisis; Racial Capitalism; Extractivism; Uncivil Society JBFH RGCG |
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