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This book aims to retrieve an inclusive understanding of republicanism drawing on a broad spectrum of historical and geographic contexts, one with the resources to analyse and challenge the sources of arbitrary power from capitalism, to imperialism, to patriarchy.
List of contents
- Introduction: Radical Republicanism and Popular Sovereignty
- I. DOMINATION: SOCIAL AND STRUCTURAL
- 1: Dorothea Gãdeke: From Neorepublicanism to Critical Republicanism
- 2: Alan Coffee: A Radical Revolution in Thought: Frederick Douglass on the Slave's Perspective on Republican Freedom
- II. POPULAR CONSTITUTIONALISM
- 3: John P. McCormick: Republicanism, Virtuous and Corrupt: Social Conflict, Political Leadership and Constitutional Reform in Machiavelli's Florentine Histories
- 4: Stuart White: Citizens' Assemblies and Republican Democracy
- III. MOVEMENT AND RESISTANCE
- 5: Guy Aitchison: Popular Resistance and the Idea of Rights
- 6: Karma Nabulsi: Two Traditions of Radical Democracy from the 1830 Revolution
- IV. SOCIALISM AND LABOUR
- 7: Alex Gourevitch: Solidarity and Civic Virtue: Labour Republicanism and the Politics of Emancipation in Nineteenth Century America
- 8: Bruno Leipold: Marx's Social Republic: Radical Republicanism and the Political Institutions of Socialism
- V. HISTORIAL TRAJECTORIES
- 9: Banu Turnaoglu: The Intellectual Origins of Turkish Radical Republicanism
- 10: Sudhir Hazareesingh: The Utopian Imagination: Radical Republican Traditions in France, from the Enlightenment to the French Communists
About the author
Bruno Leipold is a Fellow in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford and has held postdoctoral positions at the European University Institute and the Justitia Amplificata Centre for Advanced Studies at the Goethe University of Frankfurt and the Free University of Berlin.
Karma Nabulsi is Fellow and Tutor in Politics at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. She writes and lectures on 18th and 19th century republicanism, revolutions, and democracy, as well as on Palestine, especially Palestinian refugees.
Stuart White is Fellow in Politics at Jesus College, Oxford, having formerly taught in the Department of Political Science, M.I.T. His research is focused on democracy, republican values, and the economy, with related interests in both social policy and the political process. He is the author of The Civic Minimum (2003). He blogs occasionally at openDemocracy.
Summary
This book aims to retrieve an inclusive understanding of republicanism drawing on a broad spectrum of historical and geographic contexts, one with the resources to analyse and challenge the sources of arbitrary power from capitalism, to imperialism, to patriarchy.
