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"Democracies thrive on mutual participation of one and all here and now. They are marked by a commitment to coordination and cooperation across various fields. Despite their strengths, democracies could more effectively connect with our more-than-human relatives. A universal theory or view is not required to take such action. Non-violence, pluralism, and agonistic engagement with the natural world could further expand democracies' futures. Throughout this book, you will read that interdependence and mutual engagement with those who are different is a key to joint action. This contrasts with politics built on force, coercion and non-cooperation, where power is concentrated in competing "us and them" camps. This book explains how democracies thrive when they move beyond assessments of "what is good for me" and inquire into what is good for "all of us together." In this light, human concerns should not monopolize political judgement; democracies should also revolve around what is good for the entire biosphere. We must learn politics from our ancestors. Plants, insects, birds, and animals have much to teach us. We are their descendants and they are our elders. We would not exist without them. They came first and they continue to sustain us. Our evolutionary lineage and biophysical dependence points to this fact"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
INTRODUCTION: The Pluriverse of Democracies James Tully; Part I. DEMOCRATIC ETHOS: 1. How Democracy Doesn't End Anthony Simon Laden; 2. Democracy, Boundaries, and Respect David Owen; 3. Democracy in a Provisional Key Lasse Thomassen; Part II. REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACIES: 4. Democracy and Community: Exploring a Contested Link in Light of the Populist Resurgence Oliver Schmidtke; 5. Democracies Can Perish Democratically Too: Brazilian Democracy on Edge Boaventura de Sousa Santos; 6. Agonistic Representative Democracy in Europe Chantal Mouffe, interviewed and translated by Pablo Ouziel; 7. For a Politics of Exile: Criticism in an Era of Global Liberal Decline Jeanne Morefield; Part III. Local/Global Participatory Democracies: 8. Unwalling Citizenship Fonna Forman; 9. Other Wise Democracies: What the Tree Canopies Know Rebeccah Nelems; 10. Democratizing Revolution: Self-Reflexivity and Self-Limitation Beyond Liberalism Robin Celikates; Part IV. Indigenous Democracies: 11. Gitxsan Democracy: On Its Own Terms Val Napoleon; 12. Democratic Futures and the Problem of Settler States: An Essay on the Conceptual Demands of Democracy and the Need for Political Histories of Membership Joshua Nichols; 13. Cracking the Settler Colonial Concrete: Theorizing Engagements with Indigenous Resurgence through the Politics from Below Stacie Swain; 14. Like a Brick through the Overton Window: Re-orienting Our Politics, From the House of Commons to the Tiny House Phil Henderson; 15. Governing Ourselves: Reflections on Reinvigorating Democracy Stimulated by Gitxsan Governance Jeremy Webber; Part V. International/Global Democracies: 16. The Overlapping Crises of Democracy, Globalization, and Global Governance David Held; 17. The Contested Freedom of the Moderns: Conceiving Norm Contestation as the 'Glue' for Re-Ordering the Globalized World Antje Wiener; 18. Conditional Authority and Democratic Legitimacy in Pluralist Space Keith Cherry; Part VI. Joining Hands: ECO-Democratic Integration: 19. On Gaia Democracies James Tully; 20. Democracies Joining Hands in the Here and Now Pablo Ouziel.
Zusammenfassung
Our structures of democratic governance are often characterized by 'dysfunctionality', 'hollowing out', and 'gridlock'. This volume proposes an approach grounded in five different modes of democratic praxis. In exploring various democratic traditions, it recognizes that addressing eco-social crises requires coordination and cooperation among them.
