American Democracy and Disconsent

ISBN-13: 9781032661742 / Miękka / 2024 / 360 str.

Daniel Monti

Opis

This volume is a thorough re-examination of civil unrest and discontent in the United States, particularly the intersection of democracy and violence.

Recenzje

"Daniel Monti’s Democracy and Disconsent: Liberalism and Illiberalism in Ferguson, Charlottesville, Black Lives Matter, and the Capitol Insurrection is a fresh, deeply original interpretation of violence in America.  It stands on a strongly argued foundation of social learning about the exigencies of living together in a multiethnic, multireligious society." -  Donald L. Horowitz, author of The Deadly Ethnic Riot

"This lively and engaging book about civil unrest and "disconsent" in America today is timely. When most of us across the world are pessimistic about the stability of American democracy, Dan Monti manages to discuss the competing forces of liberalism and illiberalism -- in Ferguson, Charlottesville, Black Lives Matter and even the 6 January Capitol insurrection -- and yet remain relatively optimistic. Let us hope he is right!" - Professor Stephen Mennell, University College Dublin

Spis treści

Chapter 1                    Violence as a Sumptuary Privilege

 

Chapter 2                    Democratization and Violence in America (and elsewhere)

 

Chapter 3                    The Moral Foundation of Disconsent

 

Chapter 4                    Crowds, Strangers, and City Life

 

Chapter 5                    The Other “Ferguson Effect”

 

Chapter 6                    Charlottesville

 

Chapter 7                    Black Lives Matter Protests (and violence)

 

Chapter 8                    January 6

 

Chapter 9                    The Future of Violence in America (and elsewhere)

O autorze

Daniel J. Monti is professor of sociology at Saint Louis University. A former Woodrow Wilson Fellow, he is the author of over 50 scholarly articles and the author or editor of eight books on subjects ranging from educational reform and inner-city redevelopment to youth gangs, and American urban history.