Confrontational citizenship : reflections on hatred, rage, revolution, and revolt / William W. Sokoloff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sokoloff, William W., author.

Series:

SUNY series in new political science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Philosophy.

Democracy.

Political sociology.

Political participation--Social aspects.

Political participation.

Protest movements.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 234 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]

Summary:

A growing number of people are enraged about the quality and direction of public life, despise politicians, and are desperate for real political change. How can the contemporary neoliberal global political order be challenged and rebuilt in an egalitarian and humanitarian manner? What type of political agency and new political institutions are needed for this? In order to answer these questions, Confrontational Citizenship draws on a broad base of perspectives to articulate the concept of confrontational citizenship. William W. Sokoloff defends extra-institutional and confrontational modes of political activity along with new ways of conceiving political institutions as a way to create political orders accountable to the people. In contrast to many forms of democratic theory, Sokoloff argues that confrontational modes of citizenship (e.g., protest) are good because they increase the accountability of a regime to the people, increase the legitimacy of regimes, lead to improvements in a political order, and serve as a means to vent frustration. The goal is to make the word citizen relevant and dangerous to the settled and closed practices that structure our political world and to provide a hopeful vision of what it means to be politically progressive today.

Contents:

Chapter 1 In Defense of Hatred 13

Chapter 2 Immanuel Kant on Thinking without the Constraint of Rules 29

Chapter 3 Frederick Douglass and the Politics of Rage 43

Chapter 4 W.E.B. Du Bois on Revolt as a Way of Life 59

Chapter 5 Hannah Arendt on Putting the Political Back into Politics 83

Chapter 6 Gloria Anzaldúa Singing the Song of Herself 97

Chapter 7 Paulo Freire and the Pedagogy of Revolt 115.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Sokoloff, William W., author Confrontational citizenship

ISBN:

9781438467818

1438467818

OCLC:

987715875