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The decline of politics : governance, globalization, and the public sphere / Peter Marden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marden, Peter.
- Series:
- Critical security series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Globalization.
- International economic relations.
- International relations.
- Political sociology.
- Political geography.
- Political participation.
- Civil society.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 286 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003]
- Contents:
- 1 Globalization and its Discontents 1
- Time, Space and Globalization 3
- Global Civil Society: What is it Really? 11
- 2 Globalization and 'Knife-Edge Development' 23
- The Triumph of Neoliberalism 23
- Conclusions and Observations from the Edge 39
- 3 Exploring Concepts of Security 43
- Ages of Anxiety 44
- Social Relations, Modernity and Security 50
- The Fragmented Self
- a Psychoanalytic Gaze 58
- 4 Governance, Corporatization and the State 72
- Governance as Global Practice 74
- Governmentality as Concept 76
- Spatializing Government: from the Social to Community 84
- Entrepreneurial Governance and Welfare: an Australian Experience 93
- 5 Community, Politics and the Nation (I) 102
- Community as Political Concept 103
- Reinventing Community 113
- Imagination, Utopias and the Nation 116
- The Nation as Community 122
- Definitions and Interpretations 123
- Tentative Conclusions 130
- 6 Community, Politics and the Nation (II) 135
- Weber and 'Kultur' 135
- Literacy, Elites and the Masses 138
- The Transforming Public Sphere: a Historical Space 147
- The Public Sphere: Definitions and Longevity 150
- Conclusion: Back to the Nation 156
- 7 Cosmopolitan Communities 166
- Defining Cosmopolitanism 166
- A Brief Musing on Democracy 169
- Cosmopolitan Democracy and Governance 171
- The Cosmopolitan Public Sphere 180
- 8 Corporate Communities and the New Politics 184
- The Corporatization of Everyday Life 185
- Governance through Trade 188
- Corporatism and Community 203
- 9 Politics and Civil Spaces 214
- Political Life and the Public: Arendt and Judgment 217
- Antipolitics and the Language of Politics 225
- 10 Antipolitics, the Thinking Citizen and the Public Sphere 233
- Antipolitics and the Public Sphere 235
- Deliberative Democracy: a Habermasian Critique 237
- Mediated Publics: Other Public Spheres 240
- The Dissident Citizen 249
- Arendt and the Democratic Tradition 257.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [268]-282) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754617130
- OCLC:
- 52471595
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