Demodiversity
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ISBN13: | 9780367512293 |
ISBN10: | 0367512297 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 260 pages |
Size: | 229x152 mm |
Weight: | 480 g |
Language: | English |
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This book presents the democratic practices and processes that engage directly with the assumptions advanced by the epistemologies of the South, using realities that attest to the possibility of a renewal and deepening of democracy beyond the canon embedded in a world capitalist system.
We are living in a time when social and political authoritarianism appear to be gaining ground around the world. This book presents the democratic practices, spaces and processes that engage directly with the theoretical assumptions advanced by the epistemologies of the South, summoning other contexts and empirical realities that attest to the possibility of a renewal and deepening of democracy beyond the liberal and representative canon, which is embedded within a world capitalist system.
The chapters in this book put forward the ideas of demodiversity, of high-intensity democracy, of the articulation between representative democracy and participatory democracy as well as, in certain contexts, between both these and other forms of democratic deliberation, such as the communitarian democracy of the indigenous and peasant communities of Africa, Latin America and Asia.
The challenge undertaken in this book is to demand utopia, imagining a post-abyssal democracy that permits the democratizing, decolonizing, decommodifying and depatriarchalizing of social relations. This post-abyssal democracy obliges us to satisfy the maximum definition of democracy and not the minimum, transforming society into fields of democratization that permeate the structural spaces of contemporary societies.
Introduction
Boaventura de Sousa Santos and José Manuel Mendes
Part I - The pluriverse of democracy
Chapter 1: A new vision for Europe: learning from the Global South
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Chapter 2: Should Europe learn from Indian secularism?
Rajeev Bhargava
Chapter 3: Democracy and democratization in Africa: interrogating paradigms and practices
Issa Shivji
Chapter 4: This world cut into two
Richard Pithouse
Chapter 5: For a politics of revolutionary love
Houria Bouteldja
Chapter 6: Andine micropolitics: elementary forms of daily insurgency
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Chapter 7: Politics after the defeat of politics: post-democracy, post-politics and populism
Juan Carlos Monedero
Part II - Struggles for demodiversity
Chapter 8: ?Carry their rights, their own way?: Dalit struggle for equality
José Manuel Mendes
Chapter 9: The Passe Livre movement in Brazil and the sociology of possibilities
Jo?o Alexandre Peschanski
Chapter 10: Another democracy is possible: learnings and lessons for a radical democracy based, the political experience of Chéran, Mexico
Orlando Aragón Andrade
Chapter 11: Aymara Andine democracy: Taypi and deliberative diversity towards intercultural democracy
Mara Bicas
Conclusion
List of contributors