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Democracy promises rule by all, not by the few. Yet, electoral
democracies limit decision-making to representatives and have
always had a weakness for inequality. How might democracy serve all
rather than the few? Democracy Beyond the Nation State: Practicing
Equality examines communities that govern their own lives without
elites or centralized structures through assemblies and consensus.
Rather than claiming equality by abstract rights or citizenship,
these groups put equality into practice by reducing wealth and
health divides, or landlessness or homelessness, and equalizing
workloads. These practices are found in rural India and Brazil, in
Buenos Aires, London, and New York, and among the Iroquois, the
Zapatistas, and the global networks of La Via Campesina farmers and
the World Social Forum. Readable accounts of these horizontal
democracies document multiple political frames that prevent
democracy from being frozen into entrenched electoral systems
producing modern inequalities. Using practice to rewrite political
theory, Parker draws on collective politics in Spivak and Derrida
and embodied relations from Povinelli and Foucault to show that
equal relations are not a utopian dream, not nostalgia, and not
impossible. This book provides many practical solutions to
inequality. It will be useful to students and scholars of political
theory and social movements and to those who are willing to work
together for equality.
Democracy promises rule by all, not by the few. Yet, electoral
democracies limit decision-making to representatives and have
always had a weakness for inequality. How might democracy serve all
rather than the few? Democracy Beyond the Nation State: Practicing
Equality examines communities that govern their own lives without
elites or centralized structures through assemblies and consensus.
Rather than claiming equality by abstract rights or citizenship,
these groups put equality into practice by reducing wealth and
health divides, or landlessness or homelessness, and equalizing
workloads. These practices are found in rural India and Brazil, in
Buenos Aires, London, and New York, and among the Iroquois, the
Zapatistas, and the global networks of La Via Campesina farmers and
the World Social Forum. Readable accounts of these horizontal
democracies document multiple political frames that prevent
democracy from being frozen into entrenched electoral systems
producing modern inequalities. Using practice to rewrite political
theory, Parker draws on collective politics in Spivak and Derrida
and embodied relations from Povinelli and Foucault to show that
equal relations are not a utopian dream, not nostalgia, and not
impossible. This book provides many practical solutions to
inequality. It will be useful to students and scholars of political
theory and social movements and to those who are willing to work
together for equality.
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