The Condition of Democracy: Volume 3: Postcolonial and Settler Colonial Contexts

ISBN-13: 9780367745387 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 206 str.

Jürgen Mackert; Bryan S. Turner; Hannah Wolf

Opis

This book discusses the failures of liberal democracy to overcome the structural and racist inequalities in post-Apartheid South Africa, and it presents hopeful outlooks on new ideas and forms of democracy in social movements in the MENA region.

Spis treści

Introduction: A ‘Master-Race Democracy’: Myths and Lies of Western Liberal Civilization  Part 1: Democracy as a Progressive Force and the Failure of Liberal Democracy  1. The Algerian Hirak: Citizenship, Non-Violence, and the New Movement for Democracy  2. Stateless Radical Democracy and Law in Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria  3. South Africa and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy: Settler-Colonial Modernity and a Dominant Friend-Enemy Conception of Politics  Part 2: Palestine: Settler Colonialism and the Impossibility of Democracy  4. Israeli Conception of ‘Peace’ as Indirect Colonial Rule  5. The Struggle for Democratic Space Under Violent Settler Colonialism and Authoritarian Rule  6. Moving Mountains? Palestinian Claim Making from Oslo Onwards  7. Political Resistance and Contested Citizenship  8. Municipal Elections in Occupied Jerusalem: Why Do Palestinians Boycott?  9. How the Law of Return Creates One Legal Order in Palestine  10. The Discourse of Exceptionalism: Civil and Human Rights in Israel