Political power reconsidered
Subtitle: state power and civic activism between legitimacy and violence : peace report 2013
By: edited by Maximilian Lakitsch
Contributors: Internationale "State-of-Peace"-Konferenz (2013 : Stadtschlaining, Austria)
Series: Dialog -- volume 66; Dialog (Vienna, Austria) -- Bd. 66.
Publisher: Lit Verlag
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Zürich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9783643904935
Subjects: Resistance to Government; Congresses; Political participation; Political violence
Notes: "This volume is based on articles presented at the State of Peace Conference in 2013"--Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Reconsidering political power in times of social unrest and revolution : an introduction / Maximilian Lakitsch; title: Democratic politics and conflict : an agonistic approach / Chantal Mouffe; title: Leviathans and martyrs : the mythical narrative of sovereignty and the tradition of the oppressed / Baldassare Scolari; title: Idiotism and the logic of the third / Wolfgang Hofkirchner; title: Challenging legitimacy : the 15-M as catalyst of the crisis of hegemony of the Spanish regime / Joseba Fernández González and Ivan Molina Allende; title: Changing the world without getting shot : how popular power can set limits to state violence / Laurence Cox; title: Moralism and the (Greek) crisis of cultural resistance : an anti-humanist approach / Kostis Stafylakis; title: Occupy : a unifying political acting body / Johannes Diesing; title: Is the global crisis ending the marriage of capitalism and liberal democracy? (Il- )legitimate political power and the new global anti-capitalist mass movements in the context of the internationalization of the state / Ingar Solty; title: A crux : perspectives on protest movements in the MENA region / Lukas Wank and Paul Winter; title: When a 'culture of justice' goes global : discussing political legitimacy and resistance in Argentina and elsewhere / Katja Seidel; title: Revolution of civil society : a viable alternative to nation-state politics and neoliberal globalisation / Leo Gabriel.