Classical liberal democratic theory has provided crucial ideas for a still dominant and hegemonic discourse that rests on ideological conceptions of freedom, equality, peacefulness, inclusive democratic participation, and tolerance. While this may have held some truth for citizens in Western liberal-capitalist societies, such liberal ideals have never been realized in colonial, postcolonial and settler colonial contexts. Liberal democracies are not simply forms of rule in domestic national contexts but also geo-political actors. As such, they have been the drivers of processes of global oppression, colonizing and occupying countries and people, appropriating indigenous land, annihilating people with eliminatory politics right up to genocides. There can be no doubt that the West – with its civilizational Judeo-Christian idea and divine mission ‘to subdue the world’ – has destroyed other civilizations, countries, trading systems, and traditional ways of life and is responsible for the death of hundreds of millions of human beings in the course of colonizing the world from its Empires of trade through colonialism to settler colonialism and today’s politics of regime change. The book discusses the settler colonial regime that Israel has established in Palestine while still claiming to be a democracy. It discusses the failures of liberal democracy to overcome the structural and racist inequalities in post-Apartheid South Africa, and it presents hopeful outlooks on new ideas and forms of democracy in social movements in the MENA region.
Jurgen (University of Potsdam, Germany) Mackert & Bryan S. Turner
The Condition of Democracy [EPUB ebook]
Volume 3: Postcolonial and Settler Colonial Contexts
The Condition of Democracy [EPUB ebook]
Volume 3: Postcolonial and Settler Colonial Contexts
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Format EPUB ● Seiten 216 ● ISBN 9781000401936 ● Herausgeber Jurgen (University of Potsdam, Germany) Mackert & Bryan S. Turner ● Verlag Taylor and Francis ● Erscheinungsjahr 2021 ● herunterladbar 3 mal ● Währung EUR ● ID 7853178 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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