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1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781412931397
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'This volume successfully exposes the "ghostly presence" of democracy in the field of geography and shows the value of thinking about democracy geographically. It is a major contribution to serious examination of a normative political issue from a geographical perspective. This is welcome above all because geography is a field whose cultural and economic branches, though often claiming the appellation "critical", are currently dominated by unexamined radical political fantasies' - John Agnew, University of California, Los Angeles In an historically unprecedented way, democracy is now increasingly seen as a universal model of legitimate rule.This work addresses the key question: How can democracy be understood in theory and in practise? In three thematically organised sections, Spaces of Democracy uses a critical geographical imagination (informed by thinking on space, place, and scale) to interrogate the latest work in democratic theory. Key ideas and concepts discussed include globalization and transnationalism; representation; citizenship; liberalism; the city and public space; and the media. This volume comprises commissioned work by leading academics investigating democracy. Historical and comparative, animated by wider debates on globalization, it will facilitate the critical discussion of core questions on citizenship, the state, and democracy. Spaces of Democracy is essential reading for students of human geography, political science/international relations, and political sociology.
Content:
Cover Page -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Geography and Democracy: An Introduction -- Elections, Voting and Representation -- 2 Global Democratization: Measuring and Explaining the Diffusion of Democracy -- 3 Electoral Geography in Electoral Studies: Putting Voters in Their Place -- 4 Representation, Law and Redistricting in the United States -- Democracy, Citizenship and Scale -- 5 Citizens and the State: Citizenship Formations in Space and Time -- 6 Open Borders and Free Population Movement: A Challenge for Liberalism -- 7 Cities as Spaces of Democracy: Complexity, Scale and Governance -- Making Democratic Spaces -- 8 Spaces of Public and Private: Locating Politics -- 9 The Geopolitics of Democracy and Citizenship in Latin America -- 10 Media, Democracy and Representation: Disembodying the Public -- 11 Cultures of Democracy: Spaces of Democratic Possibility -- 12 Spaces of Mobilization: Transnational Social Movements -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780761947349
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0761947337
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0761947345
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780761947349
Language:
English
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