Movements’ political force depends on their ethical cultivation practices

Evidence

The political effi of these movements is, I would suggest, a function of the work they perform in the ethical realm-those strategies of cultivation through which embodied attachments to historically specifi forms of truth come to be forged. Their political project, therefore, can only be understood through an exploration of their ethical practices. This requires that we rethink not only our conventional understanding of what constitutes the political but also what is the substance of ethics. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 256

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines a rethought notion of the political via ethical practice, core to the whole book’s framework.
• XREF: Complicates the vault’s secular-liberal framing of political movements as interest- or ideology-driven rather than subject-formation driven. — connects to: Political openings are precarious and require deliberate cultivation to survive