Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21st Century – Review
by Stephan Scheel • 21 Apr 10Journal: Reviews | books
The central question of Escape Routes sounds quite simple: ‘How does social transformation begin?’ But the answer that the book provides is provocative and contests many dominant explanations of social change: according to the authors it is not the brimming revolutionary events occupying the imagination of the left that capture the mechanics of social transformation but the seemingly ‘insignificant occurrences of people’s daily actions’.