Democratic Multiplicity
Democratic Multiplicity
Keith Cherry, University of Alberta
Fonna Forman, University of California, San Diego
Jeanne Morefield, University of Oxford
Joshua Nichols, McGill University, Montréal
Pablo Ouziel, University of Southampton
David Owen, University of Southampton
Oliver Schmidtke, University of Victoria, British Columbia
This edited volume argues that democracy is broader and more diverse than the dominant state-centered, modern representative democracies, to which other modes of democracy are either presumed subordinate or ignored. The contributors seek to overcome the standard opposition of democracy from below (participatory) and democracy from above (representative). Rather, they argue that through differently situated participatory and representative practices, citizens and governments can develop democratic ways of cooperating without hegemony and subordination, and that these relationships can be transformative. This work proposes a slow but sure, nonviolent, eco-social and sustainable process of democratic generation and growth with the capacity to critique and transform unjust and ecologically destructive social systems. This volume integrates human-centric democracies into a more mutual, interdependent and sustainable system on earth whereby everyone gains.
- Widens the political imagination of democracy and its possibilities
- Shows how cooperation and coordination between different democratic traditions is possible
- Builds a vision of democratic change rooted in the tradition of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Product details
August 2022Hardback
9781009178389
400 pages
235 × 158 × 33 mm
0.82kg
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Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION: The Pluriverse of Democracies James Tully
- Part I. DEMOCRATIC ETHOS:
- 1. How Democracy Doesn't End Anthony Simon Laden
- 2. Democracy, Boundaries, and Respect David Owen
- 3. Democracy in a Provisional Key Lasse Thomassen
- Part II. REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACIES:
- 4. Democracy and Community: Exploring a Contested Link in Light of the Populist Resurgence Oliver Schmidtke
- 5. Democracies Can Perish Democratically Too: Brazilian Democracy on Edge Boaventura de Sousa Santos
- 6. Agonistic Representative Democracy in Europe Chantal Mouffe, interviewed and translated by Pablo Ouziel
- 7. For a Politics of Exile: Criticism in an Era of Global Liberal Decline Jeanne Morefield
- Part III. Local/Global Participatory Democracies:
- 8. Unwalling Citizenship Fonna Forman
- 9. Other Wise Democracies: What the Tree Canopies Know Rebeccah Nelems
- 10. Democratizing Revolution: Self-Reflexivity and Self-Limitation Beyond Liberalism Robin Celikates
- Part IV. Indigenous Democracies:
- 11. Gitxsan Democracy: On Its Own Terms Val Napoleon
- 12. Democratic Futures and the Problem of Settler States: An Essay on the Conceptual Demands of Democracy and the Need for Political Histories of Membership Joshua Nichols
- 13. Cracking the Settler Colonial Concrete: Theorizing Engagements with Indigenous Resurgence through the Politics from Below Stacie Swain
- 14. Like a Brick through the Overton Window: Re-orienting Our Politics, From the House of Commons to the Tiny House Phil Henderson
- 15. Governing Ourselves: Reflections on Reinvigorating Democracy Stimulated by Gitxsan Governance Jeremy Webber
- Part V. International/Global Democracies:
- 16. The Overlapping Crises of Democracy, Globalization, and Global Governance David Held
- 17. The Contested Freedom of the Moderns: Conceiving Norm Contestation as the 'Glue' for Re-Ordering the Globalized World Antje Wiener
- 18. Conditional Authority and Democratic Legitimacy in Pluralist Space Keith Cherry
- Part VI. Joining Hands: ECO-Democratic Integration:
- 19. On Gaia Democracies James Tully
- 20. Democracies Joining Hands in the Here and Now Pablo Ouziel.
