Coles Visionary Pragmatism

Radical and Ecological Democracy in Neoliberal Times
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7466-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Romand Coles's new mode of scholarship and political practice called "visionary pragmatism" blends theory with practice in the generation of new transformative responses to contemporary political and ecological crises.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coles, Romand

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Theorizing from and Traveling toward a Radical Democratic Habitas 1

1. The Neuropolitical Habitus of Resonant Receptive Democracy 31

2. From Mega-circulatory Power to Polyface Flows 71

3. System Dynamics and a Radical Politics of Transformative Co-optation 115

4. Shock Democracy and Wormhole Hope in Catastrophic Times 161

Epilogue 193

Notes 197

Bibliography 211

Index 219

Über Autor(innen)

Romand Coles is Frances B. McAllister Endowed Chair and Director for the Program for Community, Culture, and Environment at Northern Arizona University and Research Professor at the Institute for Social Justice at Australian Catholic University. He is the author of several books, including Beyond Gated Politics: Reflections for the Possibility of Democracy and Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary: Conversations between a Radical Democrat and a Christian (with Stanley Hauerwas).