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'This volume successfully exposes the "ghostly presence" of democracy in the field of geography and shows the value of thinking about democracy geographically. It is a major contribution to serious examination of a normative political issue from a geographical perspective. This is welcome above all because geography is a field whose cultural and economic branches, though often claiming the appellation "critical", are currently dominated by unexamined radical political fantasies' - John Agnew, University of California, Los Angeles In an historically unprecedented way, democracy is now increasingly seen as a universal model of legitimate rule.This work addresses the key question: How can democracy be understood in theory and in practise? In three thematically organised sections, Spaces of Democracy uses a critical geographical imagination (informed by thinking on space, place, and scale) to interrogate the latest work in democratic theory. Key ideas and concepts discussed include globalization and transnationalism; representation; citizenship; liberalism; the city and public space; and the media. This volume comprises commissioned work by leading academics investigating democracy. Historical and comparative, animated by wider debates on globalization, it will facilitate the critical discussion of core questions on citizenship, the state, and democracy. Spaces of Democracy is essential reading for students of human geography, political science/international relations, and political sociology.
The Geopolitics of Democracy and Citizenship in Latin America
The Geopolitics of Democracy and Citizenship in Latin America
This chapter provides an optimistic reading of democracy and citizenship in Latin America. It starts, however, from what might appear to be a set of highly pessimistic accounts of democratization and citizenship, which can be set beside a set of equally forbidding accounts of the social and spatial fragmentation of Latin American cities. These accounts show that the cross currents of opinion on democracy and citizenship in Latin America are in flux and uncertainty. I want to argue, however, that democracy and citizenship present complex geopolitics that need to be understood against more than the ‘goodness of fit’ of a universal teleology suggested by the neo-institutionalists and ...
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