Globality, Democracy and Civil Society

ISBN-13: 9780415548571 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 224 str.

Terrell Carver;Jens Bartelson

Opis

If democracy is the sole form of legitimate government, and if legitimacy comes only from the individuals who constitute ‘the people’, what then is the character of popular sovereignty in a globalised world?

Attempts to articulate alternative visions of democratic values and practice have run into severe difficulties in theorising the scope and content of globalised democracy. This book seeks to explore the past, present and future of democratic values and practice in a globalising world. The contributors explore different ways of understanding and developing democratic practices and institutions. Rather than projecting the conditions of modern representative, state-centric democracy onto the global realm and hoping for its imminent, the contributors to this volume propose ways of rethinking these very conditions in terms of human diversity and difference. This is done by exploring conceptions of democracy that reconcile radical plurality with democratic practices, and by using a number of examples and perspectives framed by ‘globality’, rather than an East/West binary.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students of global democracy and governance, cosmopolitan democracy, the future of civil society in a globalising world, comparative politics and political thought.

Spis treści

1. Introduction Terrell Carver & Jens Bartelson   Part 1 Engaging the Issues in Theory  2. Civil Society and Class: Centrality and Occlusion in Discourse and Practice Terrell Carver 3. The East/West Perspective and Civil Society: Making Visible Similarities and Differences Terrell Carver, Shin Chiba, Reiji Matsumoto, James Martin, Bob Jessop, Fumio Iida and Atsushi Sugita 4. A Historical Reappraisal of Civil Society Discourse in Postwar Japan Reiji Matsumoto 5. The 'Postwar Enlightenment' Project: Masao Maruyama and Liberal Civil Society Fumio Iida 6. 'Mass Society' and 'Civil Society' in Postwar Japan Ryusaku Yamada 7. Challenging Democratic Governance: The Impact of Globalization on the Territorial and Temperal Sovereignty of the State and the Capacities of Civil Society Bob Jesssop 8. Civil Society, Democratic Values and Human Rights Chantal Mouffe 9. Democracy in the 21st Century: Global Questions John Keane Part 2 Engaging the Issue in Practics 10. Democracy, Civil Society and Women's Public Personae: Turkish Women in Muslim Headscarves Hakan Seckinelgin 11. Civil Society between Europe and Asia: Postcommunist Russian Democracy Oleg Kharkhordin 12. Civil Society in Japan: Peace Movements and the Post-War Japanese Constitution Shin Chiba 13. Citizens at Play: Space and the Politics of Civil Society James Martin

O autorze

Terrell Carver is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol, UK.

Jens Bartelson is Professor in the Department of Politics at Lund University, Sweden.