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Hussein M. Adam - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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FRANTZ FANON AS A Democratic Theorist
African Affairs, 1993Co-Authors: Hussein M. AdamAbstract:CURRENT DEBATES and reforms around the issue of democratization in Africa will, hopefully, encourage the development of indigenous political theories favouring democratization in the long run. This essay is intended to emphasize that need by stimulating discussions around the ideas of one of the founding fathers of the African liberation movement, Frantz Fanon. Frantz Fanon was born in Martinique in 1925 and died in 1961. After studying psychiatry in France, he worked for a brief period in colonial Algeria where he joined the Algerian freedom fighters in their insurrection against French colonialism. A psychiatrist, social philosopher, journalist, diplomat and political activist, Fanon wrote four books1 dealing with national liberation, social reconstruction and self-reconstitution. His eloquent defence of violence by colonized peoples in the struggle for national emancipation attracted a great deal of attention. His defence contains several strands including the psychological strand implying that violence would result in a 'collective catharsis' that would free the oppressed from their inferiority complexes and degredation. The debates that ensued clouded Fanon's reflections on a number of serious issues: democratizing development, promoting national cultures or facilitating the emancipation of women, for example. Even though Fanon did not shed much light on certain detailed aspects of Democratic politics electoral mechanisms, for example the corpus of his political writings is both compatible with and supportive of an understanding of democracy as a process in which individuals cooperate as free and equal participants in the demanding task of development and self-rule. Today we confront reordered global relationships. First, the Cold War has encled. Over thirty years ago, Fanon said, 'The Cold War must be ended, for it leads nowhere' .2 The end of the Cold War removes any excuse by national and international forces to compromise principle because of the fear of disturbing East-West loyalties. Second, popular revolts in Africa and elsewhere have shown that military power has become problematic as a tool of foreign policy and internal repression. Third, the nature, scope,
Jane Suiter - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Assessing Democracy In Vitro , In Vivo , and In Actu and the Role of Democratic Theory Today
Democratic Theory, 2019Co-Authors: Anastasia Deligiaouri, Jane SuiterAbstract:How can we define democracy today given the continuous changes that modern societies are undergoing? What is the role of a Democratic Theorist? This paper articulates a threefold argument in responding to these questions by analyzing the term of democracy in vitro, in vivo, and in actu. The first step is to secure a Democratic minimum and the core principles of democracy. The second step involves studying democracy as an ongoing project and examining how the principles of this Democratic minimum are encoded. In the third step we deploy the basic premises of discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe when evaluating a specific discourse of democracy, as this approach encompasses both discursive and nondiscursive practices. Utilizing this three-level evaluative framework for Democratic theory will allow us to not only articulate normative principles but also evaluate them according to their mode of implementation.
Suiter Jane - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Assessing democracy in vitro, in vivo, and in actu and the role of Democratic theory today
'Berghahn Books', 2019Co-Authors: Deligiaouri Anastasia, Suiter JaneAbstract:How can we define democracy today given the continuous changes that modern societies are undergoing?What is the role of a Democratic Theorist? This paper articulates a threefold argument in responding to these questions by analyzing the term of democracy in vitro, in vivo, and in actu. The first step is tosecure a Democratic minimum and the core principles of democracy. The second step involves studying democracy as an ongoing project and examininghow the principles of this Democratic minimum are encoded. In thethird stepwe deploy the basic premises of discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe when evaluating a specific discourse of democracy, as this approachencompasses both discursive and non discursive practices.Utilizing this three-level evaluative framework for Democratic theory will allow us to not only articulate normative principles but also evaluate them according to their mode of implementation. Keywords: Democratic minimum, Democratic theory, democracy, representatio
Patricia M. Shields - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Jane Addams: Democratic Theorist and PeaceWeaver
2015Co-Authors: Patricia M. ShieldsAbstract:Paper presented at Women and Gender Collaborative annual conference, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, March 27, 2015.
Anastasia Deligiaouri - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Assessing Democracy In Vitro , In Vivo , and In Actu and the Role of Democratic Theory Today
Democratic Theory, 2019Co-Authors: Anastasia Deligiaouri, Jane SuiterAbstract:How can we define democracy today given the continuous changes that modern societies are undergoing? What is the role of a Democratic Theorist? This paper articulates a threefold argument in responding to these questions by analyzing the term of democracy in vitro, in vivo, and in actu. The first step is to secure a Democratic minimum and the core principles of democracy. The second step involves studying democracy as an ongoing project and examining how the principles of this Democratic minimum are encoded. In the third step we deploy the basic premises of discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe when evaluating a specific discourse of democracy, as this approach encompasses both discursive and nondiscursive practices. Utilizing this three-level evaluative framework for Democratic theory will allow us to not only articulate normative principles but also evaluate them according to their mode of implementation.