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Democracy and revolutionary politics /
"Democracy and political violence can hardly be considered conceptual siblings, at least at first sight. Democracy allows people to route their aspirations, demands, and expectations of the state through peaceful methods; violence works outside these prescribed and institutionalized channels in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2015.
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| Colección: | Theory for a global age.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Democracy and political violence can hardly be considered conceptual siblings, at least at first sight. Democracy allows people to route their aspirations, demands, and expectations of the state through peaceful methods; violence works outside these prescribed and institutionalized channels in public spaces, in the streets, in the forests and in inhospitable terrains. But can committed democrats afford to ignore the fact that violence has become a routine way of doing politics in countries such as India? By exploring the concept of political violence from the perspective of critical political theory, Neera Chandhoke investigates its nature, justification and contradictions. She uses the case study of Maoist revolutionaries in India to globalize and relocate the debate alongside questions of social injustice, exploitation, oppression and imperfect democracies. As such, this is an important and much-needed contribution to the dialogue surrounding revolutionary violence."-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 181 pages) : map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1474224024 9781474224024 9781474224048 1474224040 9781474224017 1474224016 9781474224000 1474224008 9781474224031 1474224032 |