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Author |
: Sally Banes |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822313995 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822313991 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Democracy's Body by : Sally Banes
Judson Dance Theater involved such collaborators as Merce Cunningham, Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, Carolee Schneemann, Trisha Brown, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, et al.
Author |
: Machin Amanda |
Publisher |
: Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 2021-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3837649237 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783837649239 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bodies of Democracy by : Machin Amanda
Amanda Machin considers six embodied modes of democratic politics: identification, deliberation, disagreement, protest, occupation and counsel. Drawing on diverse thinkers, she offers an absorbing illustration of the ways that human bodies are not only the disciplined objects of politics but also the generative subjects of democracy.
Author |
: Daniel D. Miller |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 229 |
Release |
: 2021-08-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000418842 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000418847 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Queer Democracy by : Daniel D. Miller
Queer Democracy undertakes an interdisciplinary critical investigation of the centuries-old metaphor of society as a body, drawing on queer and transgender accounts of embodiment as a constructive resource for reimagining politics and society. Daniel Miller argues that this metaphor has consistently expressed a desire for social and political order, grounded in the social body’s imagined normative shape or morphology. The consistent result, from the “concord” discourses of the pre-Christian Stoics, all the way through to contemporary nationalism and populism, has been the suppression of any dissent that would unmake the social body’s presumed normativity. Miller argues that the conception of embodiment at the heart of the metaphor is a fantasy, and that negative social and political reactions to dissent represent visceral, dysphoric responses to its reshaping of the social body. He argues that social body’s essential queerness, defined by fluidity and lack of a fixed morphology, spawns queer democracy, expressed through ongoing social and political practices that aim to extend liberty and equality to new social domains. Queer Democracy articulates a new departure for the ongoing development of theoretical articulations linking queer and trans theory with political theory. It will appeal to both academic and non-academic readers engaged in research on political theory, populism, US religion, gender studies, and queer studies.
Author |
: Don Johnson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 155643166X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781556431661 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (6X Downloads) |
Synopsis Body, Spirit, and Democracy by : Don Johnson
Body, Spirit and Democracy addresses how can we, of different ethical values, spiritual commitments, and ethnic backgrounds, work together to create a more humane world. The unique perspective on this common concern is from the author's lifetime of work within the family of body-therapies, exercise and movement disciplines that emerged in Northern Europe and the United States during the middle of the 19th Century. In the spirit of 12-step meetings and Native American circles, the author tells a number of stories of his and others' journeys, which illustrate how the most seemingly abstract spiritual notions about life are distilled from dense bodily experience. By connecting the flesh of stories with the abstractions of spiritual and philosophical viewpoints, the author situates himself among the many activists, intellectuals, artists, and religious workers who are working towards accustoming people to embracing spiritual diversity as more healing than the monistic alternatives.
Author |
: Barbara Sutton |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 222 |
Release |
: 2021-08-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000404463 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000404463 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Abortion and Democracy by : Barbara Sutton
Abortion and Democracy offers critical analyses of abortion politics in Latin America’s Southern Cone, with lessons and insights of wider significance. Drawing on the region’s recent history of military dictatorship and democratic transition, this edited volume explores how abortion rights demands fit with current democratic agendas. With a focus on Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, the book’s contributors delve into the complex reality of abortion through the examination of the discourses, strategies, successes, and challenges of abortion rights movements. Assembling a multiplicity of voices and experiences, the contributions illuminate key dimensions of abortion rights struggles: health aspects, litigation efforts, legislative debates, party politics, digital strategies, grassroots mobilization, coalition-building, affective and artistic components, and movement-countermovement dynamics. The book takes an approach that is sensitive to social inequalities and to the transnational aspects of abortion rights struggles in each country. It bridges different scales of analysis, from abortion experiences at the micro level of the clinic or the home to the macro sociopolitical and cultural forces that shape individual lives. This is an important intervention suitable for students and scholars of abortion politics, democracy in Latin America, gender and sexuality, and women’s rights.
Author |
: Frances Rosenbluth |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 335 |
Release |
: 2018-10-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300241051 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300241054 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Responsible Parties by : Frances Rosenbluth
How popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politics In recent decades, democracies across the world have adopted measures to increase popular involvement in political decisions. Parties have turned to primaries and local caucuses to select candidates; ballot initiatives and referenda allow citizens to enact laws directly; many places now use proportional representation, encouraging smaller, more specific parties rather than two dominant ones.Yet voters keep getting angrier.There is a steady erosion of trust in politicians, parties, and democratic institutions, culminating most recently in major populist victories in the United States, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. Frances Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro argue that devolving power to the grass roots is part of the problem. Efforts to decentralize political decision-making have made governments and especially political parties less effective and less able to address constituents’ long-term interests. They argue that to restore confidence in governance, we must restructure our political systems to restore power to the core institution of representative democracy: the political party.
Author |
: Eddie S. Glaude (Jr.) |
Publisher |
: Crown |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780804137416 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0804137412 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Democracy in Black by : Eddie S. Glaude (Jr.)
"A polemic on the state of black America that argues that we don't yet live in a post-racial society"--
Author |
: Shampa Biswas |
Publisher |
: University of Washington Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2011-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780295801810 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0295801816 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Torture by : Shampa Biswas
The counterterrorism policies following September 11, 2001, brought the definition and legitimacy of torture to the forefront of political, military, and public debates. This timely volume explores the question of torture through multiple lenses by situating it within systems of belief, social networks of power, and ideological worldviews. Individual essays examine the boundaries of what is deemed legitimate political violence for the sake of state security, the immediate and long-term effects of torture on human and social bodies, the visual and artistic representations of torture, how certain people are dehumanized to make it acceptable to torture them, and how we understand complicity in and the ethical boundaries of torture.
Author |
: Nadia Urbinati |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 318 |
Release |
: 2014-02-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674726383 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674726383 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Democracy Disfigured by : Nadia Urbinati
In Democracy Disfigured, Nadia Urbinati diagnoses the ills that beset the body politic in an age of hyper-partisanship and media monopolies and offers a spirited defense of the messy compromises and contentious outcomes that define democracy. Urbinati identifies three types of democratic disfiguration: the unpolitical, the populist, and the plebiscitarian. Each undermines a crucial division that a well-functioning democracy must preserve: the wall separating the free forum of public opinion from governmental institutions that enact the will of the people. Unpolitical democracy delegitimizes political opinion in favor of expertise. Populist democracy radically polarizes the public forum in which opinion is debated. And plebiscitary democracy overvalues the aesthetic and nonrational aspects of opinion. For Urbinati, democracy entails a permanent struggle to make visible the issues that citizens deem central to their lives. Opinion is thus a form of action as important as the mechanisms that organize votes and mobilize decisions. Urbinati focuses less on the overt enemies of democracy than on those who pose as its friends: technocrats wedded to procedure, demagogues who make glib appeals to "the people," and media operatives who, given their preference, would turn governance into a spectator sport and citizens into fans of opposing teams.
Author |
: Hélène Landemore |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2022-03-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691212395 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691212392 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Open Democracy by : Hélène Landemore
To the ancient Greeks, democracy meant gathering in public and debating laws set by a randomly selected assembly of several hundred citizens. To the Icelandic Vikings, democracy meant meeting every summer in a field to discuss issues until consensus was reached. Our contemporary representative democracies are very different. Modern parliaments are gated and guarded, and it seems as if only certain people are welcome. Diagnosing what is wrong with representative government and aiming to recover some of the openness of ancient democracies, Open Democracy presents a new paradigm of democracy. Supporting a fresh nonelectoral understanding of democratic representation, Hélène Landemore demonstrates that placing ordinary citizens, rather than elites, at the heart of democratic power is not only the true meaning of a government of, by, and for the people, but also feasible and, more than ever, urgently needed. -- Cover page 4.