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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"radical democracy"”.
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Agonism and Antagonism: Past and Future Possibilites of Radical Democracy
Though radical democratic theory has become a mainstay in progressive political thought, it is clear that more work needs to be done in terms of establishing the empirical bases for its appearance and continuation. As such, through a comparative investigation and analysis of historical episodes of …
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Let’s Win Madrid: Radical Democracy and Prefigurative Constitutionality in the New Municipalism
… actors in the context of strategies for radical democracy. Prefigurative constitutionality requires a bespoke understanding of prefiguration itself, as a transversal complex of types and functions of political action, applicable far beyond the limits of ‘prefigurative politics’ narrowly …
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Laclau and Mouffe's theory of radical democracy, and political identity in contemporary Europe
… political identity, particularly in relation to democracy and the nation-state. Laclau and Mouffe's post-Marxist notion of 'radical democracy', incorporating a non-essentialist conception of hegemony, promises much in this regard. Their work on the contingent nature of political identity and …
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Rethinking hegemony as an educative-formative problem: Gramsci, post-Marxism, and radical democracy revisited
… allegiance to what post-Marxists now call the 'radical' principles of democracy. By their own assessment, the Gramscian concept has thus become fundamental to the theoretical dismissal of the historical aspirations of socialism, prompted no less by their anti-democratic interpretation of Marxist …
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Social Media, Radical Democracy, and the Popular Public Sphere: Digital Politics in Contemporary France
… deliberative ideals. However, deliberative democracy struggles to accommodate social media’s logics—more saloon than salon—and as a result too often leads into a pessimistic impasse. To rethink social media’s democratic potential, this dissertation instead asks: how might we see social media …
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Information And Democracy: Lessons From The Hacktivists
“Information and Democracy: Lessons from the Hacktivists” examines three hacktivist groups—WikiLeaks, Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), and Anonymous—through the lens of three different democratic traditions: the “epistemic,” “aesthetic,” and “radical.” Emblematic of the epistemic tradition, …
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Democratic Transition and Digital Media Activism in Africa: A Zimbabwean Case Study
… sphere and Laclau and Mouffe’s (1985) concept of radical democracy. Laclau and Mouffe’s (1985) theory of radical democracy is an antidote to Habermas’s (1989) theorization of the public sphere. While for Habermas (1989), democracy is based on consensus, for Laclau and Mouffe (1985) radical …
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Producing America's Enemies and the Contested Rhetorics of Nationhood in the United States, 1775--1815
… Hence, this dissertation investigates how the radical democracy of the Revolutionary War was tamed in the founding years of the United States. I conclude that Americans were brought under the control of government through the rhetoric of ""enemyship,"" which calls on citizens to defend their …
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Saying the World Anew: A Philosophical Understanding of Communication as Testimony
… the relationship between communication and a radical democracy to come is brought into relief.
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Feminist bodies, affect and the radicalisation of democracy: An investigation into feminist mobilisations in Spain
This thesis aims to rethink the radicalisation of democracy through an affective lens by shedding light to the way in which feminist mobilisations might contribute to the radicalisation of democracy. Understanding the latter as the process of deepening and disrupting democracy, the research engages …
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Power from Below: Power, Democracy and Socialist Theory
… perspectives, and on its relationship to democracy. By building upon the implicit theory of power within the works of contemporary Marxists, such as Ellen Meiksins Wood, Alex Callinicos and G.E.M. De Ste. Croix, this dissertation proposes a new set of concepts that seeks to overcome these …
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Exploring Performance Ethnography to illuminate mobile banking Capabilities in Western Kenya: Capability Approach Study
… politics of neoliberalism rescuing the radical democracy. As such, it “tells a true and previously untold tale” effectively calling for social transformation.
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Political theology and the conflicts of democracy.
… it develops an "agonistic political theology" of radical democracy grounded in the claim that conflict is inherent to the goodness of creation and constitutive of flourishing creaturely sociality. It argues that, rightly understood as emerging from the conditions of creatureliness, democratic …
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Engagement and conflict in Hong Kong planning: a post-political inquiry
… in Hong Kong. Informed by concepts such as radical democracy and subjectivation, it investigates the construction of meanings and identities by different actors. Chapter 6 looks into the future by reflecting on the implications on resistance as the political space in Hong Kong tightens. In …
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The Individual as Ecological: Reconstructing Identity in a Deweyan Vein
… moral community through the lens of a Deweyan radical democracy that emphasizes the need for ecological literacy, citizen engagement, a knowledgeable respect for our diverse heritage, and a willingness to work together continually to change our institutions and our practices toward democratic …
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Narratives of how young men raised in lesbian and gay families navigate South African Heteronormativities
… in South Africa. Queer theory and theory on Radical Democracy were adopted as theoretical frameworks while the data was produced through semi-structured interviews conducted in person and virtually with eight men raised in gay/lesbian families. Themes and sub-themes emerged through a …
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Pollinator People: an ethnography of bees, bee advocates and possibilities for multispecies commoning in Toronto and London, ON
… integrated and considered within processes of radical democracy.
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Reclaiming stability: the dialectic of stability and instability in capitalist society
… The politics of disruption, exemplified in the radical democracy tradition, precarity theory, and the Autonomista tradition can be encapsulated in the following tendencies: to critique capitalism only from the point of view of distribution rather than production, to theorize ephemeral …
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Marksistinių ir čiabuvių perspektyvų santykis zapatistų politiniame diskurse /
… on themes such as 'neoliberal injustice', 'radical democracy', 'political imagination', 'collective action', and the consequences of 'postmodernism'. Thus, it remained unclear, whether Zapatistas reflect Marxism ideology and, if so, how it is perceived. The thesis investigates the …
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