Search results for ""Author Mathijs van de Sande""
Edinburgh University Press Prefigurative Democracy: Protest, Social Movements and the Political Institution of Society
Introduces the key aspects of a theoretical debate on prefigurative politics and contemporary protest movements Develops a theory of prefigurative democracy as a way of thinking critically about contemporary protest movements Engages with the work of various radical political theorists, such as Arendt, Laclau and Mouffe and (post-)anarchist theory Combines an analysis of activist practices with both state-of-the-art and canonical radical theory In the wake of protest movements such as Occupy Wall Street and the Spanish 15-M movement, the past decade has seen an increased interest in prefigurative politics: the attempt of activists to already realise or embody their ideal of a future society within their own movements and practices. Engaging with the concept and its history, this book establishes a radical-democratic theory of prefiguration. Van de Sande builds on the work of political theorists as diverse as Hannah Arendt, Ernesto Laclau, Claude Lefort, Rosa Luxemburg, and Judith Butler to reveal the radical and representative role of protest and social movements today. He gives various accounts of how prefigurative practices and movements may continue to have political relevance long after they have ended.
£97.20
Edinburgh University Press The Constructivist Turn in Political Representation
This edited volume provides the first comprehensive introduction to and critical exploration of the "constructivist turn" in political representation, the reorientation of scholarship on mass democracy toward the constitutive or mobilizing aspects of political representation.
£90.00
Edinburgh University Press The Constructivist Turn in Political Representation
This volume traces the roots of the constructivist turn in the distinct (and competing) traditions of Continental and Anglo-American Western political thought. Divided into three thematic parts, these 13 newly commissioned essays advance the insight that there can be no democratic politics without representation.
£26.99