Laura Portwood-Stacer is Visiting Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, US. Her research on identity, consumption, and political resistance has appeared in Feminist Theory, Sexualities, Journal of Consumer Culture, and New Media & Society.
Lifestyle Politics and Radical Activism provides a lucid, concise, and thoughtful depiction and analysis of a widely misrepresented segment of contemporary anarchism, and also offers important insights on cultural politics more generally. Useful for scholars, students, and activists alike. -- T.V. Reed, author of The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle, and manager/editor of the web matrix, culturalpolitics.net More than a mere account of 'lifestyle activism' in the current US Anarchist movement, Lifestyle Politics and Radical Activism is a meditation on the possibilities and limitations of a politics of individual choice and expression. In this grounded study, Portwood-Stacer deftly explores the largely unmapped territory between intent and effect, identity and agency, and the personal and the political. The result is an essential guide for anyone who wants to understand activism in a time of Neo-Liberalism. -- Stephen Duncombe, Associate Professor at the Gallatin School and the Department of Media, Culture and Communications, New York University, US, and author of The Cultural Resistance Reader