Earthborn Democracy

Author : Ali Aslam
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023156127X
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earthborn Democracy written by Ali Aslam and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecological crises threaten all forms of life on earth. Democracy too is endangered, as popular discontent, elite malfeasance, and unresponsive institutions imperil its survival. Present political concepts have proven inadequate to meeting these challenges, and their inadequacies are themselves symptoms of the failures of prevailing political, cultural, and ecological stories and practices. This book offers a new vision of ecological and participatory democratic life for a time of crisis. Identifying myth and ritual as key resources for contemporary politics, Earthborn Democracy excavates practices and narratives that illustrate the interdependence necessary to inspire ecological renewal. It tells stories of multispecies agency and egalitarian political organization across history, from ancient Mesopotamia and the precolonial Americas to contemporary social movements, emphasizing Indigenous traditions and resistance. Resonating across these practices and stories past and present is a belief that we are all—human as well as nonhuman—earthborn, and this can serve as the basis for reimagining democracy. Allying visionary political theory with environmental activism, Earthborn Democracy provides a foundation and a guide for collective action in pursuit of earthly flourishing.

Author : Matteo Barbato
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474466443
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ideology of Democratic Athens written by Matteo Barbato and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate on Athenian democratic ideology has long been polarised around two extremes. A Marxist tradition views ideology as a cover-up for Athens' internal divisions. Another tradition, sometimes referred to as culturalist, interprets it neutrally as the fixed set of ideas shared by the members of the Athenian community.

Author : Dean Hammer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444336010
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic written by Dean Hammer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic offers a comparative approach to examining ancient Greek and Roman participatory communities. Explores various aspects of participatory communities through pairs of chapters—one Greek, one Roman—to highlight comparisons between cultures Examines the types of relationships that sustained participatory communities, the challenges they faced, and how they responded Sheds new light on participatory contexts using diverse methodological approaches Brings an international array of scholars into dialogue with each other

Author : Demetra Kasimis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108577318
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy written by Demetra Kasimis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Eric Thomas Weber
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 073915124X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Leadership written by Eric Thomas Weber and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy and Leadership: On Pragmatism and Virtue presents a theory of leadership drawing on insights from Plato’s Republic, while abandoning his authoritarianism in favor of John Dewey’s democratic thought. The book continues the democratic turn for the study of leadership beyond the incorporation of democratic values into old-fashioned views about leading. The completed democratic turn leaves behind the traditional focus on a class of special people. Instead, leadership is understood as a process of judicious yet courageous guidance, infused with democratic values and open to all people. The book proceeds in three parts, beginning with definitions and an understanding of the nature of leadership in general and of democratic leadership in particular. Then, Part II examines four challenges for a democratic theory of leadership. Finally, in Part III, the theory of democratic leadership is put to the test of addressing problems of poverty, educational frustration, and racial divides, particularly aggravated in Mississippi.

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical and Miscellaneous Essays written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works ... written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Carlyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
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Download or read book Collected Works written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Hubert Greusel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origins of Democracy written by John Hubert Greusel and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ellen Frankel Paul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521786207
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy: Volume 17, Part 1 written by Ellen Frankel Paul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-13 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume, first published in 2000, explore questions about democracy that are relevant to political philosophy and political theory. Some essays discuss the appropriate ends of government or examine the difficulties involved in determining and carrying out the will of the people. Some address questions relating to the kinds of influence citizens can or should have over their representatives, asking, for example, whether individuals have a duty to vote, or whether inequalities in political influence among citizens (measured in terms of campaign contributions) can be morally justified. Other essays analyze democratic institutions, discussing what role deliberation should play in the democratic process, and asking whether it is legitimate to use laws and public policies to express approval or disapproval of various kinds of conduct. Still others examine the relationship between democracy and value pluralism, or consider the suitability of democracy as a form of government in non-Western societies.