Contemporary Political Agency: Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9780415595308 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 198 str.

Bice Maiguashca

Opis

This title explores and critically reflects on the theory and practice of political agency in contemporary global politics, in light of the changing relationship between the state, the market, and the society.

Spis treści

Introduction Raffaele Marchetti  1. Political Agency and Subjectivity in the Crisis of Modernity Debora Spini  2. Political Agency between Urban and Transnational Spaces Clive Barnett  3. Judicial Agency in the Building of the European Union: A Comparison of the European Court of Justice and the US Supreme Court Derek Beach  4. Political Agency in the Economy: Cooperatives, Solidarity and Territory in Euskadi and Aquitaine Xavier Itçaina  5. Political Agency and the Responsibility Paradox: Multinationals and Corporate Social Responsibility Gerald F. Davis, Marina von Neumann Whitman and Mayer N. Zald  6. Exploring the Conditions of Possibility for Political Agency: Rethinking Politicization from a Feminist Perspective Bice Maiguashca  7. Radical Political Agency: Affective Politics in the Case of the Zapatistas of Chiapas Susan McManus  8. Social Infrastructures of Political Agency: The Political Mobilization of the Women of the Market in Lomé Charles Heller and Branwen Gruffydd Jones

O autorze

Bice Maiguashca is a Senior Lecturer in the Politics Department at Exeter University, UK. Raffaele Marchetti is Assistant Professor in International Relations at LUISS in Rome, Italy.