Description: Explores the political and theoretical significance of the use of salvaging discarded materials by social movements during their protest activities.
Brief description: Jason Kosnoski is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, Flint. He is the author of John Dewey and the Habits of Ethical Life: The Aesthetics of Political Organizing in a Liquid World.
Review Quotes:
"Salvage is a survival tactic through which people in precarious situations forage resources amid the detritus of capitalism. But, as Jason Kosnoski shows in this provocative book, it is also a strategy for building worlds and sustaining movements that point beyond the broken horizons of the present. By paying close attention to the affective patterns, perceptual habits, practical rhythms, and forms of spatial organization that enable and are enabled by salvage, Kosnoski offers a fresh response to some familiar dilemmas of Left theory and practice, guided by the concrete experiences and insights of people for whom the stakes of those dilemmas are more than academic. This is an unusual and exciting work of political theory, which will inspire and energize scholars across the humanities." -- Patchen Markell, author of Bound by Recognition