The Apocalypse from Below: The Dangerous Idea of the End of the World, the Politics of the Oppressed, and Anti-Anti-Apocalypticism.
The apocalypse is frequently deployed by political movements, especially contemporary climate activists, to advance their causes. This article develops a framework for defending such invocations of the end of the world. With many other political theorists, I suggest that the apocalypse is a dangerou...
| Publicado en: | American Political Science Review Vol. 119; no. 1; pp. 479 - 492 |
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Cambridge University Press
Feb2025
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