Futile Political Gestures
Special Debate Series
(guest editor Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic)
Political cosmology outside the BBC HQ in London. Credit: Lucas Somavilla-Croxatto, CC
Introduction: Futile Political Gestures*
Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic
Pacifist Futility*
Tobias Kelly
Futile Engagements
Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic
The Reversible World: the Brazilian election as a method of hope
Maya Mayblin
The False Hope of International Law in Palestine
Lori Allen
Greece’s Stockholm Syndrome: Futility in a Time of Crisis
Daniel M. Knight
Politics and the Instruction of Value
Adolfo Estalella
The Politics of Prefiguration: Fascist Gestures in Predappio, Italy
Paolo Heywood
Futility and Revelation at the Million Mask March
Vita Peacock
Performing Futility: Post-Truth and the Politics of Insincerity
Natalie C. Morningstar
On the ‘Futility’ of Provocation and the Micro-Revolutions in Angola
Ruy Llera Blanes