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Recent years have seen contestations of democracy all around the
globe. Democracy is challenged as a political as well as a
normative term, and as a form of governance. Against the background
of neoliberal transformation, populist mobilization, and xenophobic
exclusion, but also of radical and emancipatory democratic
projects, this collection offers a variety of critical and
challenging perspectives on the condition of democracy in the 21st
Century. The volumes provide theoretical and empirical enquiries
into the meaning and practice of liberal democracy, the erosion of
democratic institutions, and the consequences for citizenship and
everyday lives. With a pronounced focus on national and
transnational politics and processes, as well as postcolonial and
settler-colonial contexts, individual contributions scrutinize the
role of democratic societies, ideals, and ideologies of liberal
democracy within global power geometries. By employing the multiple
meanings of The Condition of Democracy, the collection addresses
the preconditions of democratic rule, the state this form of
governance is in, and the changing ways in which citizens can
(still) act as the sovereign in liberal democratic societies. The
books offer both challenging theoretical perspectives and rigorous
empirical findings of how to conceive of democracy in our times,
which will appeal to academics and students in social and political
science, economics and international relations amongst other
fields. The focus on developments in the Middle East and North
Africa will furthermore be of great usefulness to academics and the
wider public interested in the repercussions of western democracy
promotion as well as in contemporary struggles for democratization
'from below'.
Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis addresses the fact
that in the beginning of the twenty-first century the majority of
the world's population is urbanized, a social fact that has turned
cities more than ever into focal sites of social change. Multiple
economic and political strategies, employed by a variety of
individual and collective actors, on a number of scales, constitute
cities as contested spaces that hold opportunities as well as
restrictions for their inhabitants. While cities and urban spaces
have long been of central concern for the social sciences, today,
classical sociological questions about the city acquire new
meaning: Can cities be spaces of emancipation, or does life in the
modern city entail a corrosion of citizenship rights? Is the city
the focus of societal transformation processes, or do urban
environments lose importance in shaping social reality and economic
relationships? Furthermore, new questions urgently need to be
asked: What is the impact of different historical phenomena such as
neo-liberal restructuring, financial and economic crises, or
migration flows, as well as their respective counter-movements, on
the structure of contemporary cities and on the citizenship rights
of city inhabitants? The three volumes address such crucial
questions thereby opening up new spaces of debate on both the city
and new developments of urbanism.
Recent years have seen contestations of democracy all around the
globe. Democracy is challenged as a political as well as a
normative term, and as a form of governance. Against the background
of neoliberal transformation, populist mobilization, and xenophobic
exclusion, but also of radical and emancipatory democratic
projects, this collection offers a variety of critical and
challenging perspectives on the condition of democracy in the 21st
century. The volumes provide theoretical and empirical enquiries
into the meaning and practice of liberal democracy, the erosion of
democratic institutions, and the consequences for citizenship and
everyday lives. With a pronounced focus on national and
transnational politics and processes, as well as postcolonial and
settler colonial contexts, individual contributions scrutinize the
role of democratic societies, ideals, and ideologies of liberal
democracy within global power geometries. By employing the multiple
meanings of The Condition of Democracy, the collection addresses
the preconditions of democratic rule, the state this form of
governance is in, and the changing ways in which citizens can
(still) act as the sovereign in liberal democratic societies. The
books offer both challenging theoretical perspectives and rigorous
empirical findings of how to conceive of democracy in our times,
which will appeal to academics and students in social and political
science, economics, and international relations amongst other
fields. The focus on developments in the Middle East and North
Africa will furthermore be of great usefulness to academics and the
wider public interested in the repercussions of western democracy
promotion as well as in contemporary struggles for democratization
'from below'. During the last 50 years, liberal democracies have
been exposed to a fundamental reorganization of their
politico-economic structure that transformed them through the
impact of neo-liberal economic doctrines focused on low taxation,
free markets, and out-sourcing that have little regard in reality
for democratic institutions or liberal values. The failures of the
neoliberal 'remedy' for capitalism are now dramatically obvious
through the banking crisis of 2008-2011, the increase in income
inequality, the social and psychological damage caused by the
austerity packages across Europe, and widespread dependence on
experts whose influence over government policies typically goes
without public scrutiny. While this has only accelerated the
destruction of the social fabric in modern Western societies, the
dramatic redistribution of wealth and an open 'politics for the
rich' have also revealed the long-time well-covered alliance of the
global oligarchy with the Far Right that has the effect of
undermining democracy. The contributions to this volume discuss a
wide variety of processes of transformation, the social
consequences, dedemocratization and illiberalization of once
liberal democracies through the destructive impact of neoliberal
strategies. These strongly politico-economic contributions are
complemented with general sociological analyses of a number of
cultural aspects often neglected in analyses of democracy.
Democracy and citizenship are conceptually and empirically
contested. Against the backdrop of recent and current profound
transformations in and of democratic societies, this volume
presents and discusses acute contestations, within and beyond
national borders and boundaries. Democracy's crucial relationships,
between state and citizenry as well as amongst citizens, are
rearranged and re-ordered in various spheres and arenas, impacting
on core democratic principles such as accountability, legitimacy,
participation and trust. This volume addresses these refigurations
by bringing together empirical analyses and conceptual
considerations regarding the access to and exclusion from
citizenship rights in the face of migration regulation and
institutional transformation, and the role of violence in
maintaining or undermining social order. With its critical
reflection on the consequences and repercussions of such processes
for citizens' everyday lives and for the meaning of citizenship
altogether, this book transgresses disciplinary boundaries and puts
into dialogue the perspectives of political theory and sociology.
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.
At times of triumphant neo-liberalism cities increasingly become
objects of financial speculation. Formally, social and political
rights might not be abolished, yet factually they have become
inaccessible for large parts of the population. The contributions
gathered in this volume shed light on the clash between the
perspectives of restructuring and reordering urban environments in
the interest of investors and the manifold and innovative agencies
of resistance that claim and stand up for the rights of urban
citizenship. Renewed waves of urban transformation employ state
coercion to foster the expulsion of poor and marginalised
inhabitants from those urban spaces that attract interest from
speculators. The intervention of state agencies triggers the work
of hegemonic culture for reframing the housing issue and
implementing moral and political legitimation, as well as
legislation that restricts urban citizenship rights. The case
studies of the volume comparatively show the different and
sometimes contradictory patterns of these conflicts in Berlin,
Sydney, Belfast, Jerusalem, Amsterdam, and Istanbul as well as in
metropoles of Latin America and China. Innovative resistance
agencies emerge that paint possible paths for the re-establishment
of the right to the city as the core of urban citizenship.
Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis addresses the fact
that in the beginning of the twenty-first century the majority of
the world's population is urbanised, a social fact that has turned
cities more than ever into focal sites of social change. Multiple
economic and political strategies, employed by a variety of
individual and collective actors, on a number of scales, constitute
cities as contested spaces that hold opportunities as well as
restrictions for their inhabitants. While cities and urban spaces
have long been of central concern for the social sciences, today,
classical sociological questions about the city acquire new
meaning: Can cities be spaces of emancipation, or does life in the
modern city entail a corrosion of citizenship rights? Is the city
the focus of societal transformation processes, or do urban
environments lose importance in shaping social reality and economic
relationships? Furthermore, new questions urgently need to be
asked: What is the impact of different historical phenomena such as
neo-liberal restructuring, financial and economic crises, or
migration flows, as well as their respective counter-movements, on
the structure of contemporary cities and on the citizenship rights
of city inhabitants? The three volumes address such crucial
questions thereby opening up new spaces of debate on both the city
and new developments of urbanism. The contributions to Theories and
Concepts offer new theoretical reflections on the city in a
philosophical and historical perspective as well as fresh empirical
analyses of social life in urban contexts. Chapters not only
critically revisit classical and modern philosophical
considerations about the nature of cities but no less discuss
normative philosophical reflections of urban life and the role of
religion in historical processes of the emergence of cities.
Composed around the question whether there can be such a thing as a
'successful city', this volume addresses issues of urban political
subjectivities by considering the city's role in historical
processes of emancipation, the fight for citizenship rights, and
today's challenges and opportunities with regard to promoting
social justice, integration, and diversity. Consequentially,
theory-driven empirical analyses offer new insight into ways of
solving problems in urban contexts and a genuine approach to
analyse the Social Quality in cities.
The contributions to Urban neo- liberalisation bring together
critical analyses of the dynamics and processes neo- liberalism has
facilitated in urban contexts. Recent developments, such as
intensified economic investment and exposure to aggressive
strategies of banks, hedge- funds and investors, and long- term
processes of market- and state- led urban restructuration, have
produced uneven urban geographies and new forms of exclusion and
marginality. These strategies have no less transformed the
governance of cities by subordinating urban social life to
rationalities and practices of competition within and between
cities, and they also heavily impact on city inhabitants'
experience of everyday life. Against the backdrop of recent
austerity politics and a marketisation of cities, this volume
discusses processes of urban neo- liberalisation with regard to
democracy and citizenship, inclusion and exclusion, opportunities,
and life- chances. It addresses pressing issues of commodification
of housing and home, activation of civil society, vulnerability,
and the right to the city.
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.
Democracy and citizenship are conceptually and empirically
contested. Against the backdrop of recent and current profound
transformations in and of democratic societies, this volume
presents and discusses acute contestations, within and beyond
national borders and boundaries. Democracy's crucial relationships,
between state and citizenry as well as amongst citizens, are
rearranged and re-ordered in various spheres and arenas, impacting
on core democratic principles such as accountability, legitimacy,
participation and trust. This volume addresses these refigurations
by bringing together empirical analyses and conceptual
considerations regarding the access to and exclusion from
citizenship rights in the face of migration regulation and
institutional transformation, and the role of violence in
maintaining or undermining social order. With its critical
reflection on the consequences and repercussions of such processes
for citizens' everyday lives and for the meaning of citizenship
altogether, this book transgresses disciplinary boundaries and puts
into dialogue the perspectives of political theory and sociology.
Recent years have seen contestations of democracy all around the
globe. Democracy is challenged as a political as well as a
normative term, and as a form of governance. Against the background
of neoliberal transformation, populist mobilization, and xenophobic
exclusion, but also of radical and emancipatory democratic
projects, this collection offers a variety of critical and
challenging perspectives on the condition of democracy in the 21st
century. The volumes provide theoretical and empirical enquiries
into the meaning and practice of liberal democracy, the erosion of
democratic institutions, and the consequences for citizenship and
everyday lives. With a pronounced focus on national and
transnational politics and processes, as well as postcolonial and
settler colonial contexts, individual contributions scrutinize the
role of democratic societies, ideals, and ideologies of liberal
democracy within global power geometries. By employing the multiple
meanings of The Condition of Democracy, the collection addresses
the preconditions of democratic rule, the state this form of
governance is in, and the changing ways in which citizens can
(still) act as the sovereign in liberal democratic societies. The
books offer both challenging theoretical perspectives and rigorous
empirical findings of how to conceive of democracy in our times,
which will appeal to academics and students in social and political
science, economics, and international relations amongst other
fields. The focus on developments in the Middle East and North
Africa will furthermore be of great usefulness to academics and the
wider public interested in the repercussions of western democracy
promotion as well as in contemporary struggles for democratization
'from below'. During the last 50 years, liberal democracies have
been exposed to a fundamental reorganization of their
politico-economic structure that transformed them through the
impact of neo-liberal economic doctrines focused on low taxation,
free markets, and out-sourcing that have little regard in reality
for democratic institutions or liberal values. The failures of the
neoliberal 'remedy' for capitalism are now dramatically obvious
through the banking crisis of 2008-2011, the increase in income
inequality, the social and psychological damage caused by the
austerity packages across Europe, and widespread dependence on
experts whose influence over government policies typically goes
without public scrutiny. While this has only accelerated the
destruction of the social fabric in modern Western societies, the
dramatic redistribution of wealth and an open 'politics for the
rich' have also revealed the long-time well-covered alliance of the
global oligarchy with the Far Right that has the effect of
undermining democracy. The contributions to this volume discuss a
wide variety of processes of transformation, the social
consequences, dedemocratization and illiberalization of once
liberal democracies through the destructive impact of neoliberal
strategies. These strongly politico-economic contributions are
complemented with general sociological analyses of a number of
cultural aspects often neglected in analyses of democracy.
Recent years have seen contestations of democracy all around the
globe. Democracy is challenged as a political as well as a
normative term, and as a form of governance. Against the background
of neoliberal transformation, populist mobilization, and xenophobic
exclusion, but also of radical and emancipatory democratic
projects, this collection offers a variety of critical and
challenging perspectives on the condition of democracy in the 21st
Century. The volumes provide theoretical and empirical enquiries
into the meaning and practice of liberal democracy, the erosion of
democratic institutions, and the consequences for citizenship and
everyday lives. With a pronounced focus on national and
transnational politics and processes, as well as postcolonial and
settler-colonial contexts, individual contributions scrutinize the
role of democratic societies, ideals, and ideologies of liberal
democracy within global power geometries. By employing the multiple
meanings of The Condition of Democracy, the collection addresses
the preconditions of democratic rule, the state this form of
governance is in, and the changing ways in which citizens can
(still) act as the sovereign in liberal democratic societies. The
books offer both challenging theoretical perspectives and rigorous
empirical findings of how to conceive of democracy in our times,
which will appeal to academics and students in social and political
science, economics and international relations amongst other
fields. The focus on developments in the Middle East and North
Africa will furthermore be of great usefulness to academics and the
wider public interested in the repercussions of western democracy
promotion as well as in contemporary struggles for democratization
'from below'.
Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis addresses the fact
that in the beginning of the twenty-first century the majority of
the world's population is urbanised, a social fact that has turned
cities more than ever into focal sites of social change. Multiple
economic and political strategies, employed by a variety of
individual and collective actors, on a number of scales, constitute
cities as contested spaces that hold opportunities as well as
restrictions for their inhabitants. While cities and urban spaces
have long been of central concern for the social sciences, today,
classical sociological questions about the city acquire new
meaning: Can cities be spaces of emancipation, or does life in the
modern city entail a corrosion of citizenship rights? Is the city
the focus of societal transformation processes, or do urban
environments lose importance in shaping social reality and economic
relationships? Furthermore, new questions urgently need to be
asked: What is the impact of different historical phenomena such as
neo-liberal restructuring, financial and economic crises, or
migration flows, as well as their respective counter-movements, on
the structure of contemporary cities and on the citizenship rights
of city inhabitants? The three volumes address such crucial
questions thereby opening up new spaces of debate on both the city
and new developments of urbanism. The contributions to Theories and
Concepts offer new theoretical reflections on the city in a
philosophical and historical perspective as well as fresh empirical
analyses of social life in urban contexts. Chapters not only
critically revisit classical and modern philosophical
considerations about the nature of cities but no less discuss
normative philosophical reflections of urban life and the role of
religion in historical processes of the emergence of cities.
Composed around the question whether there can be such a thing as a
'successful city', this volume addresses issues of urban political
subjectivities by considering the city's role in historical
processes of emancipation, the fight for citizenship rights, and
today's challenges and opportunities with regard to promoting
social justice, integration, and diversity. Consequentially,
theory-driven empirical analyses offer new insight into ways of
solving problems in urban contexts and a genuine approach to
analyse the Social Quality in cities.
The contributions to Urban neo- liberalisation bring together
critical analyses of the dynamics and processes neo- liberalism has
facilitated in urban contexts. Recent developments, such as
intensified economic investment and exposure to aggressive
strategies of banks, hedge- funds and investors, and long- term
processes of market- and state- led urban restructuration, have
produced uneven urban geographies and new forms of exclusion and
marginality. These strategies have no less transformed the
governance of cities by subordinating urban social life to
rationalities and practices of competition within and between
cities, and they also heavily impact on city inhabitants'
experience of everyday life. Against the backdrop of recent
austerity politics and a marketisation of cities, this volume
discusses processes of urban neo- liberalisation with regard to
democracy and citizenship, inclusion and exclusion, opportunities,
and life- chances. It addresses pressing issues of commodification
of housing and home, activation of civil society, vulnerability,
and the right to the city.
At times of triumphant neo-liberalism cities increasingly become
objects of financial speculation. Formally, social and political
rights might not be abolished, yet factually they have become
inaccessible for large parts of the population. The contributions
gathered in this volume shed light on the clash between the
perspectives of restructuring and reordering urban environments in
the interest of investors and the manifold and innovative agencies
of resistance that claim and stand up for the rights of urban
citizenship. Renewed waves of urban transformation employ state
coercion to foster the expulsion of poor and marginalised
inhabitants from those urban spaces that attract interest from
speculators. The intervention of state agencies triggers the work
of hegemonic culture for reframing the housing issue and
implementing moral and political legitimation, as well as
legislation that restricts urban citizenship rights. The case
studies of the volume comparatively show the different and
sometimes contradictory patterns of these conflicts in Berlin,
Sydney, Belfast, Jerusalem, Amsterdam, and Istanbul as well as in
metropoles of Latin America and China. Innovative resistance
agencies emerge that paint possible paths for the re-establishment
of the right to the city as the core of urban citizenship.
Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis addresses the fact
that in the beginning of the twenty-first century the majority of
the world's population is urbanized, a social fact that has turned
cities more than ever into focal sites of social change. Multiple
economic and political strategies, employed by a variety of
individual and collective actors, on a number of scales, constitute
cities as contested spaces that hold opportunities as well as
restrictions for their inhabitants. While cities and urban spaces
have long been of central concern for the social sciences, today,
classical sociological questions about the city acquire new
meaning: Can cities be spaces of emancipation, or does life in the
modern city entail a corrosion of citizenship rights? Is the city
the focus of societal transformation processes, or do urban
environments lose importance in shaping social reality and economic
relationships? Furthermore, new questions urgently need to be
asked: What is the impact of different historical phenomena such as
neo-liberal restructuring, financial and economic crises, or
migration flows, as well as their respective counter-movements, on
the structure of contemporary cities and on the citizenship rights
of city inhabitants? The three volumes address such crucial
questions thereby opening up new spaces of debate on both the city
and new developments of urbanism.
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