Democratizing Democracy by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Ana Maria Jaramillo, Conceicao Osorio, D.L. Sheth, Emir Sader, Francisco Gutierrez Sanin, Leonardo Avritzer, Maria Clemencia Ramirez, Maria Jose Arthur, Maria Teresa Uribe de H.
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Description Presenting a collection of reports from the global South - India, South Africa, Colombia and Brazil, this book shows how, in some cases, a deepening of democracy results from the development of dual forms of participatory and representative systems, and points to the emergence of transnational networks of participatory democratic initiatives.
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The majorconflicts between the Global North and the South can be expected toresult from the confrontation of alternative conceptions of democracy,mainly between liberal or representative democracy and participatorydemocracy. The hegemonic model of democracy, while prevailing on aglobal scale, guarantees no more than low-intensity democracy. Inrecent times, participatory democracy has exhibited a new dynamic,engaging mainly subaltern communities and social groups that fightagainst social exclusion and the suppression of citizenship.In thiscollection of reports from the Global South-India, South Africa,Mozambique, Colombia, and Brazil-De Sousa Santos and his colleaguesshow how, in some cases, the deepening of democracy results from thedevelopment of dual forms of participatory and representativedemocracy, and points to the emergence of transnational networks ofparticipatory democracy initiatives. Such networks pave one of the waysto the reinvention of social emancipation.This is volume 1 of the Reinventing Social Emancipation project, edited by Boaventura de Sousa Santos.
Author Biography
Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Professor of Sociology at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and ILS Distinguished Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been an active participant in the World Social Forum. His books include Toward a New Legal Common Sense: Law, Globalization and Emancipation.Emir Sader is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of São Paolo and Director of the Latin American Social Science Research Council (CLACSO).
Details ISBN 184467147X ISBN-13 9781844671472 Title Democratizing Democracy Author Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Ana Maria Jaramillo, Conceicao Osorio, D.L. Sheth, Emir Sader, Francisco Gutierrez Sanin, Leonardo Avritzer, Maria Clemencia Ramirez, Maria Jose Arthur, Maria Teresa Uribe de H. Format Paperback Year 2007 Pages 562 Publisher Verso Books GE_Item_ID:11748804; About Us
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