{"product_id":"defiant-publics-the-unprecendented-reach-of-the-global-citizen-9780745631790","title":"Defiant Publics  The Unprecendented Reach of the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDefiant Publics is  a lively and very readable book on the consequences and possibilities of global protest and dissent. The book shows how 'defiant publics' have evolved over the last decade, aided by new flows of people and information.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Drache is well read and committed to his subject, and the book is littered with excellent quotations from leading contemporary thinkers and activists.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e“On reading this book, the activist will understand how to arouse wider political participation, and the skeptic will be concerned that established power uses the same technology to manipulate a passive public. For a broad and non-specialized audience, the book opens a discussion about the nature of politics in the twenty-first century.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRobert Cox, \u003ci\u003eYork University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Drache makes a courageous and controversial stand against much that is taken for granted by elites in our global order. He is optimistic that fluid but ‘Defiant Publics’ are moving towards an unknown but different world, seeking citizenship in a diverse and renewed global public domain. Yet his analysis leaves us aware we should also keep an eye on the possible unintended consequences of what might now be occurring.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Underhill, \u003ci\u003eUniversiteit van Amsterdam\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Widespread military adventurism, resurgent violent populisms, faux democracies drenched in cynicism, and looming ecological crises on an unimaginable scale: the world we inhabit seems to be one absent of hope or possibility. Daniel Drache’s fascinating Defiant Publics jolts us out of our too-easy dystopian imaginings by showing us the ways in which multiple publics are struggling to create dynamic new futures.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eImre Szeman, \u003ci\u003eMcMaster University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Daniel Drache’s new book builds on the best of democratic theory developed in the twentieth-century nation-state, to conceptualize a non-territorial, non-traditional account of global democratic politics for our time. Defiant Publics identifies the new social actors in a de-hierarchized polity and challenges our ways of understanding political deliberation.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePeer Zumbansen, \u003ci\u003eYork University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of figures vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Goals and Values that are Inescapably Public 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Crowded Public Sphere and its Discontents 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Market Fundamentalism and the Worried Public 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Digital Publics and the Culture of Dissent 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Nixers, Fixers, and the Axes of Conformity 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Infinite Varieties of the Modern Public: Novelty, Surprise, and Uncertainty 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: Critical Human Rights Conventions of the Global Public Domain 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Note on Sources 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 187\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404364947799,"sku":"9780745631790","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745631790.jpg?v=1730486234","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/defiant-publics-the-unprecendented-reach-of-the-global-citizen-9780745631790","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}