Democratic Multiplicity

Perceiving, Enacting, and Integrating Democratic Diversity

James Tully, Keith Cherry, Fonna Forman, Jeanne Morefield, Joshua Nichols, Pablo Ouziel, David Owen, Oliver Schmidtke

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781009178389
• eBook ISBN:
  9781009189002
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political History & Theory
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This edited volume argues that democracy is broader and more diverse than the dominant state-centered, modern representative democracies, to which other modes of democracy are either presumed subordinate or ignored. The contributors seek to overcome the standard opposition of democracy from below (participatory) and democracy from above (representative). Rather, they argue that through differently situated participatory and representative practices, citizens and governments can develop democratic ways of cooperating without hegemony and subordination, and that these relationships can be transformative. This work proposes a slow but sure, nonviolent, eco-social and sustainable process of democratic generation and growth with the capacity to critique and transform unjust and ecologically destructive social systems. This volume integrates human-centric democracies into a more mutual, interdependent and sustainable system on earth whereby everyone gains.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction The Pluriverse of Democracies
• Part I Democratic Ethos
• Part II Representative Democracies
• Part III Local/Global Participatory Democracies
• Part IV Indigenous Democracies
• Part V International/Global Democracies
• Part VI Joining Hands: Eco-Democratic Integration
• Bibliography
• Author Index
• Subject Index