Privatizing Democracy: Global Ideals, European Politics and Basque Territories - Couverture souple

Livre 18 sur 20: Nationalisms across the Globe

Goikoetxea, Jule

 
9783034322614: Privatizing Democracy: Global Ideals, European Politics and Basque Territories
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3034322615 ISBN 13 : 9783034322614
Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2017

Synopsis

Democratization is a process of collective emancipation through self-government. Continuous political contestation is essential for emancipation but, in order to know which strategies and conditions will emancipate us, we also need to know which ones subjugate us. Political mechanisms with the capacity to modulate our individual and collective bodies and make them docile tend to be close relatives of those which make us equal and free.

Drawing on the latest theories concerning globalization and democracy, this book argues that postnational and postsovereign multilevel governance regimes, including the European Union, should be understood as mechanisms of global capitalism aimed at privatizing democracy. Through a detailed applied analysis of the Basque case, the author illustrates how democratization is closely linked to ideas about territory, collective empowerment and institutional political capacity.

Democratization always takes place partially: it never «ends». Contrary to the dominant thinking, this book argues that the incomplete nature of democratization is a positive aspect, with perpetual conflict leading to perpetual change. This is precisely what allows, and obliges, each generation to shape its own forms of emancipation.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jule Goikoetxea is a member of the European Studies Centre at St Antony's College and the International Gender Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. She was previously the academic director of the Master's in Governance and Political Studies at the University of the Basque Country, where she was appointed a professor of political theory. She is also a columnist and a regular contributor to national media.

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Éditeur
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3034322615
ISBN 13 
9783034322614
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
280
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