Democracy, states, and the struggle for social justice
By: edited by Heather Gautney ... [et al.].
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780415989824; 9780415989831
Subjects: Democracy; State, The; Social justice
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Altered states / Neil Smith; title: Radical theories of democracy and sovereignty : overview and introduction / Omar Dahbour; title: Crude wars / Tim Brennan and Keya Ganguly; title: Sovereign right and the global left / Susan Buck-Morss; title: Envisioning transnational democracy : cross-border communities and regional human rights frameworks / Carol Gould; title: Twilight of sovereignty or the emergence of cosmopolitan norms? : rethinking citizenship in volatile times / Seyla Benhabib; title: New spatial scales of democracy : overview and introduction / Ashley Dawson; title: Activism and radical democracy in New Mexico's nuclear ecology / Jeffrey Bussolini; title: Cities as new spaces for citizenship claims : globalization, urban politics, and civil society in Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa in the 1990s / Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Sofia Checa; title: American democracy : from continental empire to regional pluralist commonwealth / Gar Alperovitz; title: The common good : towards an alternative Europe / Susan George; title: Rethinking activism and the state : overview and introduction / Heather Gautney; title: Is another state possible? / Heather Gautney; title: Another country : the postcolonial state, environmentality, and landless people's movements / Ashley Dawson; title: Disarticulate the state! : on the conception of democracy among new autonomous movements and their relationship to the state / Michael Menser; title: Community gardens, convivial spaces, and the seeds of a radical democratic counterpublic / Benjamin Shepard; title: How do we get from here to there? / Frances Fox Piven; title: Conclusion : conflict, coexistence, and the next global assemblage / Michael Menser.