The Perpetual Immigrant And The Limits Of Athenian Democracy
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Author |
: Demetra Kasimis |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2018-08-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108577311 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108577318 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy by : Demetra Kasimis
In the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, immigrants called 'metics' (metoikoi) settled in Athens without a path to citizenship. Galvanized by these political realities, classical thinkers cast a critical eye on the nativism defining democracy's membership rules and explored the city's anxieties over intermingling and passing. Yet readers continue to treat immigration and citizenship as separate phenomena of little interest to theorists writing at the time. In The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy, Demetra Kasimis makes visible the long-overlooked centrality of immigration to the originary practices of democracy and political theory in Athens. She dismantles the interpretive and political assumptions that have led readers to turn away from the metic and reveals the key role this figure plays in such texts as Plato's Republic. The result is a series of original readings that boldly reframes urgent questions about how democracies order their non-citizen members.
Author |
: Demetra Kasimis |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2018-08-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107052437 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107052432 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy by : Demetra Kasimis
Argues that immigration politics is a central - but overlooked - object of inquiry in the democratic thought of classical Athens. Thinkers criticized democracy's strategic investments in nativism, the shifting boundaries of citizenship, and the precarious membership that a blood-based order effects for those eligible and ineligible to claim it.
Author |
: James Lindley Wilson |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 319 |
Release |
: 2019-09-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691190914 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691190917 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Democratic Equality by : James Lindley Wilson
Showing how equality of authority is essential to relating equally as citizens, the author explains why the U.S. Senate and Electoral College are urgently in need of reform, why proportional representation is not a universal requirement of democracy, how to identify racial vote dilution and gerrymandering in electoral districting, how to respond to threats to democracy posed by wealth inequality, and how judicial review could be more compatible with the democratic ideal.
Author |
: Paul Cartledge |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 194 |
Release |
: 2009-05-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139488495 |
ISBN-13 |
: 113948849X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice by : Paul Cartledge
Ancient Greece was a place of tremendous political experiment and innovation, and it was here too that the first serious political thinkers emerged. Using carefully selected case-studies, in this book Professor Cartledge investigates the dynamic interaction between ancient Greek political thought and practice from early historic times to the early Roman Empire. Of concern throughout are three major issues: first, the relationship of political thought and practice; second, the relevance of class and status to explaining political behaviour and thinking; third, democracy - its invention, development and expansion, and extinction, prior to its recent resuscitation and even apotheosis. In addition, monarchy in various forms and at different periods and the peculiar political structures of Sparta are treated in detail over a chronological range extending from Homer to Plutarch. The book provides an introduction to the topic for all students and non-specialists who appreciate the continued relevance of ancient Greece to political theory and practice today.
Author |
: Julia L. Shear |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 555 |
Release |
: 2021-03-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108618021 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108618022 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Serving Athena by : Julia L. Shear
In ancient Athens, the Panathenaia was the most important festival and was celebrated in honour of Athena from the middle of the sixth century BC until the end of the fourth century AD. This in-depth study examines how this all-Athenian celebration was an occasion for constructing identities and how it affected those identities. Since not everyone took part in the same way, this differential participation articulated individuals' relationships both to the goddess and to the city so that the festival played an important role in negotiating what it meant to be Athenian (and non-Athenian). Julia Shear applies theories of identity formation which were developed in the social sciences to the ancient Greek material and brings together historical, epigraphical, and archaeological evidence to provide a better understanding both of this important occasion and of Athenian identities over the festival's long history.
Author |
: Bernd Reiter |
Publisher |
: MSU Press |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2013-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781628951622 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1628951621 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Dialectics of Citizenship by : Bernd Reiter
What does it mean to be a citizen? What impact does an active democracy have on its citizenry and why does it fail or succeed in fulfilling its promises? Most modern democracies seem unable to deliver the goods that citizens expect; many politicians seem to have given up on representing the wants and needs of those who elected them and are keener on representing themselves and their financial backers. What will it take to bring democracy back to its original promise of rule by the people? Bernd Reiter’s timely analysis reaches back to ancient Greece and the Roman Republic in search of answers. It examines the European medieval city republics, revolutionary France, and contemporary Brazil, Portugal, and Colombia. Through an innovative exploration of country cases, this study demonstrates that those who stand to lose something from true democracy tend to oppose it, making the genealogy of citizenship concurrent with that of exclusion. More often than not, exclusion leads to racialization, stigmatizing the excluded to justify their non-membership. Each case allows for different insights into the process of how citizenship is upheld and challenged. Together, the cases reveal how exclusive rights are constituted by contrasting members to non-members who in that very process become racialized others. The book provides an opportunity to understand the dynamics that weaken democracy so that they can be successfully addressed and overcome in the future.
Author |
: Antonis Vradis |
Publisher |
: AK Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0983059713 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780983059714 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Revolt and Crisis in Greece by : Antonis Vradis
In December 2008, the world watched as Greece plunged into-an unprecedented crisis, both social and economic, the effects of which would be felt around the world. In this new volume of essays edited and introduced by members of the Occupied London collective, over two dozen writers analyze the Greek uprising, contextualising the city and state from which it arose, exploring the waves of crisis that followed in its wake, and theorising the future of global revolt. Book jacket.
Author |
: Jenifer Neils |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 505 |
Release |
: 2021-02-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108484558 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108484557 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens by : Jenifer Neils
This book is a comprehensive introduction to ancient Athens, its topography, monuments, inhabitants, cultural institutions, religious rituals, and politics. Drawing from the newest scholarship on the city, this volume examines how the city was planned, how it functioned, and how it was transformed from a democratic polis into a Roman urbs.
Author |
: David Pritchard |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108422918 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108422918 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Athenian Democracy at War by : David Pritchard
Studies all four branches of the Athenian armed forces to show how they helped make democratic Athens a superpower.
Author |
: William Edward Hartpole Lecky |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 656 |
Release |
: 1899 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B3266343 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Democracy and Liberty by : William Edward Hartpole Lecky