The Post-Political and Its Discontents
Title | The Post-Political and Its Discontents PDF eBook |
Author | Erik Swyngedouw |
Publisher | |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2015-04-29 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9781474403061 |
An exploration of the post-politics of global capitalism in theory and practice Our age is celebrated as the triumph of liberal democracy. Old ideological battles have been decisively resolved in favour of freedom and the market. We are told that we have moved 'beyond left and right'; that we are 'all in this together'. Any remaining differences are to be addressed through expert knowledge, consensual deliberation and participatory governance. Yet the 'end of history' has also been marked by widespread disillusion with mainstream politics and a rise in nationalist and religious fundamentalisms. And now an explosion of popular protests is challenging technocratic regulation and the power of markets in the name of democracy itself. This collection makes sense of this situation by critically engaging with the influential theory of 'the post-political' developed by Chantal Mouffe, Jacques Rancière, Slavoj Zizek and others. Through a multi-dimensional and fiercely contested assessment of contemporary depoliticisation, The Post-Political and Its Discontents urges us to confront the closure of our political horizons and re-imagine the possibility of emancipatory change.
Post-Political and its Discontents
Title | Post-Political and its Discontents PDF eBook |
Author | Japhy Wilson |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2014-06-23 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0748682988 |
Our age is celebrated as the triumph of liberal democracy. Yet it is also marked by a narrowing of party differences, a decline in voter participation, a rise in nationalist and religious fundamentalisms and an explosion of popular protests that challenge technocratic governance and the power of markets in the name of democracy itself. This book seeks to make sense of this situation by critically engaging with the influential theory of 'the post-political' developed by Chantal Mouffe, Jacques Ranciere, Slavoj ?i?ek and others. Through a multi-dimensional and fiercely contested assessment of contemporary depoliticization, 'The Post-Political and Its Discontents' urges us to confront the closure of our political horizons, and to re-imagine the possibility of emancipatory change.
Post-Political and its Discontents
Title | Post-Political and its Discontents PDF eBook |
Author | Japhy Wilson |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2015-04-29 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0748683003 |
Our age is celebrated as the triumph of liberal democracy. Yet it is also marked by a narrowing of party differences, a decline in voter participation, a rise in nationalist and religious fundamentalisms and an explosion of popular protests that challenge technocratic governance and the power of markets in the name of democracy itself. This book seeks to make sense of this situation by critically engaging with the influential theory of 'the post-political' developed by Chantal Mouffe, Jacques Ranciere, Slavoj Zizek and others. Through a multi-dimensional and fiercely contested assessment of contemporary depoliticization, 'The Post-Political and Its Discontents' urges us to confront the closure of our political horizons, and to re-imagine the possibility of emancipatory change.
The Post-political and Its Discontents
Title | The Post-political and Its Discontents PDF eBook |
Author | Japhy Wilson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Democracy |
ISBN | 9781474406475 |
"Urges us to confront the closure of our political horizons and re-imagine the possibility of emancipatory change."--Publishers website.
Liberalism and Its Discontents
Title | Liberalism and Its Discontents PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Brinkley |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780674530171 |
How did liberalism, the great political tradition that from the New Deal to the 1960s seemed to dominate American politics, fall from favor so far and so fast? In this history of liberalism since the 1930s, a distinguished historian offers an eloquent account of postwar liberalism, where it came from, where it has gone, and why. The book supplies a crucial chapter in the history of twentieth-century American politics as well as a valuable and clear perspective on the state of our nation's politics today. Liberalism and Its Discontents moves from a penetrating interpretation of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal to an analysis of the profound and frequently corrosive economic, social, and cultural changes that have undermined the liberal tradition. The book moves beyond an examination of the internal weaknesses of liberalism and the broad social and economic forces it faced to consider the role of alternative political traditions in liberalism's downfall. What emerges is a picture of a dominant political tradition far less uniform and stable--and far more complex and contested--than has been argued. The author offers as well a masterly assessment of how some of the leading historians of the postwar era explained (or failed to explain) liberalism and other political ideologies in the last half-century. He also makes clear how historical interpretation was itself a reflection of liberal assumptions that began to collapse more quickly and completely than almost any scholar could have imagined a generation ago. As both political history and a critique of that history, Liberalism and Its Discontents, based on extraordinary essays written over the last decade, leads to a new understanding of the shaping of modern America.
Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa
Title | Development, (Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Robtel Neajai Pailey |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2021-01-07 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108836542 |
Based on rich oral histories, this is an engaging study of citizenship construction and practice in Liberia, Africa's first black republic.
Deliberative Democracy and Its Discontents
Title | Deliberative Democracy and Its Discontents PDF eBook |
Author | Samantha Besson |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780754626275 |
Drawing on political, legal, national, post-national, as well as American and European perspectives, this collection of essays offers a diverse and balanced discussion of the current arguments concerning deliberative democracy. The essays consider the thr