Transformations of Democracy: Crisis, Protest and Legitimation - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783480890 ISBN 13: 9781783480890

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015

Synopsis

This book interrogates whether recent global protests and civil disobedience are transforming the way we understand contemporary democracy as an institutional system.

About this title

About the Author:

Robin Celikates is associate professor of political and social philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he also directs the research project Transformations of Civil Disobedience.

Regina Kreide is professor of political theory and history of ideas at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany and is co-director of the Collaborative Research Center Dynamics of Security.

Tilo Wesche is interim professor of practical philosophy at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany.

Review:

What is the future of democracy in an age of political and economic crisis, transnational governance and global protests? The chapters in this superb volume provide original and profound perspectives on the many dimensions of this question, with contributions that range from normative to legal and sociological analysis. This is political theory at its best - innovative, timely and practice-oriented. (Rainer Forst, Goethe-University Frankfurt)

This powerful collection resets the discussion of democracy today. The contributors push a rethinking of citizenship, rights, deliberation, and legitimacy as they confront normative democratic theory with the challenges facing real existing democracies: digital technologies that simultaneously increase participation and surveillance; the build-up of unaccountable international institutions; economic crises, inequality, and debt; and, most important, ongoing riots, protests, and mass resistance that call into question democratic institutions themselves. This path-breaking volume not only crosses the divide between normative democratic theory and social theory, it also establishes the terms of debate for decades to come. (Jodi Dean, Hobart and William Smith Colleges)

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1783480890
• ISBN 13: 9781783480890
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290
• Editor: Celikates Robin, Kreide Professor Of Political Th Regina, Wesche Professor Of Practical Ph Tilo