Democratization and Struggles Against Injustice - A Pragmatist Approach to the Epistemic Practices of Social Movements

This book provides a unique experimentalist approach to social movements that accounts both for the democratizing potential and the counter-hegemonic power of the epistemic practices of mobilized citizens.

List of contents

Introduction: From Massive Evictions to Deepening Democracy
PART I
Chapter 1: The Two Values of Democracy
Chapter 2: Axel Honneth: Struggle for Recognition and Democratic Advancement
Chapter 3: John Dewey: The Political Potential of Democracy's Epistemic Dimension
PART II
Chapter 4: From Contents to Practices: Points of Departure
Chapter 5: The Double Counter-Hegemonic Potential of Experimentalist Practices
Chapter 6: Experimental Epistemic Practices in Social Movements
PART III
Chapter 7: Consciousness-Rising Meetings as Experimental Inquiries
Chapter 8: Articulating a Sense of Powers: An Expressivist Reading of Dewey's Theory of Social Struggles
Conclusions
Bibliography

About the author

Justo Serrano Zamora is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Groningen in the DFG-ANR, Democracy and its Futures Project.

Summary

This book provides a unique experimentalist approach to social movements that accounts both for the democratizing potential and the counter-hegemonic power of the epistemic practices of mobilized citizens.

Product details

• Authors: Justo Serrano Zamora
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781538151549
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5154-9
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society; Collective Studies in Knowledg
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights