Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Social Justice draws on
the fields of geography, political theory, and cultural studies to
analyze experiments with novel forms of democracy, highlighting the
critical issue of the changing nature of the state and citizenship
in the contemporary political landscape as they are buffeted by
countervailing forces of corporate globalization and participatory
politics.
Using interesting case studies, the book explores these 3 main
themes:
- the meaning of radical democracy in light of recent
developments in democratic theory
- new spatial arrangements or scales of democracy from local to
global, from streets protests to the development of transnational
networks
- the character and role of states in the development of new
forms of democracy
The book asks and answers: are participatory models of democracy
viable alternatives in their own right or are they best understood
as supplemental to traditional representative democracy? What are
the conditions that give rise to the development of such models and
are they equally effective at every scale; i.e., do they only
realize their radical potential in particular, local places?
A useful text in a broad range of advanced undergraduate courses
including social movements, political sociology or geography,
political philosophy.
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