DOWN DEEP DELIGHT OF DEMOCRACY

Informationen zum Autor Mark Purcell is Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Design & Planning at the University of Washington, USA, where he researches urban politics, political theory, social movements, and democracy. He is the author of Recapturing Democracy (2008) and numerous articles in journals including International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Urban Geography, Environment and Planning, Antipode, Urban Studies, Political Geography, Review of International Political Economy, and Planning Theory. Zusammenfassung This volume explores issues central to the civil uprisings that swept the world in 2011. It offers profound analysis of the relationship between democracy and neoliberalism in an urban context! explaining how democracy can help us evolve socially! and how it can be used to revivify the political left. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments viii 1 What Is to Be Done? 1 2 What Democracy Means 29 3 Becoming Democratic 75 4 Becoming Active 92 5 Revolutionary Connections 122 6 Conclusion 143 References 159 Index 168

Product details

• Authors: M Purcell, Mark Purcell, Mark (University of Washington Purcell, Purcell Mark
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.02.2013
• EAN: 9781444349979
• ISBN: 978-1-4443-4997-9
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Antipode Book Series; Antipode Book; Antipode Book Series; Antipode Book
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies