Democracy and Revolutionary Politics (Theory for a Global Age Series) - Softcover

Neera Chandhoke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474224016 ISBN 13: 9781474224017

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Synopsis

Democracy and political violence can hardly be considered conceptual siblings, at least at first sight. Democracy allows people to route their aspirations, demands, and expectations of the state through peaceful methods; violence works outside these prescribed and institutionalized channels in public spaces, in the streets, in the forests and in inhospitable terrains. But can committed democrats afford to ignore the fact that violence has become a routine way of doing politics in countries such as India?

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Review:

"Through a sophisticated, robust and wide ranging analysis of democratic movements, Chandhoke urges us to rethink the debates on civil society, the state and violence in the global south. This is an important, thought-provoking and challenging book that will influence the thinking of all of us who are interested in questions of political and social justice." --Shirin M Rai, Professor of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK

"Neera Chandhoke's Democracy and Revolutionary Politics provides a much-needed, careful and imaginative analysis of the ambivalent concept of revolutionary violence. Both with respect to its explanatory and its normative power, combining social context and general principles, it is an exemplary work - political theory at its best." --Rainer Forst, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

About the Author:

Neera Chandhoke, formerly Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi, India.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1474224016
• ISBN 13: 9781474224017
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192