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Reclaiming democracy, judgment, responsibility and the right to politics, edited by Albena Azmanova and Mihaela Mihai

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Reclaiming democracy, judgment, responsibility and the right to politics, edited by Albena Azmanova and Mihaela Mihai
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Reclaiming democracy
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
886492733
Responsibility statement
edited by Albena Azmanova and Mihaela Mihai
Series statement
Routledge advances in democratic theory, 2
Sub title
judgment, responsibility and the right to politics
Summary
Democracy is in shambles economically and politically. The recent economic meltdown in Europe and the U.S. has substituted democratic deliberation with technocratic decisions. In Athens, Madrid, Lisbon, New York, Pittsburgh or Istanbul, protesters have denounced the incapacity and unwillingness of elected officials to heed to their voices. While the diagnosis of our political-economic illness has been established, remedies are hard to come. What can we do to restore our broken democracy? Which modes of political participation are likely to have an impact? And what are the loci of political innovation in the wake of the crisis? It is with these questions that Reclaiming Democracy engages. We argue that the managerial approach to solving the crisis violates 'a right to politics', that is, a right that our collective life be guided by meaningful politics: by discussion of and decision among genuinely alternative principles and policies. The contributors to this volume are united in their commitment to explore how and where this right can be affirmed in a way that resuscitates democracy in the wake of the crisis. Mixing theoretical reflection and empirical analysis the book offers fresh insights into democracy's current conundrum and makes concrete proposals about how 'the right to politics' can be protected.--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Introduction / Albena Azmanova and Mihaela Mihai -- I. Loci of Democracy Politics -- 1. Agonism and the Crisis of Representative Democracy / Paulina Tambakaki -- 2. Freedom, Democracy, and Working Life / Keith Breen -- 3. Technology: The Promises of Communicative Capitalism / Jodi Dean -- 4. Ungovernability / Claus Offe -- II. Modes of Democratic Politics -- 5. Democracy, Law and Global Finance: A Legal and Institutional Perspective / Tamara Lothian -- 6. Democracy and the Absolute Power of Disembedded Financial Markets / Alessandro Ferrara -- 7. Success and Failure in the Deliberative Economy / Arjun Appadurai -- 8. The Promise of Global Transparency: Between Information and Emancipation / Matthew Fluck -- III. Democratic Critique -- 9. Neoliberalism, the Street, and the Forum / Noëlle McAfee -- 10. Founding Political Critique in a Post-Political World: Towards a Renewal of Utopian Energies / Nikolas Kompridis -- 11. From the Assembly to the Agora: Non-Linear Politics and the Politicisation of Everyday Life / David Chandler
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