Subject, action and polis Theorizing political agency

In this paper, we develop tools for understanding political agency and political events as they unfold contextually in everyday life. We discuss alternative understandings of the subject so as to grasp the scope of the subject’s autonomy as the ground for political subjectivity. We conceive of polit...

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Published inProgress in human geography Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 181 - 200
Main Authors Häkli, Jouni, Kallio, Kirsi Pauliina
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.04.2014
Arnold
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Autonomy
Bgi / Prodig
Everyday Life
Geodemographics
Human geography
Motion pictures
Philosophy
Political and economic geography
Political philosophy
Political theory
Politics
Polls & surveys
Scholarships & fellowships
Subjectivity
Topology
autonomy
political agency
spatiality
subjectivity
subject
subject position
polis
Policy
Spatiality
Political agency
Subjectivity
Autonomy
Subject
Daily life
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Summary:In this paper, we develop tools for understanding political agency and political events as they unfold contextually in everyday life. We discuss alternative understandings of the subject so as to grasp the scope of the subject’s autonomy as the ground for political subjectivity. We conceive of political agency in terms of subjectivity related to subject positions offered in the flux of everyday life. To bring together political subject and action, we conceptualize the topological settings of political agency in terms of polis. To illustrate the analytical potential of our approach, we analyse a sequence in a movie by Ingmar Bergman.
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ISSN:0309-1325
1477-0288
DOI:10.1177/0309132512473869