The politics of radical democracy
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The politics of radical democracy
Edinburgh University Press, c2009
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 207-226
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book addresses the idea of radical democracy and, in particular, its poststructuralist articulation. It analyses the approach to radical democracy taken by a number of contemporary theorists and political commentators:, including Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Judith Butler, William Connolly, Jacques Ranciere, Claude Lefort, Sheldon Wolin, Michael Hardt, and Antonio Negri, and Giorgio Agamben. By examining critically the critiques accounts of democracy advanced by these theorists, this volume explores how a more radically conceived theory of democracy might be extended in a more egalitarian and inclusive direction. developed.
The strand of radical democracy examined in this book is defined by a number of characteristics: *Democracy is conceptualised understood as a fugitive condition, being open to perpetual disruption and reinvention *The relationship between the state and civil society is regarded as the site where the open-ended 'promise' of democracy is fought out *There is an emphasis on questions of political renewal *There is a deep suspicion of identity-based political claims *Politics is conceived as either the site of or as one of the mechanisms for identity construction * Democratic politics is understood as a politics of contestation and disagreement * Democracy is regarded as always at least partially conflictual and not a means through which violence and conflict can be permanently eradicated *There is a deep suspicion of identity-based political claims *The political is assumed to be ontologically conflictual, with such conflict being understood as ultimately ineradicable from politics, though the form it takes necessarily varies from time to time and context to context The book clarifies the concept of radical democracy by mapping the field, and elaborates it further through a critical engagement with the works of its key proponents.
In addition, it draws on the insights of radical democratic theory to explore a range of concrete political cases (e.g. the struggles of indigenous people, same-sex marriage, societies emerging from prolonged social and political strife, and the role of social movements in opposing processes of globalization) in order to illustrate its practical nature.
Table of Contents
- Introduction (Moya Lloyd and Adrian Little)
- 1. Rhetoric and Radical Democratic Political Theory (Alan Finlayson, Swansea)
- 2. Performing radical democracy (Moya Lloyd, Loughborough)
- 3. Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Democratic Paradox (Andrew Schaap, Exeter)
- 4. Judith Butler, Radical Democracy and Micro-Politics (Birgit Schippers, St Mary's, Belfast)
- 5. Poststructuralism, Civil Society, and Radical Democracy (James Martin, Goldsmiths)
- 6. Hegemony and Globalist Strategy (Mark Wenman, Nottingham)
- 7. Is 'Another World' Possible? Laclau, Mouffe and Social Movements (Andy Robinson and Simon Tormey, Nottingham)
- 8. Friends and Enemies, Slaves and Masters: Fanaticism, Wendell Phillips and the Limits of Agonism (Joel Olson, Northern Arizona)
- 9. The Northern Ireland Paradox (Adrian Little, Melbourne)
- Conclusion (Adrian Little and Moya Lloyd)
- Bibliography
- Index.
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