| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 250 pages) |
| Contents |
Prologue. Setting up the stage : "beauty is in the street" in Istanbul -- Democratic action, spontaneity, and the intermediating practices of political friendship -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau : from the unsettling reality of the theater to the dream of immediacy -- Antonio Negri : insurgencies, the multitude, and the search for permanence -- Jürgen Habermas : embracing transience, containing unpredictability -- Jacques Rancière : the theatrical paradigm and the messiness of democratic politics -- Enacting political friendship in Gezi -- Epilogue. Fanning the spark of hope |
| Summary |
If there is one thing that people agree about concerning the massive, leaderless, spontaneous protests that have spread across the globe over the past decade, it's that they were failures. Simply put, the protesters could not organize; nor could they formulate clear demands or bring about change. In the Street argues that in seeking to find the reasons behind these alleged ""failures, "" we are asking the wrong questions. It argues that when our analysis of such events is confined by a framework of success and failure, we blind ourselves to the working reality of democratic politics, namely the |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed September 24, 2021) |
| Subject |
Democracy -- Philosophy
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Protest movements.
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Political participation -- Social aspects
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Political sociology.
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Democracy -- Philosophy
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Political participation -- Social aspects
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Political sociology
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Protest movements
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020044167 |
| ISBN |
0190071699 |
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9780190071714 |
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0190071710 |
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9780190071707 |
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0190071702 |
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9780190071691 |
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