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dc.contributor.authorBarnett, C
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-12T09:35:14Z
dc.date.issued2017-01-11
dc.description.abstractThis original and ambitious work looks anew at a series of intellectual debates about the meaning of democracy. Clive Barnett engages with key thinkers in various traditions of democratic theory and demonstrates the importance of a geographical imagination in interpreting contemporary political change. Debates about radical democracy, Barnett argues, have become trapped around a set of oppositions between deliberative and agonistic theories—contrasting thinkers who promote the possibility of rational agreement and those who seek to unmask the role of power or violence or difference in shaping human affairs. While these debates are often framed in terms of consensus versus contestation, Barnett unpacks the assumptions about space and time that underlie different understandings of the sources of political conflict and shows how these differences reflect deeper philosophical commitments to theories of creative action or revived ontologies of “the political.” Rather than developing ideal theories of democracy or models of proper politics, he argues that attention should turn toward the practices of claims-making through which political movements express experiences of injustice and make demands for recognition, redress, and repair. By rethinking the spatial grammar of discussions of public space, democratic inclusion, and globalization, Barnett develops a conceptual framework for analyzing the crucial roles played by geographical processes in generating and processing contentious politics.en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/32032
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherUniversity of Georgia Pressen_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/index/priority_of_injusticeen_GB
dc.rights.embargoreasonUnder indefinite embargo due to publisher policy  
dc.rights© 2017 by the University of Georgia Press. All rights reserveden_GB
dc.subjectDemocracyen_GB
dc.subjectJusticeen_GB
dc.subjectInjusticeen_GB
dc.subjectPolitical Theoryen_GB
dc.subjectHuman Geographyen_GB
dc.subjectCritical Theoryen_GB
dc.titleThe Priority of Injustice: Locating Democracy in Critical Theoryen_GB
dc.typeBooken_GB
dc.identifier.isbn9780820351506
exeter.place-of-publicationAthens, GAen_GB
dc.descriptionThis is the final version of the article. Available from University of Georgia Press via the ISBN in this recorden_GB
dc.relation.isPartOfSeriesGeographies of Justice and Social Transformationen_GB
refterms.dateFOA2019-01-11T00:00:00Z


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