The Democratic Ethos

Author : Ella Myers
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780822353997

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Worldly Ethics by Ella Myers Pdf

What is the spirit that animates collective action? What is the ethos of democracy? Worldly Ethics offers a powerful and original response to these questions, arguing that associative democratic politics, in which citizens join together and struggle to shape shared conditions, requires a world-centered ethos. This distinctive ethos, Ella Myers shows, involves care for "worldly things," which are the common and contentious objects of concern around which democratic actors mobilize. In articulating the meaning of worldly ethics, she reveals the limits of previous modes of ethics, including Michel Foucault's therapeutic model, based on a "care of the self," and Emmanuel Levinas's charitable model, based on care for the Other. Myers contends that these approaches occlude the worldly character of political life and are therefore unlikely to inspire and support collective democratic activity. The alternative ethics she proposes is informed by Hannah Arendt's notion of amor mundi, or love of the world, and it focuses on the ways democratic actors align around issues, goals, or things in the world, practicing collaborative care for them. Myers sees worldly ethics as a resource that can inspire and motivate ordinary citizens to participate in democratic politics, and the book highlights civic organizations that already embody its principles.

Author : A. Freya Thimsen
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781643363196

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The Democratic Ethos by A. Freya Thimsen Pdf

A multidisciplinary analysis of the lasting effects of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement What did Occupy Wall Street accomplish? While it began as a startling disruption in politics as usual, in The Democratic Ethos Freya Thimsen argues that the movement's long-term importance rests in how its commitment to radical democratic self-organization has been adopted within more conventional forms of politics. Occupy changed what counts as credible democratic coordination and how democracy is performed, as demonstrated in opposition to corporate political influence, rural antifracking activism, and political campaigns. By comparing instances of progressive politics that demonstrate the democratic ethos developed and promoted by Occupy and those that do not, Thimsen illustrates how radical and conventional rhetorical strategies can be brought together to seek democratic change. Combining insights from rhetorical studies, performance studies, political theory, and sociology, The Democratic Ethos offers a set of conceptual tools for analyzing anticorporate democracy-movement politics in the twenty-first century.

Author : Elisabeth Ivarsflaten,Paul M. Sniderman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226807386

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The Struggle for Inclusion by Elisabeth Ivarsflaten,Paul M. Sniderman Pdf

The politics of inclusion is about more than hate, exclusion, and discrimination. It is a window into the moral character of contemporary liberal democracies. The Struggle for Inclusion introduces a new method to the study of public opinion: to probe, step by step, how far non-Muslim majorities are willing to be inclusive, where they draw the line, and why they draw it there and not elsewhere. Those committed to liberal democratic values and their concerns are the focus, not those advocating exclusion and intolerance. Notwithstanding the turbulence and violence of the last decade over issues of immigration and of Muslims in the West, the results of this study demonstrate that the largest number of citizens in contemporary liberal democracies are more open to inclusion of Muslims than has been recognized. Not less important, the book reveals limits on inclusion that follow from the friction between liberal democratic values. This pioneering work thus brings to light both pathways to progress and polarization traps.

Author : Stephen K. White
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780674054813

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The Ethos of a Late-Modern Citizen by Stephen K. White Pdf

In The Ethos of a Late-Modern Citizen, Stephen K. White contends that Western democracies face novel challenges demanding our reexamination of the role of citizens. White argues that the intense focus in the past three decades on finding general principles of justice for diversity-rich societies needs to be complemented by an exploration of what sort of ethos would be needed to adequately sustain any such principles. Accessible, pithy, and erudite, The Ethos of a Late-Modern Citizen will appeal to a wide audience.

Author : Alessandro Ferrara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107729469

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The Democratic Horizon by Alessandro Ferrara Pdf

Alessandro Ferrara explains what he terms 'the democratic horizon' - the idea that democracy is no longer simply one form of government among others, but is instead almost universally regarded as the only legitimate form of government, the horizon to which most of us look. Professor Ferrara reviews the challenges under which democracies must operate, focusing on hyperpluralism, and impresses a new twist onto the framework of political liberalism. He shows that distinguishing real democracies from imitations can be difficult, responding to this predicament by enriching readers' understanding of the spirit of democracy; clearing readers' views of pluralism from residues of ethnocentrism; and conceiving multiple versions of democratic culture, rooted in the diversity of civilizational contexts.

Author : Herbert McClosky,John Zaller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 067442851X

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The American Ethos by Herbert McClosky,John Zaller Pdf

Author : The Antipode Editorial Collective
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119558156

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Keywords in Radical Geography by The Antipode Editorial Collective Pdf

The online version of Keywords in Radical Geography: Antipode at 50 is free to download here. Alternatively, print copies can be purchased for just GB£7 / US$10 here. ******************************************************************************** To celebrate Antipode’s 50th anniversary, we’ve brought together 50 short keyword essays by a range of scholars at varying career stages who all, in some way, have some kind of affinity with Antipode’s radical geographical project. The entries in this volume are diverse, eclectic, and to an extent random, however they all speak to our discipline’s past, present and future in exciting and suggestive ways Contributors have taken unusual or novel terms, concepts or sets of ideas important to their research, and their essays discuss them in relation to radical and critical geography’s histories, current condition and possible future directions This fractal, playful and provocative intervention in the field stands as a fitting testimony to the role that Antipode has played in the generation of radical geographical engagement with the world

Author : Erik Mobrand
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295745480

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Top-Down Democracy in South Korea by Erik Mobrand Pdf

While popular movements in South Korea rightly grab the headlines for forcing political change and holding leaders to account, those movements are only part of the story of the construction and practice of democracy. In Top-Down Democracy in South Korea, Erik Mobrand documents another part – the elite-led design and management of electoral and party institutions. Even as the country left authoritarian rule behind, elites have responded to freer and fairer elections by entrenching rather than abandoning exclusionary practices and forms of party organization. Exploring South Korea’s political development from 1945 through the end of dictatorship in the 1980s and into the twenty-first century, Mobrand challenges the view that the origins of the postauthoritarian political system lie in a series of popular movements that eventually undid repression. He argues that we should think about democratization not as the establishment of an entirely new system, but as the subtle blending of new formal rules with earlier authority structures, political institutions, and legitimizing norms.

Author : Sophia Hatzisavvidou
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783483143

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Appearances of Ethos in Political Thought by Sophia Hatzisavvidou Pdf

Addressing a gap in political thought, this book examines the interplay between ethos and practical reason in everyday life. It suggests that the burgeoning literature on the ‘ethotic’ dimension of democracy leaves untreated the issue of practical reason and how it infuses political judgment and action.

Author : Stephen K. White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107168473

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A Democratic Bearing by Stephen K. White Pdf

This book provides a model of active citizenship that counters the Tea Party's exclusivist, self-righteous portrait of democratic life.

Author : Takashi Inoguchi,Edward Newman,John Keane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015043239451

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The Changing Nature of Democracy by Takashi Inoguchi,Edward Newman,John Keane Pdf

This volume brings together preeminent scholars from around the world in a collection of essays that point to a changing and broadening agenda of democracy.

Author : Nicole Curato
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198842484

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Democracy in a Time of Misery by Nicole Curato Pdf

Democracy in a Time of Misery: From Spectacular Tragedy to Deliberative Action investigates how democratic politics can unfold in creative and unexpected of ways even at the most trying of times. Drawing on three years of fieldwork in disaster-affected communities in Tacloban City, Philippines, this book presents ethnographic portraits of how typhoon survivors actively perform their suffering to secure political gains. Each chapter traces how victims are transformed to 'publics' that gain voice and visibility in the global public sphere through disruptive protests, collaborative projects, and political campaigns that elected the strongman Rodrigo Duterte to presidency. It also examines the micropolitics of silencing that lead communities to withdraw and lose interest in politics. These ethnographic descriptions come together in a theoretical project that makes a case for a multimodal view of deliberative action. It underscores the embodied, visual, performative and subtle ways in which affective political claims are constructed and received. It concludes by arguing that while emotions play a role in amplifying marginalized political claims, it also creates hierarchies of misery that renders some forms of suffering more deserving of compassion than others. The book invites readers to reflect on challenging ethical issues when examining political contexts defined by widespread depravity and dispossession, and the democratic ethos demanded of global publics in responding to others' suffering.

Author : Aislinn O'Donnell
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 3034317859

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The Inclusion Delusion? by Aislinn O'Donnell Pdf

This book argues that in order to develop just and inclusive institutions, particularly within the education system, we must begin from the standpoint of those who feel silenced, marginalised and excluded. It makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate about how institutions need to change if they are to become genuinely inclusive.

Author : Elisabeth Ivarsflaten,Paul M. Sniderman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780226807416

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The Struggle for Inclusion by Elisabeth Ivarsflaten,Paul M. Sniderman Pdf

"Europe has struggled with Muslim immigration. While opposition to such immigration has become increasingly vocal, in many places efforts have been made to help these immigrants integrate into society. In The Struggle for Inclusion: Muslim Immigrants and the Democratic Ethos, Elisabeth Ivarsflaten and Paul M. Sniderman shift the focus of scholarly work from those who are intolerant of immigrants to those who are tolerant and accept Muslim immigrants. The challenge is how do the tolerant reconcile their often liberal values with the conservative values held by many among the more conservative Muslim immigrants? How do liberal Europeans reconcile their values about, for example, the rights of women, with the conservative values on these issues held by many in the Muslim community? They find that a minority of Europeans are prejudiced against all Muslims, but many hold different feelings about conservative Muslims and their leadership because of conflicts with specific liberal values"--

Author : Jonathan Metzger,Philip Allmendinger,Stijn Oosterlynck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134071821

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Planning Against the Political by Jonathan Metzger,Philip Allmendinger,Stijn Oosterlynck Pdf

This book brings together a number of highly innovative and thought provoking contributions from European researchers in territorial governance-related fields such as human geography, planning studies, sociology, and management studies. The contributions share the ambition of highlighting troubling contemporary tendencies where spatial planning and territorial governance can be seen to circumscribe or subvert ‘due democratic practice’ and the democratic ethos. The book also functions as an introduction to some of the central strands of contemporary political philosophy, discussing their relevance for the wider field of planning studies and the development of new planning practices.