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The Condition of Democracy - Volume 3: Postcolonial and Settler Colonial Contexts (Hardcover)
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The Condition of Democracy - Volume 3: Postcolonial and Settler Colonial Contexts (Hardcover)
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Classical liberal democratic theory has provided crucial ideas for
a still dominant and hegemonic discourse that rests on ideological
conceptions of freedom, equality, peacefulness, inclusive
democratic participation, and tolerance. While this may have held
some truth for citizens in Western liberal-capitalist societies,
such liberal ideals have never been realized in colonial,
postcolonial and settler colonial contexts. Liberal democracies are
not simply forms of rule in domestic national contexts but also
geo-political actors. As such, they have been the drivers of
processes of global oppression, colonizing and occupying countries
and people, appropriating indigenous land, annihilating people with
eliminatory politics right up to genocides. There can be no doubt
that the West - with its civilizational Judeo-Christian idea and
divine mission 'to subdue the world' - has destroyed other
civilizations, countries, trading systems, and traditional ways of
life and is responsible for the death of hundreds of millions of
human beings in the course of colonizing the world from its Empires
of trade through colonialism to settler colonialism and today's
politics of regime change. The book discusses the settler colonial
regime that Israel has established in Palestine while still
claiming to be a democracy. It discusses the failures of liberal
democracy to overcome the structural and racist inequalities in
post-Apartheid South Africa, and it presents hopeful outlooks on
new ideas and forms of democracy in social movements in the MENA
region.
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