Anarchist Critique of Radical Democracy: The Impossible Argument - Couverture souple

Lundstrom, Markus

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1629639982 ISBN 13 : 9781629639987

Editeur : PM Press, 2023

Synopsis

In spring of 2013, a wave of urban riots swept across Sweden after police shot an elderly man in his own home. When community residents from his marginalized city-district demanded an official apology, they were ignored. The anti-police insurgences that followed addressed deep problems of the Swedish welfare state, and the official responses revealed glitches built into democracy itself. In this updated edition of Anarchist Critique of Radical Democracy: The Impossible Argument, sociologist and historian Markus Lundstrom explores the boundaries of Swedish democracy. He probes in-depth interviews with community residents to explain how the 2013 riots intensified a profound, democratic conflict: the social divide between the governors and the governed. Resistance to this divide is then traced through the defiance of governance and approaches to democracy in the history of anarchist thought. This book offers an original introduction to anarchism. It relates the diversity of anarchist thought to anti-police riots and the radicalization of democracy.

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À propos de l'auteur

Markus Lundström is the author of The Making of Resistance: Brazil's Landless Movement and Narrative Enactment, along with several articles venturing into the fields of anarchist, fascist, posthumanist and social movement studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: PM Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1629639982
• ISBN 13: 9781629639987
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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