Co-Motion: Re-Thinking Power, Subjects, and Feminist and Queer Alliances (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781478029533)

In Co-Motion, theorist Paola Bacchetta proposes a new lexicon for analyzing power, subjects and alliances. Employing what she calls 'theory-assemblages' to describe how diverse theoretical and political approaches inspire movements and produce different kinds of alliances, Bacchetta engages the inseparability of power relations--such as colonialism, capitalism, racism, caste, misogyny, and speciesism--and how their combinations, operability, and the analyses required, shift in different contexts and lives of subjects. Focusing on France, India, Italy, and the US from the 1970s to the present, Co-Motion addresses a wide activist, artivist, and social movement archive-- group statements, banners, pamphlets, graffiti, posters, poetry, sit-ins, films, art exhibits--to think and feel with the many ways that people, historically and today, come together to act. Through her expansive engagement with varied bodies of scholarship, sites of analysis, and kinds of reading, Bacchetta offers new approaches for analyzing, confronting and transforming power, and enacting freedom.

Author: Paola Bacchetta
ISBN-10: 1478029536
ISBN-13: 9781478029533
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/06/2026
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs